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A screenshot from Google News. Three headlines from Fast Company, Little Black Book and More About Advertising praise Coca Cola's new AI-generated ad campaign, which cites mentions of Coca-Cola in classic literary works. These headlines are: 'Coca-Cola's clever new ad uses its logo in a refreshingly old-school way'; 'Coca-Cola Celebrates Its Place in Literary History'; 'Coca-Cola and WPP hit AI gold with new "classic" campaign.' Above them, 404 Media's headline reads: 'AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong. A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn't write the words and it's not his book.'
Magdalena Bay performs at Manchester Academy, 15.11.24. The singer, Mica Tenenbaum, sings, 'I'm your Valentine, oh, I want to show you around', swaying slightly in a blue dress, while a sunflower headpiece encircles her face. It was attached to her moments prior by a crimson, star-shaped demon of some kind. The video is low quality, blurry, shot by an amateur and a fool, holding a phone in one drunken hand. The backs of people's heads are barely cropped out. Some people are tall and have too much hair.
"I had decided to write about Oates after learning that she had documented so much of her life. I thought that the journal might explain why she had never tired of her own mind. Perhaps no other writer in the past century has been so focussed on the products of her own imagination. Many authors grapple with a central preoccupation n the course of a career, until the mystery loses its pull, but Oates, who has long been concerned with the question of personality and says she doubts whether she actually has one, has never exhausted her curiosity. There are only so many ways to dramatize the problem of being a self, one might think, but Oates keeps coming back to it, as if there is something she still needs to figure out." - Rachel Aviv, 'Joyce Carol Oates profile' (2023), The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/27/joyce-carol-oates-profile