Gerry Duggan

@gerryduggan.bsky.social

Writer. Sometimes a photographer. NY Times best selling author and Eisner nominee. WGA. Formerly: Marvel/Star Wars. Currently: Falling In Love On The Path To Hell, The Dark Room and more at Image Comics.

Really grateful that Patton, Jordan & Scott invited Mark Torres and I to play in the MINOR THREATS sandbox. This is a seedy crime story in a world dominated by capes. Orders are due this Monday - it's one of my favorite recent collaborations. Thanks for checking it out!

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Saw that senator humiliate himself. Even Jack Smith's straight man was Emmy-worthy. I think it's a coin toss if Schmitt or his staff asked "AI" for help trying to cook Smith. Not saying they're not that stupid -- but I bet they're that lazy. And "AI" is that stupid.

austrian policeman: did you get a look at the people who killed your baby, mrs. hitler? mrs. hitler: yes they were all wearing silver time travel suits and saying something about updog austrian policeman: what's updog mrs. hitler (to camera):

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

I assume anyone who points out how small the trans population is doesn’t know any trans people & I guess that’s what it takes to care? Because if you know even ONE trans person, like a person in your life, how can you think about that person and conclude it’s okay if they get thrown under the bus?

It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.

FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.

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Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Trump and Markwayne continue to use DHS to illegally interfere with and threaten our free and fair elections. To protect our democracy, we MUST dismantle DHS and hold the Trump administration accountable.

Whistle-Blower: Federal Agents May Have Broken State Laws in Search For Voter Fraud

Agents expressed concern about being directed by top Homeland Security leaders to use private information to look up voter records in state databases.

nytimes.com

A 40-year-old unvaccinated woman in Pennsylvania has just died from measles. There is no controversy. She needlessly died from a disease that is preventable with a vaccine. But HHS Secretary RFK Jr. thinks measles isn’t that bad. Nobody should die of measles in the United States.

Pennsylvania woman dies of measles-related complications, local coroner says

The 40-year-old woman, who was from Jefferson County was unvaccinated, according to the coroner. The state health department is conducting a "thorough review" of the case.

washingtonpost.com

Silicon Valley's pumping the brakes on "AI" for purely financial reasons. The financials are a disaster. These fascists never gave one fuck about safety, and they're not starting now.