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a bursting bubble

Vanity Fair on the bursting bubble of the tv streaming business

a tip of the hat to Suw

 

 

ted lasso biscuits

This claims to be the recipe.  A very simple, but rich, shortbread.

There's a link for incredibly overpriced boxes.

 

iter woes

Unsurprisingly the huge fusion project is having problems.

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The ITER project formally began in 2006, when its international partners agreed to fund an estimated €5 billion (then $6.3 billion), 10-year plan that would have seen ITER come online in 2016. The most recent official cost estimate stands at more than €20 billion ($22 billion), with ITER nominally turning on scarcely two years from now. Documents recently obtained via a lawsuit, however, imply that these figures are woefully outdated: ITER is not just facing several years’ worth of additional delays but also a growing internal recognition that the project’s remaining technical challenges are poised to send budgets spiraling even further out of control and successful operation ever further into the future.

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collective tuning

Save for sports and a few other events, the live broadcast creating a collective audience is almost lost.

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As we move into this new media world, broadcasting risks being relegated to the rustic past like other old media such as the rotary telephone, the nickelodeon, the 78-rpm phonograph, and the DVD.

That’s why, from April 27–30, 2023, the Library of Congress is hosting a conference, titled “A Century of Broadcasting,” that invites scholars, preservationists, archivists, museum educators and curators, fans and the public to discuss the most effective ways to preserve broadcasting’s history.

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something I didn't realize about fox news

Contract renegotiations.

Happening with a few cable companies.

 

 

a different reality show

Trying to recreate some of Vermeer's lost works - as reality TV.

 

what the nba can learn from f1

Ben Thompson on two sports and what they mean given the Internet.

 

 

 

alan alda on mash

Fifty years ago

 

dominion v fox

This could get interesting.

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Pirro was among those Fox hosts with increasingly tough talk ahead of the January 2021 certification of Biden's election win. On Jan. 3, 2021, Pirro compared those gathering to protest in Washington with Trump to the American soldiers in the Revolutionary War, adding, "Jan. 6 will tell us whether there are any in Congress willing to battle for America." That day led to bloody battles at the U.S. Congress. As one of his last acts in office, Trump pardoned Pirro's husband for two-decades-old convictions for tax evasion.

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a tip of the hat to Sukie

an impressive submarine project

There's a detailed project blog.