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Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash
It was Valentine’s Day when Meta’s ad platform started going off the rails. RC Williams, the co-founder of the Philadelphia-based marketing agency 1-800-D2C, had set one of Meta’s automated ad tools to run campaigns for two separate…
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Why Male Critics Don’t Get the ‘Cabaret’ Broadway Revival
For more than half a century, “Cabaret” — the iconic American musical set in Nazi Germany — has been produced, revived and revived again. This story, which touches on sex work, abortion and a complex female protagonist in Sally Bowles,…
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‘Nervous of its own boldness’: the (almost) radical rebirth of King’s Cross | Architecture
The near quarter-century, kilometre-long, 67-acre project to redevelop King’s Cross in London is a monument of its age. It is the urban embodiment of the Blair era in which it was conceived, of the third way, of the idea that market…
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Why We Still Use Postage Stamps
In a decidedly digital age, the modest postage stamp seems to be slowly vanishing from daily life—no longer ubiquitous in wallets or pocketbooks, useful but maybe not essential.They’re so overlooked that the comedian Nate Bargatze has an…
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With ‘Challengers’ and ‘Saltburn,’ Hollywood Movies Embrace Sex Again
Zendaya, clad in a skintight dress, gyrates on a dance floor in “Challengers,” a $56 million sports drama that arrived in multiplexes on Friday. “It’s getting hot in here,” the hip-hop soundtrack intones, as she closes her eyes and runs…
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Netflix Is Still, Almost Unbelievably, Popular
Think brand loyalty – remember those DVD envelopes? – Boston Globe (MSN)
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PEN America Is Fighting for Its Life
In 2015, PEN America, the organization devoted to defending free speech, chose to honor the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at its annual gala. A few months earlier, Islamic extremists had murdered 12 people at the publication’s…
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Mark Taper Forum to reopen with ‘American Idiot,’ Larissa FastHorse’s ‘Fake…
Larissa FastHorse will see her play "Fake It 'Til You Make It" have its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in 2025. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)For the record:8:16 a.m. April 29, 2024: An earlier version of this article said…
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C Pam Zhang and Safiya Noble have withdrawn as USC commencement speakers. ‹ Literary Hub
April 28, 2024, 9:00pm
In response to the University of Southern California administration’s recent behavior regarding pro-Palestinian protest on campus, Booker Prize-nominated…
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An early modern guide to information overload
We live in an era of abundance and distraction, of shrinking attention spans, ‘content shock’, and of seemingly endless quantity over elusively finite quality. Thanks to the internet, we have never had access to so much …
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