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Sep 17, 2021

Appearing on #Jeopardy was the thrill of a lifetime, easily the coolest thing that has ever happened to me. I was honored to share the stage and compete with Odessa & Matt! Despite all the recent drama around the show, I'm confident that this game we all love will endure.

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Hey there. We, the staff of Crooked Media, have formed a union. Here’s why.

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Screenshots of the union's recognition letter. The full text is available at WGAEast.org.

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re: AMC's "Sightline" pricing, well, we live in the NYC suburbs, where standard movie tickets already cost $15-18... and — again, see privilege note in tweet above — an extra dollar to sit where we want to sit isn't a make-or-break proposition for us (also, we don't have kids)

it's both, I think I am the 1% here: my wife & I just subscribed to Alamo Season Pass because we like going to the theater enough that $20/month for each of us will pay for itself (in just 2 films/month!), and because we're privileged enough to have the disposable income for it

1, 2, or both? 1) in their desperation to stay alive, movie theaters finding any reasonable way to bring in extra revenue is understandable 2) in their desperation to stay alive, movie theaters will eventually price themselves out of business / out of the mass market

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Polygon

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AMC Theatres to start charging more for the best seats in the house polygon.com/23587719/amc-t

Alex Kirshner

@alex_kirshner

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Sending Kyrie to the city where JFK got assassinated opens up all kinds of avenues for him to do some exciting research

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Feb 4

these colors don't run 🇺🇸

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OSINTdefender

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Feb 4

It’s appears that a Missile fired from one of the F-22s is what was used to shoot down the Chinese High-Altitude Surveillance Balloon.

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Feb 3

this is rad

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Polygon

@Polygon

Feb 3

Destroyed Ukrainian airplane, the world’s largest, to live on in Microsoft Flight Simulator polygon.com/23585039/msfs-

anyway, please read

' very fun piece because it has great lines like "Cleopatra’s boobs are going to make you feel bad for ever feeling excited about boobs in the first place." and also because if you do, maybe she will finally stop tweeting about this damnéd game

I played the PS3 demo but the only thing about Dante's Inferno that sticks in my mind is the commercial set to Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" I did not, however, remember that it was a SUPER BOWL commercial, let alone one with the tagline "Go to Hell" youtube.com/watch?v=9rbeAG

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Maddy Myers

@MIDImyers

Feb 3

everybody should play DANTE'S INFERNO (2010), except also, nobody should play it because it is completely unhinged in every possible way polygon.com/sub-gems/23584

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Tom Brady Retires: The Revised Edition

Feb 2

maybe the funniest thing the Times has ever published

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Tom Brady retired again. So we took last year’s article and made a few small edits.

M. Night Shyamalan returns to form with Knock at the Cabin

Feb 2

For ages now, I've done 24-month payment plans and upgraded pretty much once the phone was paid off. So now I'll have to keep the S23 for 3 years — or, if I want to upgrade after 2 years, I'll have to make a payment equivalent to 1/3 the retail price (almost $300) at that point?

Hey, people who follow the smartphone market: I was looking into pre-ordering the Galaxy S23, but... I'm on Verizon, and it looks like they now force you to do a 36-month payment plan if you don't want to buy the phone upfront? Am I missing something?

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always brings it, but especially so in his terrific review of Knock at the Cabin, which offers an insightful critique of the film in the context of Shyamalan's career

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It’s a fresh, tense new crisis of faith from a director who used to love them

Dangerous Fungi Are Spreading Across U.S. as Temperatures Rise

uhhhhhhhhhhh... I guess Evelyn's brother was right when he warned Bighead about this

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Some fungi such as the type that causes Valley Fever might be adapting to endure more heat stress, research suggests.

we did it, Joe

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New York Metro Weather

@nymetrowx

It finally happened! Central Park reported 0.4” of measurable snowfall early this morning. This is the first measurable snowfall of the season in NYC, and the latest in the winter season that NYC has reported its first measurable snowfall since records began in 1869.

first the Empire State Building, now the New York Times?!?!

a screenshot of a push notification from the NYTimes app that says, "Breaking News: Tom Brady, widely regarded as the greatest player in N.F.L. history, announced his retirement from football."

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maya kosoff

@mekosoff

Why Does It Feel Like Amazon Is Making Itself Worse?

retail in 2023 involves choosing between going to walgreens and doing ur shopping by having a worker unlock each individual item for you from behind plexiglas, or trying to decide between IOCBYHZ, BANKKY, or KLAQQED spatulas on amazon

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The “everything store” has gotten junkier and more chaotic. But, for the company, it’s only good business.

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1. amazing 2. arguably a higher honor than being on the show???

