Ryan

Video Journalist making thing’s about media and tech 🎥 🎥 ✉️

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

There's nothing brave about an adult bullying children & the vulnerable, it's the most cowardly and pathetic thing someone can do. Violent transphobia is baked into the fabric of our society/power systems, she's not going against the grain of anything. U guys are both morons

[Daniel Miller @DanielNMiller]

NEWS: The Writers Guild of America, which has sued to block the Paramount-WB merger, today filed its motion for a preliminary injunction. The guild argues the order is needed because the deal would eliminate head-to-head competition for screenwriters, giving the combined company greater leverage to suppress pay, cut writing jobs, reduce creative opportunities and integrate operations in ways that couldn't realistically be undone later.

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Apple is launching "Apple Upgrade" on July 28, a Klarna-backed program to lease most iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch models like a subscription.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

PR from Paramount: "The states challenging this merger will have to put up a kajillion dollar bond to pay for the delay!"

Judge today: "The Court waives the security requirement because Plaintiffs have demonstrated that [they] bring suit to enforce important public interests."

[Lucas Shaw @Lucas_Shaw]

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[Lucas Shaw @Lucas_Shaw]

My favorite state from the Luminate mid-year report:

CD sales jumped 16% in the first half of the year, but about half of the millennials and Gen Zers buying CDs don’t even own a CD player.

[Lucas Shaw @Lucas_Shaw]

The Odyssey will open to $258M worldwide, according to the latest projections.

The third biggest opening of the year and the biggest opening ever for Christopher Nolan.

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it.

Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more

[CNBC @CNBC]

Warren Buffett excludes Gates Foundation from his annual donations of Berkshire stock https://t.co/2SdsdHegK6

[Ryan @ryancmccoy]

@edels0n Except they would lose all the upside of a successful hit

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

#Scoop: Meta is pausing its new feature that allows users to generate images in Meta AI is by mentioning public Instagram accounts.

The move comes amid scrutiny from users and talent agencies, including CAA.

@PuckNews

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

Meta has spent $316 billion on AI infrastructure since 2022 — more than the Metaverse, the Manhattan Project, NASA's annual budget, and Netflix's content budget, combined.

Now, Meta is building a cloud business to sell that compute off. Zuckerberg said they'd only do that if they felt they'd "overbuilt."

Which means Meta has either 1) too much compute or 2) not enough demand for its AI. Or, worse, both.

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Clive Davis, hitmaking titan of the music industry, dies at 94 https://t.co/crCYc3fMgT

[hunter harris @hunteryharris]

disclosure day was missing the scene where bari weiss fucked up cbs’s coverage in some way

[Ben Oreskes @boreskes]

The children of two different Oscar-nominated directors linked up last night to spread the word that there are electoral primaries in New York this Tuesday. https://t.co/Zb6jjij4f1

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

Paramount says UFC Freedom 250 averaged 8.2M viewers. A good number for a Par+ exclusive but a fraction of marquee sports and less than half of what MARSHALS or TRACKER rates on CBS/Par+.

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

SCOOP from @By_CJewett & me:

Markwayne Mullin urged @HHSGov to remove warnings from the @US_FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom.

Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited. https://t.co/rzkImei3VI

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory. Compulsion Games and Double Fine are also in “active negotiations” about spinning off https://t.co/2tvywBVnF0

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Spike Lee was paraded through Fort Greene in Brooklyn like he was the pope.