Sarah Dollard

A lot of really good analysis here as to why TV historically hasn't made shows like #HeatedRivaly. For Reasons (most of them dumb! frustrating!), TV continues to leave money on the table (aside from Hallmark etc). Not ideal! I hope the success of HR changes this however +

omg PLS

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

reminder to all my trans friends that a man who campaigned with this much support and love for us just destroyed the most machine politician to ever exist in spite of all odds. turns out vocally caring about us is a winning strategy!!

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

SO GLAD TO SEE MEDIA REPORTING ON THIS

Inside ‘Elio’s’ “Catastrophic” Path: America Ferrera’s Exit, Director Change and Erasure of Queer Themes Creatives at Pixar who saw the original director's previous cut of 'Elio' tell THR about the movie's challenging production process: "'Elio' just [became] about totally nothing."

I'm no longer shocked when the truths come out but my heart still breaks every time. Queer youth are attacked at every turn and they can’t even have the respite of feeling seen by a movie, all so regressive bigots don’t have to feel discomfort for two hours.
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How to Kill a Client selected for Dynamic Television Scripted Initiative – Screen News – Screen Australia Screen Australia and Dynamic TV are thrilled to announce How to Kill a Client, a dark comedy series from Easy Tiger Productions (Colin from Accounts, The Twelve) has been selected for the Dynamic Tele...

brb, off to kill a client with some very clever people www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/screen-ne...

Since the eighties, LuPone has been based in Connecticut. Years ago, she and Johnston got a flock of chickens and named them Marilyn, Rita, Eartha, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Fabulous Miller Sisters (Pia, Alexandra, and Marie-Chantal). All but three were massacred in a raccoon attack. "It was horrific," LuPone said. "There was blood and feathers and guts all over the place when my husband heard me screaming. He came down in this Victoria's Secret underwear, barefoot. We looked in the hen hut, and there was the raccoon, basically looking at us, going, I ain't finished.'"

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

Enjoy the Oscars, everyone

A two part coming. On the top panel, a gray caricature of a person is labelled "Open AI" and is smiling while reaching for a yellow balloon labelled "Intellectual property theft". In the bottom panel, the same scene is presented but zoomed out slightly; this time, the person is looking backwards nervously at a pink monster also labelled "intellectual property theft"

UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI Consultation suggests opt-out scheme for creatives who don’t want their work used by Google, OpenAI and others

Who could possibly have predicted that this current Labour govt. - on record for having 100s of meeting with corporate lobbyists (literally having a meeting a day) and already embroiled in a "giftgate" scandal - would roll over for tech companies www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

For anyone producing any original work in the UK, the government is currently pursuing a deeply flawed 'opt-out' model for AI companies to indiscriminately hoover up content, whilst conveniently placing the administrative burden with creators and creatives. Please do respond to the consultation:

The cruelty of this is hard to fathom. Children deserve so, so much better. Section 28 days are back

More cis people need to be vocal & hardline on trans issues, this is undoubtedly another step towards legislating all trans people out of existence. This is happening. People are going to die

Some lists of bad actors to block (click subscribe, then select block). Didn't create these, but I block 'em all! Up to you how you want to handle!

MAGA

Right Wing Propaganda

Far right

NFT/AI/Crypto

More NFT/AI/Crypto

British Bigots

Nazis

Content Scrapers

And you!

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Important note from the bird site, especially for artists:

i know we all know this but can you imagine a life in which who uses the same public loo as you is the biggest thing you care about in politics. every so often i see it with fresh eyes and i lose it again.

US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges New technologies are straining country’s power supplies and cutting plans to reduce generation of the fuel by nearly half

There is no demand for AI. It’s being shoved down our throats, and it’s an ecological nightmare.

“US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges”

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WTF. Vanity Fair France PHOTOSHOPPED OUT a Palestinian flag pin Guy Pearce had on his lapel pin in Cannes.

They got outed because they didn't realize he also had on a braided bracelet with the Palestinian flag colors and forgot to remove that one too.

Researchers Ask Why Surgery Regret is So Low for Trans Patients, What Can Be Learned — Assigned Dr. Harry Barbee answered our questions about the direction of research into trans patients’ post-surgical regret, and how other areas of medicine might benefit from understanding the unusually lo...

Fascinating: regret rates for trans surgery are so low compared to other surgeries that researchers are asking whether informed consent model used for trans people could help reduce regret for other medical procedures. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

This is a UK production (non-WGA) but it still feels weird to be celebrating right now. Would be pretty neat if the AMPTP genuinely reckoned with WGA and SAG-AFTRA proposals and let everyone get back to work!!

Exciting news! I'm adapting
@elizabethhand.bsky.social's incredible GENERATION LOSS with a bunch of really cool and clever people
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