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8AM — Orlando airport has a Seinfeld-themed arrival path:

Flying into Orlando, your plane might use the SNFLD arrival path, taking you past NOOMN, FORYU, SNFLD, JRRYY and GTOUT.

GET OUT!

10AM — Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David appear to be working on something Seinfeld related. I agree with Sam Barsanti, hoping it’s not a full revival of the show:

Don’t do a Seinfeld revival, please. Curb Your Enthusiasm already did a whole thing about it, you don’t need to do it for real. If Seinfeld and David or so desperate to revisist that universe, do it as a novel or a comic book—you know, the way something like that is supposed to be done.

Like the Beetle or the Mini, heck I’m going to say Star Wars, Seinfeld is a classic. Any attempt to revive the old magic will certainly fail. (via)

11AM — The show about nothing is about something after all. Maya Salam’s reading suggests Seinfeld is an antithetical stance on adulthood in the nineties, one where “they openly mocked the notion that professional success, marriage and parenthood were the cornerstones of existence.”

5PM — A Seinfeld-like AI-generated sitcom streams forever on Twitch. Skyler Hartle, one of its creators:

As generative media gets better, we have this notion that at any point, you’re gonna be able to turn on the future equivalent of Netflix and watch a show perpetually, nonstop as much as you want. You don’t just have seven seasons of a show, you have seven hundred, or infinite seasons of a show that has fresh content whenever you want it.

Dear god, no! Don’t give them any ideas. We don’t need shows that run for ten seasons with twenty episodes each, let alone shows that run forever.

8AM — Jerry Seinfeld is a role model for aspiring managers:

The show was successful because I micromanaged it—every word, every line, every take, every edit, every casting. That’s my way of life.

The rest of the interview is about as dull as you’d expect when a publication focussing on business and management interviews a comedian. “How effective is humor as a leadership tool?” “As a live performer, how do you improve?”