It’s an ungainly word for English speakers, which is maybe why we do not hear it often: Gleichschaltung. Yet the concept remains central for a clear view of what happened to Germany in the 1930s. In 1933, the nation completely transformed, seemingly overnight, through “a
“We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web research task. These AIs colluded to share answers, research their environment, and bypass sandbox restrictions .”
The Chicago Public Library informs patrons of how much money they’ve saved borrowing from the library instead of buying . “You just saved $58.94 by using your library. You have saved $231.79 this past year and $1,107.24 since you began using the library!”
Over the past 12 years, Super Bowl-winning coach Mike Tomlin has built a Minecraft city. He started playing the game for the same reason I started playing Fortnite : his kids. “How do I meet them where they are and spend time with them?”
From the Internet Archive: Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record . “When digital materials are vulnerable to sudden removal…our collective memory is compromised, and the public’s ability to access its own history is at risk.”
Over on Flickr, Jane McDevitt maintains a huge collection of 20th century matchbox label art from Eastern Europe , over 4000 photos in all. Some of the labels are available as prints . They did a book too , but it’s sold out. It was really difficult to narrow these down to some
A catalogue of 645 acts of hate from the week after 9/11 . “Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans were targeted for how they looked, dressed, or prayed.”
Bayeux Go! A playable video game of the Bayeux Tapestry. “Thou art Harold. Win Thine Battle. Tap to starte.”
Trump was a necessary blunt instrument for the coordinated fascist assault on the United States, but a hammer no longer matters once a picture has been hung on the wall.
“We think of our work as an invitation to do more, to take action, and to operate differently,” co-founder James McAnally told Hyperallergic.
This week, we honor the founder of an influential photojournalism festival, a fixture of NYC’s downtown art scene, and a fashionista and gallerist.
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Maria Popova Don’t try to wash your tired hands clean from the bloodshed of your private wars. Just unclench the fist that has come to feel like home and let the story slip between your trembling fingers into the river of time, silver and indifferent.
Kacey Musgraves's viral disco balls moment points to a lineage of artists whose use of the genital form is camp-as-critique.
Spaceships : A version of Asteroids where “you are not the ship” — you control the rocks instead.
"He was Queen’s flamboyant frontman. She was his shy girlfriend, dreaming of marriage until they both realised he preferred men."
Unionized staff at the Victoria and Albert Museum staged a two-day strike last weekend, citing “Amazon-style” working conditions.
But the federal government’s threats to institutional independence could undermine these upward trends.
The annual competition highlights some of the most beloved, impressive, and little-seen aspects of our oceans. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article
Panmela Castro, Agrade Camíz, Márcia Falcão, Maya Weishof, and Gokula Stoffel are five artists at the helm of the revival.
In Chicago, Karla Wong presents a suite of vivid paintings that double as mysterious portals. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Karla Wong’s
"America’s legal system is already grappling with cases where chatbots acted as lawyers and witnesses, generated the evidence, or helped plan a mass shooting. Who will be liable now that some AI agents are doing crimes all on their own?"
The exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton focuses on the contributions of Black women artists across generations.
In his series 'A Kid Could Do It,' The Wa transforms otherwise nondescript structures into jubilant, youthful drawings. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The
The 101 Plays Itself . The five lanes of highway 101 in LA turned into a musical instrument: each car on the live Caltrans camera is a note.
"Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion."
Indigenous knowledge and art overwrite colonial cartography to correct the historical record in Central Australia - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
The Smithsonian Secretary calls it quits amid White House political pressure, artist Lucien Smith dies at 37, and your weekly museum heist in Europe.
One kind of school is about culture, compliance and community. We indoctrinate kids, for better or worse, in what it means to be in this world we’ve built, and how to do it together. We teach them how to be kids, how to be citizens and hopefully, how to be adults. And the other