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Following Record Year for Mergers, the FTC Wants to Know How You’d Fix Antitrust
The first few months of Joe Biden’s presidency were marked by the recruiting of what some called an “Antitrust All-Star Team.” Spearheaded by dogged Amazon critic Lina Khan, antitrust scribe Tim Wu, and longtime Google annoyance Jonathan Kanter, that dream team has little to show for itself, so far. Despite plenty of anti-monopolistic, pro-worker blustering, company…
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In Severance, Memory Is Company Property
Between the never-ending pandemic, systemic wage inequality, and constant management nightmares, real-life work has never felt so dystopian. But Ben Stiller’s new Apple TV+ series, Severance, takes things to another level by having Adam Scott undergo a very strange procedure: to have two wholly separate sets of memories, one for his work life, and one…
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The Cuphead Show’s First Trailer Runneth Over
Making an animated TV show about characters from a video game that was inspired wholly from classic animation seems feels like a bit of an ouroboros, or a snake eating its own tail. But is that really a problem when Netflix’s upcoming The Cuphead Show looks so good and fun? I think not.
