We all do what we can.
🔗 Dwayne Johnson donates ‘historic’ amount of money to US actors’ strike foundation.
🔗 AOC joins Hollywood picket line in New York: ‘Solidarity is stronger than greed’
Whilst they do what they can …
It’s incredibly damaging for everybody in terms of the big epics
💬 Mark Borkowski
.. because of course, Mark is a PR Agent and I presume his business is suffering, read more in this piece;
🔗 ‘You need the glamour of a big opening’: US actors’ strike starts to bite on red carpet.
🔗 An open voice mail to @manton from @dave - I have no idea if it all makes sense … BUT … some of you all might? 12 minutes and 54 seconds.
You (‘Manton’) do an unbelievable job in supporting APIs
💬 Dave Winer
If you read ‘Umair’, you know this - but this is not from Umair, but rather Sam Bowman.
Sam Bowman is a founding editor of Works in Progress. He has been director of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics, a principal at Fingleton, and executive director of the Adam Smith Institute.
🔗 Something Happened - not the book - as JP is quick to point out - but rather a cricket match where ‘rain stop play’ … and yet somehow so much went on.
I know there are few cricket fans out there … trust me, it will resonate - and I am not even a fan!
🔗 I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double-bill and I don’t recommend it.
Over three hours for one of them. The double bill is out for me …
Reader, do not attempt Barbenheimer. Or at least, if you do decide to do Barbenheimer, please don’t do it in the order I went to see it. If you take anything from this, it’s that you should really go and see Barbie first. Because otherwise, and I’m talking from very recent first-hand experience, the effect is a little like having your mother’s funeral invaded by a flashmob of parking circus clowns. Which, you know, isn’t exactly ideal.
🔗 Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on.
… picked up on Scripting.com - and missed it at the time (January) … but 💯 … adding bad sound people / sound mixing to the list.
🔗 Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America (Apple News)
Follow on question.
If America can’t make wrenches - how are they going to crack Semiconductors?
And with #NoIrony
The machines in the ‘Made in America’ factory to make the wrenches were made in Belarus.