Lolo Haroutunian

@loharou.bsky.social

Retired Cinematographer & Creator of the RocketJump Film School | Nonbinary, they/them ♿️

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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when my 3yo niece became my doctor there were zero wait times, no need for insurance, and I was CURED by amputating only ONE pinky. and her office only billed me an extra book read to her at bed time. current american medical care is falling behind

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

"AI agents are agents of the person or organization that deploys them—and should be treated by the law as such [...] To allow businesses to hide behind the excuse of faulty AI [...] would introduce disastrous incentives for corporate misbehavior." 🎯 www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

AI and Liability - Schneier on Security

Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,” and that they generally know “that information gen...

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Going through old files and I found some early research I did (2014?) when I was brainstorming what I wanted Rocketjump Film School to be like (or in this case, NOT like). I noticed a... pervasive trend at the time and started taking screenshots lol

A collage of 12 different screenshots from filmmaking and photography tutorials on Youtube. 11 of the screenshots are of a male filmmaker or creator talking to the camera with a woman (often scantily clothed) sitting passively as a subject. A 12th screenshot shows a kidnapped woman with a gag over her mouth and text describing shutter angle and frames per second.

Bigger names in production work commercials all the time when not shooting features; the huge budgets on these things would shock most folks. But *actors* moving to commercials just feels like another sign the industry isn't doing so great. Commercials are one of the few consistent gigs rn

🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼@youcaughtscott.com · 3mo ago

Appearing in a commercial used to be the death knell for an actor's career. Orson Welles hawked wine almost 50 years ago and we still make fun of him for it. Now if you're an A-list star you basically agree to star in an annoying ad that runs 24/7.