Here is an exclusive sneak peak of my new explosive interview with the @InvisibleGift podcast, where I talk about @FullSpektrum, politics, national SEND reform and being a Black neurodivergent entrepreneur. YouTube footage available soon.
*Caution: very strong language involved*
@mreiffy@AnthropicAI I think these are the right protective guardrails to put in place for the time being. As an AI consultant, I’ve frequently discussed those two human elements particularly as significant in preventing inadvertent malevolence within AI.
There are places we pass through in life… and there are places that become part of who we are.
Manchester will forever be my home.
To the city, the club, and every supporter, my sincerest thank you. These past four years have been unforgettable, filled with moments my family and I will carry with us for the rest of our lives. There simply aren’t enough words to describe the happiness and warmth we’ve felt here.
Thank you for every cheer, every memory, and for making us feel at home from the very first day.
Forever a Red Devil ❤️
Captain America: Brave New World didn't make its money back. Thunderbolts didn't either. Joker 2 lost Warner Bros $144 million. Kraven cost Sony another $71 million. Superman was supposed to clear $700 million worldwide to be called a hit. It finished at $619 million.
So for their next DC movie, Warner Bros spent $40 million. That movie is Clayface. James Gunn dropped the trailer yesterday. It opens October 23. Same studio as Superman, same shared movie universe, same decade, about one-sixth the budget.
Superman cost $225 million to make and another $125 million to market. It took in $619 million worldwide. After theaters took their cut, Warner Bros walked away with roughly $125 million in profit. A 35% return on a $350 million bet, on the best-performing superhero movie of the year. Marvel used to clear over a billion dollars on films that cost less than Superman did.
Clayface cost $40 million. It's a horror movie about a struggling actor whose face gets cut up in a knife attack. He tries an experimental treatment to fix it. His whole body starts turning into clay. Two-month shoot in England. Halloween release. Built like a Blumhouse movie.
Which matters because Blumhouse has been running the most profitable studio in Hollywood for over a decade. Last year's Speak No Evil cost $15 million and made $43 million. Get Out cost $4.5 million and made $255 million. The original Paranormal Activity cost $15,000 (not a typo) and made $194 million. Across around 200 films, Blumhouse has grossed over $5.7 billion.
James Gunn and Peter Safran are running DC on a 10-year plan. Two $225 million superhero films a year would bleed them dry. Two $40 million horror films that each clear $100 million is actually a business.
The Clayface poster shows half a face dripping into clay. The budget behind it tells the bigger story: the kind of movie that ruled the 2010s can barely cover its own bills now, and a Batman villain horror flick made on Blumhouse money might out-earn the next $225 million superhero movie.
You going to take this mockery, @Arsenal ? Or are you going to stand up, show some bottle, and fight for this Title like it means more than life or death?
Rumors are circulating in the boxing world, that Queensberry is in financial trouble without a continued business relationship with Sela and TKO. The loss of those relationships has influenced Queensberry's threat to sue Sela and TKO.
Rumors indicate that their announcement to the media of legal action was timed before their Wardley v Dubois press conference, which took place today, for an event which is struggling to sell tickets.
Queensberry have not been promoting any Riyadh Season fights since last November, and there are no plans for the two sides to work together in the future.
There has been intensified concern among the stable within Queensberry, when it was learned that they were not being used as a promotional entity for Tyson Fury’s big UK comeback in April, and this concern has led to a scenario where a number of their fighters are seeking other promoters.
Turki Alalshikh and Sela were made aware that the rumors of litigation were leaked from Queensberry and this has created an unrepairable rift, due to Queensberry's cordial communications in the open and being volatile behind the scenes.
The future of SEND is not just faster paperwork. It’s clearer evidence, better co-production, stronger explainability, and safer human-reviewed workflows.
That’s the direction we’re building towards: digital support-planning readiness by design.
#SEND#EdTech#AI#Neuroinclusion
England has built up a whole network that prioritises winning contracts over fulfilling them. So everybody is just lying to win the cash and that's their focus. Instead of focusing on creating a sustainable plan for completion.