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Is A Solution To The Plague Of Counterfeit Books At Hand?
“Counterfeiting occurs when a party poses as a book’s real publisher to sell fake versions of books. … Sometimes these versions are obviously fake — bad scans of a book are not uncommon. Sometimes the fakes are actual EPUBs that…
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Why We Must Resist AI’s Soft Mind Control
Lately, I’ve been getting acquainted with Google’s new Gemini AI product. I wanted to know how it thinks. More important, I wanted to know how it could affect my thinking. So I spent some time typing queries.For instance, I asked Gemini…
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Akira Toriyama, Legend Of Manga And Anime, Dead At 68
“There is hardly a space in pop culture today that hasn’t been touched by Akira Toriyama’s art. … He brought manga and anime into the global mainstream and broke down the walls that had once sealed off Japanese…
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Layoffs Rock Colorado Public Radio; WBUR Boston Warns Of Similar Cuts. | Story
Layoffs have hit Colorado Public Radio with 15 employees dismissed in what’s been described as the…
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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Will Make Its First-Ever Asian Tour
The full company has toured the Far East before, but this June will be the first time for the orchestra as a concert ensemble. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and vocal soloists Elīna Garanča, Lisette Oropesa, and Christian Van Horn…
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American Tap Dance Foundation Closure
The ATDF non-profit organization will downsize yet retain its 501c3 status as a nonprofit organization to produce projects and programs in the future. Tap City, the annual New York City Tap Festival which would have…
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Art Dealer Guy Wildenstein Found Guilty of Tax Fraud
Guy Wildenstein, the 78-year-old billionaire and patriarch of a French family of art dealers, has been found guilty of money laundering and tax fraud, following a years-long saga seeking his…
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RuPaul’s New Bookstore: Allstora Controversy, Explained
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Last week, RuPaul posted a video standing in a blue…
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Critique of Artificial Reason | Sean Michaels
Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write by Dennis Yi Tenen. W. W. Norton & Company, 176 pages. 2024.
When the literary scholar Dennis Yi Tenen was a child, his father brought home a…
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Creative industries get budget boost including £26m for National Theatre | Budget 2024 (spring)
The chancellor has given Britain’s creative industries a boost, including £26.4m to help the National Theatre upgrade its stages and tax relief to encourage film-makers to shoot more movies in the UK.The government’s investment in the…
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