Scoop: Paramount has hired a bank to explore selling VidCon, the creator-focused events franchise it acquired in 2018.

The effort comes as Paramount itself is fielding acquisition offers, from Skydance Media and Apollo.

With Catherine Perloff for ADWEEK:adweek.com/convergent-tv/…

I think about the intro to Dworkin's piece all the time: 'You won’t ever know the worst that happened to Nicole Brown Simpson in her marriage, because she is dead and cannot tell you. And if she were alive, remember, you wouldn’t believe her.'

The most important 38 seconds from matt's latest video. This Kat Tenbarge quote should be in school books 🙏

🧵recent tweets have made me want speak out. April is #SAAM
#Survivor s are likely to have experienced or are experiencing levels of harassment on #socialmedia & scrutiny by ignorant enablers .This is #rapeculture . Clichés within the #Survivor community don’t support all equally.

This is precisely why so many defence lawyers operate within a culture of impunity. They believe they can say or do whatever they want as there won’t be consequences. They depend on the secrecy and complexity of the court system to protect them.

I fought the law and I WON! After being subjected to a humiliating ordeal in court by my rapist’s defence lawyer, I started the arduous process of submitting a complaint. I had to study the law, compile it all myself, facing off against a team of lawyers… and it’s been upheld!

I left court feeling traumatised, shamed, and humiliated. I was accused in court of having various personality disorders with no evidential basis. I was told I made my rapist jealous. It was implied I was promiscuous.

For my The New Yorker column (every Wednesday!) I looked into the very real dumbphone boom and the Gen Z hustlers building and selling products to get their generation off smartphones newyorker.com/culture/infini…

at 3pm TODAY I'll be hosting a Reddit AMA about the Pornhub Empire podcast. ask me aaannnnything! reddit.com/r/podcasts/com…

Beyond proud and grateful to see my feature on Black Dave Matthews Band/jam band fans is a finalist for the The Deadline Club awards. I never pass up a chance to write about DMB,
and I’m ecstatic to see the story on this list! NBC News / NBC BLK #DMB2024

“This desire to be taken care of, to be loved in a way that obviates responsibility, is not a fantasy of a marriage. It is a fantasy of a return to childhood. She’s not looking for a husband; she’s looking for a parent.”

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I rewatched the Shrek movies for the 20th anniversary of Shrek 2. And its legacy is a mixed bag! The best things about it are wildly under-appreciated, and the worst things about it ruined kids' entertainment forever rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Come for my takedown of the tradwife; stay for the inquiry into a very confused and sloppy pro-tradwife book, which at one point appears to make a choice feminist case for lobotomies. bookforum.com/print/3004/lis…

Gender essentialism doesn’t liberate us from patriarchy; it enforces it.

i'm still recovering from a medical emergency that almost killed me (a few times!) and left me with more than $30k in medical debt 🫠

finally created a gofundme - if you'd like to help out, please consider donating or sharing. thank you so much 🫶🏼 gofund.me/2cb76bf9