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• AI-Generated Nudes At A Middle School Raise Legal Questions

  04-03-2024 13:45 via latimes.com
  
  The thing is, “Federal law includes computer-generated images of identifiable people in the prohibition on child pornography. Although the prohibition seems clear, legal experts caution that it has yet to be tested in court.” Also, does an AI-generated nude depict a real person or not? – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Gillian Anderson, Doing Theatre, Asks Her Superfans To Get Out Of The Front Row

  05-10-2026 14:15 via yahoo.com
  She was laughing, but the X-Files (and current Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf) star told her fans, “It’s so distracting. You can’t come 20 times and sit in the front row, it’s driving me mad.” – The Telegraph (Yahoo)
  
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• Freaked Out About Artificial Intelligence?

  05-10-2026 14:00 via aeon.co
  Look to Kant. – Aeon
  
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• Powwow Dances Aren’t Always Very Accessible

  05-10-2026 13:45 via opb.org
  
  One man is trying to change that.  ”You can come down with your blankets, your tablets, your headphones. You don’t have to be in regalia. You can have your caregivers with you. You can have your parents with you, a support person or persons.” – OPB
  
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• In Censor-Happy Texas, School Librarians And Teachers Are Afraid To Discuss Books

  05-10-2026 13:15 via the74million.org
  
  “When you put your finger on every single book in order to type it into a spreadsheet, you really do think, ‘Am I willing to lose my job over this particular book?’ … I think that is a real concern for teachers around the state.” – The 74
  
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• Nashville Symphony’s Musicians ‘Blindsided’ By The Cancellations And Furloughs

  05-10-2026 13:00 via yahoo.com
  Violinist Dawn Gingrich: “We have new hires this season who upended their lives and moved to Nashville at the end of August … gave up prestigious fellowships and positions with other orchestras because they believed that the work here was secure.” – The Tennessean (Yahoo)
  
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• Anton Seidl and the Lost Promise of American Classical Music

  05-10-2026 03:23 via artsjournal.com
  
  This weekend’s online “ArtsFuse” carries an interview with me by Aaron Cohen (reproduced below).
  I will be speaking about my
  
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• Eight Million Books Burned in Kharkiv

  04-10-2026 22:19 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,A Russian drone strike in August destroyed 8 million books at a Kharkiv warehouse belonging to Ranok, a Ukrainian publisher, more than 85% of its stock, including 628,000 new schoolbooks. The government estimates 13 million Ukrainian books were destroyed this summer, a third of everything printed in the country this year (The Guardian).The British Museum, which has the Bayeux Tapestry on loan from France until July 2027, will now run an audio-described tour after Yusuf Ali Osman, wh
  
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• Digital Lists Are Destroying The Fabric Of Society

  04-10-2026 22:00 via slate.com
  “The issue goes deeper than presents. I have four kids from elementary to high-school age, and as hard as I try to expose them to life’s realities, they remain sheltered from disappointment and dissatisfaction at every turn.” – Slate
  
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• The British Museum Adds An Audio Tour To The Bayeux Tapestry in Response To Blind Man’s Lawsuit

  04-10-2026 21:30 via bbc.com
  
  The museum apparently hadn’t thought of adding an audio description to its app, or having more audio description tours, before the lawsuit – despite saying they worked with specialists on accessibility. – BBC
  
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• We’re In A Gross ‘Great Man’ Statuary Backlash, But Look At Ancient Egypt

  04-10-2026 21:00 via theatlantic.com
  “The great public efforts—the colossal statuary, the expansive propaganda programs, the image campaigns, the attempts to remake the world of living people—have been shattered, defaced, and refaced.” – The Atlantic
  
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• The Joys Of Music Discovery Don’t Include Robots

  04-10-2026 20:30 via salon.com
  
  With AI-generated “music,” “It’s not just the lack of discovery. … It’s more about the lack of anything personal behind the music. No history, no struggle, no catharsis, no exploration, no humanity. I listen to music because it’s flawed, raw and human.” – Salon
  
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• Turning Millennial Nostalgia For Raves Into A Big Business

  04-10-2026 20:00 via npr.org
  
  But this one’s for the real kids (of Millennials and older Gen-Zers): “We wanted to get the baby into the rave scene,” says one set of parents. – NPR
  
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• As A New Show Opens, It’s Past Time To Reevaluate Our Reactions To Lee Krasner’s Work

  04-10-2026 19:30 via nytimes.com
  “Her response to life with a mean and desperate drunk was to cannibalize her old canvases and explode into the pugnacious scale, audacious color, and thrusting verticles of collages.” – The New York Times
  
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• Russia’s War On Ukraine’s Books

  04-10-2026 19:00 via theguardian.com
  “In total, this summer, 13 [million] Ukrainian books have been destroyed by Russian missiles or drones – a third, estimates the government, of all books printed in Ukraine this year.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• So Now There’s Apparently ‘Weird Girl Lit’?

