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• How The World’s Richest Man Is Driving His Newspaper Into A Self-Inflicted Crisis

  30-06-2024 22:00 via theatlantic.com
  
  “For years, it was sacrilege at the [Washington] Post to speak ill of Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon who rescued the paper in 2013.” But things have changed – dramatically – over the past two years. – The Atlantic
  
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• Super-Cheap Gadgets Are Coming For Everything We Use And Love

  30-06-2024 21:30 via nymag.com
  
  “Cross-border commerce platforms have suffered from the (correct!) perception that much of what they sell will end up in a landfill within a year and was manufactured by invisible workers laboring under poor conditions,” but the screens on everything model is winning out, even changing Amazon. – New York Magazine
  
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• What Eddie Murphy Has Done, And What He Still Wants To Do

  30-06-2024 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “Murphy has been so famous for so long, occupying such a lofty place in the cultural landscape, that it can be easy to overlook just how game-changing a figure he actually is.” – The New York Times
  
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• Carrie Yamaoka Isn’t An ‘Emerging’ Artist Anymore

  30-06-2024 20:30 via hyperallergic.com
  
  The founding member of queer art collective fierce pussy, which had a show in Paris last year, says, “I don’t want a seat at the table, I want to change the shape of the table — or do away with the table altogether.” – Hyperallergic
  
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• Bay Area’s Throckmorton Theatre Goes Up For Sale

  30-06-2024 20:00 via sfchronicle.com
  This could go well, or it could go very wrong: “The building spans 9,300 square feet and includes the Throckmorton Theatre, which currently serves as the home for Mill Valley LiveArts, the area’s only multidisciplinary performing arts organization.” – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Morgan Freeman Says AI Imitations Of His Voice Are Scams

  30-06-2024 19:30 via variety.com
  
  The 87-year-old actor, whose voiceover narrations are popular among a movie crowd trained on March of the Penguins, also thanked his fans for calling out AI fakes on TikTok. – Variety
  
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• One Man Who Helped Invent Generative AI Wants To Save It From Big Tech

  30-06-2024 19:00 via wired.com
  
  “An open source approach, perhaps with the micropayment system Polosukhin envisions, might provide a way to resolve the tough intellectual property crisis that AI has triggered.” – Wired
  
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• Remember Redbox? It’s Dying

  30-06-2024 18:30 via theverge.com
  
  In another blow to physical media, Redbox’s owner just filed for bankruptcy protection. Why? “The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood.” – The Verge
  
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• Somehow, In 2024, It’s Still ‘Experimental’ To Add Music By Women To Concerts

  30-06-2024 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  In Berlin, “although every program booklet had a portrait of a female composer on its cover, her piece was usually a small fraction of the total running time: Unfamiliar works by women were often eclipsed by large-scale, crowd-pleasing compositions by men.” – The New York Times
  
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• New Zealand’s Quirkiest Architect

  30-06-2024 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Roger Walker says that in many cases, he was just reacting to the fact that so many houses looked essentially the same. Why not add a turret or two? – The Observer (UK)
  
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• An Iowa State Senator Has Been Telling School Districts To Use A Hate Group’s Site And App To Know Which Books To Ban

  30-06-2024 17:00 via bookriot.com
  
  Iowa’s censorship law has been suspended under appeal. And while there is no list “designated for schools to determine whether or not materials are in compliance with the law, [Senator Sandy] Salmon has used state letterhead to inform some districts that there is” – a Moms for Liberty list. – Book Riot
  
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• An Appreciation Of Comedian, Actor, Musician, And Painter Martin Mull

  30-06-2024 16:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Mull, who died Thursday at age 80, “was a comfortingly disquieting presence — deceptively normal, even bland, but with a spark of evil” in many of his most famous characters, ranging from Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman up to Sabrina the Teenage Witch. – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo News)
  
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• Anish Kapoor among artists featuring in youth vote billboard campaign

  30-06-2024 16:21
  
  Exclusive: Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler also contributes drawing encouraging young people to voteUK election live – latest updatesLeading artists including Anish Kapoor, Katharine Hamnett and the Gruffalo illustrator Axel Scheffler have created artwork to be installed on billboards across the UK as part of a drive to encourage young people to vote in the general election.The campaign, titled Art to the Polls, features pieces that vary in style and tone but are united in their messag
  
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• Leonora Carrington Is Finally Getting Her Due

  30-06-2024 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  “Her concerns – unusual and even eccentric in her own times – are now ubiquitous. Ecology, feminism, the interconnectedness of all life forms, spirituality outside of organised religion: today we’re all aware of these issues, but they were front and centre for Carrington 80 years ago.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• An Oral History Of Napoleon Dynamite

  30-06-2024 15:30 via washingtonpost.com
  
  “The thing with the cow really happened. My mom was a hobby farmer raising a beef cow and it just got too aggressive, so she called a local farmer to come take care of it and he shot it in front of my brother’s school bus.” – Washington Post
  
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• The Entire Hallmark Channel Staff Could Not Have Dreamed This One Up

  30-06-2024 15:00 via npr.org
  
  But thanks to what looks like reality, art will imitate life: There will be a Hallmark Christmas movie about a Kansas City Chiefs player and, um, a big fan. – NPR
  
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• Ukraine Passed A New Law Directly Supporting Bookstores

  30-06-2024 14:30 via lithub.com
  
  The bill “provides subsidies for renting space to open bookstores and the introduction of book certificates (worth 908 hryvnia, or about $22) for 18-year-olds starting this year.” – LitHub
  
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• When Mikhail Baryshnikov Left Everything He’d Ever Known

  30-06-2024 14:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “I remember feeling a sense of comfort and security after seeing some very friendly faces in the getaway car. But I also felt fear that it might turn out another way — that at any second, it could fall apart and become like a bad police movie.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Joys Of Reading Books That You Don’t Fully Understand

  30-06-2024 13:30 via reactormag.com
  
  Molly Templeton’s desire is “for us to have the time, the space, the mental bandwidth to welcome uncertainty, to crank up our curiosity and give the weird or confusing or just slightly unexpected books a chance. And I want it to be totally okay and acceptable and normal.” – Reactor Mag
  
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• Seattle Libraries Are Still Months Away From Full Service After Ransomware Attack

  30-06-2024 13:00 via seattletimes.com
  
  Just a portion of the issues: “The library’s public computers have been unavailable for a month. So have its public Wi-Fi networks. Books are being checked out by spreadsheet. And librarians are asking patrons to not return books.” – Seattle Times
  
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• Francis Alÿs: Ricochets; Anthony McCall: Solid Light – reviews

  30-06-2024 10:00
  
  Barbican Art Gallery, London; Tate Modern, London
  Mesmerising films documenting children’s play around the world dissolveborders and liberate our adult imagination, and there’s a ghostly thrill in the space where light meets drawingAn astonishing film opens this mesmerising exhibition. It shows a crowd of children in a parched and barren landscape at dusk, staring intently up at the sky. Above them swarm thousands of buzzing black dots. The children appear to mimic the sound, and eve
  
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