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[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

The 'Burbs: How Tom Hanks' Original 1989 Cult Film Inspired Keke Palmer's New Peacock Series How did Joe Dante and Tom Hanks' original 1989 film inspire Peacock's new series, The 'Burbs, starring Keke Palmer? We spoke with the creative team to find out!

Last summer for Peacock Blog, I did a set visit for Peacock's #TheBurbs. I spoke w/ Fuzzy Door EPs about Seth MacFarlane's inspiration to adapt @thejoedante.bsky.social's 1989 cult classic & the threads between both (Spoilers):

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Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club!

You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Taylor Swift Just Sent a Surprise Message to the 2026 Winter Olympic Athletes Find out Taylor Swift's surprise message to the Winter Olympic athletes in Italy. The 2026 Opening Ceremony festivities included a video message from the pop icon.

Did not expect the #Olympics2026 Opening Ceremonies to have so many crossovers with Peacock's #ThePaper. I point out one that came with Taylor Swift's message to the athletes:

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How to Watch Keke Palmer's New Mystery/Comedy The ‘Burbs, Streaming Exclusively on Peacock Here's how to watch Keke Palmer's new series The ‘Burbs, a mystery/thriller/comedy streaming exclusively on Peacock.

Counterprogramming alert 🚨 If sports is not your thing this weekend, checkout Peacock's new mystery/thriller #TheBurbs which drops Sun 2/8. It stars Keke Palmer & Jack Whitehall & has a killer cast (figuratively):

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A Burn It Down video extravaganza, and thoughts on Neil Gaiman, creative gods, American Gods and rotten pedestals Hello!  Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graph...

In Neil Gaiman’s “I did nothing wrong ever” statement he says there’s been no good journalism about him or his assaults. There has been, of course.

Thing is, he said the same thing in 2018 when @moryan.bsky.social reported on issues behind the scenes on American Gods www.moryan.com/a-burn-it-do...

There’s a logic to that. But a single Traitor 3 episodes before the finale is tough to make interesting.

What This Week's Major Traitors Twist Means for the Game (DETAILS) What this week's major traitors twist means for the game heading towards the finale.

As we barrel towards the end of @thetraitorsus.bsky.social Season 4 on Peacock, tonight's episode brought back a familiar twist that debuted in Season 2. For Peacock Blog, I chart the history of the twist & how it plays into Season 4 (SPOILERS):

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How Many Episodes Are Left Before the Finale of The Traitors? (DETAILS) How many episodes are left of The Traitors before the finale?

How is Season 4 of @thetraitorsus.bsky.social almost over? For Peacock Blog, here's the rest of the Season 4 schedule so you can clear your Thursdays until the finale.

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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

For a v long time, I conflated "person who can make good art" with "person who has a functioning moral compass." I think that transference (based on appreciation, love, enthusiasm) is something a lot of us do. It hurts a lot when we find that our appreciation was hijacked so someone can do bad shit.

Reminder that Epstein and Trump shut down the first #MeToo movement by convincing people that being against sexual abuse was woke.

The Muppet Show (2026) Review - IGN The Muppet Show (2026) review: A revival that celebrates what makes the Muppets great – Yayyyyyy!

As a life-long Muppets fan hoping for a win for the franchise that wasn’t just commercials or viral videos, @Sethrogen “pilot” gets #TheMuppetShow VERY right. My @ign spoiler-free review (WATCH IT on ABC or Disney+ - IT MATTERS!) www.ign.com/articles/the...

This PONIES Character Was Supposed to Die in the Finale (EXCLUSIVE) Find out which character in Peacock's espionage thriller series PONIES was originally supposed to be killed off in the finale.

If you watched #PONIES on Peacock, I spoke with Artjom Gilz, who plays KGB officer Andrei Vasiliev, & Petro Ninovskyi, who plays Sasha Shevchenko, about their surprising characters arcs that changed quite a bit & their unknown fates. (Spoilers!)

