Evidently it won't be a tyrannical government or a new world order that cripples the free press. It will be that they cannot make money doing the work that is essential to democracy.
It’s The JV Club’s 500th episode! We did it, everybody! And to celebrate this landmark, JV is joined by the Journos podcast’s Stephen Jackson and Brandon R. Reynolds to talk about some bigger picture teenage stuff. We get philosophical! We get scientific! We get silly! All this, PLUS some very special messages from some very special folks celebrating JV’s 500th ep. Happy Birthday, kind of!
If you want to hear more from Brandon and Stephen, listen to the episode of “The Journos” where they spoke with Mark Gagliardi and Hal Lulblin.
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New Twitter boss Elon Musk is the canine that caught the automotive – with all of the journos within the again seat | JR Hennessy
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New Twitter boss Elon Musk is the canine that caught the automotive – with all of the journos within the again seat | JR Hennessy
The most popular present on the town over the previous week or so has been Elon Musk’s chaotic takeover of Twitter, which is much less like a traditional merger or acquisition and extra like gladiatorial spectacle. Whether or not Twitter is starting an extended and painful dying rattle is actually a stay chance. It’s clear […]
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The Murdochs: Empire of Influence episode 1 (2022) dir. Neha Shastry
It seems that not everyone is aware that the Roys from Succession are based on Rupert Murdoch and his family, a real family of Australian-American billionaires who own News Corp, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world whose properties include Fox News, The Sun, and the majority of news media outlets in Australia.
It’s in no way conclusive, but I highly recommend watching this CNN docuseries The Murdochs: Empire of Influence if you’re interested in learning the basics about how this one family of despicable people have almost single-handedly controlled the Western media for the last 50 years and used their power to influence the public regarding things such as climate denial, Brexit, and the 2016 US presidential election.
and/or if you just want to have a better understanding of Succession.
Just saw Verstappen has a new documentary coming soon, it’s his 3rd in 3 years iirc and it legit made me lmao. The whole narrative abt how Verstappen was so annoyed in Vegas because he hates media & only wants to race, gave y’all that dumbass speech that everyone ate up and tagged #i dont fw Max but he nailed this LMFAO Max doesn’t mind media, doesn’t mind cameras and interviewers going into his house and following him around while he trains and vacations as long as the money is going directly into his pocket. Verstappen and his camp wouldn’t stop talking shit about how Lewis is occupied with hollywood and things outside the sport, his yt buddies in the media won’t stop lecturing us about how he’s a pure racer unlike Lewis who has other preoccupations. Verstappen’s privacy and his relationship with the camera is selective. Not gonna make character judgments abt commercialism in the commercialism sport but I can draw conclusions about hypocrisy when it’s staring me in the face
I didn't see anybody talking about the news here, so I thought that I could share a summary.
The Neopets Team announced today that they're under new management. They're no longer affiliated with Jumpstart (which announced their closure back in June) or their parent company NetDragon.
In their blog post in the official Neopets Medium page, they confirm that they are now an independent company:
(Dominc Law, worked for NetDragon and was an old school Neopets player. He put together a team to work on saving the brand.)
Also in that blog post the team talks about how they are well aware of the problems the site has been through in the last decade, they acknowledge the lack of resources which resulted in the Neopets website being left broken.
Going ahead, they are going to focus on community requests, such as speeding up the process of Flash Games conversion, clearing up the page conversion backlog, bug fixes, mobile compatibility issues and improving customer support.
Most importantly, in my opinion, they clear up that they WILL NOT go forward with any Metaverse bullshit, and will instead work on creating a game that feels like Neopets:
At this point, they have secured $4M in funding from various (unnamed) investors with additional funding from the management buyout. For the first time in forever, it looks like TNT has the resources they need to move the brand forward. In the blog post, they mention they have already hired developers and artists to work on the fixes the site needs.
From what it looks like, the game will be a mobile social life-simulation, parallel to the current website. We don’t have to worry that neopets.com will be replaced by a mobile app.
As of now, they have announced:
A brand new plot, scheduled for early 2024
A 2 million(!) NeoCash giveaway
More transparency with monthly updates from the team, scheduled AMAs
Neopets will be under the control of a new, unified entity: World of Neopia, Inc - the website will remain the same (neopets.com)
A Brand Ambassador Program
No longer going forward with NFT/Metaverse stuff
At the end, they published a FAQ with some answers that I found to be good and very interesting:
You can read the entire blog post here.
Or watch the YouTube announcement (which is way shorter):