Simone Cromer 📽 Universal and WB taking Greta and Chris out to a steak dinner on Sunday night going “so when are your next films done and how do we put them out on the same date again?” What’s even more crazy is that this whole thing could never of happened if Nolan didn’t leave WB.

This multi-part train wreck just won’t end nytimes.com/2023/07/23/bus…

Others have pointed this out, but this renaming is stepping on the exact same rake that got him ousted by PayPal. Wrote about this in my book

“Russia is a country of mafia rules. And Putin made an unforgivable mistake,” said a senior Moscow financier with ties to the Russian intelligence services. “He lost his reputation as the toughest man in town.” washingtonpost.com/world/2023/07/…

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“We don’t need any more bars and restaurants; we don’t need more cafes. We need to work on saving the ones that are barely hanging on right now.” ⁦The San Francisco Standard⁩ sfstandard.com/2023/07/28/wit…

Gulps. Gump’s. 160 plus year history locally posts in San Francisco Chronicle Sunday edition Gavin Newsom London Breed Board of Supervisors #fentanylmassacre

The Uncrustables brand is somehow headed for $1B in annual sales and its timeline is wild: ▫️1995: Two dads in North Dakota invent frozen crustless PB&J sandwiches and sell them to the local school district ▫️1998: Acquired by Smuckers for $1m ▫️1999: A US patent is issued for

The career history of Pret A Manger's CEO, Pano Christou. Nice to see things like this.

Every day I think about our lack of third spaces in the US and how urgent it is. We need community areas that don't require people to buy things (especially huge sugary drinks that cause hormonal imbalances). Most people in coffee shops, even Starbucks, are renting space.

Anticompetitive behavior is rampant in health care. It’s hurting consumers trib.al/lAapsKG

"If we can't admit mistakes, then there can be no culture of reflection in our politics. And without a culture of reflection, it means we won't learn from our mistakes. Nor can we trust one another (or our leaders) to do so," John Wood Jr. writes. usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

⁦OpenTable⁩ can you tell me what’s going on here?

Ozempic can be produced for less than $5 a month, a new study found, but Danish company Novo Nordisk charges Americans $968.52. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Here is an early look at the front page of a special section wrapping today's Wall Street Journal on.wsj.com/3vyw07m

for a variety of structural, professional, and personal reasons, I’m fascinated by this.

“First day, big problems here.” This is embarrassing. Newly installed CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil has major problems during his first regular broadcast. The inexperience of new CBS News chief Bari Weiss is on full display.