‘Drew Barrymore Show’ Audience Members Say They Were Kicked Out for Writers Guild Support Amid Picket
That's very interesting, I did not realize that was the case.
It is worth noting SAG is not allowed to promote struck properties, so she has to be careful in selecting guests who are not promoting struck movies/ shows. So far she has selected guests who do not violate the SAG strike, but I'm a little surprised she's toeing the line for the SAG strike, but not WGA.
I'm sure I'm saying nothing new with all the comments here, but I thought I'd comment anyways:
I don't think it would be the end of the world for Beehaw to migrate to a new non-federated platform, and I would probably maintain my account there as well. I honestly think Beehaw and Lemmy might both be worse off for it though.
When Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works a while ago I made a second account to browse the defederated side of Lemmy; but I've found I rarely use that account anymore. The number of bad (and often hurtful) takes I've seen coming from the wider Lemmy community are exhausting and I can't be bothered to look through them most of the time.
Right now I feel (aside from all the work our overworked admin team deals with) Beehaw is in the perfect sweet spot. It has the welcoming and protective environment, which I feel is absolutely necessary; and it has activity from select instances that helps keep it interesting and fresh.
I think if Beehaw left Lemmy, I would miss activity from the friendlier instances, and I'm sure they would miss the activity from Beehaw as well. If Beehaw left, I genuinely think the whole of Lemmy would be just a little less safe and a little less friendly.
Having said that, it sounds like the current model is simply unsustainable, and maintaining the integrity of all of Lemmy is not your job. I hope you can find a solution that makes everyone happy while still maintaining your sanity.
My personal suggestion would be to contact the admins of some of the friendlier instances and maybe try making a shared suggested whitelist that just has confirmed friendly instances with admin teams you trust. Each instance could obviously alter their own whitelist, but it could be a good starting point for any new instances who are looking for safe instances to federate with (pending approval).
Good luck to you all in navigating this issue
Based off the article, it sounds like it was purchased quite recently as well. My personal guess is Embracer was buying up studios faster than it could support, counting on getting more funding down the line. Then Embracer had a deal fall through and realized they were laden with debt and had to drop the load.
Maybe Gearbox was giving the worst return on investment since it was such an expensive purchase which made it the prime target to sell.
I honestly can't even remember the last time I used Rotten Tomatoes. From its inception, it was always somewhat of a flawed concept in that it wouldn't tell you how good a movie was, but how favorable it would be to general audiences. If 100% of reviewers gave it a 7/10, it would still be "100% fresh."
I had heard that studios would only invite positive reviewers to early releases, and I had heard studios were gaming the Rotten Tomatoes reviews; so I'm not entirely surprised, but I am a little surprised to see an article about it.
My personal recommendation would be to find a reviewer/ critic who usually has similar tastes as yourself and follow them over the use of Rotten Tomatoes (though if I'm being honest, I've been checking those reviews less often too).
[solved] ¿Is there a convenient way to preview the actual URL behind a hyperlink before visiting it?
Jump
It's not a feature of Jerboa, but URLCheck provides that functionality system-wide. I had been missing that feature from RiF, but found URLCheck to fill that void nicely.
While I personally really enjoyed playing Stray, I'm having a hard time imagining it as a straight narrative.
While the setting was immersive and gorgeous to look at, and the gameplay was quite enjoyable; the narrative was quite light. The cat cannot speak and doesn't have much motivation beyond going home. Though the robot companion does have motivations and the ability to speak, it is not the main character of the game.
Regardless, I will be interested to see how the movie turns out.
Especially since I believe the estimated cost of agreeing to the requests would've been ~47M USD, which is literally less than a tenth of their current losses.
My feeling is this is not about the short term costs, but is about:
- Crushing the idea that strikes work, and workers hold all the power
- Making sure they can use cheap AI generated assets/ scripts in the future
While this is specifically for SAG; anecdotally, it seems the WGA/ SAG strikes have inspired other unions to stand up for themselves too (auto workers and flight attendants unions).
Hopefully this might inspire the video game industry workers to unionize as well.
Hulu does not seem to have a good track record of keeping mid-tier comedies afloat. Last year they cancelled "Reboot" after a single season, and I thought that show had real potential.
I suppose it's not out of the realm of possibility that Hulu wouldn't be getting the "A" material, and what they get would be more cancellation prone. After all, Disney has several different TV branches that any given show could be funneled into: ABC, "Freeform", Fox, FX, Disney+, and finally Hulu. It's very possible that Hulu is getting the bottom of the barrel picks, but I thought that Reboot was quite solid, and HIMYF was OK (though certainly not great).
It really feels like Hulu is just very cancellation happy at this point.
It definitely doesn't look like it would be fun to play; but having played PowerWash Simulator, there is something very relaxing about the gameplay loop.
It definitely isn't for everyone, and it isn't the most challenging game; but that doesn't mean it can't be relaxing and fun.
In any case, I don't expect this to turn you around on the game, but it's not as ridiculous a premise as you'd think.
a movie where Iron Man enters a mini-golf tournament with Genghis Khan and the 1927 New York Yankees
Don't give them any ideas LOL.
