Good Morning,
Judgment is having a day. A critic makes the case that a review’s job isn’t to relay one listener’s experience but to offer something “extra-human” — a perspective the concert itself can’t supply (San Francisco Classical Voice). Read that next to the discovery that academic papers are citing experts who don’t exist, names that language models reliably invent when asked to produce authorities in a field (404 Media).
A second look at the violinist data found that the merely-good had logged more practice hours than the best — another crack in the 10,000-hour story we tell about how excellence gets made (Science Blog). And a look inside the book trade names the people who actually decide what you read: supermarket buyers, publicists, and BookTok (The Guardian).
The Met Museum has finally canceled its Galliano show (AP) after an upwell of protest. And Google shipped an AI reading tool publishers actually like, largely because it asks permission first (Publishers Weekly).
Also: Miss Piggy, the last real movie star (Vulture). Hard to argue.
