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Do Awards Shows Still Matter?
If fewer and fewer people watch the show, what’s the point?
Sep 15
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Adam Cunningham
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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Adam Cunningham
The NYT Declared Cinema Dead Again. Here’s My Rebuttal.
The Numbers Miss was a Novelty Miss.
Sep 5
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Adam Cunningham
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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Adam Cunningham
August 2025
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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Adam Cunningham
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Facebook Just Won a Competition to Read Your Mind. Literally. Hollywood is Next.
Meta’s TRIBE AI can predict how your brain will react to a scene it’s never seen, a breakthrough that could rewrite how films, TV, and streaming are…
Aug 12
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Adam Cunningham
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5 Things GPT‑5 Does Now and 20 Things It Just Made Obsolete
Good news: your workflows are faster than ever. Bad news: you’ve been replaced by a tone-matching cognition stack with a Google Calendar login.
Aug 7
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Adam Cunningham
3
What If AI Drove Infinite Growth and Collapsed Culture Along the Way?
The Economist sees 30% GDP gains. We see a world where culture, meaning, and authorship become luxury goods.
Aug 1
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Adam Cunningham
July 2025
China Strikes Back
Deployment > Destiny. Fork > Flame. API > AI PR.
Jul 29
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Adam Cunningham
The Attention Economy: How Collapse Became a Business Model
Pt 1: When education, housing, and labour broke, attention became the only asset left.
Jul 28
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Adam Cunningham
1
America’s AI Action Plan & the Culture Industries
What looks like an infrastructure strategy is actually a cultural rewrite that reframes creativity as policy-compliant output and storytelling as soft…
Jul 24
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Adam Cunningham
2
Tbilisi, Georgia, and the Political Act of Illegibility
Between East and West, past and platform, Georgia resists the soft violence of being understood too easily.
Jul 18
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Adam Cunningham
2
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