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Schitt's creek, 30 rock, mighty wind, nightmare before christmas, wayne and shuster, after hours

Six decades

An absolute comedy legend. A pioneer with other female comedian greats like Kahn & Radner. Her sketch was incredible & she created some of my all-time fav characters in Delia Deetz and Moira Rose. (2026 sucks)

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

Everything We Know So Far About The Traitors Banquet: "A Bloody Climax" Everything we know heading into the infamous The Traitors banquet.

Tomm on @thetraitorsus.bsky.social is the big banquet @alancumming.bsky.social has been teasing all season🔥 For Peacock Blog, here's what to expect based on the UK celebrity season & the rules we know:

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Brace For Titan Action In Monarch: Legacy Of Monsters With The Latest Issue Of SFX Take a look inside the latest SFX magazine with our rundown of the new issue

🚨@sfxmagazine.bsky.social Issue #401 is out today! I've got the cover story on S2 of Apple TV's Monsterverse series, #Monarch abt a new Titan & the arcs this season. Plus, I speak to director Gore Verbinski about his gonzo epic, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die ⬇️
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I am 1000% with you.

How Ron Funches Underestimated the Fury of the Housewives: "All Her Friends Hated Me" Comedian and Traitors star Ron Funches talkes his banishment, being an introvert, and the Housewives, all on Peacock Blog.

I've always been a big fan of @ronfunches.bsky.social (he's perfect in Loot), so I was worried/excited to see him cast in @thetraitorsus.bsky.social S4. He didn't last long but boy did he go out on a high note. My Peacock Blog exit interview with Ron (spoilers!):

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Save the over $15k we've raised with this book that will benefit CHIRLA (Immigrant Rights) & Lambda Legal (LGBTQIA+ Rights). All net proceeds after printing will be donated.

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In Issue #400 of @sfxmagazine.bsky.social, I speak to #WonderMan EP Andrew Guest about the VERY different Marvel Spotlight series that really a love letter about creating in Hollywood.

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YouTube video by Disney Plus The Muppet Show | Official Trailer | Disney+

Some light in the tunnel of this dark 2026:

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I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

LA folks around Burbank: ICE is out and about in NoHo today, particularly at Home Depot on Sherman Way and near Burbank Blvd and Vineland. Be careful.

Freedom Now!: a starter pack of 24 films about the Civil Rights Movement and Black liberation • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Robert Daniels recommends 24 films that shed light on the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing fight for Black liberation in America.

For MLK Day on @letterboxd.social I decided to do a list of essential Civil Rights and Black Liberation movies.

The best & most cost efficient way to solve the illegal immigration problem is fining employers & landlords to the point it's no longer profitable to house and employ them, but then we'd have to admit how much of our economy runs on cheap undocumented labor. So we treat the symptom, not the cause.

Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen: NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue in a relatively short amount of time, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years. Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year. Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years. Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble. If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned. I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds.

Large Language Models are a global gaslighting experiment, where inefficient and questionably-functional software can convince you that it works because you managed to manipulate its handles with the right prompts — explaining away its failures as you go, and getting increasingly agitated with those who don’t agree with you that you’re living in the future. This piece forced me to live in the past for hours and hours and hours, and all it taught me is that people are desperate to compare this era to another as a means of explaining away the bad habits and specious ideas of a tech industry run by fucking influencers and management consultants. By comparison, the Dot Com Bubble was sensible, built on good ideas executed by greedy people rushing to do things based on ideas they didn’t understand. The AI Bubble is happening in a remarkable era of digital information and connectivity that allows us to process and analyze details at scale and with speed, and everybody who inflated this era should — and by my fucking sword will be made to — experience inextricable, permanent shame for the horrors that will follow as a result. And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs — not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand that currently exists, or for the capacity we’ve already built. On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore. Anyway, see you next week.

I am terrified that the end of the AI bubble will be magnitudes worse for the global economy than the dot com bubble, and for society at large. So many people have been so confidently wrong, and I'm not sure what happens when that becomes impossible to ignore.
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