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jason concepcion

@netw3rk

Jan 31

so somehow I got to present a category on a little mom & pop game show and the episode airs tonight. dont want to give too much away but:

Jan 31

wow... as someone who recently bought the new-ish 4K Blu-ray release of Gattaca, this hurts twitter.com/dylanmatt/stat

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lemme come clean: when we were house shopping in 2021, I told my wife I didn't want to buy one with a non-gas stove (we'd had a modicum of not-great experience with her mom's induction range) now I'm dreaming of switching from gas to induction in the house we ended up buying

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Stephanie H. Damassa

@SLHDC

Jan 12

This is controversial, but I think it’s ok to be a person that used to say that you prefer gas for cooking and then change your mind after getting new information

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“That is one of the great contradictions of corporate life,” Ms. Sucher said. “All corporations say ‘People are our most important asset,’ but they don’t really seem to believe that.”

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Emma Goldberg

@emmabgo

Jan 25

Mass layoffs now feel like a fact of corporate life for so many — but it didn't have to be this way, and it never has to be as chaotic as it's been for so many. I wrote about what the past few weeks of job cuts have felt like for workers in media and tech nyti.ms/3wAiZGZ

HBO’s The Last of Us improves on the game’s implied gay romance

if you want to learn about the original version of Bill & Frank's story from the Last of Us game, you can read this piece by

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... but tbh it's almost laughable to compare the two; in the game, their relationship is a footnote to a footnote

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The game hints that Bill is gay, but the show highlights it

holy shit @ The Last of Us folks, January isn't even over yet and we've got the first contender for best TV episode of the year

Amazing ending in KC. That poor Bengals linebacker, Ossai, is gonna have a looooooong offseason.

Seung Min Kim

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How do I mute people from Philadelphia

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they're just doing this for engagement and I'm only helping by quote-tweeting it, huh

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Empire State Building

@EmpireStateBldg

Fly @Eagles Fly! We’re going Green and White in honor of the Eagles NFC Championship Victory.

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Oops! All Fingers

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Dan Clyne

@danCLYNE

Jan 25

I wish we still did cool 80s shit like make Banshees of Inisherin into a cereal

Anyway, I was really excited to check out Hitman's long-awaited Freelancer mode, but I guess I'll just go back to Hi-Fi Rush, which I played for about an hour and a half last night and very much enjoyed!

Every so often, I run into a brick wall of PC game frustration, and it's super dispiriting. When you don't have much free time for gaming, it really sucks to waste an hour of a Saturday afternoon trying to figure out why

@Hitman

3 won't recognize your controller all of a sudden!

Michael de Adder

@deAdder

Two Americas. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/ deadder.net

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Wesley

@WesleyLowery

What threat did Tyre Nichols present to these officers, to the public? How was the safety of the citizens of Memphis improved by the behavior of these officers on that night? How was the public served?

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Chris Hayes

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If you want to know what happens on the video without watching the video:

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@IwriteOK

the start of the Tyre Nichols video shows a group of police, for no discernable reason, immediately escalating to violence, threatening and hitting a young man while shouting contradictory orders at him they threaten to tase him if he does not lie down, while he is lying down

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Jan 27

it's the "by far" for me

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sean yoo

@SeanYoo

i have not fully recovered from this piece of information

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Jan 27

"we were required to have layoffs" Jeff Bezos could find the combined salary of the Launcher team in his couch cushions

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Stephen Totilo

@stephentotilo

Jan 27

Washington Post staffer to me regarding shutdown of gaming section @LauncherWP: "Leadership communicated to Launcher that Launcher was succeeding in its mission, and this was solely a factor of: we were required to have layoffs” axios.com/newsletters/ax

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Chris "Three PVMs" Person

this is rad also, say what you want about the movie, but 13-year-old Samit thought the soundtrack ruled... and IMO Limp Bizkit's "Take a Look Around" still slaps

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@Papapishu

I fuckin did it! Here is the trailer for Mission Impossible 2 taken from an abused VHS Blockbuster copy of Runaway Bride, captured entirely via the RF signal of a 30 dollar VCR and software decoded entirely in Linux.

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WSJ News Exclusive | BuzzFeed to Use ChatGPT Creator OpenAI to Help Create Quizzes and Other Content

a sentence to put on journalism's tombstone if I've ever seen one: "BuzzFeed remains focused on human-generated journalism in its newsroom, a spokeswoman said Thursday."

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CEO Jonah Peretti said the publisher would use the technology to make more comprehensive quizzes and interactive content.

someone get this man on Celebrity Jeopardy! post-haste

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lucy ford

@lucyj_ford

Jan 25

unfortunately paul mescal intently learning the rules of jeopardy is the sexiest thing a man can do

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