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If movie theaters were a thing consumers loved, they would be there. They go there for horror movies, some action blockbusters. Let me reiterate a line I wrote decades ago about the nascent digital space: Consumers have taken control of their entertainment experience & they are never giving it back.
The pandemic.
The strike.
The sale of Fox.
“.. Box office experts say 15 to 20 percent of regular moviegoers have simply never returned ..”
@thr.com
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
The strike.
The sale of Fox.
“.. Box office experts say 15 to 20 percent of regular moviegoers have simply never returned ..”
@thr.com
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
December 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If movie theaters were a thing consumers loved, they would be there. They go there for horror movies, some action blockbusters. Let me reiterate a line I wrote decades ago about the nascent digital space: Consumers have taken control of their entertainment experience & they are never giving it back.
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actual communism
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 11:18 PM
actual communism
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The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.
When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969) www.openculture.com/2025/09/when...
When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969)
Rigorously clean-cut, competent on the acoustic guitar and double bass, and seldom dressed in anything more daring than cherry-red blazers, Tom and Dick Smothers looked like the antithesis of nineteen...
www.openculture.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When CBS Canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for Criticizing the American Establishment and the Vietnam War (1969) www.openculture.com/2025/09/when...
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The end of Avengers when all of the heros started disappearing
Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema?
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
Someone in my audience had a very audible negative reaction to the dog scene in TOGETHER. So that was fun!
August 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
The end of Avengers when all of the heros started disappearing
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The cold, cruel, lawless certainty of the Stepford nieces is one of the most chilling aspects of Trump 2.0.
Leavitt & McLaughlin represent the millennial generation of MAGA and they are something else.
Leavitt & McLaughlin represent the millennial generation of MAGA and they are something else.
DHS's Tricia McLaughlin on possibility of arresting Karen Bass: "We are certainly keeping everything on the table."
July 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The cold, cruel, lawless certainty of the Stepford nieces is one of the most chilling aspects of Trump 2.0.
Leavitt & McLaughlin represent the millennial generation of MAGA and they are something else.
Leavitt & McLaughlin represent the millennial generation of MAGA and they are something else.
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The people want trains. Folks should be able to take a high speed train from Binghamton to Bowling Green. From Mobile to Madison. From Pittsburgh to Portland. Don’t build detention camps. Build trains.
Build it
July 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The people want trains. Folks should be able to take a high speed train from Binghamton to Bowling Green. From Mobile to Madison. From Pittsburgh to Portland. Don’t build detention camps. Build trains.
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So yes. Just got reminded of this. It's not a long story, and not a particularly beginning-middle-end one, but I've been chewing on the encounter since it happened. Here goes...
I’m going to say more when I’m at a keyboard, but there was a gravity to the event, a new intensity. I had a conversation with a woman as I was leaving that’s going to stay with me a very long time.
June 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
So yes. Just got reminded of this. It's not a long story, and not a particularly beginning-middle-end one, but I've been chewing on the encounter since it happened. Here goes...
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BREAKING: Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82.
Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82
Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s, has died. He was 82.
bit.ly
June 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
BREAKING: Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82.
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what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process.
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued:
newrepublic.com/article/1961...
June 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!
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There is only one big beautiful Bill.
June 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM
There is only one big beautiful Bill.
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If your MAGA relatives try to justify the Qatar plane gift by bringing up the Statue of Liberty, remind them Congress voted to approve that gift, and we’d be happy to have Congress vote on the plane, too!
May 14, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If your MAGA relatives try to justify the Qatar plane gift by bringing up the Statue of Liberty, remind them Congress voted to approve that gift, and we’d be happy to have Congress vote on the plane, too!
Dogs (and most other animals…and plants!) have always been this smart. We’re just now getting smart enough to realize it.
April 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Dogs (and most other animals…and plants!) have always been this smart. We’re just now getting smart enough to realize it.
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The administration’s lies about this case are insane.
Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"
April 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The administration’s lies about this case are insane.
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There is no plan.
A lot of journalists portraying what's happening to the American economy right now as something understandable and rational. Heavy use of the words "change" and "plan." But read far enough down in their stories and their sources are using terms like "chaos" and "nuclear winter."
April 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There is no plan.
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Who installed Signal on your phone?
What instructions were you given on when to use Signal?
Who gave you those instructions?
What is your understanding of your obligations to maintain records of your communications under the U.S. code of law?
What instructions were you given on when to use Signal?
Who gave you those instructions?
What is your understanding of your obligations to maintain records of your communications under the U.S. code of law?
March 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Who installed Signal on your phone?
What instructions were you given on when to use Signal?
Who gave you those instructions?
What is your understanding of your obligations to maintain records of your communications under the U.S. code of law?
What instructions were you given on when to use Signal?
Who gave you those instructions?
What is your understanding of your obligations to maintain records of your communications under the U.S. code of law?
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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You're probably seeing this a lot in your feed right now. Take the time to read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
You're probably seeing this a lot in your feed right now. Take the time to read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Turn down the radio. Turn off the television. Listen. Listen to the birds. They're talking mad shit about you, loser
March 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Turn down the radio. Turn off the television. Listen. Listen to the birds. They're talking mad shit about you, loser
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“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:
Columbia’s Real Radical Threat Is From the Government
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
www.theatlantic.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:
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Killing three dozen elementary school children with an AR gets "thoughts and prayers," but vandalizing a Tesla is "domestic terrorism?"
This country is broken
This country is broken
March 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Killing three dozen elementary school children with an AR gets "thoughts and prayers," but vandalizing a Tesla is "domestic terrorism?"
This country is broken
This country is broken
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Yet Jimmy Carter had to give up his peanut farm….
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Yet Jimmy Carter had to give up his peanut farm….