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03/09/2026 03:05 PM
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The Argument Against Optimizing
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 What you lose in optimizing morality is the same thing you lose in maximizing your airline-mile spend. In other words, nothing quantifiable—but precisely the chance to escape quantification, to orient toward something that cannot be counted, predicted, analyzed. – The Point
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03/09/2026 02:31 PM
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Amazon Pulls Sponsorship Of Paris Bookfair After Accusations Of Promoting AI Books
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 The SLF has been sharply critical of Amazon, arguing that it destabilises the book trade. In a statement reported by the Bookseller, it accused the company of seeking “to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, [which are] promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [and rise] to the top of fake rankings”. – The Guardian
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03/09/2026 02:02 PM
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How Gen Z Is Hacking The High Cost Of Music Festivals
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 Enter Breakaway: a growing dance-music festival brand built on the premise of making concerts and festivals accessible and affordable again. – Fortune
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03/09/2026 01:40 PM
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How Does The Troubled Philadelphia Museum Of Art Get Its Swing Back? Here Are 10 Ideas
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 The museum today is focused on the fact that fewer visitors are coming now than before the pandemic, and the concern is legitimate. But the way back can’t be merely quantitative. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
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03/09/2026 01:20 PM
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Directors Are Mattering More In Hollywood
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 An emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them. – The Atlantic
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03/09/2026 01:02 PM
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How Hollywood Has Adjusted Its Messaging During The Second Trump Administration
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 The creators of some of the more politically compelling movies and TV shows of the past year have explored how being alive feels during a tumultuous period. They capture the atmosphere, the mood, the ambient existence of everyday people who are living through a transformative time in history. – The Atlantic
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03/09/2026 12:40 PM
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An Opera Singer Who’s Made A Name As A Car Salesman
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 He started making videos of himself performing robust opera arias while standing outside on a car lot, wearing his name tag. He composed lyrics to describe the cars he was selling and put the videos on TikTok and Instagram. – Seattle Times
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03/09/2026 12:22 PM
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Quentin Tarantino Has Written A Theatre Farce For The West End
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 The stranger-than-fiction truth is that Tarantino has written an original, old-fashioned British farce, in the door-slamming, trouser-dropping, mistaken identity vein of Brian Rix or Ray Cooney. – Daily Mail
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03/09/2026 11:59 AM
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Thinking Of AI Art — You Have To Think Of It As Its Own Art Form
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 I don’t understand how anyone can say they’re anti something that’s potentially creative. If it’s not working for you today it could work for you a year from now. Soon conversations like that won’t even matter. It’s like discussing the Internet. It already is. – The Hollywood Reporter
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03/09/2026 11:41 AM
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Colleges, students, and jobs: nobody knows anything
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In my past life I spent some time in university administration, and one of my jobs at this public university was to take proposals for new degree programs that the university had approved of to the state board of higher education, for their necessary approval. In those proposals we had to include
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03/09/2026 11:40 AM
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UK Museums Hold Hundreds Of Thousands Of Human Remains
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 An investigation by the Guardian found that UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair. – The Guardian
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03/09/2026 11:20 AM
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LiveNation Settles Antitrust Case
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 The centerpiece of the agreement is expected to be structural changes to Live Nation’s ticketing business. Under the settlement, Ticketmaster will be required to open parts of its platform to rival ticketing companies, allowing third-party sellers such as SeatGeek or Eventbrite to list tickets directly through Ticketmaster’s technology. – Politico
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03/09/2026 11:00 AM
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Preserving Church Architecture Isn’t Easy, Especially In An Era Of Digital Attendance
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 “Sometimes people think that churches have some kind of magic ATM machine that we go to and withdraw money. And the truth is that we do not.” – NPR
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03/09/2026 10:30 AM
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This Opera Used To Be About History, And Now It’s About Today’s News
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 “History is repeating itself 70 years later, just in a different way. The government is ‘systematically trying to erase our history with the demonization of trans and non-binary community,’ Newbury said. ‘It has given itself license to hate.’” – Oregon ArtsWatch
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03/09/2026 10:00 AM
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Hollywood Turns From Movie Stars Back To Auteurs
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 An “emerging trend skews more classic Hollywood—directors, particularly those who might be considered auteurs for their well-defined aesthetic and storytelling style, have begun to matter just as much as the actors attached to them.” – The Atlantic
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03/09/2026 09:45 AM
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The BBC Commissioned A Film About Health Care In Gaza, And Then Refused To Air It
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 “All these Palestinians told us that they thought the BBC would never run our film, and we really had to try and persuade them to talk to us because they didn’t and don’t trust the BBC.” The journalists were shocked to learn that the sources were correct. – Reveal
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03/09/2026 09:30 AM
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Glasgow Used To Be An Arts Powerhouse, But It’s Losing So Many Arts Spaces
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 “Glasgow is slowly becoming a hollow shadow of the thriving, radical and creatively edgy place it once was. … If you’re a young creative person studying in Glasgow today, why would you stay here after graduation?” – The Guardian (UK)
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03/09/2026 09:15 AM
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The Best Way To Read 100 Books A Year
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 Sure, there’s “be rich” or “have your minions do everything in life for you except reading,” but there’s also this: Read physical books. – Slate
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03/09/2026 09:00 AM
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Look At All The President’s Men, And See That Movie For What It Was
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 It’s not really a triumphal movie about the power of journalism, but a dire warning about the future – our present. – Salon
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03/09/2026 08:45 AM
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A Top Paramount Executive Sees His Career Take A Big Hit For His Friendship With A Vegas High-Roller
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 The Paramount Skydance president is “facing new scrutiny after his Paramount bosses hired a law firm to investigate his surreptitious dealings with a Las Vegas high-roller and self-styled ‘fixer.’ Investigators are reviewing whether Shell leaked sensitive corporate secrets.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
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03/09/2026 08:30 AM
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The Performing Arts In The UK Aren’t Exactly Friendly To Working Parents
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 So says a new report, which “criticises the industry for failing to consider how it might adapt to better accommodate parents, with the result that many, in particular women, drop out.” – The Guardian (UK)
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03/09/2026 08:15 AM
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Thaddeus Mosley, A Sculptor Who Found Fame In His Nineties, Has Died At 99
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 The self-taught Mosley’s works “show as much concern for pure form as any modernist’s, and reflect the influence of Constantin Brancusi and Isamu Noguchi, two particular heroes, as well as that of pre-modern African tribal sculpture.” – The New York Times
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03/09/2026 08:00 AM
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The Privilege And Power Of Having A Writing Mentor
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 Ashley Ford needed “a reason to believe that giving myself over to a creative life didn’t also mean condemning myself to poverty and invisibility. What I needed was that constant source of air to turn my spark of creativity into a flame I could share with the world.” – Service 95
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