Eric Vilas-Boas

“It’s Pretty Baffling” What OpenAI’s Disney deal means for Hollywood.

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➼ Will the bet on Sora — which feels a lot like a play for Gen Z and Gen Alpha — actually pay off? Lin pointed out that the restrictions Disney and OpenAI will have to impose on the use of its characters will be strict, possibly strict enough that they’d be a turnoff for their target audience. “They’ve spoken about having these kinds of safeguards that will prevent any sort of disturbing or terms-of-service-violating content from being made,” she says. “But to me, that limits sort of what the novelty of this technology was about in the first place. If you can only generate things that are company approved, I don’t see what the purpose of investing in this technology is.”

Bit more from her here, on the irony of the tools as described... www.vulture.com/article/open...

Will that be enough for the AI doomers and Disney creatives out there? Probably not. “It’s pretty baffling,” says Danny Lin, a storyboard artist for Disney and the president of the Animation Guild, for a brand known to be aggressively protective of its characters to hand them off to a third-party AI tool. “It feels like Disney throwing in the towel, rather than competing with these tech companies.” She adds: “Our members, the artists, technicians, and animators who created these iconic characters, are not being included in the conversation in terms of licensing compensation.”

NEW: Animation Guild prez Danny Lin speaks out against Disney's OpenAI deal. “It feels like Disney throwing in the towel, rather than competing with these tech companies,” she says.

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this metaphor collapses if you think about it for more than 5 seconds so... fitting for a cover about AI!

A New York Times headline that reads: "Calibri’s Run-In With Rubio Wasn’t Its First Controversy."

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

no, because both my dead grandmas would hate this fake soulless shit

Donald J. Trump & € @realDonald Trump It is my Great Honor to endorse Emilio T. Gonzales to be the next Mayor of the Beautiful City of Miami, Florida! A very successful Businessman, Civic Leader, former CEO of Miami Internationa Airport, and former City Manager and Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Miami, Emilio has dedicated his life to serving his Community. As the former

Miami mayor Candidate Votes MIAMI MAYOR 139 of 139 precincts reporting Emilio T. Gonzalez 14,799 VEileen Higgins 21,550 Vote % 40.71% 59.29%

Three weeks ago:
Trump give his “Complete and Total Endorsement” to Emilio Gonzalez in the Miami mayoral race. (Trump also misspells his name.)

Tonight:
Gonzalez loses by 20 points.

“.. Once upon a time, a chief executive openly signaling that he’d reorient a newsroom to appease a sitting president would be a five-alarm corporate scandal ..”

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@oliverdarcy.bsky.social $PSKY
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Pushing Daisies Pushes for a Season Three Creator Bryan Fuller says he’s trying to pitch a season three revival of ‘Pushing Daisies’ and the cast wants to come back to the pie shop.

Creator Bryan Fuller says he’s trying to pitch a season three revival of ‘Pushing Daisies’ and the cast wants to come back to the pie shop.

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

This is one of those things where a layman could look at it and go "amazing, that's really cool" but as someone who makes their living drawing I'll go, "No actually it's magic, it's absolute wizardry, you don't know how impossible it is that this guy made it look so effortless."

It's lost on the current bunch of money folks that this is basically the history of Hollywood movies as a cultural and business phenomenon -- understanding that you HAVE to take risks, but if you just manage that risk you can cultivate a lasting, broad-based audience and STILL have huge wins.

let's fucking goooo

The WGA Denounces Paramount’s Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. “The problem is the acquisition,” the guild said. “Not who the buyer is.”

NEW: The WGA reacts to Paramount's hostile bid to take over Warner Bros. Discovery.
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“These companies should be focused on investing in their own businesses rather than wasting tens of billions to buy up the competition.”

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I think “the president’s allies are promising to destroy media institutions the president doesn’t like to curry favor with him” is very bad, actually

you will be visited by 3 spirits

you will be visited by 3 spirits

Per the Netflix-WB deal, TCM is going with the "streaming and studios" arm of the company.

New statement here via @tvmojoe.bsky.social www.vulture.com/article/tcm-...

Exactly why the Ellisons are completely unfit to own Warner and CNN — even with all their wealth, what a bunch of acquiescent stooges. They are uninterested in making journalism better or a better business, but happy to make it better for Trump.

David Ellison Just Declared War Paramount CEO David Ellison has declared war, launching a hostile takeover bid to keep Warner Bros. from Netflix. We’ve laid his plans out — including Jared Kushner’s connection to his bid.

Paramount CEO David Ellison has declared war, launching a hostile takeover bid to keep Warner Bros. from Netflix. We’ve laid his plans out — including Jared Kushner’s connection to his bid.

… and he SERVED ✨

CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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Maybe Netflix Will Be Good for HBO “It may be the least worst option,” one HBO insider said of the deal.

There are lots of angles to the Netflix/WB deal, and plenty of reasons for concern. Media consolidation? Not great! That very significant caveat aside, there's reason to be hopeful that maybe the Netflix-HBO of it all will be... not bad? Up now at @vulture.com

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CDC vaccine panel votes to stop recommending birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, with members appointed by RFK Jr., voted to change longstanding recommendations on the hepatitis B vaccine.

"Medical experts and organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics opposed such a change, saying it will leave young children at risk of an infection that can cause lifelong illness. They point to decades of research confirming the vaccine's safety and effectiveness."

this is so wild

For a little under an hour — 41 minutes, according to a separate US official — Bradley and the rest of the US military command center discussed what to do as they watched the men struggle to overturn what was left of their boat, the sources said.

Ultimately, Bradley told lawmakers, he ordered a second strike to destroy the remains of the vessel, killing the two survivors, on the grounds that it appeared that part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine, according to one of the sources. The survivors could hypothetically have floated to safety, been rescued, and carried on with trafficking the drugs, the logic went.

41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

devastating www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...