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• Marvel’s Special Effects Artists Are Speaking Up About Working Conditions

  08-08-2022 23:14 via cnet.com
  
  The work is contracted to a VFX house at a set price. An effects artist might manage grueling hours to meet hard release dates but work overtime unpaid. If the final product fails to satisfy audience expectations, VFX artists often take the blame. – CNET
  
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• The Bookstore As Expedition

  08-08-2022 22:32 via newyorker.com
  
  The Internet dealt a major blow by creating a massive single market for used books, undercutting the bread-and-butter lower end of the secondhand market. Amazon, in turn, depressed the prices of new books. And then there are rising rents, which have devastated small businesses of all kinds. – The New Yorker
  
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• Our Brains Fill In Details Of Experience Based On Other Experiences

  08-08-2022 21:42 via nautil.us
  
   If you’ve ever had a conversation with someone about an event you both participated in that left you feeling like one of you was delusional because your stories were so different, you might have a hint about how much your experiences have shaped the way you understand the world around you. – Nautilus
  
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• Here’s What Happens When You Offer Free Grammar Advice

  08-08-2022 21:01 via lithub.com
  
  I know how deep people’s relationship to grammar runs, because I’ve been teaching adults of all socioeconomic and educational backgrounds for thirty years. Language is connected to people’s sense of self and their sense of power. There is a lot of grammar insecurity. – LitHub
  
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• What If We Are The Ancients The Future Remembers?

  08-08-2022 20:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Longtermism is about taking seriously just how big the future could be and how high the stakes are in shaping it. If humanity survives to even a fraction of its potential life span, then, strange as it may seem, we are the ancients: we live at the very beginning of history, in its most distant past. – The New York Times
  
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• Where The US Is Losing Population

  08-08-2022 19:32 via brookings.edu
  
  The examination of age shifts shows a loss of young people under age 18 and those in their prime working ages (18 through 59). Moreover, when looking at age and race, it becomes clear that nonwhite Americans, especially Latino or Hispanic Americans, comprise larger shares of the population at all ages. – Brookings
  
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• Why Elevators Are Losing Their Music

  08-08-2022 18:47 via tedgioia.substack.com
  
  With phones and constant connectivity do we really need a song during our elevator journeys? Apparently not. Elevators are losing their soundtracks. At least, that was my hunch. In fact, I doubt whether the next generation will even understand what elevator music means. – Ted Gioia
  
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• New Leader For 9/11 Museum

  08-08-2022 18:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Elizabeth Hillman, 54, who served as a U.S. Air Force space operations officer in the 1990s before becoming a law professor in the 2000s, would be the third person to lead the organization and would start in October. She replaces one of the museum’s founders. – The New York Times
  
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• How Museums Are Dealing With LGBTQ Cultures

  08-08-2022 17:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Queer Britain is just one of a wave of new L.G.B.T.Q. institutions in London. “We’re still trying to see how we fit together with other queer spaces. – The New York Times
  
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• How ‘Prey’ Figured Out Indigenous Rep

  08-08-2022 17:00 via variety.com
  
  One of the actors: Don’t doubt the concept. Before contact with Europeans, North America “was a pretty hoppin’ area. And they were pretty skilled people. Just because it was a little bit different than their neighbors across the pond, doesn’t mean they were inept.” – Variety
  
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• The Terrifying Rise Of Anti-Muslim Hate Music In India

  08-08-2022 16:30 via bbc.com
  
  “The lyrics are abusive or threatening. They are usually based on the premise that Hindus have suffered for centuries at the hands of Muslims – and now it’s payback time.” And these songs make their singers a lot of money. – BBC
  
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• Quiet Sonic Soundscapes Are For The Rich

  08-08-2022 16:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “Nearly 60 percent of recent grievances [in NewYork] center on what I’d consider lifestyle choices: music and parties and people talking loudly. But one person’s loud is another person’s expression of joy.” – The Atlantic
  
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• Why And How Some Musicians Are Updating Their Music Once It’s Already Out

  08-08-2022 15:45 via npr.org
  It’s digital files, of course. – NPR
  
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• We Wanted The Internet To Be Great, And For A While It Felt Great

  08-08-2022 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Then along came smartphones. – The New York Times
  
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• Is HBO Max Being Gutted?

  08-08-2022 15:15 via huffpost.com
  
  The merger of WarnerMedia with Discovery, and the casual axing of Batgirl, have subscribers and investors worried. Streaming seems more doomed than usual this week – but it may all result in what some streamers call “ad-supported content,” AKA … traditional TV. – HuffPost
  
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• Chadwick Boseman Gave An Iconic Performance, But Should Marvel Recast Black Panther After His Death?

  08-08-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  It seemed unthinkable for months after Boseman’s untimely death from colon cancer. But now, “there is a sharp yearning driving the movement to recast King T’Challa — a yearning to hold onto what Chadwick Boseman represented.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Final Comedy Lesson From Robin Williams

  08-08-2022 14:45 via latimes.com
  
  “Laughter at your own expense — unleashed when you need it most — can heal what ails you, keep your ego in check and even speed your path to enlightenment.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Composer On The Meaning Of M. Butterfly In Today’s World

  08-08-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “I felt in opera I could freely integrate — to twist and to turn, to create all the drama with the music. Some plays should never be touched or turned into opera, but I felt this was one of the rare cases where it could work.” – The New York Times
  
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• Food for Thought: film, music and art to help you through the cost of living crisis

  08-08-2022 11:00
  
  From a 16th-century worker’s humble lunch to raging rap, our critics find the works that grapple with the challenges of hard timesA cost of living crisis plagued 16th-century Europe – food prices rose and made life harder for the urban poor, like this man portrayed in Annibale Carracci’s The Beaneater and his unadorned meal. Carracci rejects glamour and myth, abandoning the stylishness of Renaissance art, casting his eyes on humble reality. The ragged man in a tumbledown room i
  
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