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Debt in the spotlight as Paramount closes $111bn deal for Warner Bros
Heavy cuts expected as boss David Ellison seeks to deliver $6bn of cost savings at combined group to be known as Skydance
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Listening to Jensen Huang talk is a pretty soul-destroying experience, even without the leather jacket visual element.
Life is weird because youth is when you feel legendary and age is when you feel naive
Claude told me only those who played Bamboozle on Teletext will be saved 😔
I can no longer fully take in Tom Cruise’s face. My eyes move around it, trying to gain purchase, but it’s like a child’s composite of past features. I back away. ‘That’s Tom Cruise’, I tell myself, uncertainly.
Not so smug about the believability of them continuing to build Jurassic Parks now are we
Looking forward to Farage announcing the Cryptopound once he gets in - Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Zelo www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Christopher Harborne matches £36m Reform donation of Ben Delo
Party leader, Nigel Farage, says he is humbled by contributions from cryptocurrency billionaires
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‘YOU DONT HAVE TO BE MAD TO WORK HERE BUT IT HELPS!!’ signs actually relevant here
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4w agoAnthropic do geniunely think AI may kill us all. They believe that no one else is going to even try to make a reliably benign AI, so they have to be first. It definitely sounds sort of insane, and I’m nowhere near equipped to tell if it is. But the belief is sincere and internally consistent.
Something about Microsoft Word now makes me incredibly sad
Things seem awful but maybe me listening to countless podcasts about the bond markets will help let’s hope so
HOW is this bitch getting better blow-drys than me?!
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last mo.A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her conviction and get out of prison, calling her claims “all meritless” and “all or almost all… frivolous.” The judge said the newly released Epstein files do not exonerate Maxwell. In fact, where relevant, they “incriminate her.”
Sneaking off to watch Couples Therapy ruining my relationship
Really enjoy that Russ Abbott article and its gentle reveal. A lovely bit of writing that lets people see what they want to see.
If I could be as good at one thing as Matt Damon is at doing press for movies my god
David Attenborough Admits To Exaggerating Wonder Of Seals https://theonion.com/david-attenborough-admits-to-exaggerating-wonder-of-seals/
Billionaires need to be able to learn and grow and change their minds about whether they want their prestige TV shows to be maximally successful.
One of the sad things about the death of writing is that we are going to be taking life advice primarily from visually attractive people now who don’t know shit. ideally you want the world filtered through awkward homunculi filled with rage who know the plural of homunculus
Bags are great. It’s like, sure you have hands, but what if you considered your arms as flesh rails for squishy buckets?
Old enough now that I’m rewatching the original true crimes having completely forgotten who did it
men will see this post and ask "which one is the sexiest?" and we will answer: "Yes"
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2mo agoGuys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this
After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”
Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeople think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...
Takes a lot to get the world to rally behind Belgium
One thing about parenting is the way you show real true love for your partner is to let them spend time really far away from all of you
Just total love for Wired as a journalistic enterprise these days
dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.
Looooot of haughty articles about Britain cycling through Prime Ministers for a country that prefers the blissful consistency of a moron rapist
This is the kind of article I was referring to the other day that should be commonplace, and we had to wait for….checks notes….Michael Heseltine?
