Updated at 5:40 p.m. ET on March 21, 2025 Editor’s note: This analysis is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can access the search tool directly here. Find The Atlantic’s search tool for movie and television writing used to train AI here. When employees at Meta started developing their […]
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The complaint that there are too many books is not a new one. “My son, be warned by them: of making many books there is no end,” reads one line in Ecclesiastes, written at least 2,000 years before the invention of the printing press. Now the bestselling author Bill Bryson has added his voice to
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STANSTEAD, Quebec (AP) — For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required. But municipal and library officials said on Friday that U.S. authorities have unilaterally decided to end the century-old unwritten
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Don’t cry for him, America, but when it comes to his vision for the Kennedy Center, President Donald J. Trump appears to be dreaming impossible dreams. The president, who is also now the board chair for the Kennedy Center, convened a meeting of said board on Monday. In a recording of the meeting shared with
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Isaac Thompson, president and CEO of the Oregon Symphony, at his desk. Photo: James Bash The Oregon Symphony has announced its concert schedule for the 2025-2026 season, and the big thing that patrons will notice is that the orchestra will no longer perform on Monday nights as part of its classical concert series. Instead, six
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Genetic testing giant 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US as it seeks to sell off its business — placing the personal genetic data of millions of customers in a precarious position. The San Francisco-based company, which rose to prominence with its consumer DNA testing kits, announced on Sunday that it had initiated
Opening night at Tate Modern, 25 years ago this May, was the kind of party that defines an era. Stars of the arts world and politics, including prime minister Tony Blair, attended. All of them were dwarfed by a giant spider – Louise Bourgeois’s visiting sculpture – perched on the gangway over the vast, packed
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Members of the punk rock band UK Subs have said they were denied entry and detained in the US, according to accounts from the band themselves. Bassist Alvin Gibbs shared details of the incident in a Facebook post on Wednesday, which comes amid widespread reports of people being denied entry to the US, including a
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In 1964, Philip Converse published what would become one of the most cited papers in all of political science, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics.” It was a result of a movement at the University of Michigan, where Converse taught, to do large-scale data analyses of the ideology of the American public —
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