Annie Rauwerda collects old newspaper headlines about people with the same names of future celebs — even more in the second thread, including gems like "Peter Thiel Ends Life With Acid"

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I read a spoilery article (which did include warnings, but I'm unlikely to go and see it) which revealed The Twist - and I thought that actually sounds good, and way better than the trailer seemed.

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“Met another new prime minister”

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This is essentially the problem with the subscription model. It doesn't work. Netflix is still $14.3bn in debt. Disney+, Paramount and all the others are losing money hand over fist from their subscription services. Only Amazon is unaffected because their output is just to get you to shop with them.

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Disney is devoted to maximising profits at the expense of everything else. The people who make their output care about art; the company itself does not. If they can get the same number of bums on seats using AI, even at the cost of a massive dip in quality, then they'll do it. That's their priority.

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