Originally called “Pacific Standard Time” and funded by the Getty, “PST Art,” on its third iteration, will explore connections between art and science. Artists are digging into topics ranging from climate change and ecofeminism to environmental justice and medieval astrology. - The New York Times
Across the years — he moved from Dayton to Chicago in 1974, and then to New York in 1985 — he interviewed presidential candidates and Hollywood stars, consumer advocates and feminist pioneers. He also televised a child’s birth, an abortion, a reverse vasectomy and a tubal ligation. - The New York Times
Generative AI has “pretty much ruined the integrity of online classes,” which are increasingly common as schools such as ASU attempt to scale up access. No matter how small the assignments, many students will complete them using ChatGPT. - The Atlantic
Sped-up listening emerged in the early 2000s as “nightcore”. This is now commonplace on our social media apps, where the speed of podcasts, voice notes, movies and more can be increased so that we can consume them in less time. - BBC
“Ninety percent of the audience is coming from outside San Francisco. And most of these people are not just coming in for the show, they’re coming and spending the weekend or longer. So it’s going to be a big economic impact for the city.” - Los Angeles Times
Federal authorities on Friday arrested and charged a Missouri woman in connection with the scheme to fraudulently auction Elvis Presley’s historic Graceland mansion. - Los Angeles Times
Unsurprisingly, the arrival of fully fledged generative AI has done nothing to improve the situation for commercial translators. But there’s no impact on literary translators, right? Wrong. - Eurozine
Rather than collecting domestic works, people of means wanted art with a richer historical past. They were seduced by the appeal of Europe’s long history of artistic production and its canonical creators. - JSTor
“We see a lot of fantasy-style art and stock photography, which then trickles into the models themselves,” Zivvy Epstein, a scientist at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, told me. There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models. - The Atlantic
Two disgruntled landlords spoke out in 2021 when Banksy sprayed a large herring gull on to the side of a Suffolk house they let to tenants. Garry and Gokean Coutts claimed that protecting the bird and repairing vandalism would cost them nearly £40,000 a year.
The dilatoriness that used to be such a feature of the literary world in the days when it relied on the postal service and the telephone has, you suspect, been somewhat allayed by the forward march of technology. - The Critic
Some couples ask for music straight from the show, including the Keys song, said Émme, while others look for something more bespoke; one recent couple requested a mash-up of the traditional bridal march and Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 hit September. - The Guardian
The cyber-utopians of yore were hopelessly naïve. Lockdown showed us why. More screentime means more misery. Thus any future for humanity should ideally rest on a re-discovery of ourselves as ‘body-selves’ among others. - The Critic
Ingram's filters had mistakenly identified the book as having been generated using AI—a mistake indicative of the AI moment we now find ourselves in. - Publishers Weekly
