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A Paramount premonition.

Paramount and Skydance’s controversial merger is now complete, and it doesn’t take a genius (or a Verge commenter) to guess what’s coming next.

GHollister:

“Any time a CEO talks about ‘real efficiencies’ you know a bunch of employees are about to lose their jobs.”

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