Saturday Night Live had Pascal step into the shoes of Nintendo’s titular Italian plumber for a skit combining the mushroom-dominated worlds of Mario Kart and The Last of Us.
The premise works surprisingly well, and if this were an actual show, I’d totally watch it.
This lengthy read from The Atavist Magazine depicts the struggles of one mother who wants her young son to be successful on YouTube — but not at the expense of his safety and well-being.
[The Atavist Magazine]
Crypto skeptic Molly White has a great writeup on how the disgraced crypto founder “cultivated” a childish persona — and how he’s benefitting from it:
On one hand, literal children are portrayed in the media as adults, and treated as such in the prison system; on the other, a man who’s been old enough to vote for over a decade is being described as “a young man in need of both defense and a friend” offering refreshments to a reporter “as if we were there for a playdate”.
[newsletter.mollywhite.net]
In addition to allegedly failing to pay rent on its offices in San Francisco and London, a new lawsuit filed on Friday accuses Twitter of skipping out on $1.9 million in payments to an advisory firm.
Innisfree M&A assisted Twitter with its sale to Elon Musk last year, and claims it was never paid despite Twitter saying it “successfully processed” its payment in November.
[The New York Times]
According to a report from Bloomberg, Disney CEO Bob Iger is weighing the idea of licensing more original shows and movies to rival media companies.
Aside from raising prices on subscribers, licensing content to other services is just one of the ways Disney can make more money and reverse the $1.5 billion its streaming business lost last quarter.
