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NYT tech reporter. tell me stuff at [email protected] or [email protected] / Text my signal username with tips: MikeIsaac.38
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Joined January 2009
hello after spending most of my career writing about Facebook in some form or another, ive decided to do a book on the company and those who made it what it is. Would love to talk to employees over the years who wish to share their experience. emails in bio, DM for my cell #.
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meta used this argument against the FTC lawsuit this year and won
One of the most interesting things to watch on the Netflix/WBD deal is how the DOJ wants to define the rapidly evolving entertainment landscape. Netflix will argue regulators should think of share of eyeballs (YouTube, TikTok, etc) not streamers.
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Human beings are called to be co-workers in the work of creation, not merely passive consumers of content generated by artificial technology. Our dignity lies in our ability to reflect, choose freely, love unconditionally, and enter into authentic relationships with others.
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the future is the “thank you ted sarandos” awards speeches episode from the studio, but actually real
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A real test for Trump 2.0: Can Larry and David get him to kill a $83 billion deal? https://t.co/K73SENxCar
businessinsider.com
Larry and David Ellison have a good relationship with Donald Trump. Is that enough to get him to kill Netflix's deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery?
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question now — which media reporters will know the answer to better than i — is whether Ellison goes beast mode and starts hucking rocks (lawsuits, hostile takeover, ???) to tear apart the deal
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truly did not expect this, thought paramount had acquisitions on lock netflix’s achilles heel was always not owning any real franchise IP. (though not for lack of trying) WBD library is brimming with em. a goliath among streamers, now on steroids https://t.co/OFS0d4pHsz
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Netflix has entered exclusive talks with Warner Bros Discovery to buy its studio and streaming service. Scoop with @MichelleF_Davis and @joshua_sisco on the terminal.
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"for a 90 billion dollar takeover, we'll give you more behind the scenes features like the guy operating the vomit machine in 4k"
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really funny that this is all playing out as HBO's parent company WBD is on the auction block btwn paramount and netflix
Season 2 episode 8 has the audio for episode 9 for some reason lmao??? And episode 9 has the audio for episode 8
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meta deciding to speak to this on record after a thrashy day of wall street quote from meta spox:
Meta looking at making cuts to its Metaverse unit inside the Reality Labs division, instead redirecting its investments to its AI-powered Smart Glasses https://t.co/G4C0MxZt7v
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@KurtWagner8 meta stock jumped this morning on the news but i think Wall Street interpreted it as "metaverse is dead" which is a misread of the initial bberg story they're doing what they always do at FB — hammering on something they think is working, the rayban glasses
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company isn't abandoning Metaverse but considering focused cuts to VR jobs in Metaverse unit, which is a subsection in the overall Reality Labs division — headspinning, i know unclear how many jobs hit, could land in january (good scoop from @KurtWagner8 this morning on this)
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Meta looking at making cuts to its Metaverse unit inside the Reality Labs division, instead redirecting its investments to its AI-powered Smart Glasses https://t.co/G4C0MxZt7v
nytimes.com
Meta plans to direct its investments to focus on wearables like its augmented reality glasses but does not plan to abandon building the metaverse.
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this was in the first space jam and i didnt know what the fuck it meant but it was still funny and now i look back on it and its even funnier kids deserve more credit than studio heads give them
‘ZOOTOPIA 2’ originally had a 4-minute long scene that was a homage of Clarice and Hannibal’s first meeting in ‘SILENCE OF THE LAMBS’ “We did word by word the first scene when Hannibal Lecter meets Clarice… That’s where we go, now we have lost our younger audience members”
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didnt use earplugs for years and am paying for it with tinnitus (not nearly as bad as some whose ears are shot, thankfully) this is an interesting application...
A secret is percolating at dinner parties, salons, and cocktail gatherings among the august New York City elite. It’s whispered in the circles of financial masters of the universe, Hollywood stars, and owners of sports teams. Have you heard about Fortell?
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dude is a big deal in tech/design land if not a household name, good scoop interesting to me that an apple long-timer leaves for a bitter rival like meta....
BREAKING: Apple interface design chief Alan Dye is leaving the iPhone maker to become the Chief Design Officer at Meta in a blockbuster coup for the social networking giant.
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