💬 Quoted: “He simply changed his mind.”

• Flip-flopping isn’t just for beaches and pancakes. Famed director Quentin Tarantino is no longer planning to make The Movie Critic, a Brad Pitt-led film reportedly set in the same universe as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which Tarantino previously said would be his 10th and final film. For over a decade, Tarantino has maintained he will only make 10 films before retiring (he counts both volumes of Kill Bill as a single movie). It’s currently unclear which project Tarantino will choose to replace The Movie Critic as the capstone of his 32-year career.

🏘️📉 Stat of the Day: The spring homebuying season is like a snail at the beginning of a race – off to a sluggish start. Existing US home sales declined 4.3% on a monthly basis in March, marking their biggest such drop since November 2022, per new data from the National Association of Realtors. At the same time, the median price of an existing home was $393,500 – up 4.8% from last year, and the highest March price on record – while average mortgage rates rose above 7% this week for the first time since December.

🤔 Did You Know? During World War II, the Japanese army launched a second attack on Pearl Harbor three months after its initial assault on December 7, 1941.

📰 Worth a Read: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat → (The Verge)