Philippa Bateman
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Maker and lover of films, and equality in society. Wash My Soul in the River’s Flow @Stan, The Beehive @acmi, Jindabyne @appletv www.enigmamachine.film
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Hollywood Guilds Make Historic Push to Unionize YouTube Content Studio Theorist Media (Exclusive)
Hollywood Guilds Make Historic Push to Unionize YouTube Content Studio Theorist Media (Exclusive)
In 2025, many Hollywood unions are facing existential questions about how to survive in a rapidly changing media environment. As film and television studios consolidate and cut costs, opportunities are diminishing for organized labor in traditional Hollywood — while the balance of power in entertainment is shifting toward predominantly non-union spaces like YouTube and TikTok.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Hollywood Guilds Make Historic Push to Unionize YouTube Content Studio Theorist Media (Exclusive)
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Hot take: Generation designators (X, Millennial, Y) are dumb, and about as reliable a predictor of character, as the Zodiac. It’s just more tribalism that keeps us divided
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Hot take: Generation designators (X, Millennial, Y) are dumb, and about as reliable a predictor of character, as the Zodiac. It’s just more tribalism that keeps us divided
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Future generations (if they exist) will look at how this happened & wonder that in the West the best we had was a 13 year old girl who was promptly reviled while we voted for billionaires because they “told it like it is”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
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November 13, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Future generations (if they exist) will look at how this happened & wonder that in the West the best we had was a 13 year old girl who was promptly reviled while we voted for billionaires because they “told it like it is”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Obviously it had better dialogue and characters but this was the message of Succession: the empty banality of the rich and powerful. Separate from the abuse, Epstein's popularity epitomises the allure of wealth and influence absent any of the qualities that most people look for in their friends
100% this, something so odd about the fact that he was seen as this insanely well connected guy for years, like that one man everyone powerful knew and liked for some reason, when we're yet to see evidence of even one trace of like, basic wit, warmth or charm in those emails
Something that’s so striking in these emails is how…unimpressive Epstein is. He comes off as a pompous, sub-literate lech. Yes everyone is so mortifyingly solicitous of him! All fawning and flattery! Why?????
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Obviously it had better dialogue and characters but this was the message of Succession: the empty banality of the rich and powerful. Separate from the abuse, Epstein's popularity epitomises the allure of wealth and influence absent any of the qualities that most people look for in their friends
If you haven’t seen Pistol, the limited series about the Sex Pistols and created by Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrman’s writing collaborator —- watch. It’s superb
“If you want your kid to make smart choices and not go down an addictive path, send them on location with the Sex Pistols. They were the greatest,” Laura Dern said. “They’d seen hell, and they were, like, ‘You don’t want to get into this shit.’ ” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kxWUcO
Laura Dern Has the Spirit of Seventies Cinema
The actor, who plays George Clooney’s publicist in “Jay Kelly” and Will Arnett’s estranged wife in “Is This Thing On?,” has spent her life surrounded by Hollywood luminaries.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
If you haven’t seen Pistol, the limited series about the Sex Pistols and created by Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrman’s writing collaborator —- watch. It’s superb
While threatening to sue the BBC, Trump pardons those involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020
election
election
Trump Pardons Giuliani and Others Involved in Effort to Overturn 2020 Election
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
While threatening to sue the BBC, Trump pardons those involved in efforts to overthrow the 2020
election
election
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This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
🔴 Breaking I Davie faced mounting criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump
➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP
November 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
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This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'
The US president has sent a letter to the corporation threatening legal action.
Donald Trump Preparing To Sue BBC Over Panorama Speech Row
The US president has sent a letter to the corporation threatening legal action.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I mean, what kind of legal action would this be exactly? Defamation? I would truly love to see it. 'They made it look like I instigated a coup during my very well recorded coup attempt.'
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Bingo.
(They’re not cowards, they’re wealthy people protecting their own interests, and years ago they made the very smart calculation that it was better to be perceived as cowards who care than as ruthless career politicians who only truly care about cash and power.)
