Terror

• The tech-focused fund, backed by investors from Pitango,Viola, IGP, SilverTech and more, is raising funds to ensure the continuity of promising Israeli startups
  TEL AVIV, Israel, Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Iron Nation , a volunteer emergency impact fund ensuring the continuity of early-stage Israeli start-ups, today announced its launch.
• The recent Israel-Hamas war and the subsequent callup of 15-20% of the tech workforce to reserves caused early-stage start-ups in Israel to face unprecedented challenges.
• Iron Nation's mission is to ensure that highly promising Israeli tech startups with established venture backing, a critical part of the tech ecosystem, can continue to grow during and after this crisis.
• Renowned New York-based venture capitalist Charlie Federman of Silvertech Ventures was among the first to join the Iron Nation investment committee.

• TYSONS, Va., Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- PenFed Credit Union , the nation's second-largest federal credit union, today released financial results.
• PenFed continues to focus on its members with its market-leading products and services, despite a challenging economic environment with rising inflation.
• Year-to-date as of Q3 2023, PenFed attracted nearly $1.2 billion in new shares and added 174,000 new members.
• PenFed financial highlights as of the third quarter of 2023 include:
  PenFed's member shares grew year-over-year by $1.7 billion, which represents 6% growth.

• Calling upon people around the world to advocate for those who cannot share their own stories.
• Together, we must relentlessly fight for the freedom of these innocent civilians and demonstrate our solidarity in the face of such injustices.
• Julianna Margulies added, "With every passing hour, the health and safety of each hostage becomes more tenuous.
• The campaign calls on the world to stand against terrorism and to express unwavering support for the immediate release of these hostages.

• One of the socially redeeming features of mass media has always been its communal aspect, the fact people are drawn together into a shared experience based on network programming.
• Of course, this, in the English-speaking world at least, has been driven by the desire for profit through selling advertising space to corporations.
• Her investigation takes her across the globe and back through time to the 1980s and the Cold War.
• We watch as she interviews people, often using ethically dubious practices, and assembles the material entirely from inside her home.

What is the monolith?

• We never definitively find out (which some viewers will surely find annoying).
• The obscurity with which the film represents the bricks seems to call for this kind of allegorical reading.
• Joining Sullivan are the voices of some well-known Australian actors including Damon Herriman, Kate Box and Erik Thomson.

The strange solitude of interpersonal communication

• The strange solitude of interpersonal communication in the global information economy underpins the whole thing, and the screen is replete with a plethora of different technologies reflecting this – talking head videos online, audio recording, editing and streaming, mobile phones, smart houses, close-ups of digital text.
• At the same time, we watch her go about the day-to-day business of living – making food in the kitchen, eating, showering at night – her deep solitude foregrounded throughout.
• Despite this, Monolith remains an effective fantasy-thriller, remarkably engaging given its limitations – one location, one actor (well, two, including pet turtle Ian).
• It’s also refreshing to see a high concept Australian film, as opposed to the usual social realist and period dramas.

Ari Mattes does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.