Art and Culture

This is old news by now, but the staff felt an obligation to memorialize it. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt “President Trump has been right about everything, and he will be right again when these short-term…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir49HwUiRl8 The “Tristan” participants at the Met on March 9, 1935. Artur Bodanzky is top center. I am in Ann Arbor, participating in a Mahler project with Ken Kiesler and his fervent University of…
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Insulating yourself from inconvenient facts is not an effective long-term life strategy, even for someone powerful enough to externalize the costs of most of their bad decisions onto others. – Artnet Source link
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Will my job even exist in five years? Following the rise of Claude Code and ChatGPT, pretty much every white-collar worker I know has been asking themselves that question. AI can code like an engineer, write a business plan like a…
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“In its first official season, starting May 2 in New York City, the International Dance League is offering contracts to top-level dance teams and presenting huge arena competitions. … It’s calling the format ‘the MMA of dance.’…
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Three AI stories today, three different anxieties. The Atlantic poses the question bluntly: Are you coal or are you a horse? Coal got more useful as technology advanced. Horses got replaced. Commonweal reaches further back — to…
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When Wittgenstein referred to the “beginning of the end of humanity,” he was not envisioning sci-fi cataclysms… He was referring to what he called the “form of life” we inhabit. That form of life is threatened by a way of thinking…
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One thing that has really struck me is that ordinary Americans are far less interested in fighting about history than it might seem. – The New York Times Source link
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It’s been widely assumed that the 8th-century manuscript was copied and illuminated at St. Columba’s monastery on Scotland’s island of Iona — this despite the fact that there’s no archaeological evidence that Iona had a place or…
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