Amazon “Accidentally” Plans Ebook Sale Occasion At Identical Time as Unbiased Bookstore Day
This Saturday was Unbiased Bookstore Day, a really enjoyable day to be a guide particular person with entry to, and affinity for, an unbiased bookstore. On April fifteenth, Amazon introduced a week-long “book sale event” that included the twenty sixth. A number of people weren’t happy about this. And I can perceive why in fact. Amazon says that it was unintentional, although in fact if you’re an indie bookstore this rings fairly hole. So both it was intentional…or it wasn’t. To my thoughts, both is a nasty search for Amazon: both they new the optics could be dangerous and simply needed to flex anyway or it didn’t perceive that the optics could be dangerous. (The Machiavellian transfer would have been to have it the week earlier than Unbiased Bookstore Day to drag ahead any marginal book-buying {dollars} and declare “we didn’t want to detract from the indies!”).
Christie Property Authorizes AI Deepfake of The Queen of Crime to Train a Class on Writing
I don’t assume so, people. I’m not a never-AI particular person, and neither am I a “yea do it all” AI maximalist. So I have a tendency to guage use by use and venture by venture, and this matches squarely within the….I simply don’t need this. It seems to be to have been with as a lot care and a focus as may very well be utilized, however having reality-grade variations of actual individuals say and do issues that they didn’t say or do like that doesn’t strike me as cool or enjoyable and even particularly fascinating. Que Ian Malcolm.
New Snape Indicators Letter in Assist of Trans Rights
Just some days after John Lithgow expressed amazement that anybody may surprise if supporting J.Okay. Rowling’s work tacitly (at the very least) additionally means tolerating (at the very least) her views on trans individuals, Paape Essiedu, who has been forged as Severus Snape in HBO’s new manufacturing, joined a whole bunch of others in signing an open letter to the movie and tv business supporting the rights and id of trans individuals and rebuking the UK Supreme Court docket’s April seventeenth resolution. I hope the producers and powers that be, on the very least, permit forged members to precise their views on the matter. Not solely is it the correct factor to do, however any strain to melt or silence gestures like this may spark an actual backlash (one which I feel may occur anyway).
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Mellon Basis Declares Emergency Funding for State Humanities Councils
That is what foundations ought to be doing proper now. So many individuals are feeling helpless and the dimensions of this administrations excesses is certainly overwhelming. However there’s some huge cash on the sidelines and cash can do issues! Simply since you your self can not tackle ICE or carry again Roe doesn’t imply your focused, marginal greenback can not help one thing you care about. I ponder if the extraordinarily deep pockets at locations just like the Ford Basis may have a look at extraordinary efforts to help on the bottom arts organizations identical to this. The temper feels much less “yea more Macarthurs!” and extra “protect local libraries with your bodies” and maybe the {dollars} could be finest spend otherwise for awhile.
John Lithgow Shocked by Dumbledore Casting Blowback
