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• Netflix’s Big Time Bet On Streaming Live Sports

  21-04-2025 19:44 via bbc.com
  
  The stakes are high. WrestleMania, which began in 1985, is being treated as a litmus test – not just for WWE’s global expansion, but for Netflix’s potential move into live sports. – BBC
  
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• What Happens To Our Culture When Hobbies Get Too Expensive

  21-04-2025 19:36 via theatlantic.com
  
  Hobby inflation, understood in this light, is about much more than price hikes: It’s about the shrinking and possible disappearance of opportunities for people from different backgrounds to get to know one another. – The Atlantic
  
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• Coming To Terms With Richard Serra

  21-04-2025 19:15 via nplusonemag.com
  
  Over the past half century the art history industry has produced reams of interpretation, incorporating no shortage of words by Serra himself. The author of work so totally laconic has set the terms of its understanding as if the death of the author bypassed him entirely. – N + One
  
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• How “Blockbusters” Degraded Hollywood’s Soul

  21-04-2025 19:00 via latimes.com
  
  I think Hollywood used to propose itself as a place where artists and creative people could sustain themselves, perhaps even strike it rich, and that’s gone. The loss of that idea is … incalculable. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• A Mathematical Model To Better Understand Language?

  21-04-2025 18:49 via quantamagazine.org
  By thinking of language as a mathematical category, Tai-Danae Bradley‘s been able to apply established tools to study it and glean new insights. Linguists hope her model can help them to prove certain theories about how grammar and meaning emerge from strings of words, and to identify how AI-generated text differs from human language. – Quanta
  
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• Study Literature? What It Means

  21-04-2025 18:30 via 3quarksdaily.com
  
  As the English degree craters, and the idea of the university itself is under assault in the United States and elsewhere, those of us who remain interested in literate culture are sensing in its decline some correlation with the current apoplexy, if not direct causation. – 3 Quarks Daily
  
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• So What Comes After DEI?

  21-04-2025 17:44 via newyorker.com
  Conservatives have painted D.E.I. as a uniform set of programs, ideas, and ideologies. In reality, the term encompasses a wide-ranging set of practices. Still, D.E.I. spaces often share certain analytic frameworks, usually centering on questions of justice. – The New Yorker
  
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• Books Have “No Economic Value” Claims Meta

  21-04-2025 17:31 via futurism.com
  Meta cited an expert witness who downplayed the books’ individual importance, averring that a single book adjusted its LLM’s performance “by less than 0.06 percent on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Thus there’s no market in paying authors to use their copyrighted works, Meta says. – Futurism
  
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• Will Ryan Coogler’s Movie ‘Sinners’ End The Studio System?

  21-04-2025 17:15 via vulture.com
  “Directors owning their own movies is the opposite of business as usual — and to studios, cause for freaking out. According to senior executives at rival studios, the Sinners deal sets a ‘very dangerous’ precedent.” – Vulture
  
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• Are Blockbusters A ‘Fascist’ Turn For Hollywood?

  21-04-2025 17:00 via msn.com
  This author thinks so: “When you stop making middle-class movies — movies with a moderate budget, as opposed to ones made on a shoestring or ones that cost $200 million — you’re hollowing out a middle class of people who make them.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• The Book That Transformed How We See Ballet

  21-04-2025 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Alexey Brodovitch’s Ballet gets an 80th anniversary reprint. He “intended to foreground shape, blur, contrast, gesture and motion — the atmosphere of dance — in the photographs. ‘The photograph is not only a pictorial report,’ Brodovitch said. ‘It is also a psychological report.’” – The New York Times
  
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• British Authors Protest Zuckerberg’s Taking Of Their Books For Generative AI

  21-04-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  “Earlier this month, a group of protesters gathered outside the London headquarters of Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. They were demonstrating over the company’s use of millions of pirated books and research papers to feed their family of generative AI models.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Van Gogh’s Final Painting Is Causing Trouble In This Idyllic French Village

