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The company’s proposed projects celebrate American military action, push for confrontation with China, and elevate heroes of the right from Ayn Rand to Elon Musk. https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025/founders-films-aims-to-remake-hollywood-with-patriotism-palantir-and-ayn-rand?utm_medium=media&utm_campaign=First+Word&utm_source=newsletterlink more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/GjL2rWn Nate and Maria share some updates from the final days of the World Series of Poker, and reflect on the importance of making peace with randomness. Then: the Trump administration’s sudden about face on the Epstein Files is… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Rq7T3We Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on June 13, 2024. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed. It's still spring in parts of the Northern… more ›
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In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system, Bill McKibben writes. https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment#:~:text=Globally%2C%20roughly%20a%20third%20more,in%20a%20very%20different%20world more ›
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Anonymous Brand Marketer is not packing their boxes https://www.therebooting.com/the-return-of-brand-marketing/ more ›
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Reading list https://open.substack.com/pub/andjelicaaa/p/the-cultural-hitmaking-playbook?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›
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Benedict Evans is a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz and runs a newsletter with ~200k subscribers. We discuss smart glasses, amplified intelligence, robot dogs, the decentralization of media, and how AI is disrupting the very concept of user interfaces. If… more ›
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Shane Gillis gives his opening monologue as the host of the 2025 ESPYS. ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN+ https://ift.tt/nOuBWNE ✔️ Get the ESPN App: https://ift.tt/rxlI2Hb ✔️ Subscribe to ESPN on YouTube: http://es.pn/SUBSCRIBEtoYOUTUBE ✔️ Subscribe to NBA on ESPN on YouTube: http://bit.ly/SUBSCRIBEtoNBAonESPN… more ›