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Jay Peters

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    Casey Bloys didn’t address why Max greenlit a major new Harry Potter franchise in light of J.K. Rowling’s controversial comments toward the transgender community.

    To be fair to Bloys, I asked him about it at Code 2023 at the end of his allotted time on stage. “With one minute left in our conversation, I’m not even going to get into that because that is a much longer, longer conversation.”

    I tried to push him — Bloys deferred a similar question when the major new show was announced in April — and asked when Warner Bros. Discovery might talk about this. “At some point, we will,” Bloys said. “But not with a minute for a very complicated, nuanced topic, and I’m not going to do it.”

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    “I am holding out the need for soul and human stories.”

    Casey Bloys, the chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, is pretty bearish on AI-generated TV shows and movies right now.

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    Jay Peters
    Casey Bloys premiered a new trailer for True Detective season 4 at Code 2023.

    It stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. It looks excellent — and I’ve embedded the trailer below.

    True Detective: Night Country kicks off on January 14th.

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    Jay Peters
    Don’t expect federation to come to Artifact’s new posts feature — but Mike Krieger likes some of what federation can do.

    “I love the idea of portability,” he said at Code, but has some hesitations with what specific standards can do right now. We’ll see if Threads can pull federation off.

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    Jay Peters
    Artifact is focused a little less on headlines now.

    According to co-founder Mike Krieger at Code 2023, he’s a little more interested in things like long reads or product reviews. That makes some sense given the algorithmic focus of Artifact — it’s not quite as focused on up-to-the-second news.

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    Jay Peters
    Posts about Teenage Engineering are popular thing on Artifact, apparently.

    That’s according to Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Artifact, who is onstage at Code 2023. I get it!

    Artifact is becoming Twitter, tooArtifact is becoming Twitter, too
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    Jay Peters
    Jay Peters
    There might be some hurdles to getting some kind of federal right to repair legislation passed for agricultural equipment.

    According to Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa, the problem right now is that farmers “cannot let somebody monkey with [their] emissions equipment that is not certified to do so.” He argues that if the industry moves to electric and zero emissions, then its not a question of emission equipment anymore.

    The House just introduced the Agricultural Right to Repair Act. We’ll see how far it gets.

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    Jay Peters
    Monarch Tractor’s autonomy features are already seeing a 30 percent attach rate.

    Three out of ten customers are paying for Monarch Tractor’s digital subscription for autonomous features on its tractors, according to CEO Praveen Penmetsa. That’s higher than I would have expected!

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    Jay Peters
    Monarch Tractor has more than 200 of its electric and autonomous MK-V tractors on farms.

    That’s according to the company’s CEO, Praveen Penmetsa, who is onstage at Code 2023. Last month, it delivered more than 75 of its tractors to customers, he said.