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...— People got excited about the Glasgow Willy Wonka show/Fyre Festival for kids, and the New York Times is ON IT (NYT) The Tab also has a good round-up....
...Festival comes to Wonka-land (Air Mail) — ‘Irish Wish’ is a crypto-fascist, AI-generated harbinger of doom (Vulture) — Mushrooms eat house (BBC)...
...Google lost ground in the AI race Google considers charging for AI-powered search in big change to business model Global dominance of biggest stocks rises to highest in decades Register for our FTWeekend Festival...
...At least in America, the organisers of the disastrous Fyre Festival had the grace to go large, hiring models Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski to promote it....
...The rumour mill, always frisky at a festival, had gone in to overdrive....
...With the news that the Fyre Festival — whose con-artist founder was sent to prison for defrauding investors of $27.4mn — is coming back next year, there might be more such treats in store....
...Juicero, Jawbone, MoviePass, Fyre Festival, Quibi, Vice, WeWork, Zume, Wag — almost the whole SoftBank oeuvre, really....
...Open-ended Design’s programme offers podcasts and discussion events: the next symposium, Technology & Design Lab on the Futures of Intelligence, takes place in London next month as part of London Design Festival...
...The tag may have encouraged Netflix to spend $20mn buying it at this year’s Sundance Film Festival....
...(A film adaptation of Eileen, written by Moshfegh and her husband, Luke Goebel, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.)...
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...— Billy McFarland of Fyre Festival fame is back, and is charging $1,800 an hour for consultations. Which is roughly what we think a McKinsey partner charges, and honestly, what would be better value?...
...The Covid-19 pandemic also meant the cancellation of big-ticket events such as the Glastonbury festival, which as well as being a driver of demand meant free marketing for the brand as tabloids reported...
...Alexandra Scaggs, token American This piece from the New York Times is a highly entertaining look at the Fyre Festival of Fascism, a self-described “cryptostate” called Praxis....
...t=HOYW6LDqffzC64S3QTD2Xg&s=08 Springtime heralds the season of school field days, usually a fun festival of games, sporting contests, and the joy of a day outdoors with friends and family....
...Our US edition of the FTWeekend Festival is back! Join Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alice Waters, Jancis Robinson, your favorite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online....
...Founders swapping notes at the South by Southwest festival in Texas last week admitted that they had received a rapid education....
...I’ve been going to the Sundance Film Festival for years. I understand there’re thousands of films submitted every year. And we maybe see 50 or 60 of them on the screen in Park City. What does that say?...
...The rapper, of Fyre Festival fame, took the stage for an after-party, presumably held to celebrate good long-term financial health and the shining prospects of the buoyant NFT market....
...The firm is sponsoring an event at a music festival on the platform this weekend....
...We’ve said it before but we haven’t said it in a while: The Entire Economy is Fyre Festival. *Alphie McAlphaface is not the man’s real name....
...No we don’t mean the Cryptoland otherwise known as the Fijian Fyre Festival of crypto, we mean the land on the internet where laser eyes and rocket emojis and Y chromosomes proliferate....
...From Billy McFarland, co-founder of the ill fated Fyre Festival, to Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes and The Tinder Swindler, popular culture is often mesmerised by confidence tricksters....
...Social media influencers were infamously taken in by the Fyre Festival fraud in 2017 and Alphaville was immediately reminded of this when it viewed the recent Cryptoland video, a cartoon promoting a Fijian...
...Here’s his take on the desert festival in Nevada. “Just back from Burning Man. Reminds me of Woodstock with better art (installations) and less good music....
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