RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Eight crested ibises have been released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after going extinct in the country.
An original and very readable take on the US Constitution as viewed through the lens of The Domesday Book.
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Ukraine has become a crucial security partner for Europe. Bringing it into the EU would bolster a continent that looks vulnerable among more predatory great powers
Yes. And authors also depend on libraries for books that inform our own works. Try writing a book with a low four-figures advance and buying all your sources.
A sublime 13-minute solo concert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5i4...
Eight crested ibises have been released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after going extinct in the country.
AI stories over-explain themes and favor tidy, single-track plots while human stories frame protagonist' choices as more morally ambiguous and have increased temporal complexity. arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136
I wrote my last book when ChatGPT was at best a glorified thesaurus. That was then. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Europe needs its help just as badly as the other way round
As AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on...
In city parks, at Phish shows and outside Madison Square Garden, a nomadic salesman builds his baklava brand, one pistachio-laden wedge at a time. To many customers, he is simply the Baklava Guy. nyti.ms/4ewO5WO
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This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations
You all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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A survey commissioned by the Guild found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription, with readers increasingly turning to low- or no...
