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Eric Vilas-Boas @ericvb.bsky.social · 3h

And Nic Cage really is NOT into AI “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company. I am not an AI-friendly actor,” he said. “I didn’t sign the waiver. I’ll probably never work with that studio again.” www.vulture.com/article/nico...

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Nic Cage Pours Gasoline on the True Detective Rumors

But he’ll “probably never work” with Amazon again.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 2h

It didn’t sink though. It was washed ashore and the hull was too damaged when beached to float again. It’s right there in the opening song. They even made it more clear in the season 2 opening credits by putting rocks next to the damage.

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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · 7h

A showrunner once told me, “Hollywood attracts all the people who are the most desperate to be affirmed by others, but entertainment is the industry least likely to affirm you.” So you gotta affirm yourself and find your own joy, because if you can do that, rejections start to matter a lot less.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 14h

They were already crewing up the last reboot when it got shelved. Served them right for trying to film a Stargate in London.

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Mike Lacher @mikelacher.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

i rebooted minesweeper as a AAA shooter. loot boxes coming soon minesweeper.mikelacher.com

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 15h

The local Crescenta Valley newspaper trying to appear relevant by digging into the archives with a misleading headline about a 2019 SAG panel on AI with corporate stooge and empty suit Adam Schiff. The last person in the world I’d want to hear from about AI. Or anything. He wasn’t even Senator then

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I feel like we’ve hit a weird point where the coveted 18-34 demographic is actively clamoring for small, interesting, grown-up movies, but the people in charge of the studios are only interested in making movies for shareholders.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I tried to expose my daughter to as many classic films as I could when she was growing up, but I skipped that one. My wife and daughter are Chinese and that…would not have gone over very well. At all.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh lord no. Mickey Rooney yellow face is not anywhere in this movie.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wallace and Gromit at Tiffany’s

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I am currently on episode 30 of the 40 episode Chinese period drama Pursuit of Jade. It’s better than anything on CBS and has insane production value.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We call them mother/daughter omelets in my family.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I couldn’t help but notice the lack of cool looking cars, miniature or full size, in the trailer. It’s kind of my minimum expectation for a movie called MATCHBOX.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Love Kabuki. He’s my favorite living artist.

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Paul Dronet @pdronet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I was going to watch the new Carrie, but I’ve had 4 mins of unskippable ads after only watching 11 mins of the show. So, no. I will be skipping the rest, and I am highly likely to cancel my Amazon Prime account. Why am I paying so much money to be forced to sit through these ads? No, thank you.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be honest, I expected the percentage drop to be much higher. And I bet if you looked at just scripted TV, it would be. Reality shows are skewing the numbers here.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New IATSE report shows a 30% shift in TV production from the US to foreign countries. Largely due to the film/TV studios pursuing tax credits and cheaper labor. iatse.net/dga-iatse-li...

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 06/10/2026

One year later: teaser poster of what is now called Cosmoship Yamato √2199 ☝️

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That lesbian-coded “now lick it” ad from the Steve Hilton campaign just reeks of desperation. He’s 25 points behind and won’t do the one thing California voters expect, condemn Trumps crimes, so so he went with the Penthouse Forum vibe? Was that the strategy?

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A limited defense I’ll make of Los Angeles is that many people who think it looks like garbage are only thinking about the external. Inside that forgettable sunbaked stripmall is a restaurant that would be the nicest and most memorable dining experience in 50 miles anywhere else in the world.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am once again asking anyone who interviews Wes Anderson to please finally ask him about Showa Era Godzilla.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The chart below can be summed up by this T-shirt:

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Do you like helicopters flying overhead 24/7 and raw sewage in the surf? Try Imperial Beach!

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I never saw it. I’ll check it out. Thanks!

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But if I did have to pick 2nd place it’s the chariot race in Ben Hur. All practical stunts. Miracle nobody got killed.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The bus fight in Shang Chi and it’s not even close.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The show where Lexa Doig completely carried Temu Hercules.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Cooperative escape room apps

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Seconding ticket to ride apps

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No because Armageddon ended in success and humanity saved. It’s the events of the story that make it an ironic post, not the quality of the movie, IMHO. But yeah you’re right, they don’t care about that. It’s still funny.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure, but still terrible optics, with no thought about how it would be interpreted by the online public.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s wild that they decided to use the Titanic as the first image in their Twitter announcement:

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Rick Porter @rickporter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Neagley, the character: small. "Neagley," the show: big. The latest streaming numbers now up at The Data Stream. Subscribe to get them in your email every week, yeah?

thedatastream.tv

Streaming top 10s: 'Neagley,' like 'Reacher,' is big*

*The show is, I mean. Not the character.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today I was in a group chat where we discussed somebody mistakenly ordering 100 tickets to a screening. A guy in the group chat said “Ah sh*t, I figured she married into a Filipino family”. It’s wild people still feel it’s ok to say stuff like that in writing in a large group that includes POC.

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Mark Spatny @markspatny.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Bobcat’s actual little brother Jim was the assistant director on TV shows like Dutton Ranch, National Treasure: Edge of History, All Rise, Shameless, Code Black, and Private Practice. Cool guy. Great to work with. Nothing like that tech bro douche.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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