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  • Variety

    Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered ‘Raanjhanaa’ ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/eros-aanand-l-rai-dispute-ai-altered-raanjhanaa-ending-1236470128/?utm_source=semafor more ›

  • The Brief – How Trump trounced Ursula

    Sunday’s deal is the almost inevitable outcome of a declining great power placing its faith in an economically https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/opinion/the-brief-how-trumps-triumph-ursulas-shame-europes-nightmare/?utm_source=euractiv&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=intro&utm_term=0-0&utm_campaign=THE_BRIEF more ›

  • Van Gogh from Lagos: John Madu

    Nigerian artist John Madu drew on his home country’s experience to revisit the paintings of Vincent van Gogh. Madu’s work is now on show at the Van Gogh Museum in… more ›

  • Modernist Blondes

    July 24, 2025 – On Anita Loos’s Great American Novel. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/07/24/modernist-blondes/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&utm_campaign=2a54aab99d-TPRMailchimp_20250725_WEEKLY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_35491ea532-2a54aab99d-56488262&mc_cid=2a54aab99d&mc_eid=f0a2685ef4 more ›

  • Jung’s map of the soul – Engelsberg ideas

    Born 150 years ago, Carl Jung drew on mythology and personal experience to create a visionary body of work, resonant in a disenchanted age. https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/jungs-map-of-the-soul/ more ›

  • Making sense of the AI revolution – Engelsberg ideas

    In order to understand the profound transformations, and boundless potential, unleashed by artificial intelligence, we need to expand our own intellectual horizons into the realms of history, the natural world,… more ›

  • I started self-hosting LLMs and absolutely loved it

    Who needs OpenAI when your home lab can do the thinking for you? https://www.xda-developers.com/i-started-self-hosting-llms-absolutely-loved-it/ more ›

  • The life and times of Dennis Morris, the man behind some of music’s most iconic photographs

    Bob Marley, Sex Pistols, Lee Scratch Perry and Patti Smith – the photographer Dennis Morris has captured some of music’s biggest stars. But despite rubbing shoulders with cultural royalty, the… more ›

  • Why Won’t the Speakeasy Die? | PUNCH

    The speakeasy aesthetic was once so ubiquitous it became a punchline. But long after the Edison bulbs have burned out, the hidden bar continues to flourish. https://punchdrink.com/articles/why-wont-speakeasy-die-breakroom-milk-honey-pdt-nyc/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20250726_Punch_Content_Another%20Round:%20Why%20won%E2%80%99t%20the%20speakeasy%20die?&utm_term=Punch%20-%20Latest%20%28LIST%20TO%20SEND%20TO%29%20%2A%2ASecond%20Attempt%2A%2A more ›

  • Nick Drake, Long a Folk Mystery, Is (Partly) Revealed

    A 42-track collection built around two found recordings helps illuminate the creative process of the revered but elusive icon, who died in 1974. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/arts/music/nick-drake-making-of-five-leaves-left.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Y08.qzpm.btVVKyHwJqmL&smid=url-share more ›