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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

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Captain of the USS Putting That Shit The Fuck On

Greg Orr, Jack Warner's grandson, came around to the Netflix deal just as they backed out.

“The deal with Netflix was a good marriage,” Orr says, “merging with Paramount Skydance is like a shotgun wedding with your dumb cousin. I fear for the health of the kids.”

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from a local bookstore’s new release table

the book industry really only knows how to sell one book at a time

just read an essay on an AI site (don't ask) sponsored by an AI company by a guy who used AI to help draft his fantasy baseball team last year, finished last, had his worst season ever in 21 seasons of playing, yet his conclusion was that AI remains a useful tool and the fault is his alone. 10/10

According to Nielsen, 'CBS Evening News' just recorded its lowest-rated February of the 21st century, averaging 4.4 million total viewers and 538,000 in the key 25-54 demographic.

t-shirt, poster, take my money

Grim Reaper with the 1920s Warner Bros logo (looking suspiciously like Michigan J Frog) knocks on the door of Oracle, while doors labeled with the previous Warner acquisitions have bloody trails leading from them

Penguin Classics cover of The BFG by Roald Dahl. Cover image is a screenshot of the classic computer game Doom--the equipped weapon is the BFG-9000, shooting a demon or something

SIRAT would make a really interesting double bill with GREEN ROOM and that’s all I’m going to say about it

"Fascism will now be beamed into every home in America" guys CNN regularly fails to break 0.5m households

Paramount getting rid of Warner Brothers’ woke movies

points for honesty I guess?

reader I never put a magazine back on the rack so fast

A screenshot from a magazine that reads: I’ll admit at first I was uneasy. I’ve been doing this for a long time. I’m not Shakespeare, but I can hold my own. So when the publisher told me that the entire magazine would be edited by artificial intelligence I cringed a bit.

hahaha yeah that’s gonna be a no from me dawg

Ali Akbar, who's sold newspapers on the streets of Paris for 50 years, is now a knight For decades, Ali Akbar has sold papers on the Left Bank of Paris. Last month, France gave the beloved 73-year-old immigrant from Pakistan one of its highest honors — and his neighborhood is cheering.

Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris, has been awarded a knighthood by French president Emmanuel Macron. “Macron went on to refer to Akbar as ‘the most French of the French — a Voltairean who arrived from Pakistan.’” [npr.org]

The long 2010s are finally over

The Athletic Welcomes New Colleagues | The New York Times Company We’re excited to announce the hiring of several Washington Post journalists as The Athletic expands its coverage of the Commanders, launches a new Nationals beat and adds to its growing roster of…

The NY Times has hired six former Washington Post sports journalists

www.nytco.com/press/the-at...

Important to note that last month the Trump admin tried a similar thing for childcare funding and got smacked down almost immediately once sued.

A reminder text that reads here’s your reminder that Mission impossible dead reckoning is ready to watch

me: tonight I’ll knock of a few chores, finish the book I’m reading, maybe compose a few haiku poems

netflix:

To those of you who have read and enjoyed any of my three books, the reason they wound up in your hands is that in 2004, Ann Godoff, the editing and publishing giant who founded Penguin Press, took a chance on me. She died yesterday at 76. I owe her more than I can say. She changed my life. >

Good interview.

Probably one of my 10 favorite screenplays of all time, wedded to a terrific movie, no less.

also not sure there's ever been a character on TV ever done more dirty than Rishi, is he still lying on that sidewalk or

I said what I said

as an early buyer-inner on INDUSTRY I will never not be amazed that the show took a bullet-proof premise — motley class of ambitious underlings run the gauntlet at a corrupting institution — and trashed it to pieces in under 24 episodes in order to become Knot's Landing meets Brideshead Revisited

you have worked your entire life to undermine vaccines will you undermine vaccines in your new role as head of the vaccine agency

[squeaky weird frog voice] no I will not do that

I sincerely hope that the Senators of our land have learned some enduring recent lessons about believing potential appointees when during their confirmations they claim to denounce all of their previous advocacy

Clown show ass administration

Close reading is a powerful method.