Links

• After “Barbie,” Mattel Is Raiding Its Entire Toybox - apparently there's a Barney movie in the works with Daniel Kaluuya. What a time to be alive!

• When it Comes to Climate, Beware the “Calm Down” Guy - Adam Mckay on a guy we probably all know.

• SEYMOUR HERSH: PRIGOZHIN’S FOLLY

• We Need To Name and Shame Bad Climate Journalism

• Who killed Google Reader?

• Mission Impossible revisited: Brian de Palma’s Mission Impossible

Reading/Watching/Listening

• Still reading The Five as mentioned in the last post. I am on the penultimate section of the book. One main point that sticks out so far is the fact that the first two victims of the ripper were not sex workers as is the long held view. Instead, due to their lower economic standing they were just assumed to be.

• I am currently about halfway through the first season of Netflix's Ganglands, a very stripped back and visceral crime thriller. The French have a good track record of no-frills action/crime entertainment (Sentinelle, the Lost Bullet movies, etc.) As expected the action and set pieces in this are spot on.

• I am also, finally, working my way through two older shows The Americans and Babylon Berlin. Both are great and I am savouring every episode.

• Listening-wise, I am loving the Srsly Wrong podcast's two part episode on AI.