@karlrolson @toolbear @stevenrosenthal
just mildly spicy TBF

@stevenrosenthal
It's still surreal that that's a thing...

I captured the moment when comedy’s two best Trump impersonators met each other for the first time — on the #wga picket line.

@stevenrosenthal @karlrolson
Yet the studios actually think they can replace real #writers with #AI, better referred to as "spicy autocomplete"?? CEOs are probably oblivious to the "content" (lordy, I despise that term!) their studios produce & only care about the $$$.
#writersstrike #WGA #unionstrong

Some real shade from “What We Do in the Shadows” writer Rajat Suresh.

Article here: https://jacobin.com/2023/05/writers-strike-wga-amptp-streaming-pay

#wgastrike #wga

@stevenrosenthal @jacobschumer Interesting, I didn't know that was possible. But I agree it's unlikely... studios aren't known for their heroism!

👀“Conserv judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for #ClarenceThomas’s wife to be paid 10s of 1000s of $ for consulting work just over decade ago, specifying her name be left off billing paperwork.

In Jan 2012, Leo instructed Kellyanne Conway to bill nonprofit group he advises & use that $ to pay Ginni Thomas The same year, the nonprofit filed a brief to #SCOTUS in landmark voting rights case”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/

The crypto spam attack on mastodon.social today is an interesting example of how a decentralized network can tend to become semi-centralized, with some nodes having many more users than others — which makes them more tempting targets for spammers.

@adamconover ruins #CNN!

> David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of the network I’m talking to you on right now, was paid $250 million last year, a quarter of a billion dollars. That’s about the same level as what 10,000 writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively, alright. So I would say if you’re being paid $250 million—these companies are making enormous amounts of money. Their profits are going up. It’s ridiculous for them to plead poverty.

In ONE HOUR I'll be joined on the picket line by one Hasan Piker for an irl stream as the #WritersStrike continues. Come cheer us on at twitch.tv/HasanAbi and learn a thing or two about this historic action!

@kevinrothrock
Do you think he's behind the "drone assassination attempt" on #Putin? He's got the motive and the means... #RussiaWar #Ukraine #wagnergroup #Prigozhin

Russia is so desperate for open political discourse that a small part of me actually welcomes the chance to see somebody, even an ogre like Prigozhin, scream obscenities at senior fucks like Shoigu and Gerasimov. That joy fades fast, though.
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RT @meduza_en
Shouting obscenities & standing in front of rows of dead bodies, Wagner Group head Evgeny Prigozhin delivered his boldest challenge yet to Russia’s military leaders. “[These men] ca…
https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1654282357480849410

Wired says #Bluesky is the space for “the Internet elite”.

So what they’re saying is that #Bluesky is for status seekers and clout chasers.

You know, the spot for media gatekeepers to pad their articles with social media posts that say something to the effect of, “This!” and “This!” and “You, sir, just won the Internet!”

https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-596/

@fediversenews

I don’t want journalism to be taken over by AI, but the task of compiling tweets for reactionary takes on whatever scandal could totally be done with AI—and that would be a big improvement.

@FinchHaven @atomicpoet @weaselbot @capibarabot @RedPandaEveryHr @hourlysheep @possumeveryhour @levelbot @rabbiteveryhour

Don't forget @HourlyOtters
@HourlyFoxes

@thehill ROFLMAO "disrespectful" says the guy who tried to have his own vice president HUNG shortly before the inauguration of the next president, which he didn't attend! #kingcharlescoronation #trumpisajoke

BREAKING NEWS: "Hunter Biden's Laptop made payments to Justice Thomas" by Politico Writers

#Satire #SCOTUS #lawtwitter

@lawprofblawg 🏆🥇