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What Killed The Movie Trailer? (www.youtube.com)
 

Movie Trailers may have started out as a tool to sell films, but over time they have evolved into their own spectacle. Before a film is released there are a multitude of Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots, Web Shorts, and even Trailers before the Trailer starts. How did Hollywood turn from a simple marketing tool, to a an ever expansive industry of movie trailers that mostly give away the entire plot of the film? How did Hollywood crush the Movie Trailer?

Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)

Just a loose round up so far

Seveneves Neal Stephenson
Tau Zero Poul Anderson
Metro 2033 Dmitry Glukhovsky
The Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky
Lucifer's Hammer Larry Niven
Pushing Ice Alastair Reynolds
Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers
Diaspora by Greg Egan
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martin
The 100 Kass Morgan
Interdependency trilogy by John Scalzi.
Silo series of books by Hugh Howey

‘Don’t be naive like I was’: UK academic advises Cop28 attenders to stay safe | Matthew Hedges, tortured in UAE in 2018, tells reporters and activists to take clean phones and watch who they deal with in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Yup, sounds about right. Plus less tolerance
of freedom of assembly, and civil disobedience in major Western democracies will continue.

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A US billionaire took over a tropical island pension fund — then hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly went missing - ICIJ (www.icij.org)
 

With help from PwC Cyprus, Hushang Ansary set up shell companies and oversaw a series of transactions that authorities say drained a Curacao fund holding pensions for 30,000 people.

"We're shocked that Joe Rogan would do this" - people who watched Joe Rogan do this to everyone else in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He’s a stunt, JFK’s generational legacy is a reminder that aristocracy has not gone away, it just pantomimes as a participant in democracy.