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foulfirerebel
mythicexplorer

It's so incredibly upsetting that in order to keep track of the trial progress for the people that murdered Jacob Williamson, I have to keep reading this kids deadname, and seeing him referred to as a woman, and seeing the trial progress as femicide, with no acknowledgment of his identity or the transphobia that led to his death.

incubus-absolution

via @/transmascissues

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[image id: tags that read #this is why you should never trust anyone who says we arent getting killed #bc what really happens is they just do not recognize us as trans so the cases go unnoticed by anyone who isnt specifically paying attention #tw transphobic violence #transandrophobia" end image id]

foulfirerebel
stuttersteps

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what black mirror episode are we in now

reasonsilovemywife

Fun (sarcasm) fact: I have an old station wagon and where I live, there's a lot of film industry. My old car:


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When they film things that are in the 80's or so, they hire folks to show up with their old cars.

You may have seen it in Stranger Things, for example:

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Or the Haunting of hill house:

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And a few others. But anyway, at one point, they were trying to get all us folks with old cars to come to the studio and they were going to give us like 500 bucks so the Special Effects department can scan our cars and make 3d models of them

We all said no.

We have also all agreed, even though we're just lowly extra's and not even SAG (Some of us are also IATSE, local 479 if you're curious), though, we've all agreed we're standing with SAG-AFTRA and refusing to work.

@neil-gaiman can speak better to the SAG-AFTRA stuff than me, but even us BG folks around here stand with the writers.

sussexlavender

[Image: Post by One Take News @OneTakeNews "The studio's bat-sh*t crazy A.I. proposal to SAG-AFTRA consisted of scanning a background actor's likeness for one day's worth of pay and using their likeness forever in any form without any pay or consent. In other words, actors would become obsolete."]

[Image: Post by Tony Giglio @tonygig "The @Amptp proposed a plan to @sagaftra that would eliminate SAG jobs by scanning background actors, paying them 1 day, & owning their likeness & using it forever. They actually proposed this. THIS is their endgame. to remove artists from art. they want AI scripts & actors."]

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RollingStone: Striking SAG Actors in Disbelief Over Studios’ Dystopian AI Proposal

Gizmodo: Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare

Studios Want to Replace Background Actors With AI After Paying Them for Only One Day
Hollywood studios reportedly want to replace background actors with AI after paying them only for a single day of work.
Futurism

"In that groundbreaking AI proposal," Crabtree-Ireland said, referring to the AMPTP and as quoted by CNBC, "they propose that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation."

ONE DAYS PAY.

Insider sources have told Collider that studios have already utilized technology that can replace background actors with digital avatars in upcoming movies including "Captain America: Brave New World" and Netflix's "The Residence."

According to the report, some actors allege that they weren't even given the option to opt out of being scanned, something that was contingent on their being hired

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/cc @flanaganfilm for the Haunting of Hill House reference

foulfirerebel
toastcrime

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Reader, it has happened already. Less than a month after it debuted, the Black Mirror episode Joan Is Awful has already become the unlikely figurehead of the strike.

It's the story of a woman who, at the end of each day, realises with horror that her actions have been folded into a Dropout-style biographical drama, where all her bad traits and regrettable decisions are played out onscreen by Salma Hayek. Except, as the episode goes along, we learn that it isn’t Hayek at all; it’s an AI-generated likeness of Hayek, commissioned by unethical executives working for a monolithic streaming platform.

It couldn’t be more timely. A sticking point of the Sag-Aftra strike is the potential that AI could soon render all screen actors obsolete. Chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland laid bare the AMPTP’s so-called “groundbreaking AI proposal,” which holds the potential to wipe out an entire pathway to breaking into the industry, as well as a reliable source of income for many. The reported proposal hinged on the ability for background actors to be “scanned, get paid for one day’s pay” and for that company to “own that scan of their image, their likeness, and to be able to use it for the rest of eternity in any project they want with no consent and no compensation.”

It’s a similar line to the one currently taken by the striking WGA writers. Eventually, they claim, technology will advance enough to make an AI-generated script that is indistinguishable from one created by a human. These scripts would be cheap and instant, and – even though they’re essentially composite jobs, made by scraping existing scripts – they would immediately put an entire profession out of work.

fellas, we're really in it (a black mirror episode) now

foulfirerebel
bloody-writing

hold the damn phone,,,

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i was curious and looked up whether Gayatri is Pav’s version of Gwen Stacy (cause her name starts with G and her last name starts with S) and i didn’t know this was actually canon,,

are you fucking telling me that there’s a possibility that she would eventually die in the future per Miguel’s algorithm ???? bro ??????? she’d probably be among the Gwen Stacy’s we’ll see in BTSV,,

foulfirerebel
another-punk-trans-woman

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Funny how a mass arrest goes completely under the radar when it's mostly teens, right?

all-about-that-nerd
SFPD shuts down Dolores Park hill bomb, arrests dozens of teenagers
SF police officers in riot helmets rushed into and blockaded intersections this evening near Dolores Park to shut down the annual “hill bomb
Mission Local
thatdiabolicalfeminist

To be clear there was no explosive; "hill bomb" is just what the event is called.

prismatic-bell

Holy SHIT. I just finished reading a related article, and y’all, this was so corrupt OTHER SFPD COPS ARE STANDING WITH THE KIDS.

Like basically their take is “yeah, some kids were being unruly. Y’all handled it ENTIRELY the wrong way and there is zero reason this should have happened.” There was an official meeting (I think like a monthly town hall kind of thing? I forgot to take note when I read it) and the cop who’s in charge of internal conduct investigation was there and he. Was. PISSED. And inviting parents and teens involved to give their testimony on the specifics of the rights violations they experienced so he could follow up and make full reports.


Like you KNOW shit’s fucked when even other police are looking at the police chief and saying “what the fuck is wrong with you?”

frescopino

Imagine fucking up so bad that Internal "we investigated ourselves and found ourselves innocent" Affairs investigates you and finds you guilty.

prismatic-bell
Hill bomb: SF plans to drop cases against majority of youth
San Francisco officials to dismiss cases against 79 of the 81 teenagers arrested for hill bomb rioting. Status of arrested adults is unclear
Mission Local


What do you know.


Now let’s see the adults released.

foulfirerebel

Reposting @katlovesshrimp's reply because it's true.

"How does one officer getting a scratch on the face warrant the arresting of over 100 people? Most of them children that will now have that on their record for the rest of their lives. It's so insane to hear people say that California or specifically San Francisco is a socialist nightmare or liberal wet dream when things like this occur."

Just to post the article here where EVEN POLICE OFFICERS AND COMMISSIONERS and the fucking Internal Affairs person were (politely) saying "What the fuck?!"

Teens, parents, commissioners blast SFPD for Dolores hill bomb arrests
Parents and advocates of the teens spoke at Police Commission against SFPD, calling for an investigation into the cops' use of force.
Mission Local