NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

AI Recommends Outdated Broadway Shows, Overlooks New Titles

www.broadwayworld.com: Across two test days (October 2 and 3, 2025), Open AI’s ChatGPT repeatedly recommended titles that are closed (e.g. A Doll’s House, Suffs, Sweeney Todd, The Lehman Trilogy), West End-only (e.g. The Devil Wears Prada), or never Broadway/West End (e.g. The Whale). This isn’t a minor accuracy issue – it hypes up to buyers shows they can’t buy a ticket to see.

'Wicked' costume designer breaks down Elphaba and Glinda's costumes

www.hercampus.com: Costume designer Paul Tazewell visited Kent State’s campus Thursday, Sept. 18, during “An Evening With Paul Tazewell,” discussing with fashion writer and alumna Aleah Wright what viewers can expect for the costumes in “Wicked: For Good.”

Where are Kennedy Center audiences going?

NPR: Many of us have a venue we love - a theater or concert space where we really feel at home. But what do you do if that place goes through radical change? Well, that is what has been happening with audiences here in the D.C. region ever since President Trump took over the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts eight months ago. Trump abruptly fired its leaders, dismissed board members, criticized past programming as too woke. NPR's Elizabeth Blair wanted to find out where the fans are going.

Mileseey S50 Laser Distance Measure: Fast, Accurate, Reliable

Pro Tool Reviews: Nothing truly outpaces a laser distance measure when it comes to taking quick, accurate measurements. They come in a wide range of working distances and feature sets that can allow you to calculate area, volume, and even store measurements. But now, companies like Mileseey are raising the bar to fit a wider range of applications.

Job hunting: I applied to more than 100 jobs. Bots have made job hunting impossible.

slate.com/technology: I got laid off five months ago. Every morning I drink a pot of coffee while I write cover letters, tweak my résumé, and submit job applications into the abyss, knowing they will likely never be seen by human eyes—only crawled by the cold, lifeless algorithms of an artificial intelligence. I feel like General Zod from Superman, floating off into space trapped inside a two-dimensional phantom zone, screaming in silence about my job qualifications and core competencies.