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• Authorities Bust Russians Running The World’s Largest Pirated Books Library

  21-11-2022 23:15 via theverge.com
  “The defendants are alleged to have operated a website for over a decade whose central purpose was providing stolen intellectual property, in violation of copyright laws.” – The Verge
  
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• The World Now Has So Much Data, Scientists Had To Invent New Measures For It

  21-11-2022 22:32 via npr.org
  Yotta (24 zeroes) was the largest prefix in the metric system before the new additions. Now, the Earth’s mass can be said to be about 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. The sun can be said to be about 2,000 quettagrams rather than 2,000,000,000 yottagrams. – NPR
  
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• How AI Will Take The Jobs Of Millions Of Creative Workers

  21-11-2022 21:44 via shellypalmer.com
  As each new purpose-built AI system comes online, the work for less productive humans will evaporate practically overnight. – Shelly Palmer
  
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• Why Nonprofit Boards Need Codes Of Conduct

  21-11-2022 21:01 via philanthropy.com
  Conversations about ethics and ethical judgment are usually missing from good governance discussions. A code of conduct, which is typical of other professions, would help the field more formally address these issues. – Journal of Philanthropy
  
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• How An Original Copy Of The US Constitution Ended Up In A Drawer In New Jersey

  21-11-2022 20:14 via artsjournal.com
  Stored in a drawer in the vault is the original, ink-blotched, handwritten state constitution signed on July 2, 1776, declaring New Jersey’s independence from Great Britain and rejecting the authority of Governor Franklin, who had already been arrested. – The New York Times
  
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• Amazon Makes Deep Cuts In Unprofitable Kindle, Alexa Workforces

  21-11-2022 19:31 via goodereader.com
  All of these products are unprofitable lose $5 billion annually in the past few years. Most of these devices are loss leaders because Amazon normally subsidizes the cost to get more market share. However, there are more competition in this space and Amazon does not have the power that it once had. – GoodReader
  
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• National Gallery Of Canada Lays Off Chief And Curators Of Indigenous Art

  21-11-2022 18:44 via artsjournal.com
  Hill, the inaugural Audain senior curator of Indigenous art, had worked at the gallery for 22 years. He is a specialist in Iroquoian languages and culture, and in global contemporary Indigenous art. – The Globe & Mail (Canada)
  
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• The Message UK Arts Funding Cuts Sends To Musicians

  21-11-2022 18:01 via maxmusicianandartistexchange.com
  What is the message our Arts Council is trying to send to our young musicians? That they want them to train, and to immerse themselves in music, but that their years of dedication and craft cannot add up to earning a living? – MaxMusician
  
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• Pianist Joao Carlos Martins Resumes Career With Bionic Gloves

  21-11-2022 17:27 via artsjournal.com
  Martins, who has played for dignitaries and enjoyed the high-class life in New York as a younger man, had long suffered from a neurological condition called focal dystonia, which caused involuntary spasms in his right hand. Over the years, the pain grew more and more excruciating. – New York Post
  
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• The Swiss mountain with a racist name – and the artist fighting to rechristen it

  21-11-2022 17:01
  Agassizhorn is an alp in Switzerland named after a notorious scientist. Sasha Huber explains why she flew to the summit by helicopter and rechristened it Rentyhorn – in honour of an enslaved manIn August 2008, Sasha Huber landed by helicopter near the peak of the Agassizhorn mountain in Switzerland. She was carrying a metal plaque which she hammered into the ice, symbolically renaming the mountain Rentyhorn in honour of a Congolese-born slave, Renty Taylor, who had spent most of his life i
  
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• MFA Students Whose Work Was Stolen From Yale Art Show Speak Out

  21-11-2022 17:00 via hyperallergic.com
  “Naturally, the theft has shaken the Yale School of Art, but it has opened up a conversation about frustrations with the university’s policies as well.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Australia Recreates The Parthenon

  21-11-2022 16:30 via theguardian.com
  The Temple of Boom “is made of glass-reinforced concrete and rises from the NGV gardens like a piece of sumptuous Meccano. It invites the public to reflect not only on the Parthenon’s beauty, but its complicated history.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• The Choreographer With Two Shows Opening On Broadway, Plus A National Tour

  21-11-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  Plus, Jennifer Weber choreographed a Disney+ movie. “Dancers appreciate how Weber runs rehearsals — her clear authority, her directorial eye — but also how she allows them the freedom to be themselves.” – The New York Times
  
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• Let’s Talk About GBBO’s Issues