  04-10-2026 18:30 via nytimes.com
  Emerging from Reddit, the subgenre is not fully defined, but “books that get called weird girl lit tend to deal in uncanny or dreamlike circumstances.” – The New York Times
  
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• Netflix Had A Little Pivot Toward Prestige, But That’s Ending

  04-10-2026 18:00 via theverge.com
  Prestige movies don’t reliably make money on streaming. “It seems like Netflix’s main game plan is to put an increased focus on producing lower-budget series, live events, and sports programming.” – The Verge
  
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• When Will We Know The Answers To AI’s Most Important Questions?

  04-10-2026 17:00 via time.com
  
  “Several of the most fundamental debates about the future and safety of AI remain unresolved. I believe we can’t expect these disagreements to be resolved until it’s too late to change course.” – Time
  
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• Eugenia Errazuriz, Who Made Picasso Possible

  04-10-2026 16:30 via nytimes.com
  Errázuriz was “a patron, adviser, connector and tastemaker whose influence expanded beyond Picasso and Stravinsky to fashion and interior design. She … opened doors, offered criticism and used her considerable wealth to steer artists toward the work that would make them famous.” – The New York Times
  
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• What It’s Like For Musician And Filmmaker Hayley Kiyoko To Be Called ‘Lesbian Jesus’ By Her Fans

  04-10-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  She’s felt a pretty big responsibility, honestly, and she’s proud of the film Girls Like Girls. “We go to watch movies to dream and to fantasise and to see representation that maybe we lack in our lives.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• This Administration Is Moving The Kennedy Center Honors To Capital One Arena

  04-10-2026 15:30 via nytimes.com
  “As Mr. Trump pushes to close the center for two years of renovations, he is trading the ruby-red Opera House for the 20,000-seat home of the N.B.A.’s Washington Wizards and the N.H.L.’s Washington Capitals.” – The New York Times
  
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• A Reminder For All Of Us – And Something New For The Young Ones – Who Love Music

  04-10-2026 15:00 via wired.com
  
  When CDs are seen more as merch, something to buy to help out the artists rather than to hear the music, then you get a first tip like “Get a CD player.” – Wired
  
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• Is 3D, As Film Tech, Finally Worth It?

  04-10-2026 14:00 via theverge.com
  
  “Almost every 3D technology cuts something you care about in half, whether it’s resolution … or the refresh rate and flicker you get with active shutter glasses. But what if you had a full screen for each eye? That’s what video glasses can provide.” – The Verge
  
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• What Venice Could Have Been

  04-10-2026 13:30 via nytimes.com
  At least, what the U.S. pavilion could have been. – The New York Times
  
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• The Jacksonville Symphony seeks Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer.

  01-10-2026 23:49 via artsjournal.com
  ZRG Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with the Jacksonville Symphony in the search for a Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer.Reporting to the President & Chief Executive Officer, the Vice President/Chief Advancement Officer will be responsible for planning, implementing, overseeing, and assessing Jacksonville Symphony’s development plans in support of the organization’s strategic vision and growth. As a key member of the leadership team, the CAO will effectively re
  
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• Seventy Thousand Met Opera Tickets, By Lottery

  01-10-2026 22:55 via artsjournal.com
  Good Morning,New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is paying for 70,000 Metropolitan Opera tickets to be given away by lottery, and a conservative columnist says the Right should be embarrassed that a self-proclaimed socialist thought of it first, though he expects it to convert only “a few thousand” New Yorkers (UnHerd). In Hungary, bookshops file nearly every short Japanese-style poem under haiku, senryū included, and the poet Zsolt L. Rakusz says the form took hold there because Hung
  
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• How Haiku Became Hungarian

  01-10-2026 21:03 via asymptotejournal.com
  
  A foreign poetic form becomes local not when writers reproduce its original conventions faithfully, but when they discover what the form can do in a new language. In Hungary, Japanese short poetry encountered a literary environment already fluent in irony, epigrammatic compression, linguistic play, and knowing when to leave things out. – Asymptote
  
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• Staying Human In The Age Of AI

  01-10-2026 20:31 via justingarydesign.substack.com
  
  The first step to building a better future is to acknowledge the reality of today. AI is not going away, and it is immensely capable across a wide range of domains. According to a recent Stanford study, 88% of organizations are using AI and the number is growing. – Think Like a Game Designer
  
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• The Real Achievement Of Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury”

  01-10-2026 20:04 via newrepublic.com
  
  “(It) hasn’t simply been individual story lines, or how they jived with the historical reality in which we read them, but also the depth and breadth of human experience they charted. … Trudeau held the powerful to account, (yet) kept his attention on everyday people our politicians and (celebrities) often neglected.” – The New Republic
  
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• The Conservatives’ Case For Mamdani’s Opera Ticket Giveaway (“Why Didn’t We Think Of It?”)

  01-10-2026 19:44 via unherd.com
  
  Realistically, Mamdani and his colleagues may convert a few thousand New Yorkers who would otherwise never have set foot in the Met. Even so, they will have achieved more than armies of arts administrators and music teachers, not to mention the conservative guardians of culture who deplore musical wokery. – Unherd
  
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