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The root of the name in ancient Egyptian language means "a royal child."

Anubis

And the hyper-efficient assembly-line techniques that characterised ‘megalithic’ Hollywood filmmaking from the 1910s onward began to corrode as early as 1948, when an antitrust lawsuit successfully forbade the major studios from owning their own cinemas and crowding them with their own relatively low-cost films.

Ella Dorn • The girls don't know film history

culture and Cultural Criticism

Side eye @ streaming services.

The qualities of the Met’s new pieces—literalness, signposting, pat plotlines, an impatience with the slightest ambiguity—are key tenets of second-screen television. They are also irreconcilable with good opera, in which text and music subvert one another and pieces permit manifold interpretations. In Don Giovanni, for example, Mozart quite

Opera and

Through the Opera Glass, Jeffrey Arlo Brown. Source.

Even the regulatory arena, where Altman publicly champions AI oversight, bears the fingerprints of double-dealing. While testifying in favor of federal regulation, OpenAI lobbied behind the scenes to weaken the EU AI Act and is now advocating for federal preemption of state AI safety laws in the US. Altman has called the very regulatory structure... See more

amuse • From Nonprofit to Nonsense: Is OpenAI a Long Con?

We also discuss, among other things: decapitated ostriches, fatal rose petals, and Mary’s robust reappraisal of Marcus Aurelius’s ‘sub-Stoic’ maundering.

Mary Beard: Emperor of Rome

History and

The Lost Redemption Arc

gawker.com

Literary Criticism and

bro, where's my marriage plot

Brandon blgtylr.substack.com

Essays and

What isn’t discussed as much — but is happening in parallel with equal if not greater force, is the shift in corporate music-industry power dynamics away from the Western hemisphere, and towards Asia and the Middle East.

More specifically, music-industry capital flows are now inseparable from both Chinese and Saudi money . While these markets may... See more

Bow down to our new music-tech overlords

Music Industry and

Culture and Imperialism

An exploration of the cultural and literary manifestations of imperialism in 19th and early 20th century Britain and France, and its relationship with the formation of national identity.

oldemc.english.ucsb.edu

History and Literary Criticism

Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said.