Elizabeth Lopatto

And who does Diesel want as the villainous self-driving mogul? None other than Tony Stark himself, Robert Downey Jr.

Let’s prevent the next mass casualty event now, okay? Safety is a system, and the Austin airport needs better gear for flying in low visibility.

But for me, the real comedy gold occurs when he calls his buildings’ residents “users.” Sure! Let’s see if he can survive the new interest rate environment.

So your stock portfolio, your fun little ETF and whatever else has elevated asset managers like Vanguard to king. And those asset managers make money no matter what the stock does, which is making market competition, corporate governance, and monetary policy a lot weirder.

Personally, my favorite part of this was discovering the going rate for NFT project promotion. It’s very cheap!

Even weirder: the guy who apologized for viewing non-consensual deepfakes of fellow streamers. “The whole thing is a mess and the apology was a car crash and unfortunately the only real takeaway here is that this stuff isn’t going away.”

I’ve written a little about the fuzzy line of what’s real in documentaries, but things have gotten weirder since then, as the streaming wars pumped money into the genre — and now are threatening to take that money away.