Nina Metz

CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.

Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones. One recent Kalshi betting market that allowed people to bet on whether Palestinians in Gaza would suffer mass starvation.

None of them do!!!!!!

One of the really funny things about portrayals of the Medieval period that have every peasant wearing brown and black is those colors were actually really expensive compared to blues, reds, and yellows

a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' . ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a green jacket is standing in a crowd and says `` do it '' .

yessss

Such a fun movie!

Death on Display Louisiana’s travelling electric chair, and the shift from public to private executions

I wrote about Louisiana's traveling electric chair for the Historic New Orleans Collection's First Draft! hnoc.org/publishing/f...

Jacqui, this is so good and devastating in its clarity

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

hahahaha yesssss!

Women at work From "9 to 5" to "The Devil Wears Prada," movies about working women have bangers for title sequences

As a child I wanted to fast-forward to my 20s and become one of the people in these movies and do adult things, like hurrying to my interesting job and meeting for drinks afterward. Reality is often at odds with Hollywood. At the very least, commuting is never as invigorating as it looks on screen!

Real life commuters may feel like they're dragging themselves to work. But in the movies? The visuals suggest so much anticipation for what the day (and the movie) will bring. Places to go! Things to do! People to see! There are women dressed in Very Serious Business Suits up top, and thick socks over their pantyhose and sneakers on the bottom because these movies reflected what’s real: Most women weren’t (still aren’t) walking block after block in heels, and so what if it looked a little goofy to wear their Reeboks for the commute in?

Women have always been in the workplace, even when that was someone’s home (their own or that or an employer). But significantly more women started working in the office starting in the 60s. Hollywood only really took notice in the 80s, and era that gave birth to the yuppie

Women at work From "9 to 5" to "The Devil Wears Prada," movies about working women have bangers for title sequences

I have a thing for movies about women at work, especially a certain type from the 80s — upbeat, knowing, playful, but not without something to say. Movies aimed at a general audience that don’t seem to get made much anymore

In this week's newsletter I talk about their opening moments, which I love

(TCM is apparently staying with Discovery Global, it’s not part of this deal)

I know there’s a big question about whether Netflix will/won’t kill WB’s theatrical at some point but WB releasing this on streaming with little promotion is a reminder they’re doing a heck of job of that all on their own!

I just heard from someone at Netflix. TCM is apparently going with the other linear networks to Discovery Global.

Here is the official comment on what WBD assets will be acquired by Netflix:

"We are acquiring the film and television studios, HBO and HBO Max."

I am seeing some comments like “what if pro athletes really did kiss???” and I am excited for those people to learn about the WNBA

I have been saying for a long time that you can’t use the logic of business to govern a country, for the same reason you can’t spin off Mississippi because it’s underperforming

I didn't even know this sequel existed lol ... I remember the first one well (Connie Britton's debut I think!)

How come we don’t hear about the profit-loss performance of the FBI?

What is the CIA’s quarterly revenue target?

Does the Treasury get defunded if it doesn’t make a profit?

Once you start to #QuestionThePremise, the idea of the government as a business sounds utterly ridiculous.

Questions I have about the Netflix/WBD deal

* Is TCM part of this acquisition? Zaslav was originally planning to include it in the studio/streaming half of the company. I've reached out to Netflix to see if that's still the plan

* How is the WBD debt going to be allocated at the time of the split?

yep!

Two Dozen New Yorker Staffers Crash Netflix Doc Screening to Protest “Union-Busting” at Condé The event at New York’s Paris Theater featured the magazine’s top editor, David Remnick, and filmmakers.

Two Dozen New Yorker Staffers Crash Netflix Doc Screening to Protest “Union-Busting” at Condé

Via THR

Who is going to clean up all that glass

- me watching a shootout in a movie

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

A headline for the ages! (And an interesting story to boot)

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

I know I'm a big dumb idiot for even asking this and should probably get dragged to hell but: why can't Warner Bros. just be its own company?

A passenger jet flies past a supermoon as it rises above the clouds at Montrose Beach Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Chicago. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

Supermoon flyby 🌝🛩️

Significance: Long COVID, a chronic multisystemic health condition, impacts hundreds of millions around the world. Long COVID has brought light to other related post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS) that are triggered by a wide array of pathogens. This opinion article highlights historical accounts of PAIS through the centuries and emphasizes the need for integrated approaches to understanding and treating PAIS. Highlights: New or persistent symptoms following COVID-19, known as 'long COVID', occur in an estimated 4-20% of pediatric and 10-20% of adult patients after acute infection with SARS-CoV-2. Long COVID is associated with dysregulation of both innate and adaptive immunity. While long COVID is a relatively new clinical entity, post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS) have been well documented for over a century.

“Long COVID, a chronic multisystemic health condition, impacts hundreds of millions around the world. Long COVID has brought light to other related post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS) that are triggered by a wide array of pathogens”

www.cell.com/trends/immun...

Holiday The One of a Kind Holiday Show brings together over 600 exceptional artists, designers and makers with thousands of shoppers that love art and quality work. Now in its 23rd year, this is Chicago’s pre...

A reminder for Chicagoans with holiday shopping left to do:

Fuck Amazon, Fuck Target, fuck fake deals on mass-produced bullshit. The One Of A Kind Show opens tomorrow and runs through the weekend at Merchandise Mart! Go buy from artisans!

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