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• How BTS Became A Global Phenomenon To Rival Beatlemania

  21-06-2022 23:57 via newyorker.com
  
  It was unusual for a K-pop group to start from a base of rap and hip-hop. It was even more unusual for a group to speak and sing openly of the struggles of youth. – The New Yorker
  
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• The Strange Case Of Google’s “Sentient” Artificial Intelligence

  21-06-2022 23:28 via theatlantic.com
  
  Where we’ve arrived instead is somewhere more foreign than artificial consciousness. In a strange way, a program like PaLM would be easier to comprehend if it simply were sentient. We at least know what the experience of consciousness entails. – The Atlantic
  
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• Where Does Responsibility Lie For Things We Do Wrong?

  21-06-2022 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  On the one hand, if we are solely responsible for the things we do wrong, some genuinely malevolent parties get off scot-free. On the other, if we locate responsibility entirely outside the individual, we relegate ourselves to sentient flotsam buffeted by currents beyond our control. – The Guardian
  
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• National Gallery Of Canada Names An Interim Director

  21-06-2022 22:26 via thestar.com
  She’s taking over from Sasha Suda, who has been at the gallery’s helm for three years but is leaving for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Angela Cassie previously served as the gallery’s chief strategy and inclusion officer. – Toronto Star
  
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• What To Do If You’re Being Canceled

  21-06-2022 22:01 via nytimes.com
  
  So, this is my answer: if I am being canceled I want my friends — and this includes not only my closest associates, but anyone who considers themselves friendly to me — to stand by, remain silent, and do nothing. If you care about me, let them eat me alive. – The New York Times
  
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• Germany art show covers up work after antisemitism complaints

  21-06-2022 14:53
  
  Organisers cover work by Indonesian collective Taring Padi after criticism from politicians and Jewish groupOrganisers at the Documenta contemporary art exhibition in the German city of Kassel have covered up an artwork by a group of Indonesian artists that has been criticised for containing antisemitic imagery.The artwork, a sprawling banner by the Taring Padi collective previously shown at the South Australian Art Festival in Adelaide last year, includes images of soldiers in riot gear with pi
  
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• German art show removes work condemned for antisemitic imagery

  21-06-2022 14:53
  
  Mayor of Kassel says showing banner by Indonesian artists has caused ‘immense damage’ for the cityAn artwork by a group of Indonesian artists that has been criticised for containing antisemitic imagery will be removed from the Documenta contemporary art exhibition in Kassel, the German city’s mayor has announced.The artwork, a sprawling banner by the Taring Padi collective previously shown at the South Australian art festival in Adelaide last year, includes images of soldiers i
  
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• Artist Penny Goring: ‘David Bowie showed me that there was another world’

  21-06-2022 11:37
  
  Brought up in a rough area, Goring drank heavily and never thought that she would make it as an artist. Finally, after a detour into ‘weird Facebook’, her freaky explorations of womanhood are getting their dueThe floor beneath Penny Goring’s worktable is awash in filaments and fragments of scarlet cloth. Slivers and snippets carry across the carpet in crimson eddies, as though blood had spilled from her stabbing scissors and is seeping across the floor of her bedroom into the w
  
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