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The Looted Object and the Leaky Museum
From a convicted dealer's network still inside museum walls to a sentenced UCLA manuscript thief, cultural property is having a reckoning week.
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Elite Rome, MONA Bangkok, and the Destination Arms Race
The Atlantic's elite Rome tourism fixers and MONA's Bangkok branch reveal how cultural institutions are becoming luxury travel infrastructure.
art culture business
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LLMs Have Geopolitics. That's a Problem.
A new arXiv paper finds LLMs endorse geopolitical positions based on whose name is attached. AI neutrality was always fiction.
tech academic culture
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Utility Nostalgia: When Workwear Becomes Statement
Sky High Farm and Levi's make farmer denim fashionable. AMBUSH builds a wardrobe for constant transition. Utility is the new luxury signal.
fashion culture business
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Surveillance Sunset and the Watching City
LAPD drops Flock Safety over civil liberties. The EU wants to age-gate social media. Same anxiety, different jurisdictions.
tech business culture
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Fly, Fail, Fix: The Public Company Test
SpaceX's first Starship test as a public company reframes failure as shareholder communication, not engineering culture.
tech business
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AI at the Dinner Table, Not the Data Center
From single moms using chatbots as co-parents to Anthropic pricing Claude for Indian households, AI is becoming domestic infrastructure.
tech culture business
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