  21-04-2025 15:45 via nytimes.com
  “The continued fight over Van Gogh’s tree roots has cast a pall over what is usually a celebratory season in Auvers, population 7,000, where art tourism is a big business that heats up in the spring.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why New York’s Parking Lots Are Stuffed To The Brim And Beyond

  21-04-2025 15:30 via english.elpais.com
  It’s the food trucks. Their owners or renters are gone, or in hiding, never opening their doors. In this version of the Big Apple, “the usual recourse to a quick, tasty and cheap snack is now an endangered option.” – El País
  
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• The Naval Academy Was Supposed To Host A Lecture On Idea Censorship And Reading Fearlessly

  21-04-2025 15:15 via nytimes.com
  Then the Academy, apparently not fearless, censored the lecture. “I did not want to cause them trouble. I did, however, feel it was essential to make the point that the pursuit of wisdom is impossible without engaging with (and challenging) uncomfortable ideas.” – The New York Times
  
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• The US Knew It Needed Public Housing, But The People Building It Often Didn’t Like It

  21-04-2025 15:00 via msn.com
  Despite the decades of neglect, when a new “Chicago museum’s leadership was pursuing oral histories of public housing, they found other narratives as well — of community, empowerment and self-sufficiency.” – Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• Buying A Book, Novelist Kiley Reid Says, Isn’t Going To Fix Racism

  21-04-2025 14:45 via theguardian.com
  “Theme always comes last. I never say, I want to write about capitalism or women. What gets me into writing is always this tiny moment of someone saying something that’s stuck with me.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• An Updated Timeline Of The Harvey Weinstein Trials

  21-04-2025 14:30 via npr.org
  As jury selection begins in the newest trial, here’s a timeline of all of the trials and appeals so far. – NPR
  
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• David Cronenberg Found His Will To Live By Making A Movie About Death

  21-04-2025 14:15 via nytimes.com
  “During the pandemic, when I was watching a lot of old movies, it occurred to me that every person who worked on this movie is dead now. The director, the producers, the actors — they’re all dead, and I’m watching their ghosts.” – The New York Times
  
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• Turns Out UK Taxpayers Gave Nearly Ninety Million Pounds Toward A Recent Jurassic Park Movie

  21-04-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s easier to make a profit when the people of the country where you film underwrite the whole thing, no? At least it’s transparent: “Studios set up separate companies for movies made in the UK to show more than 10% of the total cost was spent here.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• Podcasts Mostly Have To Turn Into Brands To Make Money

  21-04-2025 13:45 via artsjournal.com
  That means podcast-themed backpacks, toys – and cruises. Indeed, one “chief content officer” says, “We’re trying to take a Hollywood-style approach to IP-building and apply it to podcasting.” – Fast Company
  
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• Artists In The United States Survived A Rabidly Anti-Art Government Before

  21-04-2025 13:30 via theconversation.com
  And here’s how to do it again. – The Conversation
  
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• Helping Cinemas Survive Might Mean Moving TV Series To The Big Screen

  21-04-2025 13:15 via msn.com
  For instance, this TV series about the life of Jesus is doing numbers, as in, big numbers. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Should Gaudi Be Seen As A Saint?

  21-04-2025 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Even if you’re not a believer, the answer is probably a yes. “Gaudí’s mission was to find spiritual meaning in a world transformed by industry and machines.” – The Observer (UK)
  
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• ‘My work is a scream for help’: Gaza’s artists document life under fire

  21-04-2025 06:00
  Work illustrating the war’s brutality but also the resilience of four Palestinian artists, is being exhibited at the Darat al Funan in JordanBasel El Maqosui says he is amazed to be alive at the end of each day. Living in Gaza, where more than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s assault, and with the tally rising still, his amazement returns, he says, with each morning light.“The war began and life stopped. There is no work or art, we just try to run from one place
  
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