Month: January 2023
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…”