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Bingo.
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Well, yes. Someone tell the politicians who continue to support fossil fuel companies over current and future generations
Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change
Survey finds 40% of Australian women without kids hesitant to have children because of climate change
Research which polled a representative sample of 2,000 people also found over a third of Coalition voters believed the climate would not change at all
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About 40% of Australian women without kids say they are hesitant to have children because of climate change, a new survey suggests.
The survey, on attitudes about the impacts of global heating, also found that half of Australians were very or extremely concerned about climate change and two in five believed the climate would be “much hotter” in 2050. Continue reading...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Well, yes. Someone tell the politicians who continue to support fossil fuel companies over current and future generations
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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An incredible track-by-track oral history of Patti Smith’s “Horses,” which turns 50 tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
An incredible track-by-track oral history of Patti Smith’s “Horses,” which turns 50 tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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More genders please. Pile ‘em high
Zeldin: "Conservatives say there are two genders. Democrats are saying there are a hundred genders and counting and growing."
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
More genders please. Pile ‘em high
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No taxes for the rich and no food for the poor. Seems fair, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 PM
No taxes for the rich and no food for the poor. Seems fair, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 8, 2025 at 10:23 PM
When McCarthy went after the generals (insinuating there were communists in their ranks), McCarthyism was over.
It was a step too far for the American public
But in 2025 America
It was a step too far for the American public
But in 2025 America
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
We spoke with 20 current and former military officials about the purge.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
When McCarthy went after the generals (insinuating there were communists in their ranks), McCarthyism was over.
It was a step too far for the American public
But in 2025 America
It was a step too far for the American public
But in 2025 America
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If he doesn’t do empathy here, he sure as hell isn’t doing it for anyone NOT in the room.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
If he doesn’t do empathy here, he sure as hell isn’t doing it for anyone NOT in the room.
Hope at last
got to post-Zohran blog @thecut.com — multiple election outcomes on Tuesday showed that refusing to fold on trans people, migrants, Muslims, and marginalized communities while pushing kitchen table issues is a winning strategy. the pundit class’s “Decision to Win”-style arguments can be put to bed
Welcome to Woke 2.0
Democrats won by running on kitchen-table issues and accepting or embracing trans people and immigrants.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hope at last
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Now playing in NY & LA, Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE is a knotty yet radiant reflection on family, memory and art. Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, Elle Fanning & wonderful discovery Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas are a knockout ensemble. Don't miss this.
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‘Sentimental Value’ Review: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard and Elle Fanning Illuminate Joachim Trier’s Piercing Reflection on Family and Memory
The director’s sixth feature, which also stars Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, revolves around a house in Oslo whose walls have absorbed generations of experience.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Now playing in NY & LA, Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE is a knotty yet radiant reflection on family, memory and art. Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgard, Elle Fanning & wonderful discovery Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas are a knockout ensemble. Don't miss this.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
When Leonard Cohen said “I wish women would hurry up and take over”.
Bring it on
Bring it on
Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, will turn to veterans of City Hall, nonprofit executives and a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission — all of them women — to lead his official transition effort, he said on Wednesday. nyti.ms/4nHdyOP
November 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
When Leonard Cohen said “I wish women would hurry up and take over”.
Bring it on
Bring it on
Loved Blue Moon — about Lorenz Hart. Ethan Hawke is heartbreaking
Richard Linklater, best known for his low-key hangout movies, finds two surprising subjects for his latest works: prickly artists who didn’t care if people liked them, writes David Sims:
Two Unlikely Biopics About Unlikable People
One of Hollywood’s most affable directors finds something to relate to in famously prickly artists.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Loved Blue Moon — about Lorenz Hart. Ethan Hawke is heartbreaking
Dick Cheney raised a gutsy daughter. 💪🥁👏🏻
November 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Dick Cheney raised a gutsy daughter. 💪🥁👏🏻
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A recent M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A recent M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return.