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The Verge
3 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
Jack Dorsey says the process of purchasing Twitter was a ‘disaster' for Elon Musk.
Posted Jul 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM UTC Jack Dorsey says the process of purchasing Twitter was a 'disaster' for Elon Musk. And for Twitter, too, he says in a new podcast with Rabble (aka Evan Henshaw-Plath), who hired Dorsey at Odeo. The specific part starts a little after 28 minutes. Dorsey has also invested $10 million in a group Rabble is a part of called 'and Other Stuff,' according to TechCrunch . The group is working on 'a common vision for the development of Nostr infrastructure and products.'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Prison theatre show moves to different venue
A theatre performance that was due to take place in a historic former prison that once held Oscar Wilde has been moved to a different venue. Rabble theatre company was due to put an event showcasing behind the scenes of William the Conqueror at Reading Gaol, which has been empty for 11 years. Artistic director Toby Davies said the company could not justify the costs involved with making the prison safe and accessible just for a one day event. The BBC has approached the Ziran Education Foundation, which owns the prison, for comment. The prison formally closed in January 2014 and was bought by the Foundation for £7m last year. Foundation founder Channing Bi said in October he hoped to turn the site into a hotel, museum and art gallery. Mr Davies, who has previously campaigned for the jail to be saved for artistic purposes, said the change of venue for the show was "frustrating". "But you just get to a point where the challenges and the costs that we would have to pass onto our audience are so outrageous that it's just quite a simple straightforward decision," he said, "We can't justify this for a one day event. "If we were there for longer it would be different, but not this time." He added that the new venue, St Laurence's Church, was "amazing". "[It] was founded in 1121 and we're doing a play about William the Conqueror, so the history is amazing there," he said. Mr Bi said previously his plans for the site did not include building flats, and a portrait by celebrated street artist Banksy, that appeared on the prison wall in 2021, would "of course" stay. In January, an augmented-reality exhibition allowed members of the public to view artwork hung on the walls via a smartphone app, without entering the building. Oscar Wilde spent two years at the prison after being convicted in 1895 of gross indecency - effectively for being gay. He spent the last three years of his life in exile in France, where he composed his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, describing an execution at the prison. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. Theatre audience allowed inside Oscar Wilde jail Reading Prison hosts new digital art exhibition New owner shares plans to transform historic jail Oscar Wilde prison 'won't be turned into flats' Ziran Education Foundation Rabble Theatre
BBC News
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Reading Prison: Audience allowed inside jail for theatre event
A theatre company has been given permission to perform inside an empty jail that once held Oscar Theatre's event in the summer will be the first time Reading Prison's doors open to the public since it was bought from the Ministry of Justice by Chinese businessman Channing Bi for £ Bi, who founded the Ziran Education Foundation, said in October he hoped to turn the site into a hotel, museum and art artistic director Toby Davies, who has campaigned for the jail to be saved for artistic purposes, said: "It's a nice nudge in the right direction." Mr Bi said previously his plans did not include building flats on any part of the site and a portrait by celebrated street artist Banksy, that appeared on the prison wall in 2021, would "of course" January, an augmented-reality exhibition allowed members of the public to view artwork hung on the walls via a smartphone app, without entering the the Rabble event on 28 June, the audience inside the prison will be treated to a "rare deep dive" into the creative process behind Rabble's new play, William the Conqueror, said the theatre will take place inside the Victorian prison's Old writer Beth Flintoff, Mr Davies, actors, a composer and movement director will talk the audience through the project, demonstrate some scenes and the creation of the soundtrack, Mr Davies told the play is being developed with investment from Arts Council Davies said: "What happened to Oscar Wilde was wrong and sad but if we can produce thought-provoking, life-affirming theatre in the space, then perhaps that's a little green carnation of justice. "We hope that our work paves the way for other artistic ventures to take place inside this extraordinary historical site."Oscar Wilde spent two years at the prison after being convicted in 1895 of gross indecency - effectively for being spent the last three years of his life in exile in France, where he composed his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, describing an execution at the prison. You can follow BBC Berkshire on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