  21-11-2022 15:45 via huffpost.com
  Look, The Great British Baking Show‘s issues go far beyond the cringe-inducing racism of Mexican Week. “These issues have reached a tipping point in this season, … and they’re undermining the aspect of the show that’s always made it worth watching: the bakers themselves.” – HuffPost
  
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• Trinity College Is Asked To Return Skulls To Irish Island

  21-11-2022 15:30 via irishtimes.com
  A British anthropologist and his photographer assistant stole 13 skulls from the ruins of an Irish monastery in 1890, and gave them to Trinity College in Dublin. Now a repatriation campaign is demanding their return. – Irish Times
  
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• British Jazz Musicians Talk About Making A Living Out Of Their Passion

  21-11-2022 15:15 via theguardian.com
  Post-COVID, “There’s a real demand for this music now. … I’m really enjoying it, but I’m also finding it hard. We’ve had these two years where we got used to a different pace of life, so it is a bit of a culture shock to be back.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• From Athens with love: the NGV’s dizzying recreation of the Parthenon

  21-11-2022 15:00
  Temple of Boom sees the ancient monument reconstructed and covered with art in the gallery’s garden, inviting the public to reflect on its beauty – andcomplicated historyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWhen Sigmund Freud visited the Parthenon as a young man, he found it disturbed his sense of reality. Something about its sunlit columns and precise geometry seemed unreal. Despite its grand scale, perched above Athens, it was a site of intimacy and play. The good doctor coul
  
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• Even Jane Austen Almost Gave Up

  21-11-2022 15:00 via lithub.com
  “Money is the problem. It usually is, in Austen’s world.” – LitHub
  
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• How ‘The Walking Dead’ Transformed TV

  21-11-2022 14:45 via latimes.com
  Prestige TV was already happening, but fantasy TV was new – and The Walking Dead was perfectly timed for “the convergence of television and fandom, [including] all those recapping blogs,” not to mention social media. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Michael Butler, The So-Called ‘Hippie Millionaire’ Behind Hair, Has Died At 95

  21-11-2022 14:30 via nytimes.com
  “Butler was from a moneyed Chicago family … and he was comfortable in the world of polo and debutantes and expensive clothes.” Then, “he put his money behind ‘the American tribal love-rock musical,’ as the show called itself.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Small Studio Powers New Netflix Animation Joy

  21-11-2022 14:15 via slate.com
  When two Pixar art directors worked together on an independent short, they decided to found their own company. “We had a very similar ambitions and, you know, sort of hunger to grow and just wanted to be a better storytellers.” – Slate
  
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• Working More Does Not Equal Being More Successful

  21-11-2022 14:00 via fastcompany.com
  Studies on the four-day work week prove it, too. “Instead of seeing time as a vacuum that needs to be filled, what might it look like if we considered that high performance is, in part, the result of work not done?” – Fast Company
  
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• The Intense Impact Of Britain’s New Arts Funding Plans

  21-11-2022 13:45 via theguardian.com
  While some organizations are thrilled to have new funding, others are shocked at the harm planned cuts will do. – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Christie’s Stops The Auction Of A T. Rex Over Questions Of Authenticity

  21-11-2022 13:30 via nytimes.com
  How much of the skeleton is actually a replica of another T. Rex that sold two years ago? – The New York Times
  
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• Most Climate Change Art Doesn’t Involve Splashing Oil Or Tomato Soup

  21-11-2022 13:15 via theatlantic.com
  Eco-artists aren’t trying to shock, generally speaking: “The climate crisis has inspired visual artists to create works that challenge viewers—and themselves—to move beyond shock and outrage, and toward action.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Ways Language Can’t Be Divided From Activism

  21-11-2022 13:00 via themillions.com
  Writer Ryan Lee Wong: ” This is a metaphor for the writer’s dilemma: this desire to transform everything in your life, especially the painful things, into our way of making meaning of it, making it legible to yourself and others.” – The Millions
  
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• ‘My story deserves to be told’ – what Qatar could learn from Zanele Muholi’s LGBTQ+ portraits

  21-11-2022 09:00
  As the World Cup kicks off in repressive Qatar, where same-sex sexual activity is illegal, Muholi’s moving, dignified photographs of marginalised South Africans feel more urgent than ever‘My mission,” Zanele Muholi has said, “is to re-write a Black queer and trans visual history of South Africa, for the world to know of our resistance and existence”. With photographs that range from small to colossal, this self-proclaimed “visual activist” captures peopl
  
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• Shocker: Bog Iger Returns To Run Disney

  21-11-2022 05:57 via artsjournal.com
  “I am deeply honored to be asked to again lead this remarkable team, with a clear mission focused on creative excellence to inspire generations through unrivaled, bold storytelling,” said Iger tonight. – Deadline
  
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