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The BBC Didn't Just Cancel Drag Race UK. It Moved Queer Culture Behind a Paywall
The BBC blamed money. Drag Race UK pulled a million viewers a week. The maths doesn't add up — but the message to LGBTQ+ audiences does.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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Five Women, Five Years, and a Charge Sheet That Took Half a Decade
Noel Clarke has been charged with six sexual offences. The gap between the first Guardian story and today's charge sheet is the real scandal.
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
Entertainment
The BBC Is Quietly Conceding That Broadcast Is Over
550 jobs gone. £80 million off the content budget. The BBC isn't trimming fat — it's admitting the broadcast model it invented can't pay for itself anymore.
Sara Lin··5 min read
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Canada Just Made the Internet a Walled Garden for Kids
Bill C-34 isn't really a child safety law. It's the moment Canada decided the open internet was a problem worth solving with ID checks.
Maya Okonkwo··5 min read
Side Hustles
The Cake Shed Dream Is Running Into a Very British Reality
What started as a low-cost, social-media-friendly side hustle is colliding with council licensing demands and a saturated market. The frosting is cracking.
Kwame Asante··5 min read
Entertainment
The Paramount-Warner Deal Is a Labor Fight in a Cheap Suit
The opposition to the $110.9 billion Paramount-WBD merger isn't really about antitrust theory. It's about who gets paid to make things in Hollywood, and who doesn't.
Sara Lin··5 min read
Entertainment
Scott Pelley Lit the Match. CBS Just Confirmed Why He Had To.
Pelley accused CBS leadership of pressuring journalists to bend stories for the White House. They fired him the next day. That sequence is the story.
Sara Lin··4 min read
Entertainment
Paramount Lawyered Up Because This Merger Was Never Going to Be Quiet
Paramount Skydance hired Jeffrey Kessler not because it expects to win cleanly, but because the $110 billion Warner Bros. deal is the antitrust fight of the decade.
Sara Lin··5 min read
AI
Google Broke Its Own Search to Win an AI Race Nobody Asked It to Run
Google called AI Overviews its biggest search upgrade in over 25 years. A year in, it can't reliably define the word 'disregard.'
Maya Okonkwo··4 min read
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Older Men Are Falling for AI Women on Instagram and Nobody Is Laughing
Social media is full of older men genuinely connecting with AI-generated female profiles. It's tempting to mock. It's more useful to understand why.
Sara Lin··5 min read