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How ‘monoculture’ became a catchall for two opposing anxieties – that we no longer share enough, and that we all share too much

How ‘monoculture’ became a catchall for two opposing anxieties – that we no longer share enough, and that we all share too much

When “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” aired its final episode on May 21, 2026, critics lamented more than the end of a television program. It was a nightly ritual that millions of Americans participated in, with Bloomberg media reporter Lucas Shaw describing its cancellation as one more sign of
Maria A. Rodas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing

A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this shimmer collapses into one angle, one exposure, one compromise. A digital image is not a record of what your eye sees. The standard color space that most digital images use
Douglas Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts