will Tavlin

Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete Movie studios have given in—and the streaming giant now controls the future. That’s bad for pretty much everyone.

I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Netflix’s Conquest of Hollywood is Complete Movie studios have given in—and the streaming giant now controls the future. That’s bad for pretty much everyone.

I have a piece in the new issue of @newrepublic.com about the Netflix Warners merger newrepublic.com/article/2058...

Im Reich der Kacheln Filme wie Spültabs: Wie Netflix sein Streamingimperium aufgebaut hat.

German translation of "casual viewing" out now from @woz.ch
www.woz.ch/wobei/26-1/n...

Reminder that Penske Media employees are obligated to post about the Golden Globes. You’re not.

Who Is Mubi For? Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.

Who is Mubi for? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following, writes Will Tavlin. Then it started to expand.

Who Is Mubi For? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.

"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart."

www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

Who Is Mubi For? The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.

I have a new piece in the latest @nymag.com about the crisis at Mubi www.vulture.com/article/mubi...

Recipe Book: What the press crisis in Gaza portends. What the crisis for press freedom in Gaza portends.

Gaza has shown governments around the world just how much they can get away with when it comes to silencing the press,” Atossa Araxia Abrahamian writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue. Will other countries follow suit? www.cjr.org/feature/reci...

a good, smart piece on Netflix www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs | A. S. Hamrah In December 2019, three months before the pandemic, I was standing on a subway platform in Brooklyn when I recognized a prominent older film critic also

Online at @nybooks.com, the introduction to my new book, Algorithm of the Night. www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

I recommended some books for this year's bookmatch. Take the quiz already

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes—and every student gets a personal chatbot. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000 Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the strip

“The retired general [said] more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is…close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda.”

A Tipping Point at CBS News “Who would have thought this is the piece that would get me fired?” Bill Owens, the former executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in the screening room. For the past year, CBS journalists have been up...

For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

“'What if we take seriously the idea that AI assistance can accelerate learning — that students today are arriving at their destinations faster?' Hsu asks. But what if we don’t?"
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

This is the most entertaining thing I’ve read in some time, and extremely insightful about the coroprate bland-ification of American life.

The Haunting of Cracker Barrel | A. S. Hamrah, Will Tavlin, Lisa Borst Semiotically, it's detached from all these kinds of things that it was originally designed for. But this kind of sign was always part of the corporate blandification of the American travel experience....

Lisa Borst and I spoke to @hamrahrama.bsky.social about the new Cracker Barrel logo
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer...

As long as we’re on the subject of Netflix and movies (however reluctantly!) I recommend this piece by @tavlin.bsku.social about why so many Netflix movies suck: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

Fascinating and depressing article on why almost everything on Netflix is shit

The Cannes Film Festival of Old Movies How Il Cinema Ritrovato became an international destination for film fanatics.

I went to Il Cinema Ritrovato for @airmail.news airmail.news/issues/2025-...

a political consultancy that does what now?

If you're near a landlord, go put your hand in his pocket for no reason

Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church

He was detained outside church.

“He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

Worker arrested by ICE in Lynn, later released, says agents beat him in cemetery A Massachusetts man said he told immigration agents multiple times that he's a legal resident and that he was brought to a cemetery where they assaulted him.

A man with a green card said ICE agents arrested him in #Lynn, Mass then took him to a detention facility—but first made a detour to a cemetery, where they took him out of their vehicle and beat him.

#mapoli #Massachusetts

Issue 50 Content filed under the Issue 50 taxonomy.

n+1’s 50th issue is out today! Feat. @hzeavin.bsky.social, Andrew Liu, @hamrahrama.bsky.social, @richardbeck.bsky.social, Iman Mersal, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Gemma Sack, @sarahlovescali.bsky.social, E. Tammy Kim, Lisa Borst, Gillian Linden, and Maureen McLane. www.nplusonemag.com/magazine/iss...

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Time to Face Reality Emily Nussbaum charts the history of a TV phenomenon – A.S. Hamrah

www.bookforum.com/print/3101/t...

John Fetterman’s Struggle The senator insists he is in good health. But staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew.

‘Fetterman went on to make statements that shocked people. In opposing a cease-fire, he said, “Let’s get back to killing.” A person who heard the conversation told me, “He said, ‘Kill them all.’”’

Four L.A.S.E.R. talks: Cell-Free Protein Synthesis, Islamic Architecture, Art in an Algorithmic World, Casual Viewing

I’ll be speaking about Netflix and Casual Viewing at Stanford shortly. Zoom link here: events.stanford.edu/event/four-l...