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If you're wondering who that is, join the club. He played "Kick Ass," appeared as one of the main characters in the first Godzilla, played one of the assassins in Bullet Train, and played Quicksilver in the Marvel movie Avengers: Age of Ultron.
He's also in the upcoming Spider-Man Universe Without Spider-Man movie, Kraven the Hunter.
I don't see him as Bond but I also didn't see Craig whatever as Bond, then he did a good job in the first one. (And subsequently dragged the ensuing movies down to his woke level.)
It appears as though the search for the next James Bond is over.
British actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has reportedly been offered the role of a lifetime as the "shaken, not stirred" martini-sipping secret agent, sources told The Sun.
The "Bullet Train" actor, 33, is expected to sign on the dotted line this week, the outlet adds.
EON Productions, which makes 007 films, is said to be preparing to start shooting later this year.
"Bond is Aaron's job, should he wish to accept it," an insider told the outlet. "The formal offer is on the table and they are waiting to hear back."
"As far as EON is concerned, Aaron is going to sign his contract in the coming days and they can start preparing for the big announcement," the source added.
Eh, I don't care. I still haven not bothered to see No Time to Die. This is the first James Bond movie I've skipped since I was... I dunno, seven years old?
But these efforts to rein in social media overlook the gargantuan online gaming industry. Video games comprise the largest entertainment industry by far, grossing almost $200 billion in revenue in 2022 (more than the music and film industries combined). Today, online gaming sites offer far more than entertainment -- they are social platforms that channel user communication and enable networking and community building.
Online games should be part of the regulatory discussion concerning digital platforms -- but they seldom are.
Discussions of harms in gaming historically have focused on fears about the content of the games themselves. However, the social environment of games is what actually poses significant threats to players' safety and well-being. Exposure to hateful speech is routine while doxxing -- exposing someone's private identifying information -- and physical threats are also common. Of acute concern is mounting evidence that extremists and other bad actors take advantage of the preexisting toxic gamer culture to disseminate their hateful ideologies and unleash hate-based harassment.
And the ADL pushed that article:
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As digital social spaces, online games should be regulated to address hate & extremism. It’s vital for Congress to examine extremist radicalization in these spaces & we are grateful to @RepLoriTrahan for leading this effort. An important piece to read:
Just bend the knee to your tormentors, bullies, and persecutors. Just do what they demand.
In more "Is This Something?" news: Michael Keaton made an action movie in which he stars as Joe Biden.
Disney Minus' new Star Wars show The Acolyte -- which is from an unqualified angry square-headed lesbian* who served as an acolyte to serial molester and rapist Harvey Weinstein -- concludes with this line, which pretty much admits the immorality of endless #MeToo scalp-hunts and endless promotion of unqualified DEI tokens: "It's not about good and evil. It's about power, and who is allowed to wield it."
* Square-headed is an apt description from Ya Boi Zach. Her head is indeed a smug square.