For instance, before the Rosetta Stone, scholars had assumed the symbols were ideographs or pictographs. Were they, in fact, phonetic symbols? Turned out that they can be both. And in which direction were they read? (Well, that depends.) And what about that quasi-cursive called hieratic script? - Artnet
The settlement allows Anthropic to avoid going to trial over claims that it violated copyrights by downloading millions of books without permission and storing digital copies of them. The company will not admit wrongdoing. - Washington Post
“Books Inc. is seeking bankruptcy court approval to be acquired by Barnes & Noble for $3.25 million. The privately held company, which filed for voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization in January, announced B&N’s interest (this week). If the acquisition goes through, Books Inc. intends to keep nine out of its 10 locations open.” - Publishers Weekly
The corporate urge to replace art-making humans with machines is profoundly anti-human. It’s an old story: we have always tried to mechanize creativity and to remove messy human emotions. - LitHub
I’ve never encountered a complete description of what the magazine wants its checkers to check. A managing editor took a stab in 1936: “Points which in the judgment of the head checker need verification.” New checkers, upon receiving their first assignment, are instructed to print out the galleys of the piece and underline all the facts. - The New Yorker
“The Onion has more than 53,000 subscribers paying as much as $9 a month. The publication has a new deal to sell its papers at Barnes & Noble, and is expecting about $6 million in revenue this year — up from less than $2 million in early 2024.” - The Wall Street Journal (MSN)
“It’ll be paused for a couple of hours while the ministerial order is rewritten,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “The direction will be to take books with pornographic images out of the libraries and to leave the classics alone. I think there was some misunderstanding of the order.” - The Guardian
“After years of giving millions of dollars to literacy programs, bookstore employees and librarians, James Patterson has now launched an initiative on behalf of emerging authors: … (the) ‘Go Finish Your Book’ campaign. Authors each will receive up to $50,000 to help them complete their manuscript.” - AP
“In a social media post, Atwood wrote that since her famed work was no longer permissible in Alberta schools, she had written a ‘suitable’ short work for teens. … The extremely brief story traces the lives of John and Mary, two ‘very, very good’ children.” - The Guardian
“Yes — we have urged Christians, both locally and across the country, to search their libraries for books that promote sodomy, gender confusion and rebellion against God — and if found, to check them out and never return them as an act of civil disobedience." - News from the States
“Wintour ended weeks of fashion-world speculation Tuesday when she named Chloé Malle her successor as head of editorial content at Vogue. — Wintour, 75, remains chief content officer for Condé Nast and global editorial director of American Vogue and its 27 editions around the globe.” - AP
Lea Ypi: “In literature there is an experimentation with genres and with cultures and with languages, and so you get this sense of complexity. You have almost the exact opposite happening in the political realm.” - The Guardian (UK)
The truth is that "disability is not a choice, but a natural variation of existence. That disability is part of the natural world, and not an anomaly to be corrected. That incurable illnesses exist. That medicine is an inexact science.” - LitHub
