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Glaringly, the prominent artists complaining about record labels demanding TikToks tend to be Millennials who love a good music video—or at least seem to appreciate the power of cultivating distance from their listeners.
Spencer Kornhaber • TikTok Killed the Video Star
Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi • Flow: The Psychology of Happiness
To understand why foundation models represent a “phase change in ai”, in the words of Fei-Fei Li, the co-director of Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centred ai, it helps to get a sense of how they differ from what went before.
Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress
Using A.I., Hollywood Agency and Tech Start-Up Aim to Protect Artists
nytimes.com
People are looking for more meaningful narratives and communities than brands can offer, and companies want to supply this “meaning demand”—but are structurally disincentivized to do so.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
What Is Indie TV? How Mark Duplass Is Using His ‘Morning Show’ Paychecks to Launch a New Model for the Small Screen
Selome Hailuvariety.com