Overall, I think you're completely correct. So far consumer LLMs cannot come close to anything a human writer can create, but I'm concerned that Hollywood would gladly take the hit on quality to save on writers. I hope the strikes succeed in preventing AI from entering the writing and acting space, but hopefully they don't need to make concessions to prevent it.
As an aside, if everyone could create their own movies with AI, I wonder if studios would simply become IP holding companies (more than they already are). Anyone could make Lethal Weapon 5, but only the studio with the likeness rights (and training data) of Rob McElhenney would be able to have it look like the original actors are present.
I like the look of these stickers being matte, but part of this is me trying to learn how to get the look I want across the board (since this is largely a learning experience for me). Hopefully I'll get the hang of it soon enough.
For now I'm pretty happy with how these turned out too. I just need to figure out what I can do with these in the meantime lol
The amount the studios are losing from the strike could have paid for the WGA/ SAG requests easily, which makes the studios holding out feel even more ridiculous; but I think it's not about the money for them.
I think they want to send the message that they hold the power, not the workers, to disincentivize/demoralize future strikers. On top of that, I think they are salivating at the thought of never paying a "creative" again; and AI writers rooms and owning the likeness rights of every extra they ever use would certainly make it easy for them.
The studios are dreaming of the day they can ask a computer to generate Iron Man 7, and it'll spit out the script, generate CGI acting (including a rubbery PS3 looking RDJ), and it won't ever need to touch human hands.
The studios want to frame the strike about money (and that is certainly a big issue), but this could very well be a strike for the future of Hollywood's "soul"; which is why I think the studio heads are willing to take such a bath to keep it going
Honestly, I would hope for that as well; but it seems very similar to the enshittification of Amazon (Wired link, archive link):
Marketplace sellers reached huge audiences and Amazon took low commissions from them.
This strategy meant that it became progressively harder for shoppers to find things anywhere except Amazon, which meant that they only searched on Amazon, which meant that sellers had to sell on Amazon. That's when Amazon started to harvest the surplus from its business customers and send it to Amazon's shareholders. Today, Marketplace sellers are handing more than 45 percent of the sale price to Amazon in junk fees.
Basically the notion is once a storefront has captured the bulk of potential customers, they are able to extort their suppliers however they want, since it's the only way the suppliers can reasonably reach the customers.
Hopefully in this case, the publishers can explore other sales avenues; but it all depends on the reach of the subscription service.
Part of this article just feels like the capitalistic notion that profits should only increase and anything but that is failing:
"Expectations for Devolver this financial year were $115 million to $120 million, and they've had to go back to $90 million. The majority of that is the delay of big releases into 2024. I think those are decision for the right reasons, although investors won't like it in the short term.
But I wouldn't be surprised if the subscription model WAS actually hurting smaller developers. I remember hearing people hypothesizing that would be the case for a long time.
If you have Gamepass or PlayStation Plus Ultra, you can play almost any small publisher game for free. With that set up, there's a very large incentive to only play the games on the subscription service, instead of buying a full priced game to try out.
The problem is that once a small game is on the service, a large number of potential sales are going to be cannibalized by people playing on the subscription service instead of buying the game.
This leads to a scenario where your game needs to be on the subscription service and you have less sales because of it. This means that Microsoft and Sony have a large amount of power over the small publishers' vitality, since a lot of money now needs to come from deals with them.
As Microsoft starts tightening its purse strings trying to make Gamepass profitable, I wouldn't be surprised to see more small publishers suffering as a result.
I'm only peripherally familiar with this show (I knew people who tried to hate-watch it). What was the original premise of the show?
As far as I can tell, these supposedly protect you from facial recognition because they reflect IR. I'm not an expert in security cameras, but don't they only use IR at night? While they could technically run 24/7, that would burn out the LEDs in half the time.
These are also quite similar to the "anti-paparazi" reflective clothing. If you are interested in these as a statement piece, those might be of interest to you as well.
These seem like the developer came up with the function of the sunglasses after coming up with the sunglasses (after being inspired by the anti-paparazi clothes).
All in all, I don't really see much value in these sunglasses; and I suppose I wouldn't really be that concerned about facial recognition with proper masking safety, anyways.
I couldn't find a good example of nested comments on the linked modification, but I agree that it is likely not unique to Lemmy/ Reddit/ Tildes.
I've been wondering about different forum softwares recently as well.
The Lemmy software seems like it might not be developed enough for the size of the userbase. This feels to be the case even more so after the attacks on Lemmy.world which would've been less of a problem with better moderation tools.
I've heard people throwing around the idea of forking Lemmy, but I'm not sure how likely that is.
I haven't used a non-link-aggregator forum in a long time, so I might be biased; but I don't personally like the style of them. I prefer the information density of Lemmy/ Reddit/ Tildes style link-aggregator forums. The ability to have multiple independent comment threads for each link definitely helps encourage discussions (in my opinion).
My personal preference would be for Lemmy to develop stronger mod tools, but who knows how likely that would be?
That's a good point. If she's SAG and not WGA (which I'm assuming is the case), then her toeing this specific line could be enough to keep her out of trouble; even though what she is doing is morally dubious at best.