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Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their “code is not satisfactory” — Hearing that roughly 50 Twitter engineers were abruptly fired last night and dozens more received warnings: https://twitter.com/... Zoë Schiffer / @zoeschiffer: Source: Twitter abruptly fired around 50 engineers and warned dozens more on the evening before Thanksgiving; some were told their…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has revealed the one thing Martin Scorsese thinks a film needs to make it “great”.The actor worked with the filmmaker on 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, playing Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort, when she was 22.Robbie reflected on the experience during a “Life in Pictures supported by TCL” talk at Bafta on Tuesday (22 November), explaining…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has revealed the one thing Martin Scorsese thinks a film needs to make it “great”.The actor worked with the filmmaker on 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street, playing Naomi Lapaglia, the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jordan Belfort, when she was 22.Robbie reflected on the experience during a Life in Pictures talk at Bafta on Tuesday (22 November), explaining that Scorsese…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeStephen Graham is showing off his newly bulging biceps. “He’s like Popeye,” says his wife, Hannah Walters, on her way to the fridge. “Just give him a can and he pops it and crushes it.” It’s breakfast time in the couple’s home in a former mining town in Leicestershire, and the This Is England star is being teased by the love of his life, as he chats to me from the kitchen counter.He…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSamuel L Jackson has revealed that he threatened to quit the movie Snakes on a Plane if producers went with its alternative title.The 2006 action film, directed by David R Ellis, starred Jackson as an FBI agent on a plane where dozens of venomous snakes have been released in an attempt to kill a trial witness.During an interview on the podcast Pardon My Take, Jackson reflected on how,…

Local authorities in China's Henan province are urging retired soldiers and government workers to take on stints at Foxconn's iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, the official Shanghai Securities News reported on Tuesday.The plant, the world's largest iPhone manufacturing facility, has been hit by discontent over government-mandated measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, which required the company to isolate many workers but also prompted many others to flee in recent weeks.The calls to retired workers have come from…

This novel by Zhang Yueran, a bestselling author in China from the “post-80s generation” – millennial to you and me – arrives in English on a wave of praise from Junot Díaz, Yan Lianke and Ian McEwan. Cocoon, translated by Jeremy Tiang, addresses the impact of the Cultural Revolution on China’s younger generations, and has the force of a story that needed to be told.It takes the form of a present-day exchange between two old friends, not so much a conversation as alternating monologues. Li Jiaqi and Cheng Gong excavate…

Apple could be the next major company to pull advertising from Twitter.In an internal memo obtained by The Verge, Omnicom, one of the largest ad agencies in the world, is recommending that its clients temporarily halt advertising on the social media platform. According to the agency, the company is currently in a state of instability that will cause too much brand safety risk for its clients.The memo, titled “Twitter - Continued Brand Safety Concerns,” tells its clients to pause advertising on the platform for the short…

Elon Musk sent his first-ever email to Twitter employees. In the first company wide email to Twitter's remaining employees that he didn’t lay off, Musk ended Twitter’s permanent remote work policy. Reported first by Bloomberg, the email warns employees that the company may not survive the economic downturn without significant revenue and asks them to prepare for a “dire” economy. Here are key takeaways from the email:17​Cannot sugarcoat the message"Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company but there is no way…

Ron DeSantis and his family after he won his bid for reelection Tuesday.Photo: Rebecca Blackwell (AP)It’s that time of year again, when climate hawks gather around to read the tea leaves about what happened in U.S. national elections. This year’s climate campaign trail, for Democrats, was a lot different than previous years, thanks to the recent passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S.’s first national comprehensive climate bill. For once, Democrats had a concrete climate success to campaign on during the…