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The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even as Charter agrees to pay Disney for making some of its streaming services available to customers. - Variety

The artwork was created using Midjourney, a platform that features in our pick of the best AI art generators. The judges apparently didn't realise that when they named it the winner of the digital art category at the Colorado State Fair, but the US Copyright Office isn't so easily fooled. - Creative Blog

“We naïvely thought it would be as easy as plugging in a couple prompts,” Price recalled, explaining why curators at the North Carolina university have spent the past six months teaching ChatGPT how to do their jobs. - The New York Times

Apple Music is now eight years old, but there’s no indication that the business is profitable. They need strategies to reduce costs, and substituting cheap music for expensive music is the most obvious way of doing this. - The Honest Broker

Russia, a Unesco member, has a delegation in Riyadh because it is on the World Heritage Committee. This is a travesty. For its deliberate targeting of Ukraine’s cultural heritage, Russia needs to be expelled from Unesco. - The Wall Street Journal

The author of 66 novels and 15 short-story collections gets her own (seated) statue in the town where she lived for more than four decades. - The Guardian (UK)

Not that it ever went away, but the "fine art" world is taking notice of the feminized and thus less important "craft" once more. - The New York Times

So says Cord Jefferson, director of Toronto International Film Fest favorite American Fiction. - Los Angeles Times

The theatre, which had been a civilian shelter, is "a symbol of Russia's war crimes," says the city's exiled mayor. "To turn the theater into a tourist destination and to sing on the bones of the dead is incredible cynicism and disrespect." - The New York Times

You might not think it from his movies about violent men, but you can see it masterfully done in the 30-year-old Age of Innocence. - LitHub

More than 50 former students told the BBC about issues, saying they had developed eating disorders, "while some said they had been left with mental health problems." - BBC

Emma Stone is Frankenstein's monster, but a feminist one. - Globe and Mail (Canada)

Ask actor Rachel Brown (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), who's performing in a show about existential dread for work, and riding for fun. - The New York Times

Twenty thousand finishers of the marathon are set to receive a medal reading, "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet." - LitHub

It's not all selfies: "People are still engaging, if only for a moment, with what’s hung on the wall or placed in courtyards and parks." - Oregon ArtsWatch