I know the media is positioning this as purist creators defending the art form from predatory capitalists and I love that. But the basic truth is that the merger is going to **** up the money long term for everyone but like three people.
I’m sure there’s someone who has worded it better than me but the idea of MARVEL, a universe born from comics has no problem laying off their ENTIRE team of visual artists …
the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it
Can’t believe the news, Disney shutting down the marvel. vis dev department. This teams art made them billions and billions of dollars, but it seems that paying a handful or so of fulltime illustrators is simply too much to ask these days.
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
ai is for losers with no friends
Every time I talk to someone outside of Minnesota, we always spend time on *really* basic things they have don’t understand about what is happening here.
So let’s do a Q&A. What are your most basic questions about what’s going on in Minnesota?
The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon.
wapo.st/49Zqv1L
The absolute accuracy of this.
Paramount CEO David Ellison has been meeting with prominent European political figures in an attempt to derail Netflix’s acquisition of Warner Bros from ever being approved by the EU.
(Source: Deadline)
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003
when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
a handful of panels from a sequence I did in zootopia 2. it was a delight to play in this world (and work with this team)!
Not great news; turns out there’s a super fun US law that restricts it so that only cities with a population of over 700,000 can present a case like this (demanding a block to the WB merger sale)to a federal court. A blatant move to keep smaller cities from being able to sue corporations. (1/3)
many films use flashbacks to the protagonist's childhood as a storytelling element in a way that older films didn't. Perhaps its a pervasive shorthand bc we are some of the first generations who can watch ourselves as kids on home video?
Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.
A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.
Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.
Data centers are receiving billions in state tax exemptions.
These centers, many owned by Big Tech giants, are driving up electric bills and sucking up huge amounts of water.
AI is boosting the stock portfolios of the richest Americans while everyone else pays the price.
Trump has signed an Executive Order officially approving the sale of TikTok to a group of U.S. companies.
That includes Oracle, owned by billionaire and Trump donor Larry Ellison, whose media company now oversees CBS News and may soon control CNN.
What could go wrong?
Before he was a Senator, a candidate for President, and our greatest champion in the fight against oligarchy, Bernie Sanders was the four-term Mayor of Burlington, VT.
I sat down with Bernie in Astoria to talk about the lessons he learned—and the work ahead.
Trans rights are human rights.
If you claim to care about marginalized people, but don’t wear a mask in public, you don’t care ab ALL marginalized ppl
The irony is u could become immunocompromised / chronically ill at any time
You’re 1 COVID infection away from being 1 of us
Research shows that COVID damages your immune system
Covid is airborne: there's no evidence of fomite transmission (i.e. from surfaces). Covid hangs in the air like smoke & lingers in rooms with bad ventilation, hours after infected people have left.
Those baggy blue surgical masks are pretty useless anyway - we've been gaslit from the outset by govt.
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have revealed a synthetic glycosystem -a sugar-coated polymer nanoparticle- that can BLOCK SARS-CoV-2 from infecting human cells, REDUCING infection rates by NEARLY 99%. Acting as a decoy, the molecule BINDS to the spike protein, PREVENTING it from attaching to real cells.
they are murdering the people who tell the truth.
“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”
Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?
"AI doesn't go on strike. It doesn't ask for a pay raise," he added, parroting cliched talking points, much like a certain over-hyped technology. "These things that you don't have to deal with as a CEO."
This is why billionaires love AI
It should never be controversial to speak up about mass starvation. Having regular access to safe and nutritious food is a human right.
