Margo and Abby are back with another installment of Creative Current Events, a special segment of Windowsill Chats where creativity, culture, and community collide. This episode spans a range of creative topics—from Beloved Asheville’s heartfelt relief efforts in Kerrville, Texas, to the ripple effects of rising postage costs and UPS layoffs on small creative businesses. They dig into a major fair use ruling involving Anthropic that could impact the future of AI-generated content, and explore how tools like Canva’s Magic Write are giving small businesses fresh ways to create with confidence. They also spotlight sustainability-minded artists turning trash into treasure—and an unexpected art gallery found in a Texas truck stop bathroom. As always, it’s a curious and timely mix of what’s happening now and what it means for the creative world.
Articles Mentioned:
- UPS offers buyouts to drivers as it shutters 73 sites, laying off 20,000 jobs
- Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI — but it’s still in trouble for stealing books
- How to use AI as a small entrepreneur
- Summerween – It’s back!
- Octogenarian Says Joy Is Contagious
- Turning glass into sand!
- https://glasshalffull.co/
- Visualising Britain’s fashion waste problem with cyanotype photography
- A world first in size and scale, V&A East Storehouse immerses you in over half a million works from every creative discipline.
- Texas’s Hottest Art Gallery Is the Buc-ee’s Bathroom
- Unwasted transforms local waste streams into tiles
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