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• Is There Any Privacy-Protecting Way To Use New AI Tools?

  16-07-2023 22:00 via wired.com
  
  Maybe, but probably not. “It’s worth putting some guardrails in place right at the start of your journey with these tools, or indeed deciding not to deal with them at all, based on how your data is collected and processed.” – Wired
  
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• The Historic – And Wide-Ranging – Disruptions Of The Hollywood Strikes

  16-07-2023 21:30 via latimes.com
  
  For the producers, “There isn’t a leader or leaders who have volunteered to handle this and to be the focal point of the discussion. … That’s partially because they’re all new to it, and also because … the technology has essentially changed business plans.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Painting Through Unimaginable Grief

  16-07-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Luella Bartley, famous British designer whose oldest, artist child died two years ago at age 18: “I wouldn’t say that I have acceptance, but there is an understanding. … It’s strange that you can carry on. What’s the motivation for that? I’ve struggled with that.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• The Writers And Actors Are Striking For All Of Us

  16-07-2023 20:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Almost nobody is immune to the risk that A.I. could devalue their economic position, even though A.I. will also have widespread benefits.” – The New York Times
  
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• How Director Agnes Varda Turned Her Photographs Into Films

  16-07-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Varda was a photographer first, and for her first film, La Pointe Courte, “she really worked on the photos – it was more than reportage, it was about preparing the film. When she came on set, she had no problem knowing where to put the camera.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Marga Minco, Who Chronicled Jewish Life In Europe During The War, Has Died At 103

  16-07-2023 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Minco “described the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during World War II, based on her own experiences.” Her first book, Het Bittere Kruid or Bitter Herbs, blew open Dutch silence on the more than 100,000 Dutch Jews murdered in the Holocaust. – The New York Times
  
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• Why Does It Matter Than 90 Percent Of Historic Video Games Are Impossible To Find Or Play?

  16-07-2023 19:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It’s our history. And right now, for a definition of “classic” that means before 2010 (!), “the availability of classic games is only slightly better than the availability of American silent films, or audio recorded before the Second World War.” – CBC
  
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• The English Is Coming

  16-07-2023 18:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Never fear, Europe. Though the language itself seems to have invaded every corner of France, an announced focus on English this summer at the Avignon (theatre) Festival turned out to be mildly interesting at best. – The New York Times
  
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• Octavia Butler’s Seemingly Prophetic Parable Of The Sower Is Now An Opera

  16-07-2023 18:00 via npr.org
  
  The book, published 30 years ago, is a classic that took on new relevance during recent events. Co-writer Toshi Reagon: “Singing this story evokes all of us in the space to be in a vibrational relationship so that we can really feel like we’re not alone.” – NPR
  
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• On my radar: Anohni’s cultural highlights

  16-07-2023 16:00
  
  The singer and artist on Marvin Gaye’s masterpiece, the shameful price of peace in Afghanistan – and why Arnold Schwarzenegger is such a hootThe musician and visual artist Anohni was born in Chichester in 1971. She moved to California with her family aged 10 and to Manhattan in 1990 to study experimental theatre at NYU, getting involved in the New York performance scene and later forming Antony and the Johnsons. The band’s self-titled debut album came out in 2000 and their foll
  
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• Liverpool Biennial 2023 review – horror and healing

  16-07-2023 14:00
  
  Various venues, Liverpool
  At the 12th Liverpool Biennial, bold works from Isa do Rosário, Binta Diaw, Torkwase Dyson and more focus on colonialism and the slave trade. But the aim is to spiritually awaken rather than shockThe bloody legacy of the transatlantic slave trade looms large over Liverpool, which was the slave-trading capital of Britain by 1740. Many of the works featured in the 12th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, mostly by Black, Asian and Indigenous artists, appear to be ha
  
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• The humble button goes from mere fastener to a place on the gallery wall

  16-07-2023 08:00
  
  Inspired by the work of ceramicist Lucie Rie, Ai Weiwei and other top artists are telling deeply personal stories on a tiny ‘canvas’Ai Weiwei, Edmund de Waal, Cornelia Parker and Antony Gormley are among 10 leading artists who will break their usual mould by making decorative buttons for an exhibition this autumn.Inspired by the great British ceramicist Lucie Rie, who died in 1995 aged 93, and who had to turn to producing buttons during the second world war, the artists will create t
  
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