Scott Lambright

I bought a CD at Catalina, I can't be stopped from buying physical media, ever.

Collect physical media! MP3 players can stay, since they are just for music!

Disney-OpenAI Deal/Google “SAG-AFTRA will closely monitor the deal and its implementation to ensure compliance with our contracts and with applicable laws protecting image, voice, and likeness. “SAG-AFTRA members are very focused on the rapidly expanding use of intellectual property and individuals’ likenesses and voices by generative A.I. tools, and SAG-AFTRA remains vigilant about any such uses. “We acknowledge Disney’s and OpenAI’s independent outreaches to us on this matter and their assurances that they will meet their contractual and legal obligations to performers and continue to implement systems to ensure ethical and responsible use of this technology.

“This comes after months of frank discussions between SAG-AFTRA and OpenAI about the protection of performers. The ongoing dialogue reflects a significant commitment to taking SAG-AFTRA members' concerns into account in the protective measures applied to image, likeness, voice, performance, and intellectual property rights generally.

“In addition, we join in the objections raised in Disney’s formal demand letter to Google, putting the company on notice that the mass infringement of copyrighted works must stop. We equally object to the abuse of performers’ images, likenesses, and performances through its systems. Their output guardrails and technical protections are inadequate and must be significantly strengthened. When a platform is told that its tools are enabling large-scale copyright infringement and voice and likeness misappropriation, it has an obligation to act quickly and effectively. SAG-AFTRA expects Google and all AI providers to close these gaps and align their practices with both the law and the rights of performers and all creative talent. We know that they can, and we demand that they do.

“SAG-AFTRA members are the faces and voices who entertain and inform the world. Their talent and performances have given life to a century of inspirational human creativity and artistry. AI tools must always be employed with full transparency and the informed consent of the performers.”

Disney-OpenAI Deal/Google Notice

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Yup yup! These are rad!!

And if you *really* wanna go retro and own music again, *and* Vinyl is too expensive? (Cuz it is!)

Get a CD player!
Used CDs are cheap and easy to collect!

Read liner notes!
Look at album art!
Hear things in songs you never heard before!

Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, this dusty interstellar molecular cloud has by chance has assumed an immediately recognizable shape. Fittingly known as The Horsehead Nebula, it lies some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard 33, first identified on a photographic plate taken in the late 19th century. B33 is visible primarily because its obscuring dust is silhouetted against the glow of emission nebula IC 434. Hubble space telescope images from the early 21st century find young stars forming within B33. Of course, the magnificent interstellar cloud will slowly shift its apparent shape over the next few million years. But for now the Horsehead Nebula is a rewarding though difficult object to view with small telescopes from planet Earth.

🔭 The Horsehead Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: George Chatzifrantzis

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Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy engages in a sort of galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that are too close and are captured by the Milky Way's gravity. In fact, the practice is common in the universe and illustrated by this striking pair of interacting galaxies from the banks of the southern constellation Eridanus, The River. Located over 50 million light years away, the large, distorted spiral NGC 1532 is seen locked in a gravitational struggle with dwarf galaxy NGC 1531, a struggle the smaller galaxy will eventually lose. Seen nearly edge-on, in this sharp image spiral NGC 1532 spans about 100,000 light-years. The NGC 1532/1531 pair is thought to be similar to the well-studied system of face-on spiral and small companion known as M51.

🔭 Galaxies in the River

Image Credit & Copyright: Vikas Chander

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If you have a safety concern on a SAG-AFTRA set, never hesitate to reach out:
(844) SAFER-SET or (844) 723-3773.

You are not alone.

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Same! I always find overthinking and caring too much about what they want, instead of what I wanna do is the pitfall I fall I try avoid.

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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

A starfield is shown with a brown and gold tinted dust structures in front of a glowing blue gas background. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 The Heart of the Soul Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Nicola Bugin

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Yep! It lets people know you care about things, and instantly tells them your interests.

I bought my first vinyl during its down years for its sales. We like physical media and the devices that play it, you get to unplug and have a thing that only does one thing, and it does it well.

YouTube video by David Peterson All Alone in the Night - Time-lapse footage of the Earth as seen from the ISS

🔭 Flying Over the Earth at Night

Video Credit: Gateway to Astronaut Photography, NASA ; Compilation: David Peterson (YouTube); Music: Freedom Fighters (Two Steps from Hell)

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Colors from red at the top to blue at the bottom occupy this spectral image. In the midst of the colors are some dark spots indicating missing colors. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.

🔭 The Sun and Its Missing Colors

Image Credit: Nigel Sharp (NSF), FTS, NSO, KPNO, AURA, NSF

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FBI Making List of American “Extremists,” Leaked Memo Reveals Are you on Trump's naughty list?

Should be a front page story in every major news outlet tomorrow but our major news outlets don’t cover Trump like that anymore
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IQ is completely fake, means nothing, and not based on science at all so of course the far right has adopted it as justification for insane beliefs, most recently anti-somalian rhetoric

Fu and Kuan's Suits. The Typhoon twins complete the group as the white tiger and black tortoise (with bonus coiled snake).
#mecha #BattleSuitAces @team.trinketstudios.com

Its Friday, but this is greatest news I've seen all day! Hell yeah Battle Suit Aces!!!

YOU 🫵 should go play our silly little space opera mecha game!

it's heartwarming enough to keep you warm during the coldest months...

I'd like to once again say "I called it" and "I told you so" and also "Holy crap this is bad news that all these IPs are being owned by less and less companies over time."

Netflix to Buy Warner Bros. for $72 Billion The deal would reshape the entertainment and media industry, but it is set to face scrutiny from lawmakers.

Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros would be the latest in this harmful trend — and could kill the movie theater industry.

If Netflix gets their way, their increased domination would make things worse for viewers and artists.

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Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈I dream of the day when the world can become a place where transgender people can live proudly and freely as themselves, and where they can love freely

As a mascot, I see human love as beautiful and wonderful.
I love you all today as well♡

@Ilyndseybelle this is what 50 bucks means to a small business. $50 is nothing to a billion dollar company. start shopping small @meownikaa whoever just placed a $50+ order in my shop, thank you so much that literally just paid for half of my groceries tomorrow

Shopping small is meaningful!

Amazon's AI anime dubbing fiasco reminds us that voice actors are severely undervalued Amazon recently rolled out bad AI-generated dubs for several anime on Prime Video, demonstrating yet again that voice actors are undervalued.

While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut.

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Hey! If you’ve ever liked my voice, now, before the end of the year, would be a really good time to hire me for any SAG-approved projects!

Asking as someone who loves VO, and also really loves having halfway decent health insurance

Physical media is a great option too!

You gave her a great life Tom, so sorry for your loss.