The 2023 Academy Award Winners Winning an Oscar is a big deal for many reasons, but most important, your name will now have the words Academy Award…www.vulture.com I didn’t watch the Oscars. I’ve been traveling and couldn’t get the ABC television thing figured out. Funny enough, I first watched big winner Everything Everywhere All at Once on the plane, coming home from Belize. And after watching it, I really did think it should win. It was fun…

Meta is building a decentralized, text-based social network Twitter's decline is paving the way for other platforms to build next-generation replacements. And now the biggest…www.platformer.news This makes way too much sense. Facebook is pulling its Instagram lead onto this text-based product, making it decentralized as well. It’s Twitter meets Mastodon meets Reddit. Building a decentralized network could also give Meta the opportunity for its new app to interoperate with other social products — a previously…

Bad Projection Is Ruining the Movie Theater Experience Michelle Pfeiffer and Jonathan Majors look like crap. Usually, they're two of the most radiant, dermatologically…www.vulture.com But the picture problems predated COVID-19. Many can be traced to 2009, when theaters swapped their film projectors for digital ones, made primarily by Sony, to show the original Avatar. Studios were excited about the switch because it meant they could save money by distributing movies over the internet instead…

Get Me Risa Heller! Risa Heller is the crisis communications warrior of the moment. Jeff Zucker, Mario Batali, Jared Kushner, Anthony…nymag.com I’ve been a fan of media / journalism my whole life. From my dad reading the paper every morning to just a constant consumption of reading. I’m not one for gladhanding so I knew I wouldn’t have the stomach for it. This article is just another piece in that puzzle.