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‘Scary Movie’ returns politically incorrect humor to the top of the box office

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About a decade ago, Hollywood decided that crude, politically incorrect humor was a commercial and cultural duty. The #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements took off, and studio executives (largely liberal and intensely risk-averse) stopped supporting crime comedies like “Ted” and “Tropic Thunder.” Why invite a Twitter firestorm? That period of timidity — some would call it […]

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Michael Saylor Rekindles Speculation in Bitcoin Purchases as Scrutiny Grows

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Michael Saylor may have hinted at Strategy’s (MSTR) next move after last week’s surprise bitcoin BTC$62,259.23 sales. On Sunday, the company’s executive chairman published the chart traditionally used to track Strategy’s bitcoin purchases on X, writing: “A good time to add more dots.” Market watchers have seen such posts as a precursor to a new

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AI, tech IPOs, quant, strategy selling fears all converging, says NYDIG

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Bitcoin BTC$62,091.12 falling below $60,000 to a new cycle low has left investors scrambling for a culprit. According to Greg Cipolaro, global head of research at NYDIG, there probably isn’t just one. In a report last week, he argued that bitcoin and the broader crypto market face several overlapping headwinds that have weighed on prices.

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Abra CEO Bill Barhydt sees tokenization overtaking the bitcoin price as crypto’s main story

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Bill Barhydt built Abra around a simple idea: Crypto should act like a bank. In 2018, Abra became one of the first companies to offer what Barhydt describes as a full crypto banking service, allowing customers to trade, earn, borrow and make payments from a single platform. Eight years later, as the company prepares to

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How people who work in debt collection deal with abuse from callers

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Guybrielle Madison keeps a stash of crunchy snacks hanging from the door inside her pantry-turned-home-office, where she works remotely as a debt collector at United Collection Bureau, a family-owned company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. She prefers biscuits, pretzels and cheese puffs. The higher the crunch, the better. Whenever yelling starts to filter through her headset,

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Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) suffer worst weekly decline since FTX crash

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Crypto investors endured one of their toughest weeks in years as a wave of selling wiped out hundreds of billions of dollars from digital asset markets. Bitcoin BTC$61,267.78 fell 17.3% this week, while ether (ETH) fell 22%, putting both assets on track for their biggest weekly declines since November 2022, when the collapse of Sam

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Meta pays creators in Stablecoins. Using them is someone else’s problem

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In March, when Meta announced plans to start paying creators in USDC across Colombia and the Philippines, with expansion to more than 160 countries expected by the end of the year, the move was widely interpreted as another milestone for stablecoins entering the financial mainstream. A company responsible for nearly $3 billion in annual creator

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