“If you can’t win, cheat. If you can’t cheat, lie. If you can’t lie, scream at the other person until they relent.” -GOP since 2000

You don’t need another algorithm in your life watching everything you do and attempting to keep you engaged by serving you targeted content [...] YouTube is a prime example: The site is much more enjoyable when you search for the content you want to watch yourself.

Heard a tourism commercial today for how welcoming a place Poland is. My immediate thought was...mmm...No.

If he isn’t, who is?

It’s like the fifth highest grossing movie of the entire past decade. And you’re mystified why he gets attention?

many people aren’t being told and have already been scanned

I have to think the, “we’ll pay you for a day’s work in exchange for having unlimited rights to your image forever” is an absurdist negotiating ploy, because no one who actually wanted to work as an actor would sign up for that since it rather obviously renders you unemployable as an actor outside of live theater…

So, what I’m saying is that the legal debate is whether or not she should be protected by those protections on repro rights, which is interesting, since it should give more clarity on when those protections end (at birth, or post-birth?).

Yep. This is studios saying to the union, “will you let us break legal precedent?”

But they can’t do it yet though it will happen. It’s smart for the actors to fight for this now while they still can.

Except... the AMPTP didn’t budge on anything related to AI. By all accounts, they refused to entertain any of SAG’s counterproposals. They entered these talks expecting SAG to bend the knee like they always do, but they didn’t. Hence, strike.

TBH this sounds like a ridiculous thing that gets proposed with the sole purpose of being thrown out to show that you are making concessions.

It’s kind of amazing to see the AMPTP going full mask off between this and the ‘we don’t care about negotiating, once they’re homeless they’ll cave’.

You think they’d at least *pretend* to care to garner public support. 

Didn’t we have an entire lawsuit about taking someone else’s likeness and using it? Y’know, BTTF2, Crispin Glover, which very specifically the SAG won and thus started including clauses against actors’ and actresses’ likenesses being used without the actor person who's face it was being involved and paid? This was…

But in January of this year, AB 2223, a California law that prohibits people from being charged for behaviors during pregnancy that could result in abortion or perinatal loss, took effect. Since then, the district attorney’s office has pivoted to focusing on Carpenter’s behaviors after giving birth. Wednesday’s…

I was just coming down here to say that it really sounds like San Diego district attorney Summer Stephan fuckin’ suuuuuuuuucks.  Manslaughter - sure, I can buy that. But trying to claim actual homicide? FOH, you over-reaching bags of shit.

Thank you. But given the author I’m not surprised by the hot take making a connection with Dobbs even though this took place in California and state laws haven’t changed.

I don’t understand the connection to Dobbs or Roe here.

I’m not seeing how this connects to Dobbs or Roe. Plus it takes place in California, which hasn’t changed its policies on access to abortion rights or healthcare. If anything it has strengthened those rights.

This is tragic but seems like prosecutorial overreach charging it this way