Duke Needs a Life
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Duke Needs a Life
@dummyduke
23, writer, environmental educator, reader, cold brew consumer, superhero fan 💅🏳️🌈✨🫧

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt construction of a $400M White House ballroom, ruling the project cannot move forward unless Congress approves it.





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Love hitting tops in Grindr up with a “hey cutie” to test their resolve


Details on the death of OpenAI's Sora: • Video generator was losing ~$1M per day • It had fewer than 500K users • Disney execs were informed of the shutdown less than an hour before it was announced • Disney is now in talks with over a dozen companies to implement AI • The Sora team is shifting focus to longer-term bets like robotics (via @WSJ)

Quilty, a new AI platform designed to help the entertainment industry make smarter financial and creative decisions, has launched: • The platform offers script analysis, packaging suggestions and production planning tools • Users will receive data on comparable projects, talent, tax incentives in potential shooting locations, the festival scene and the distribution landscape • The technology will also offer crystal ball predictions about how a movie will do at the box office, as well as its cultural resonance “We can tell you the peak time to make and release a film,” says co-founder Daniel Wood says. “We want to empower the creator.” variety.com/2026/film/news…

Cancelling Harry Potter because of Rowling but remaking/doing spin offs of Narnia and LOTR despite Lewis and Tolkien being two of the most prominent Christian figures of the last century who undoubtedly share Rowling’s views she’s been cancelled for. Make it make sense.














