Abbas Amjad

Business student. Big reader. Politics and pop culture addict. Gay Arab. He/him 🎓

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The Social Network got made because Sony owed Mark Zuckerberg nothing. No studio can say that about Sam Altman anymore.

That gap explains why a finished Guadagnino film, Andrew Garfield playing Altman, can't find a buyer. The script makes Altman a pathological liar and Ilya Sutskever the idealist his board tried to protect. Strong material. The reason no one will touch it sits off the screen: the subject is now the biggest customer in the building.

Amazon developed the film, then walked months after wiring $50B to OpenAI for AWS compute. A24 passed, and A24 sits behind Thrive Capital, which holds an OpenAI board seat. Netflix, Focus, and Warner's Clockwork all carry AI bets of their own. The buyer pool maps cleanly onto OpenAI's cap table, and no one can premiere a hit piece on the company underwriting their cloud roadmap.

Here's the part worth sitting with. Vertical integration promised control: own the studio, own the pipe, own the model. The bill arrives now. A film industry fused to its own infrastructure partners cannot finance criticism of them. The merger logic became the censor.

The historical rhyme is almost too clean. United Artists was founded in 1919 by Chaplin and three fellow artists to escape exactly this kind of studio capture. That label now sits inside Amazon MGM, the company that just dropped the film to protect a tech deal. The release valve built a century ago got swallowed by the thing it was built to escape.

So Mubi and Neon are the only names left, and it has little to do with taste. They took none of OpenAI's money, which leaves them the only distributors free to tell the story of what that money does. A film about a mission captured by capital is being orphaned by capital capturing its distributors. The industry is re-enacting the plot it's too compromised to release.

[daniel @bodyupgraded]

“A24, for instance, is backed by Josh Kushner’s Thrive Capital, which holds a seat on the board and ranks among OpenAI’s largest and most high-profile backers.”

the more you know…….

[Abbas Amjad @AbbasAmjad7]

@ginatatiannaa @____Shemar @ISLANDBOYY11 Sure, we miss so much bc they usually edit out scenes about couples connecting, but they never edit out drama. Bryce had to apologize to Trinity and Zach for having 1 chat with Kayda. Do you really think they would cut out the drama from bryce pulling kayda FIVE more times? 😭😭

[Abbas Amjad @AbbasAmjad7]

@____Shemar @ISLANDBOYY11 The editors are paid to show drama. Bryce pulling Kayda once made both Trinity and Zach upset. In what world would they purposefully hide bryce pulling Kayda FIVE more times? 😭😭😭

[Abbas Amjad @AbbasAmjad7]

@idkthoma @ISLANDBOYY11 I'm not in the villa but I have common sense, and I understand that there is no way they would not show him pulling Kayda for FIVE chats 😭😭😭

[Abbas Amjad @AbbasAmjad7]

@____Shemar @ISLANDBOYY11 Wait, you think if Bryce pulled Kayda more than once, they wouldn't show it? In what world does that make sense 😭😭😭

[💀DeathMetalViking💀 @DeathMetalV]

I'm sorry... we?

[Kabiran @Kabiran_]

The billioniares' vision of the world is a vision without humanity.

[Paul Aidan B @oh_dear_wadawa]

For context, when Winona Ryder eventually started doing interviews again after being out of spotlight, she was still being asked about, and having to explain nicking a few items from a department store. This utter scumbag is getting fluff piece softball interviews.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

She had adult onset schizophrenia and had a psychotic break. She spent ten years in prison and is now on treatment. There is no problem with this. People deserve second chances and people with mental illness should be allowed to be part of society.

[Evie ♡ @EFCevie]

this is hilarious coming from the guy who can’t enter the uk without getting arrested for rape and trafficking offences

[Silicon Valley Fodder @Playerinthgame]

I sometimes feel we've REALLY lost our perspective lately because $112 billion in net profit in a year is an INSANE amount of money, yet Apple is saying it's forced to increase prices on consumers. We should just be so much angrier about all of this.

[MrKelsGame @MrkelsGame]

Just in the past 6 months, those lonely culture war miserable fucks have said:

-The Witcher 4 is woke.
-GTA 6 is woke.
-Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet is woke.
-Fable is woke.
-Resident Evil 9 woke.
-Lara Croft is woke.
-God Of War Laufey woke.
-Wolverine is woke
-007 First Light is woke

Do these people like anything?

[Henry Burke @burkehenryt]

Gillibrand's son graduated from undergrad on Sunday. Today it's reported that he's received $30 million in venture capital funding to launch a derivatives exchange. His mom sat on the Senate Agriculture committee—which has jurisdiction over derivates—until this past year

[maria 𝜗𝜚 @13sluvrr]

#loveislandusa

[Wong Updates @WongUpdates]

Tom Holland reveals he has a secret Twitter account where he rage-baits Spider-Man fans.

“I get in fights on Twitter... I make shit up and tell people to read a comic.”

(via: https://t.co/3fIWJnhGzv)

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

multimillionaire business owner who sits in filth and talks into smelly microphone for a living tells the working class that it’s not the top 2% of wealth that is controlling society, but the bottom 2%.

[summer ౨ৎ⋆ ˚｡⋆ @summrr__]

white people have it so easy