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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2026-08-11 19:10:39

Theater execs are split on the Paramount-WBD deal, as Paramount offers to guarantee 30 films annually for three years; California's AG wants asset divestitures (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
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An Offer They Can't Refuse: Theater Execs Split on Whether to Join Paramount-Warner's Merger Movement
Theater owners are split on whether to back Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. or continue to resist, despite David Ellison's 30-movies-a-year pledge.

@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-07-09 12:01:11

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

screenshot profile page Bluesky: Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social 9.7k followers 25 following O posts Maker of books and other things SRE Followed by Charlie Stross, Rupert Rivett and 21 others Posts Replies Media Videos No replies yet (no anything, actually)
Screenshot Banner shows an advert for novel POLOSTAN Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson Author of Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle, et al. Coming October 2024: Polostan. Seattle, WA (nealstephenson.com Joined January 2010) 362 Following 89.4K Followers Followed by William Gibson and Count Melancholia
@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-07-26 23:09:54

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

Allen Ginsberg, Ah!Merica Poul Anderson, Tales of Flying Mountains Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture Selections From the Hugo Awards vol 2 Daniel Pinkwater's Melvin of the Megaverse Kilgore Trout, Venus on the Half Shell Ursula Le Guin, The Farthest Shire Ursula La Guin, The Tombs of Atuan McLuhan, I Seem To Be a Verb Jack Kerouac, Big Sur Lucy Sante, My Heart and I Agree Peter Richardson, Brand New Beat Peter Richardson, Savage Journey John Brackett, Touch of Grey Who Is Jimmy W…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot
2026-08-30 14:10:17

The war on knowledge finds a new angle

screenshot: Ken MacLeod reposted Christopher Fear @ChristopherF198 Following a standard workplace safety check, | have just received an email from a university administrator in which my custom of keeping books on the shelves in my office is described as "the unnecessary storing of combustible materials". [photo of a bookshelf with books on it] Jul 22, 2026 - Twitter Web App
@servelan@newsie.social
2026-08-29 06:01:14

"Jim Prosser, a former Twitter communications executive, pushed back on Silicon Valley claims that opposition to data centers is a "Chinese psyop," arguing that Big Tech is using the label to dismiss legitimate local concerns. "If you can get both Greg Abbott and Kathy Hochul agreeing on something, it's probably not a Chinese psyop," he told Axios."
Is China Secretly Fueling America's Data Center Rage? - Slashdot
yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/2