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Stanley Tucci gets canceled, and other streaming news.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: Drake manipulates the media, CNN axes its original programming, and we dream of Roku City.

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Drake’s deep fake / TikTok Hercules

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The double O

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This website is free.

on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and the latest streaming news.

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The Twitter Trap

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Opening night at A Little Life.

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Hey Jude

The indomitable human spirit

Do not abandon hope.

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Q&A with Probably Nothing founder Jeremy Fall, and more streaming news.

interviews web3 record label Probably Nothing founder Jeremy Fall. Plus, Lee Sachs on crime dramas from abroad, and the latest in the streaming world.

Web3 record label / Crime drama recs

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And the new Succession trailer.

on technology’s role in TÁR and Spotify’s latest interface update and foray into audiobooks. Plus the week’s streaming news.

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TÁR tech / Spotify hiccups

Different CATV (Community Antenna Television) stations available to subscribers in Elmira, New York, in 1966. (Arthur Schatz The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock)

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TikTok echoes cable.

on social media’s evolution (devolution?) into television.

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