Sending a vacuum into space not only showcases Roborock’s innovative spirit but also redefines the boundaries of what home technology can achieve.
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Terrifier 3 is now in theaters, meaning Art the Clown’s legions of fans have gotten the chance to see him carving up Christmas in his newly acquired Santa suit. In the second part of io9’s interview with writer, director, and editor Damien Leone, we asked him about his plans for the future of the franchise—as well as one big question we had about a certain Terrifier 3 character’s death.
Because we want to stay on Santa Art’s nice list, here’s one of these:
Cheryl Eddy, io9: Terrifier 4 hasn’t been officially announced yet, but that’s definitely something that you’re have in mind?
Damien Leone: That [tease about Terrifier 4] was at the first screening in Austin at Fantastic Fest, a post-screening Q&A, and I thought it was a little more intimate [instead of being reported everywhere]. [Laughs.] If you see Terrifier 3, it has a blatant, in-your-face cliffhanger ending. [I was asked] “So is there going to be more?” And I’m like, “Well, of course there’s going to be.” I would never leave the audience there. There’s still so much to learn. You want to see where Art the Clown and Sienna end off, and some other characters in the film—you know there needs to be absolute closure there that we didn’t even touch upon yet. So I thought it was a no-brainer. I didn’t think that, but I didn’t necessarily want that information out that there’s going to be more I didn’t see.
io9: It seems like someone has to go to hell or come back from hell.
Leone: There is a challenge, right? We have to find Gabbie somehow.
Victoria (Samantha Scaffidi) in Terrifier 3. © Jesse Korman/Dark Age Cinema
io9: Terrifier 3 is over two hours long, but it’s not as long as the famously lengthy Terrifier 2. I read a recent interview with you in the Hollywood Reporter where you said there were five scenes of character development that were cut. Can you speak specifically about what was in those and maybe if we’ll ever get to see those scenes?
Leone: Yeah. A polarizing aspect or divisive aspect of part two was the run time. And I always say, I think we got unjustly criticized for the runtime because it’s not the drama that’s padding out the movies. It’s really these extensive Art the Clown scenes. Usually your slasher is not in the movie this long. If you put all the screen time together of a Freddy Krueger or something, he’s probably in the movie for like eight minutes out of an hour and 35 minute movie. So, you know, Art has these big elaborate kill scenes and then these elaborate sort of foreplay scenes, I call them, where he’s just sort of toying with the victim. So it’s a kind of unorthodox way of structuring a a slasher film. But many of these [cut] scenes were scenes between Sienna and Gabbie that really fleshed out that relationship that I really, really enjoy. There was another wonderful scene between Sienna and Aunt Jess.
There were some other ones, too. There’s a cool scene of Victoria actually reattaching Art the Clown’s head—you actually see how she gets it back on. There were even some scenes that I didn’t even bother editing because I knew that we were trying to get this runtime down and I was trying to cut anywhere I possibly could. There’s also a really, really cool scene that I loved between Victoria and Gabbie during the finale, a very sadistic, psychologically sadistic scene that I wish we kept in. But again, everybody was begging me to keep this movie under two hours. So I was trying to cut wherever I possibly could without losing main story elements—we needed specific character elements, or else you wouldn’t believe any of these dynamics. You wouldn’t care for these characters ultimately. So it’s tricky.
io9: There’s a couple of main characters, especially Jonathan, whose deaths occur off screen. What was the thinking behind that?
Leone: Well, I certainly thought about showing it, but I didn’t for a couple of reasons. One, I thought it would be almost disrespectful to that character, just how much I liked that character. I didn’t want to see that character suffer after everything he’s been through. I think the reveal is so important also because there’s a big misdirect at the ending where you’re not supposed to think that that’s Jonathan. You’re supposed to think that’s Gabbie’s skull. I thought it was more effective to just reveal it that way. I know a lot of people wanted to see that poor character get killed. [Laughs.] Another reason is we would have had to kill him directly after the shower massacre scene and everybody would have been completely desensitized at that point. It would have had no impact whatsoever. I think the audience needed a little bit of time to breathe after that.
Terrifier 3 is in theaters now.
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Former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame has updated his LinkedIn profile with a new role: a prisoner in a federal correctional institute. “I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Inmate at FCI Cumberland!” He said in a post above an animated image celebrating his new position.
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Salame’s job history includes time at a bunch of prestigious crypto businesses. He worked the crypto OTC trading desk at Circle, was the head of OTC at Alameda Research (one of the branches of FTX) and eventually became the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets. Now he’s added another job to the list: Inmate, full-time, at FCI Cumberland. His skills? Cleaning and whittling.
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The post was a hit on LinkedIn and has, as of this writing, garnered more than 1,000 comments. It was so popular that it broke containment and spread to other social media sites like X where it’s been reposted too many times to count. We love it when someone who’s been convicted of a crime takes it good-naturedly, especially when those crimes are financial in nature.
Salame was part of the executive leadership team of FTX where he worked closely with founder Sam Bankman-Fried and chief engineer Nishad Singh. FTX was a crypto success story, for a while, but it turned out the company was robbing Peter to pay Paul. Now most of its executives are in jail.
In September of last year, Salame pleaded guilty to using FTX’s cash to donate tens of millions of dollars to political campaigns on both sides of the aisle. The goal was to get politicians to pass crypto-friendly legislation. According to the Justice Department, Salame and FTX made more than $300 million in political contributions and lied about where the money came from.
“Ryan Salame agreed to advance the interests of FTX, Alameda Research, and his co-conspirators through an unlawful political influence campaign and through an unlicensed money transmitting business, which helped FTX grow faster and larger by operating outside of the law,” U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement about Salame’s sentencing. “Salame’s involvement in two serious federal crimes undermined public trust in American elections and the integrity of the financial system. Today’s sentence underscores the substantial consequences for such offenses.”
Salame is 30 and if he’s in the can for his full sentence, he won’t get to update his LinkedIn profile again for more than seven years. In addition to the time behind bars, Salame agreed to forfeit $1.5 billion and pay an additional $6 million forfeiture and more than $5 million in restitution.
Salame is one of the harsher sentences handed down in the wake of the collapse of FTX. Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion. His on-again-off-again girlfriend and head of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, was sentenced to two years. Singh and executive Gary Wang are still waiting to hear their fate, which the courts will hand down on October 20 and November 20 respectively.
We’ll have to watch their LinkedIn profiles to see how well they take it.
ByteDance’s TikTok is laying off hundreds of employees, mainly in Malaysia, according to Reuters. The cuts come as the social network is increasingly turning to AI for content moderation.
Although TikTok did not provide the exact number, it said that less than 500 people were affected.
The company said it’s making the changes as part of its efforts to strengthen its global operating model for content moderation, according to Reuters. TikTok currently uses both automated detection and human moderators to examine content shared on the social network.
TikTok has not responded to TechCrunch’s request for comment.
The latest round of cuts at the social network follow a series of reductions conducted earlier this year. In April, the company cut over 250 jobs in Ireland, and in May reports indicated that it was laying off around 1,000 employees in its operations and marketing teams. In January, TikTok laid off 60 employees in sales and advertising.
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