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Wonka Themed AI-Generated “Experience” Is a Delightful Trainwreck
So onerous to select the greatest components of this story. The firm behind it is known as The House of Illumnati. The off-brand Oompa Loompas have been known as Wonkioodles. A sweet manufacturing unit room that was extra meth lab than confectionary wonderland. Is it simply me, or is a fractured adaptation of Dahl’s character the place the complete factor is a rip-off sort of in the spirit of the unique? Only factor lacking could be a real believer child that ultimately inherits the complete mess.
The State of the Culture, 2024
Ted Gioia’s “State of Culture, 2024” over at The Honest Broker has made the rounds in a method a bit like this simply doesn’t anymore. And I believe it’s as a result of individuals is aware of he’s on to one thing. There is rather a lot to unpack right here (the phrase Dopamine Industrial Complex alone ought to get him a e-book deal), however the central perception that tech platforms, actually from Facebook’s transfer to an algorithm nearly 10 years in the past all the approach to TikTok’s present dominance, is about the development, mainteance, and monetization of cognitive habit.
Oprah Picks Memoir as Latest Book Club Selection
Laura Love Hardin has had fairly the life. Soccer mother to fraudster to felon. And then to profitable superstar ghostwriter and now mainstreamm e-book membership fodder! What a experience. If Ladbrooke’s took bets on Oprah Book Club picks, the odds on this one would have been quick. I guess it’s nice on audio.
Ranking the Last 20 Winners of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar
This one is by yours really. I did a two-part rating of the winners of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (half one right here, half two right here) for Book Riot and loved doing it. I’m not a film critic or an knowledgeable in the alchemy of diversifications, however a reasonably critical fan of this explicit quasi-literature style.
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