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AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it There's no one way to be absolutely sure about a video's authenticity, but experts say there are some simple clues that can help.

4/4 AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
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A tiny minority of highly active users produce the majority of online political content, while most users consume content passively and remain largely silent.

Toxic comments are more likely to be expressed, even though most people disagree with them, creating false norms.
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Jack DeJohnette (9 August 1942–26 October 2025) - The Wire The US drummer, pianist and composer died on 26 October aged 83. In the February 1989 issue of The Wire, he was interviewed by the magazine’s then editor Richard Cook. As a tribute, we have made tha...

Jack DeJohnette (9 August 1942–26 October 2025)

In the February 1989 issue of The Wire, DeJohnette was interviewed by the magazine’s then editor Richard Cook. As a tribute, we have made that article free to read in our online library

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This bit in Gilliam's "Brazil" is IMO one of the most perceptive critiques of late capitalism in film, though it flew past unnoticed. (The ladies are served disgusting slop, accompanied by photos of what they should imagine they're eating.) Gilliam clearly read the Situationists.

Light Music: Sunn O))), Catherine Christer Hennix & More at Venice Biennale Musica | The Quietus At the 69th annual International Festival of Contemporary Music in Venice, performances by the Kamigaku Ensemble, Jasmine Morris and Sunn O))) leave Robert Barry pondering what we mean when we call mu...

I went to the Venice Music Biennale and watched a lot of very loud, noisy music (and also some pretty quiet music, too) that made me feel buoyant and oddly weightless and it got me wondering whether "heavy" is really the right word… thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Listeners Can't Remember the Names of Their Favorite Songs and Artists New research tells a disturbing story about music discovery

Feed: "The Honest Broker"
By: Ted Gioia on Thursday, September 18, 2025

Album Of The Week: Rafael Toral 'Traveling Light' Traveling Light is beautiful on so many levels. Without any context, Rafeal Toral’s new music is a gorgeous thrill: soothing, illuminating, aglow with feeling. Out this week on Drag City, the album pr...

Wrote about Traveling Light, the new album on which living legend Rafael Toral turns old jazz standards into breathtaking ambient guitar drone instrumentals

Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you | TechCrunch A new iPhone app, Endless Summer, uses AI to create photorealistic vacation photos starring you — no travel required.

This made me think of: techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/t...

Traditional Criticism Is in Trouble. Here’s What’s Replacing It. Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.

Like everything else, professional arts criticism has been under attack this year, and Spencer Kornhaber reported a really great piece on what might be taking its place: www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...

The Forces Changing Music and Film Criticism The industry is being transformed in the era of YouTube video essays and TikTok screeds.

"Traditional" cultural criticism feels like a dying art, Will Gottsegen writes in The Atlantic Daily. He talks with Spencer Kornhaber about where the medium goes from here:

Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media

“ideological alignment, rather than actor prominence, plays a central role in structuring online discourse and shaping the spread of information in polarized environments “
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A screenshot of a website shows various colourful visualisations of progressive and positive things happening in the world

Enjoy a random chart from our Beautiful News project - visualizing the amazing progressive & positive things happening around the world. Click the link for a random visual:
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Researchers Discover the Optimal Way To Optimize | Quanta Magazine The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

In optimization problems, randomness thwarts complexity.

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

on.ft.com/46M9mXI Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world. Free to Read.

One of my favorite neuroscience lessons:

When you start something new, it feels like a struggle and requires your entire focus. But it gets easier and you need far less brain power. Things become automatic.

The brain becomes more efficient in a single hour: mrbartonmaths.com/resourcesnew...

‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal Sunshine and toothache As his most commercial film, 2004’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is re-released, the critically acclaimed director says he can’t get a movie off the ground now – but will never give in to th...

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Live Music: The Last Pre-Internet Industry Why AI is finally set to revolutionise live music the way the web revolutionised recorded.

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JD Twitch In the early 2000s, it was more likely to know about Optimo parties (it was on a Sunday night, up in Scotland, the word “legendary” already affixed to it) well before one knew anything about just how ...

Remembering some interactions with a true gentleman: open.substack.com/pub/andybeta...

Cumbia Records That Belong in Every Collection Discover the roots and evolution of cumbia through 10 essential albums that span Afro-Colombian traditions, Peruvian psychedelia, and analog experiments.

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David Byrne Radio Presents: Dinner Music di David Byrne Radio su Apple Music Playlist · 39 brani

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Neuroticism? Ripping.

Conscientiousness & agreeableness? Dipping.

Via FT:
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Goodbye Jerome! (2021) Having just arrived in paradise, Jerome sets out to find his wife Maryline. In the course of his search, he sinks into a surreal and colorful world in which no one seems to be able to help him.

Goodbye Jerome! (2021) on @letterboxd.social boxd.it/yqt6

AI Bunnies on Trampoline Causing Crisis of Confidence on TikTok People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop has sparked worries that many more people could fall for online scams.

People failing to identify a video of adorable bunnies as AI slop

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Labubu underground: Lafufu makers defy Chinese authorities to feed the world’s appetite for viral doll The ‘ugly-cute’ elf sold by Chinese company Pop Mart has become a sensation and the authorities are aggressively cracking down on fakes – pushing production into the shadows

“China has never been so determined to fix IP [intellectual property] thefts, thanks to Labubu’s contribution not just as a global bestselling toy but as a soft power tool. Defending Labubu’s IP is no longer just about business interest, but national interest.”
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great taste

YouTube video by ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅꜱᴋɪ₁₉₈₃ Celso Valli - Pasta & Fagioli

mostly remembered here for late pop works w Ramazzotti, Vasco Rossi, Baglioni, Pausini, etc.

Bonus: youtu.be/SeCF-bSTOCs?...

YouTube video by Automaticamore Blue Gas - Shadows From Nowhere

RIP Celso Valli. One of Italy's three great disco auteurs, alongside Giorgio and Mauro Malavasi. Also made incredible leftfield pop like Blue Gas:

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Bar chart showing that Google users are less likely to click on a link to another website when they encounter a search page with an AI summary than when they encounter a search page *without* such a summary. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center analysis.

New analysis from the data labs team at @pewresearch.org puts hard numbers behind a trend many online publishers have come to fear: "Google users who encounter an AI summary are less likely to click on links to other websites than users who do not see one." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...