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How did the UK's legendary film industry come to depend on Hollywood for work? Just a few years ago they were churning out excellent TV series of their own.
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Too big to fail? Not so fast. A showrunner's cautionary memo
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Amid the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, studio heads are scorching their own legacies, Justine Bateman writes.
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Norway may soon open waters in the Arctic and sub-Arctic to sea floor mining. The growing demand for important minerals, including copper and nickel, may require this new type of mining, the Norwegian government says.
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I bet you're wondering how we got here...
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At Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk was a jerk with a grand vision. At Twitter, he's just a jerk.
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What Happens When You Give the Keys to the Town Square to the Lunatics?
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So, last night Elon Musk bought Twitter! Let’s talk a little bit about what I think the future holds.
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Craig Newmark's explanation of the site’s evolution (or lack thereof) is surprisingly simple.
(
via Slashdot) Note the remark that to an engineer,
functional is beautiful.
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The planet may burn but at least the end will be ray-traced at 8K
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A good reminder that version numbers are pure marketing, they were always pure marketing, and trying to make them "semantic" misses the point by cosmic distances.
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(Via the
Dragonfly BSD Digest.) I disagree with the attempted explanations, but the statistics are telling. As for the conclusions...
Subsisting entirely on cultural comfort food cannot make us thoughtful, creative, or courageous.
Yes, exactly!
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The satire would be hilarious if it wasn't painful.
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Mozilla’s decision to allow people to donate to them in cryptocurrency really turned me off.
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Wall Street is freaking out about the streaming giant’s growth prospects
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This is how NFTs make me feel: like the future is useless but expensive, and world-altering technology is now in the hands of a culture so aesthetically and spiritually impoverished that it should maybe go back to telling stories around the cooking fire for a while, just to remember how to mean something.
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Besides the eye-watering costs, the nation agreed to indemnify the manufacturers from any legal responsibility for adverse events arising from the use of their products.
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They’ve long been a financial boondoggle that ruins lives and enriches the corporate class. This year, they might also spread a deadly Covid variant among a largely unvaccinated population.
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The pandemic proved cities have far too many ultraexpensive apartments. They shouldn’t forget it.
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Airbnb promises anyone can “live like a local” while driving out the people who actually live there, and making the usual suspects rich.
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The discriminatory practice of redlining is reinvented for the 21st century.
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As a pay dispute threatens the superhero stranglehold on box office takings, it’s a timely reminder that these capitalist heroes have long trampled upon the artists who brought them to life, writes Laura Sneddon.
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