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How O'Neil Thomas turned his love of performing into a creator career
Safety Net Creator Playbook Trending Now Mashable Selects Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Getting Technical with Mashable Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus In My Bag Mashable @Home All Series How O'Neil Thomas turned his love of performing into a creator career From his own comedy sketches to a role in the vertical series Investigator Investigator, O'Neil Thomas is putting his acting ambitions to work. Olivia Tauber is the deputy editor of digital culture, covering creators, media, movies, beauty, and more. Based in New York, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Cut, Teen Vogue, Complex, and Interview Magazine. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from NYU and a Bachelor's from the University of Michigan. She also runs Fan Mail, a weekly pop-culture newsletter.
UC Berkeley's new Twitch studio gives student-athletes a place to build their audiences
Getting Technical with Mashable Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Say More Versus Trending Now In My Bag Mashable @Home Top creators, ranked Creator Playbook All Series UC Berkeley's new Twitch studio gives student-athletes a place to build their audiences A PS5 lounge and professional cameras are part of Berkeley's plan to help student-athletes become creators. Olivia Tauber is the deputy editor of digital culture, covering creators, media, movies, beauty, and more. Based in New York, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Cut, Teen Vogue, Complex, and Interview Magazine. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from NYU and a Bachelor's from the University of Michigan. She also runs Fan Mail, a weekly pop-culture newsletter.
Everyone Hates 'Digger.' It's the Perfect Climate Movie
The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what types of stories we tell ourselves about who has economic and political power. Should you see a Looney Tunes-esque satire that stars Tom Cruise in prosthetics portraying a loud caricature of an American oilman, that's currently on track to be one of the biggest box-office failures of all time? Absolutely yes--and it's a movie that rewired my expectations of what a movie about climate change should be. The deeply uncomfortable film forces audiences to confront what kind of characters we're the most comfortable making into climate villains . The film stars Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, an oil billionaire who only wears cowboy boots and lives in a mansion covered in antlers and polar bear skin rugs. At the start of the film, one of Digger's oil-drilling platforms accidentally causes a massive iceberg to break loose, resulting in a huge methane leak.
Hollywoods tech movie boom has arrived
Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable @Home Look Up Trending Now Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net All Series Hollywood's tech movie boom has arrived As Silicon Valley's power and influence grow, Hollywood is putting its founders under the microscope. Olivia Tauber is the deputy editor of digital culture, covering creators, media, movies, beauty, and more. Based in New York, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Cut, Teen Vogue, Complex, and Interview Magazine. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from NYU and a Bachelor's from the University of Michigan. She also runs Fan Mail, a weekly pop-culture newsletter.
I Play Rocky review: Can this crowd-pleaser be an Oscar contender?
Look Up Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Say More Top creators, ranked Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Creator Playbook In My Bag AI at School Safety Net Versus Trending Now All Series'I Play Rocky' review: Can this crowd-pleaser be an Oscar contender? Green Book director Peter Farrelly offers Oscar bait. But can it topple The Odyssey? Kristy Puchko is the Entertainment Editor at Mashable. Based in New York City, she's an established film critic and entertainment reporter who has traveled the world on assignment, covered a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, and interviewed a wide array of performers and filmmakers. All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.
A Peter Thiel–Backed Company Put On a Broadway Musical. I Went--and Was Stunned by What I Saw.
I watched a Broadway musical starring Billy Porter that was a 60-minute commercial for a finance app. Enter your email to receive alerts for this author. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. You're already subscribed to the aa_Nitish_Pahwa newsletter. You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
Meta introduces a new AI assistant for its Instagram creators
It isn't hard to find AI-generated guidance for just about anything these days, but Meta thinks it has come up with the perfect solution for its extensive creator community with its new Edits assistant. ICYMI, Edits is Meta's creator-focused video editing app, which it launched last year as a rival to TikTok's CapCut. The new Edits assistant is being pitched by Meta as a highly personalized chatbot that understands each individual's audience, rather than simply offering generic and, well, slop-adjacent AI advice. In a press release, Meta said your new "creative partner" can analyze your insights and suggest video ideas based on previous content performance and current trends. You can ask it what videos have performed well for you recently, or for feedback on why some reels haven't resonated as much with your audience. The assistant can dig into all of your Instagram data, including follows, views, likes, shares and retention stats, which it will draw on when responding to your prompts.
OpenAI hires Patreon's co-founder as its creator push expands
AI at School Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Look Up Say More Safety Net Versus Creator Playbook In My Bag Trending Now Back to School Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age All Series Sam Yam will lead creator products, with more details expected at DevDay. Olivia Tauber is the deputy editor of digital culture, covering creators, media, movies, beauty, and more. Based in New York, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Cut, Teen Vogue, Complex, and Interview Magazine. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from NYU and a Bachelor's from the University of Michigan. She also runs Fan Mail, a weekly pop-culture newsletter.
Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed Them
Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. The comedian sat down with WIRED to talk about social media, AI, and getting laughs for impersonating Boston Dynamics' robot dogs. Patti Harrison, like every great comic, knows how to use her face. If you've seen her stealing scenes in TV shows like Tim Robinson's or Hulu's, you know that she often starts out a bit demure, or pouty, before walking audiences into the deep end. It's that quality in Harrison's work that WIRED borrowed for our own rather unhinged cover concept. Harrison plays five (well, actually six) of the current masters of the universe--Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos (with Lauren Sánchez Bezos by his side). Combining her farcical sensibilities with our commentary on the man-heavy leader ship of Silicon Valley worked perfectly--and she was happy to lampoon the people behind the platforms she used to enjoy. We caught up with Harrison in London, where she had just finished a sold-out run of her show,, and a week of performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. KATIE DRUMMOND: When we were putting together our WIRED Women cover, we knew we had to put the best possible woman on it. You immediately came to mind, and I can't stress enough how much you nailed the assignment. I want to argue with a bunch of it. I was coming in today like, oh, I guess I didn't really check to see what the interview was about.