🎬 When I read sometime next week about how Barbie is ‘out performing’ Oppenheimer at the box office, I will point people to this image. I admit it is but one theatre in the nation - but I bet the proportions of screens are about right.

🔗 ‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on its head. Not sure I agree. Do you?

the Guardian

‘We could soon see a Jane Austen-style marriage market’: how the housing crisis is turning modern dating on its head

With homes almost beyond reach for all but the luckiest, it’s becoming a truth universally acknowledged that a potential partner’s housing situ...

🔗 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."

the Guardian

I survived the Barbie-Oppenheimer double bill and I don’t recommend it | Stuart Heritage

The internet has become transfixed with the idea of watching Greta Gerwig’s bubblegum comedy next to Christopher Nolan’s dark drama but it prov...

🔗 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.

the Guardian

Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on

Subtitles aren’t just for the hard of hearing, with Netflix reporting 40% of its viewers regularly use them. But do we just enjoy them or is ther...

🔗 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.

Why America’s Largest Tool Company Couldn’t Make a Wrench in America — The Wall Street Journal

A highly automated Texas factory was supposed to bring the manufacturing of Craftsman mechanics’ tools back to American shores. The $90 million p...

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Asked of attendees in a session I was part of a couple of days ago "“In the midst of doomism and collapsology, where are you focusing your energies? How do you stay resilient and on-purpose in the face of the barrage of bad news?”" How would you answer?