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Do Awards Shows Still Matter?

If fewer and fewer people watch the show, what’s the point?
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The Monday Briefing: How Sphere, ABBA & Netflix Are Rewriting Live Entertainment
How Sphere, ABBA Voyage and Netflix House turn catalogue IP into perennial, automated attractions, and why it will spread.
Sep 8 • 
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The NYT Declared Cinema Dead Again. Here’s My Rebuttal.
The Numbers Miss was a Novelty Miss.
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No Way In: How AI Dismantles Entry-Level Careers
This isn’t another industrial revolution. Factories still needed apprentices. AI doesn’t.
Sep 1 • 
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The Machine Eating Your Face Has a Manual (The Attention Economy: Part II)
From Liver King to Trump’s memecoin to MrBeast’s chocolate empire: all proof the same machine is running your life.
Aug 16 • 
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Essays on AI, identity, attention, and culture. Signal over noise, from cinema and travel collapse to the new rules of the attention economy.
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