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Photo via Warner Bros. Maybe Black Adam‘s mediocre performance at the box office wasn’t the worst thing to ever happen to DC in the long run. Also, it looks as if James Gunn is definitely not meddling with Shazam! Fury of the Gods, for better or for worse, and speaking of that, maybe Zachary Levi could use a little social media break. Full-blown success for ‘Back Adam’ might have made Dwayne Johnson DC’s ‘Rock’ of eternity via Warner Bros. Black Adam‘s failure to launch had a lot of different after-effects and…

Twitter has laid off at least another 50 employees, according to a report from The Information and posts on social media from former workers. And apparently not even Elon Musk loyalist Esther Crawford, the chief executive of Twitter payments who oversaw the company’s Twitter Blue verification subscription, was spared, according to Platformer’s Zoë Schiffer. Alex Heath of The Verge also confirmed that Crawford and most of the remaining product team were laid off this weekend, leading many to…

The National Weather Service has called it a “once in a generation type event” — a massive “bomb cyclone” barreling across the United States, snarling traffic, grounding airplanes and delivering some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded.But while the dangerous Arctic blast will touch more than 100 million people in nearly every state, Californians will largely be spared. (In Los Angeles, shorts may even be in order for the holiday weekend.)That’s largely for two reasons, according to the weather service. First, the…

Since the entire city seems to be dissecting the secret Los Angeles City Hall recordings for expressions of hatred against nearly every demographic group, allow me to chime in.About Armenians.Among the many casual slurs made by several of our city’s high-profile Latino Democratic officials in a secretly recorded conversation about redistricting were a few mild ones directed at a former City Hall staffer and my fellow Armenian American, Areen Ibranossian. A veteran of Los Angeles politics and local campaigns, Ibranossian…

If a nuclear war were ever to break out, it probably wouldn’t last long. For a few days, perhaps a week, nuclear weapons would be fired between several countries and catastrophic losses would be swift. But what happens next?For decades researchers have been modeling the after-effects of nuclear conflict. One of the most globally devastating outcomes from a nuclear war is the possibility of a prolonged climactic cooling event referred to as “nuclear winter.”“In a nuclear war, bombs targeted on cities and industrial areas…