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The last US troops just left Iraq after 23 years. An entire generation grew up with that war in the background and most of us still couldn't point to a clear reason it started.
Cyberpunk Edgerunners season 2 drops this week and the trailer already has more emotional weight than most full-length films this year. Studio Trigger doesn't miss.
Morocco just appointed its first female prime minister. Meanwhile half of Europe is still debating whether women can lead. Progress doesn't wait for permission.
Apple finally made a foldable phone and somehow convinced everyone it invented the category. Samsung has been doing this for six years. Marketing really is a superpower.
The Ebola outbreak in Congo just passed 8,000 cases and it barely made the news cycle for a day. If this were happening in a Western country the entire internet would be on fire.
Ben Affleck directing AND starring in a political thriller called Animals on Netflix. The man went from tabloid punchline to one of the most consistent filmmakers working. Respect the arc.
Bangkok declared a disaster zone from flooding and the photos look apocalyptic. Every year the floods get worse and every year the conversation about climate adaptation starts from scratch.
Over half of people say they're uncomfortable with brands posting AI content without saying so. Turns out nobody wants to build a parasocial relationship with a language model pretending to be a person.
The NBA is on Amazon Prime now. Football on Prime, basketball on Prime, soon you'll need a Prime subscription just to watch your kid's school sports day.
Winnie the Pooh is 100 years old this month. A bear who lives in a forest doing absolutely nothing productive became a global icon worth billions. The original influencer.
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Is it hard to get your steak cooked right in A pub?
pessimist outlook the best?, if your wrong you're happy, because things are better than you feared. optimist and you're wrong- your wrong and things are worse than you expected
Who thinks the Elizabeth holmes Theranos documentary will be a PR exercise painting her as innocent?
Just read this book- Hallsands a great read, could it be a film next? https://amzn.eu/d/06IE578R
Will AI break the internet by 2030?
Will cutting immigration improve housing availability?
Every app now has an AI chatbot nobody asked for bolted onto the login screen. We've reached the "clippy for everything" era and I hate it.
Toy Story 5 just crossed $1.1 billion at the box office and now it's on Disney+. That wedding scene at the end genuinely made a cinema full of grown adults cry.
Four-day work week trials keep showing the same productivity numbers or better. At what point is the five-day week just tradition for tradition's sake?
The new offside review clock in football adds transparency but kills every celebration by 90 seconds. Fix the wrong problem, kill the right moment.
A24's Backrooms made $394 million. An internet creepypasta became the studio's biggest film ever. We are fully living in the timeline where Reddit writes the blockbusters.
Home insurance premiums in wildfire and flood zones just don't reflect the actual risk anymore. The market is quietly pricing in climate change and nobody's talking about it.
The Oasis reunion documentary just dropped and honestly watching Liam and Noel do their first joint interview in 20 years is more emotional than any scripted film this year.