That’s Tom Hiddleston, speaking to The Verge just ahead of the premiere of the first season of Loki on Disney Plus in 2021. It’s an interesting conversation — touching on everything from Loki lectures to the existence of free will — and it’s especially fun to revisit it as the show’s second season starts streaming today.
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What free speech, war zones, and Aristotle have to do with internet infrastructure.



As Paul Sun-Hyung Lee sees it, truly loving a genre franchise means wanting to share it and pass it along to the next generation of fans.







Don’t worry, there’ll be plenty of ‘wonder and excitement’ to embrace as well.

An interview with Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost reveals a fateful conversation with Nintendo in 1990.

Avatar: The Last Airbender actor Dallas Liu opens up about turning to YouTube and co-star Paul Sun-Hyung Lee to figure out who the new Prince Zuko really is.

The editor of the popular tech newsletter talks about leaving Substack and where he’s seeing successful business models in media.

The Democratic senator from Hawaii on regulating social media: ‘An algorithm doesn’t have a First Amendment right.’

And he doesn’t want to control it. Maybe.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters VFX supervisor Sean Konrad opens up about the challenges of creating new nightmares for Godzilla’s kaiju canon.

His replacement got the boot barely a year into the job. What brought Petersen back?



An interview with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.

The director of Monster talks about the complexities (and simplicities) of portraying multiple points of view

Dream Scenario’s Nic Cage wants you to know that there’s a difference between maximalism and pushing the boundaries of filmmaking as an art.

Director Takashi Yamazaki opens up about taking the king of monsters back to its roots for a modern audience.

The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he’s not too worried that it might destroy the business models of the web.

Longtime Evangelion animator Takeshi Honda had already signed up to work on another film when The Boy and the Heron director came calling. “When Miyazaki says that to you, really there’s no way to say no,” Honda says.

Monarch co-creators Chris Black and Matt Fraction and director Matt Shakman open up about why their new MonsterVerse series is so focused on ordinary humans.

The Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips are the first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure.

Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon and executive producer Scott Marder say that being in a healthier space personally is a big part of what’s making the new season so sharp.

The US is the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas. Can Granholm chart a path to a more sustainable future?

Mike Ybarra is confident about the studio’s future.

Nothing wants to invent the future. But you don’t get to invent the future if you can’t first make it in the smartphone biz.
























