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some news:

after 12 years and a lot of bylines, im leaving The Times

it is bittersweet. i will miss my colleagues and am proud of the work we did together.

im joining The Atlantic in December to cover Silicon Valley for the magazine! could not be more thrilled to get started

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@ShempMeister the curry goat one is his best

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@sspencer_smb yeah my guess is that they wanted to start small to sort of figure that out. fielder has a fandom but a lot of normal people do not know him. Clearly saw pent up demand after first weekend

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not only a strong hold but an *increase* in box office instead of a half dropoff is wild word of mouth traffic

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ earned $19.5M in its second weekend, a 25% increase from its opening weekend.

It is tracking to become one of the highest grossing non-music documentaries of the century.

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@sspencer_smb are you saying they created artificial demand? there’s a version of it where they opened small to gauge demand then went wider as they saw sellouts

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@jakehalloran1 i guess i understand they can’t have one studio keep up everything but they really should cut one of them loose and try a new one.

is treyarch the lesser one or i cant recall

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new call of duty rips

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@brianfagioli definitely not this. much more interesting

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@googleymoogley “blip” water drop 🙂

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@emmabgo fake news!!!!!

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@anfuller @JeffHorwitz stay offline is my only advice

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holy fuck

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i have somehow managed to avoid spoilers for you can see everything for two weeks and now im walking into the theater

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i have somehow managed to avoid spoilers for you can see everything for two weeks and now im walking into the theater

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hudson freeman — if you know me

#pigtracking

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@charlottetklein say more…

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every time i go to the eye doctor and they ask me if i want to add Transitions lenses im like “no dude. do you not like me. do you want me to get beat up.”

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@cwarzel @xkcd i was on vacay all week and learned abt this on the flight home and was like "i hope the computers dont crash while im in midair"

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canonical @xkcd text for normies to refer to in the AI age

(it has been for years, but i think about it even moreso these days)

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spam getting creative — this one almost got me

[Rohin Dhar @rohindhar]

San Francisco home sale $10M over asking price