Morning pages.
The Doleful Minimalism of Max Richter | The New Yorker
Richter’s pieces exude a gentle fatalism, a numbed acquiescence. Don’t worry, be pensive. As we sleepwalk toward global disaster, these algorithmic elegies promise that we will dissolve into mist before the abyss opens.
Fan culture is rooted in conformity, obedience, group identity and mob behavior, and its rise mirrors and models the spread of intolerant, authoritarian, aggressive tendencies in our politics and our communal life.
Inventories of Light | The New York Review
Changes in color are registered cumulatively, as if each plane were taking an inventory of the light hitting it. How [Miyoko] Ito was able to consistently produce this surface effect is one of the most dazzling and confounding aspects of her work.
Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT | The New York Times
The human mind is not, like ChatGPT and its ilk, a lumbering statistical engine for pattern matching, gorging on hundreds of terabytes of data and extrapolating the most likely conversational response or most probable answer to a scientific question. On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; it seeks not to infer brute correlations among data points but to create explanations.
The Twitter I Love Doesn’t Exist Anymore | The Atlantic
I asked Guinz what she truly thought about the Twitter sunset. She said she wasn’t quite ready to jump to an alternative platform like Mastodon. “I’m leaving it the way I have all my toxic relationships,” she later wrote to me by email. “Slowly, head down, curtseying in reverse toward the door.”
Review: The Many Thrilling Flavors of a Full-Scale ‘Sweeney Todd’ | The New York Times
Under Alex Lacamoire’s musical supervision, the musicians’ performance, like that of the ensemble in the choral numbers, is glorious.
Micro.blog March photo challenge, photo 27: “Support” (Atwater Village, CA)