January 26, 2023
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Wall Street’s Streaming Warnings to Hollywood Get More Dire: Can’t “Light Money on Fire”
“Hollywood is on the edge of the next phase in the streaming revolution as more and more executives and investors have come to realize how significant the…”
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“Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Discourse 3.0! We are bringing our customers and users some major new capabilities to enable communities to have…”
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“You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories . Incidentally, that collection, published in November 2022,…”
January 25, 2023
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The Artist Whose Book Covers Distilled the Nineteen-Eighties
“A suited man rides an escalator into the sky. At its top the escalator disappears into an enormous paper bag, which contains a bendy straw, a bow tie, a pint of…”
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How to Tell Whether You’ve Got Angst, Ennui, or Weltschmerz
“English has many words for the feelings that can arise when a good, hard look at the state of the world seems to reveal only negatives. Hopelessness, despair,…”
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What Monks Can Teach Us About Paying Attention
“Who was the monkiest monk of them all? One candidate is Simeon Stylites, who lived alone atop a pillar near Aleppo for at least thirty-five years. Another is…”
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We tried to run a social media site and it was awful
“A few months ago, FT Alphaville thought it might be fun to host a Mastodon server . Boy, were we wrong! It is therefore with relief and regret that we announce…”
January 24, 2023
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The Cornerstones of Country Noir
“When discussing crime fiction, or the more niche term noir, most readers picture the cliché of an unshaven detectives in his rumpled suit, stinking of…”
January 20, 2023
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Wikipedia Has Spent Years on a Barely Noticeable Redesign
“Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Wikipedia and Getty Images Plus. The Wikipedia editors are waiting to hear you scream. On Wednesday, Wikipedia is set to…”
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12 Assumptions for Extraterrestrial Life
“I have some strongly-stated, loosely-held hunches about the probability of life elsewhere in the universe. My certainty about these beliefs is quite low, but it…”
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“Cambrian Governance Andrew Bourke’s Principles of Social Evolution opens on the story of a “ scientifically curious protozoan ” (protozoans are single-celled…”
January 14, 2023
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“Credit…Brian Rea Ten years ago, when I was 25, I hadn’t been on a date — or even considered the possibility of romance — for over three years. During that…”
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State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom
“Last night at about 7:30pm PST, Twitterrific customers started reporting problems accessing Twitter via the iOS app. News quickly spread on Twitter and Mastodon…”
January 7, 2023
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The Most-Anticipated Films of 2023
“In costume as Leonard Bernstein, Bradley Cooper lines up a shot of Carey Mulligan on the set of Maestro (2023) A ny overview of the most-anticipated films of…”
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“Wayne Ma has a new report for The Information on Apple’s widely-expected AR/VR headset . ( MacRumors has a summary .) Some quick reactions: The headset, which…”
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Streaming Changed TV. Is TV Changing Streaming Back?
“A decade of bingeing has transformed storytelling and viewing habits. But we may be starting to hit that transformation’s limits. From left, Paz Vega, Giancarlo…”
January 5, 2023
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Why the super rich are inevitable
“Scroll down A few years ago I bought a vintage watch for $200. Later I found out I overpaid by $50. But I figured I would eventually even out this bad purchase…”
December 28, 2022
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5 Unintended Consequences of Photography | The Saturday Evening Post
“Weekly Newsletter The best of The Saturday Evening Post in your inbox! SUPPORT THE POST They weren’t trying to change the world. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Louis…”
December 20, 2022
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“What did the cinema of 2022 bring us? A little bit of everything. In our top 50 list below, voted for by 93 Sight and Sound contributors (both UK and…”
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There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’
“Despite its sinking into insignificance upon initial release, the eventual ascendency of It’s A Wonderful Life was always almost inevitable. For one thing, it…”
December 18, 2022
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I am not always very attached to being alive
“Content warning: this essay contains vivid language about suicide and suicidal thoughts. I wish there was a nicer way to say this, but I don’t always want to be…”
December 17, 2022
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TV Has Always Disappeared. This Feels Different.
“When titles like Westworld can disappear without warning, the whole streaming space starts to seem less stable. Photo: John Johnson/HBO Recently, Warner Bros.…”
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The internet wants to be fragmented
“Five years ago I was sitting around drinking a beer with my college buddy Dayv. I was scrolling through Twitter and watching people get mad at Donald Trump’s…”
December 14, 2022
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The Trumpification of Elon Musk
“Around the time Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I said to colleagues in the newsroom where I worked at the time that we shouldn’t cover everything he said or…”
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“Of All the threats posed by Twitter since it fell under sketchy new management in October, one of them doubles as a promise. Twitter will devolve into…”
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a native internet protocol for social media
“View online jack’s @jack There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles . Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start…”
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The 103 Best Book Covers of 2022
“For what is now the seventh time in a row, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover…”
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Announcing the Flickr Foundation!!! – Flickr Foundation
“Short version: Welcome to the new home of the Flickr Foundation! We are a new US 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to keeping the wonderful Flickr collection around…”
December 12, 2022
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Every “chronically online” conversation is the same
“Dion Lee for Vox Rebecca Jennings is a senior correspondent for The Goods at Vox, where she covers social platforms, influencers, and the creator economy. She…”
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ChatGPT proves AI is finally mainstream — and things are only going to get weirder
“A friend of mine texted me earlier this week to ask what I thought of ChatGPT. I wasn’t surprised he was curious. He knows I write about AI and is the sort of…”