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• The Accursed Culture Of Noise-Canceling Headphones

  19-08-2024 23:29 via newyorker.com
  
  In the past several years, they have gone from a relatively niche productivity tool—an antidote to the distractions of the open office—to a near-universal accessory, and, thus, something of a scourge. – The New Yorker
  
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• Louis Menand: What Is A Book Store These Days?

  19-08-2024 23:01 via newyorker.com
  
  Of course, selling books is as much a business as selling grill brushes. But the gross margins are small, and bookstore owners tend to be what the sociologist Laura Miller calls “reluctant capitalists.” – The New Yorker
  
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• Our Inexplicable Fascination With Hate-Watching

  19-08-2024 22:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Why spend precious time, in an age of nearly infinite media, plopped in front of a bad show to pick it apart? It’s like gorging yourself on a disgusting meal not because you’re hungry, but because you want to gripe about it later. – The New York Times
  
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• Not Just The Seine: Cities Are Reclaiming Their Waterways For Swimming

  19-08-2024 22:01 via theguardian.com
  
  After a century of ignoring the very arteries that allowed them to grow in the first place, cities are learning to love their rivers again. – The Guardian
  
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• Has Technology Caused Us To Have The Same Musical Taste?

  19-08-2024 21:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Oddly enough, we’re seeing an increasingly samey musical landscape, in which taste has become trapped in a feedback loop of the algorithm’s making. – The Guardian
  
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• Performance Art? Dying Woman Sells Off Pieces Of Her Remaining Time

  19-08-2024 21:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Over the course of the day, about 30 people sat with Emily. Some used their three minutes for quiet reflection. Others wanted conversation, asking her questions or sharing why they had come to see her. Usually you’d describe a project like this as performance art, but Emily isn’t an artist. – The Guardian
  
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• Southern California Artists Focus On Art And Science For PST

  19-08-2024 20:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Originally called “Pacific Standard Time” and funded by the Getty, “PST Art,” on its third iteration, will explore connections between art and science. Artists are digging into topics ranging from climate change and ecofeminism to environmental justice and medieval astrology. – The New York Times
  
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• Phil Donahue, 88

  19-08-2024 20:02 via nytimes.com
  
  Across the years — he moved from Dayton to Chicago in 1974, and then to New York in 1985 — he interviewed presidential candidates and Hollywood stars, consumer advocates and feminist pioneers. He also televised a child’s birth, an abortion, a reverse vasectomy and a tubal ligation. – The New York Times
  
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• Godfather Of French Contemporary Dance Retires

  19-08-2024 19:31 via nytimes.com
  
  Jean-Paul Montanari’s career has been entwined with the explosion of contemporary dance into a major art form in France. – The New York Times
  
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• Educators Still Don’t Know How To Deal With AI And Students

  19-08-2024 19:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  Generative AI has “pretty much ruined the integrity of online classes,” which are increasingly common as schools such as ASU attempt to scale up access. No matter how small the assignments, many students will complete them using ChatGPT. – The Atlantic
  
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• People Are Speeding Up Playback Of Songs. But The Music Sounds Different From How They Were Conceived

  19-08-2024 18:26 via bbc.com
  
  Sped-up listening emerged in the early 2000s as “nightcore”. This is now commonplace on our social media apps, where the speed of podcasts, voice notes, movies and more can be increased so that we can consume them in less time. – BBC
  
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• Can Music Festivals Help Revive San Francisco?

  19-08-2024 18:01 via latimes.com
  
  “Ninety percent of the audience is coming from outside San Francisco. And most of these people are not just coming in for the show, they’re coming and spending the weekend or longer. So it’s going to be a big economic impact for the city.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Woman Arrested For Trying To Fraudulently Sell Graceland

  19-08-2024 17:31 via latimes.com
  
  Federal authorities on Friday arrested and charged a Missouri woman in connection with the scheme to fraudulently auction Elvis Presley’s historic Graceland mansion. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• AI Has Come For Translators

  19-08-2024 17:01 via eurozine.com
  
  Unsurprisingly, the arrival of fully fledged generative AI has done nothing to improve the situation for commercial translators. But there’s no impact on literary translators, right? Wrong. – Eurozine
  
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• Why So Much Renaissance Art Turned Up In American Museums

  19-08-2024 16:32 via daily.jstor.org
  
  Rather than collecting domestic works, people of means wanted art with a richer historical past. They were seduced by the appeal of Europe’s long history of artistic production and its canonical creators. – JSTor
  
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• Why AI Art Looks So Much “Of A Type”

  19-08-2024 16:02 via theatlantic.com
  
  “We see a lot of fantasy-style art and stock photography, which then trickles into the models themselves,” Zivvy Epstein, a scientist at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, told me. There are also only so many good data sets available for people to use to build image models. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Not Insignificant Costs Of “Hosting” A Banksy

  19-08-2024 15:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Two disgruntled landlords spoke out in 2021 when Banksy sprayed a large herring gull on to the side of a Suffolk house they let to tenants. Garry and Gokean Coutts claimed that protecting the bird and repairing vandalism would cost them nearly £40,000 a year.
  
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• The Glacial Pace Of Book Publishing Is Killing It

  19-08-2024 15:01 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The dilatoriness that used to be such a feature of the literary world in the days when it relied on the postal service and the telephone has, you suspect, been somewhat allayed by the forward march of technology. – The Critic
  
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• Trend: Couples Are Asking For “Bridgerton” Music For Their Weddings

  19-08-2024 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Some couples ask for music straight from the show, including the Keys song, said Émme, while others look for something more bespoke; one recent couple requested a mash-up of the traditional bridal march and Earth, Wind & Fire’s 1978 hit September. – The Guardian
  
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• How Technology Disrupted Our Sense Of Our Bodies

  19-08-2024 14:02 via thecritic.co.uk
  
  The cyber-utopians of yore were hopelessly naïve. Lockdown showed us why. More screentime means more misery. Thus any future for humanity should ideally rest on a re-discovery of ourselves as ‘body-selves’ among others. – The Critic
  
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• Clandestina review – artists fighting fascists in Portugal in the 1950s – and the present day

  19-08-2024 08:00
  The words of artist-activist Margarida Tengarrinha ground Maria Mire’s feature debut, which evokes a lineage of political dissent through ambiguous visual sequencesAnchored by the personal writings of 20th-century Portuguese revolutionary Margarida Tengarrinha, Maria Mire’s feature debut attempts to create a bridge between the history, the present and the future of political activism in Portugal. Told through voiceover, Tengarrinha’s extraordinary experiences describe an engagi
  
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• How can you make a difference?

  19-08-2024 07:15 via artsjournal.com
  The Master of Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon University empowers you to make an impact on your community through the arts. Through experiential learning and action-based research, discover your potential.MORE
  
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