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Stella Lefty and the Rise of Nepo-Baby Musicians and “Industry Plants”
Most musician bio-pics rely on a familiar trope: a troubled kid—wildly talented, terribly traumatized—hopes to make something of himself before the world swallows him whole. Think Ray Charles in...
As the World Burns
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When “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco
When I first heard “Get Lucky,” by Daft Punk, in the summer of 2013, I was completely, pleasantly disoriented by it. It was new and shiny, but at the...
What If We Can Never Trust A.I.?
Reward hacking is one of many problems that fall under the heading of what researchers call “alignment”—that is, the aligning of what we want our A.I.s to do with...
The Flawless Surface of Yves Saint Laurent
Toward the end of “Celebration,” a documentary capturing Yves Saint Laurent’s final years as a working designer, we watch him arrive in New York with his business partner and...
Glen Hansard’s Street-Corner Stories
There’s a YouTube video I love of Glen Hansard standing on a rainy street in Dublin, wearing a black jacket and a scarf, cradling a guitar that shows signs...
Wendy Wasserstein’s Prescient Play
Also: Misty Copeland’s Ballet Festival, the cogent poetry of Noname, the films of Otar Iosseliani, and more. Source link
“The Samurai and the Prisoner” Fits a War Epic Into an Elegant Puzzle Box
Murashige, though hardly a mental slouch, is stymied by these events, and with each new case he winds up turning to Kanbei’s superior tactical mind for help. The prisoner...
The Accidental Architect of the Internet’s Brain
Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the...
