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DJ TO COMPOSER REVENUE SHARING SERVICE ASLICE CLOSES

ECONOMICS / MUSIC / PSYCHOLOGY / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2024-09-05

Yet another Coordination Problem example, Aslice — a music revenue-sharing platform launched in 2022 — closed. It encouraged DJs to report setlists and pay a % of their fee to the artists they played (à la GEMA-Vermutung). Top-paid DJ refused to participate  + 

HOW NOT TO ASK INTERESTING QUESTIONS WHEN INTERVIEWING

JOURNALISM / PSYCHOLOGY / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2024-07-23

I wonder how Peterson used to work as a clinical psychologist with his patients back in the day? Imagine a 15-minute session with Elon Musk: Ah, doc, I have this sort of crisis of… Peterson: It’s the prior axiomatic interpretive structure you have. Then you have the chaotic potential  + 

HOW TO DE-AUTHORIZE CINEMA REGARDLESS OF COUNTRY

CINEMA / POLITICS / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2024-07-07

Among other things, we probably have just avoided French cinema industry annihilation. Had the far-right RN party secured an absolute majority in the French parliament, their agenda would have limited government funding exclusively to “patriotic films”. Eerily similar to what has already happened to the  + 

STRUGGLING ARTIST? GIVE AWAY YOUR WORK FOR FREE.

ART THEORY / ECONOMICS / SOCIETY / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2024-01-02

Yann Le Cunn, a Chief AI Scientist at Meta, writes that only a few book authors make significant money from book sales, so most books should be freely available for download. The lost revenue for authors would be small, and the benefits to society large by comparison.  + 

FIGMA AND ADOBE CANCEL MERGER!

BUSINESS / WEB DESIGN / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-12-18

Woha! Very unexpected reversal. Figma and Adobe have abandoned their proposed merger, after facing regulatory hurdles in Europe and the UK in particular, where the Competition and Markets Authority rightly determined the deal “would harm the design software market”  + 

CALLING ELVIS, ANYBODY HOME?

ENVIRONMENT / POLITICS / SOCIETY / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-12-16

Have you received “the call” from COP28′s final plenary assembly to “transition away from fossil fuels in a just, orderly and equitable manner”? No? Why not? By the way, the UNFCC gives us a 67% chance of limiting global temperature rise to 2°C, if global  + 

THE SLOW DEATH OF FILM FESTIVALS?

CINEMA / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-11-30

The Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival will be reducing the number of programs in its competitions. The National selection will go from 12 to 10 programs, and the International from 14 to 12. The second-largest French film festival, in terms of number of spectators  + 

ODESSA’S DESTRUCTION OF UNESCO HERITAGE SITES

ARCHITECTURE / POLITICS / ESSAYS / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-09-27

As of 13 September 2023, UNESCO has verified damage to 289 cultural sites in Ukraine: 120 religious buildings, 27 museums, 109 buildings of historical and/or artistic interest, 19 monuments, 13 libraries… In Odessa alone, a city near and dear to me from childhood  + 

ADOBE, SHUTTERSTOCK AND NOW GETTY OFFER THE SAME GENERATIVE AI “ART”

COMPUTERS / ECONOMICS / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-09-25

Today, “Generative AI by Getty Images” launched on an NVIDIA Edify / Picasso framework, trained on Getty’s own stock of photographs. Same as previously done by Adobe. And Shutterstock. And… Send me an e-mail when you need a one-of-a-kind, human-made  + 

$100 TO READ AND BACKUP MY OWN TWEETS. PER MONTH.

SOCIAL MEDIA / OUTSIDE NEWS / REVIEWS / 2023-08-24

Oh, now Twitter asks me to pay 100 USD per month to read and backup my own tweets on my server. Since early July 2023, I can no longer GET my own posts, sort them into 3 distinct languages and store them in my own  + 

IF ALEXEI MEDVEDEV REACTIVATES THEIR ACCOUNT, YOU’LL STILL BE FRIENDS

CINEMA / POLITICS / SOCIAL MEDIA / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-08-19

When I saw a “person missing” announcement in my Facebook feed, I somehow didn’t quite understand… “What’s going on? How so?” The usual, the so commonly trivial was going on — the death of an interesting person who did so much for Russian culture.  + 

ИСКУССТВО КИНО – THE LAST ISSUE TO PRINT

CINEMA / JOURNALISM / ESSAYS / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-05-24

Искусство Кино — published since 1931 and thus, together with “Sight & Sound” and “Cahiers du Cinéma” one of the earliest magazines to cover the film industry, art and theory — has printed its last issue. Yes, my work has been featured in it. But  + 

NO MORE TINDER FOR RUSSIANS

POLITICS / SOCIAL MEDIA / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2023-05-06

The Match Group withdraws from Russia. Tinder, OKcupid, Hinge… will all vanish from Russian social space by June 30. Meanwhile, The Russian Government™ is planning — finally, again, for real this time — to launch RuTube… and close access to YouTube.  + 

PERSIST AND DO THE WORK… OR GO BACK TO MISSOURI

ART THEORY / CINEMA / LITERATURE / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2021-03-23

“When things get tough with that rewrite, and you’re starting to see this whole dream fall apart… who are the ones that actually stay in for the long haul? Often it’s narcissists. Often it’s people with big egos. It’s people who really think they’re interesting.  + 

EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF TILL THE BITTER END OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION

ECONOMICS / ENVIRONMENT / ESSAYS / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2019-12-13

The UK General Election shows us, yet again, and unlike in the EU Referendum, without any remaining doubt, that the populations most at risk vote for their own masochistic downfall. The people who stand to lose the most from the complete dismantlement of government health  + 

PEOPLE PREFER TO DO SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING, EVEN IF IT’S PAINFUL

PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIETY / OUTSIDE NEWS / 2019-12-10

A team at the University of Virginia’s Department of Psychology meta-analysed 11 studies, and “found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they enjoyed doing mundane external activities much  + 

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