What’s happening right now is eerily close to the “Gleichschaltung” that happened after Hitler took over Germany, basically bringing all media in line with the will of the party and the leader. It was news media then, it is social media now. Because for many people, social media is their primary news source.

Musk might just be the only person whose AI versions consistently look better than him.

Which tend to be conservative socially.

Shoddy upscale AI 4k releases are the new rushed 3D conversions. They never learn.

Yep, only queens survive for several years.

Which they made bigger in Jurassic Park, so that’s actually proving the point. A bigger raptor species was only discovered after the first movie.

He didn’t really write that much.

That’s why I love Ex Machina so much. Way ahead of its time both in showing the hubris of rich tech-bros and the dangers of false empathy.

Even worse, only to appease shareholders that are only after short term gains and might even bet on the company failing.

WarnerBrosDiscovery is in massive debt (40 billion) to AT&T, which is itself in even more debt (138 billion). They are trying to make as much money liquid as quickly as they can to pay off the debt, long term profitability be damned. I wouldn’t be surprised if WBD is bought by an ever bigger player in a few years (Apple, Sony, Disney or Microsoft).

There is a sequel, it’s called “This book is full of spiders, seriously dude don’t touch it”. If you are refering to the movie, a sequel would just be the second half of the first book.