Murderbot Diaries: Martha Wells, Sci-Fi, and AI
Martha Wells's Murderbot series explores AI, identity, and indifference through a SecUnit's darkly comic perspective. The TV adaptation and Wells's influences from sci-fi literature are discussed.
San Francisco’s growing art week and local scene shine at Fog Design+Art
Hauser & Wirth also had strong opening day sales, selling more than a dozen pieces, including a landscape painting so geometric as to almost feel hallucinatory by Jeffrey Gibson for $100,000 and the 38-year-old artist Avery Singer’s Poker Players (study) for $575,000.
Biden Establishes Monument Acknowledging History of Indigenous Children in Residential Schools
President Joe Biden recently announced the establishment of a new national monument acknowledging the history of the residential school system, which oppressed thousands of Indigenous children and their families during the course of more than 150 years.