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• Very cool; if they follow the pace and restraint of the original (and utterly brilliant) film, this should make a fantastic series: Eddie Redmayne To Lead ‘The Day Of The Jackal’ Series For Peacock & Sky | Deadline

• Beethoven’s DNA decoded from locks of hair saved by his fans | WaPo

• Off to a good start: Tech guru Jaron Lanier: ‘The danger isn’t that AI destroys us. It’s that it drives us insane’ | The Guardian

• Recently picked up an issue of the original at an antique mall. Count me in on this: Gold Key Comics is back with Boris Karloff’s Gold Key Mysteries | The Beat

• "This deck was drawn by artist, designer and architect Boris Kobe (1905--1981) in 1945 while at the Allach concentration lager, a sub-camp of Dachau in a suburb of Munich... After surviving the Holocaust, he continued his architectural career and created no other known artistic works related to his time in the camps." The Daily Heller: Cards From Hell | PRINT Magazine

• Mesmerized: Meticulous Flat Lays of Vintage Toys and Miniatures Celebrate the History of Play and Design | Colossal

• This needs to be canon: Horrific Mario Manga Shows 1-UP Mushroom Growing Out Of Plumber | Kotaku

• And a hearty 🖕 to you too, Funko: Funko Lays Off Most of Mondo Staff, Poster Business in Limbo | The Wrap