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  • Something interesting about this, that I observed from my office desk with the ever-present CNBC broadcast I am forced to endure:

    CNBC is currently platforming a lot of opposing voices to this merger. A big part of the opposition I’ve witnessed them platform is a “THIS WILL KILL THE CINEMA INDUSTRY” narrative. This argument is ridiculous to me, as HBO Max is owned by Warner-Discovery, and if you recall, they pioneered the simultaneous cinema/streaming movie release.

    Additionally, the Activision-Blizzard merger was larger in every way, and yet I cannot find any negative sentiment on behalf of CNBC with regard to that merger.












  • My favorite part of Moby Dick is the chapter titled The Prairie.

    In it, Melville basically attributes the size/wrinkles in a forehead to the wisdom/greatness of that being. He goes on to describe the foreheads of various lesser species, and then lists influential men with big, wrinkled foreheads (Shakespeare, as an example), comparing the undulations in these splendid wise men’s foreheads to the undulations of a prairie and their splendor. Then, he asks the reader to consider the gravitas of a Sperm Whale’s forehead.

    It’s literally the best fucking thing I’ve ever read and it’s crazy that nobody else lauds this passage as I do.