(nicole kidman voice) we go offline in order to come back onlinePlus: how many hours of content really live on Netflix? Unfortunately they found outIf this documentary about the ‘80s Vietnamese new wave scene hits your town (Berlin and Boston this week!), bring tissues like I forgot to last week :(Some late-breaking Condé drama: it turns out that the company’s DEI officer, Yashica Olden, likely left the company earlier this summer after internal tensions over the war in Gaza boiled over, per Semafor’s Max Tani, who snagged details such as:
Waded through that big NYT Mag feature on Netflix’s library, and learned some fascinating facts such as how there’s apparently ~16,000 (!) titles of content on Netflix. Want to wager a guess at how long that would take to watch if you did 3 hours a day?? Because Willy Staley did the math and it is a SCARY amount lol. Overall, this was a great piece mostly on what venture capital and ZIRP have done to tech and therefore culture (i.e., made it overhyped and too available and also mid); If you want the tl;dr, this was the most incisive line:
Also this, re: the “but why have I never heard of these supposedly popular shows before?” question:
An especially adept tweet from @coldhealing on the Brat remix OOH (out of home) campaign… Earlier today, I walked by a giant poster displayed in front of like, an empty storefront window in Bushwick, and it contained the full text of someone’s post on Substack, plus a QR code to subscribe to said Substack. The real world existing more and more as a redirect to get you back online is…interesting. Two more Sally links:Emmeline Clein’s A Trapdoor of Her Own in the LARB was the perfect endcap to my personal diet of Intermezzo syllabus. Just a healthy (or maybe delicious) dose of skepticism on all the usual Rooneyisms, as well and the role of her novels within our current sTaTe of HetErO mOnAgAmY, with a final delightful escalation via a Theory of What Sally’s Really Doing, Maybe. Here’s a taste…
And then for The Paris Review, Sally and Merve Emre did a Q&A where they discussed things like how “the sibling dyad open[s] different possibilities for relationality in the novel?” which is unfortunately the kind of shit I will eat up with a soup spoon. TikTok Corner
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