"'This case is not just about AI,' Josh Schiller, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. 'It’s about the humans that use AI to violate the law, infringe on intellectual property rights, and flout common decency.'" - Washington Post
Non-verbal autistic people aren't non-thinking. Why, then, has it "taken so long for society to question the deeply ingrained fallacy equating speech fluency with intelligence, thereby condemning this whole population of people to a virtual prison?" - The Guardian (UK)
Shaw sang with Count Basie's big band and with Sammy Davis Jr., and moved from singing at church to jazz performances with an edge that she honed into personal, ribald stories. - The New York Times
"The visual art world is at a tipping point where traditional museums and galleries will have to begin involving immersive art in their offering or risk becoming irrelevant." So why not show art in derelict department stores as well? - The Guardian (UK)
Ghostwriters work "in a vacuum, sitting alone in our underwear in our offices," one says. "We don’t get out much. So I think it’s helpful to be able to compare notes." - The New York Times
"It took so much more than U.S. battlefield heroism to win this war. Indeed, only an estimated 16% of the U.S. Army ever saw ground combat. ... Their efforts were deeply intertwined with, and dependent upon, the work and resources of others around the globe." - Time
The grand unified theory of plane watching includes love stories, action stories, fun stories, and anything that includes a happy ending on a plane - but never a plane crash. - Slate
"Skal was an author with encyclopedic knowledge of a subject not always taken seriously — movies meant to scare the bejesus out of people — whose erudition, combined with a chatty writing style, made his books lively and entertaining." - The New York Times
No, it didn't have blockbuster deals, and no, it might not have had the shine of some previous celebrity-laden fests, but boy did it have indie heart. - Vulture
Can a board game be anti-colonial? Hm. "There is something dramatic about a board game. ... They’re theater exercises where the players are writing and performing for each other. That’s so intimate." - Slate
"The news organization best positioned to take on the mantle is The Baltimore Banner, the bustling nonprofit digital newsroom described from launch as the Sun’s crosstown rival. The Banner's newsroom has grown to 70 journalists, including several prominent hires from the Sun." - Nieman Lab
"Words like 'challenging,' 'volatile' and 'unsustainable' feature in some theatres' annual accounts, which have been filed in recent weeks. Some have changed their programming to do more 'popular, familiar, crowd-pleasing work.'" - BBC
Ukraine says so, and has footage of Milos Bikovic accepting an award from the Russian president in 2018. But "the day after the invasion began, Bikovic said on Instagram that he wished the war had not happened." - The New York Times
