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Sony moving ahead with a new Karate Kid movie:

First episode is available!

The article says erroneously: "Putin’s daughter was recently taken out by a car bomb." Nope, that was so-called "Putin's brain" Dugina. So doesn't appear to be a particularly trustworthy source.

This show still exists!?!?! I liked the satirical ending of season one with

True, and they have customers for the first two payload-carrying flights to fulfill NASA contracts: (1) the Peregrine moon lander, by Astrobotic, to deliver cargo to the Moon for NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services contract, to the Lactis Mortis region of north-eastern hemisphere on the Lunar Near side; and (2) the first of six Dreamchaser mini-shuttle launches, by Sierra Space, for fulfillment of the CRS-2 commercial resupply for the ISS. Continuing to delay delivery of the engines will become a problem for a lot of stakeholders downstream.

Was reminded of this from Community today...

Paramount considering shutting down Showtime and migrating its content to Paramount+

Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series to adapted for Universal: https://deadline.com/2022/09/universal-television-boards-valdemar-universe-fantasy-book-series-adaptation-1235109776/

As long as Bezos has money, I imagine they'll keep going. Their mascot is a turtle for a reason though.

Sadly, Masten Space Systems, one of the pioneers of the New Space movement, filed for bankruptcy and is selling off its assets. They were the unexpected winner of the Grumman Lunar Lander X-Prize so surprising they didn't go on to win the Google Lunar XPrize to actually land on the Moon. No one did, and that prize ended without being claimed, though the Israeli effort SpaceIL actually managed to crash on the moon more than a year after the competition ended.

The capsule's escape systems worked, at least, so if it had humans riding they would have survived fine. Meanwhile Blue Origin still hasn't delivered the BE-4 engines to ULA for integrating with the Vulcan rocket. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/09/as-summer-turns-to-fall-ula-still-waiting-for-its-be-4-rocket-engines/ Firefly scrubbed a launch on the weekend, will try again next week. And the CEO of Ariane Group, an entirely subsidized consortium providing European launchers, is crying about European start-ups being providing a piddling amount of subsidies to try building cheaper rockets that couldn't even compete with them as they're microlaunchers.

Is there a word for this sort of thing? Cryptoautobiographical?

Reminder that Patrick Brown is still a piece of shit: https://thepointer.com/article/2022-09-07/patrick-brown-allies-cancel-future-council-meetings-ahead-of-election-suppress-investigation-details

There! Are! Two! Threads!

I'm not quite half way through episode 4 of the season and I think

yes!

Looks like The Leader is the villain of Captain America: New World Order.

No confirmation on Foggy or Karen in DD

Thunderbolts

Secret Invasion apparently leads directly to Armor Wars. Ke Huy Quan joining Loki S2