2025.10.15: Whether You Should

Burnie and Ben King talk about benchmarking childhoods, dial-up internet, fintech, the mystery crypto investor, turning a buck, Burnie’s sci-fi AGI theory, Free Speech as a visa holder, One Battle After Another, and the motivations behind technical
  
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The Good Old Days

• House of Guinness (TV Series 2025– ) – IMDb
• True Grit (2010) – IMDb
• Cholera: Causes and How It Spreads | Cholera | CDC

The Skibidis

• Why Gen Z Is Drinking Less  | TIME
• Smokers Allowed | Nathan For You
• Skins (British TV series) – Wikipedia

FinTech

• unusual_whales on X: “BREAKING: Look at this. A new crypto account was opened…” / X

In Poor Taste

• AI Video Transforms Queen Elizabeth Into WWE Superstar | TikTok
• How Trump, Data Centers and Pricey Gas Are Fueling a US Coal Revival

Doomsday Bunkers

• Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried? – BBC News

Tourism and Visas

• Spain tourism: The protesters and residents pushing back on tourism in Barcelona – BBC News
• US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech | AP News
• How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point – BBC News

Local Celebrity

• The Celebrity Traitors – Everything you need to know

All the Battle Everywhere All at Once

• One Battle After Another (2025) – IMDb
• One Battle After Another | Official Trailer 2

Aspect Ratio’ed

• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Transition to full frame IMAX