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🔥🛢️ After a prolonged pause in Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries, a massive overnight drone attack targeted the Novokuybyshevsk refinery near Samara, Russia, on October 30. The Rosneft-owned refinery has an annual processing capacity of 8.8 million tonnes of crude oil
“Absolutely f*cking not,” Knight responded without hesitation. “AI is theft. It’s the ingestion of years and years and years of human creativity and ingenuity, regurgitated back. It has no humanity. It has no spirit.” theplaylist.net/wildwood-tra...
‘Wildwood’ Director Travis Knight Calls AI “Theft,” Says LAIKA Will Never Use It: “Absolutely F*cking Not” [Interview]
Travis Knight rejects AI in filmmaking and discusses the extraordinary challenges behind LAIKA’s ‘Wildwood.’
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The amount of work and craft and care and skill that went into WILDWOOD is bonkers. Please go see this movie if you’re able. We can’t effectively push back on the slopification of everything if we don’t also show up for human-made art.
Inside WILDWOOD: How Laika Animated the Massive Battles
YouTube video by JoBlo Behind-the-Scenes + Bloopers
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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.
This popped up on my memories today, from when I was living in Switzerland. I didn't realise I had Siri activated, and Nigel Farage appeared on the telly.
Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in
Investigation w/ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social (DemocracyForSale) & @georgegreenwood.bsky.social (The Times) just landed. We reveal how a gambling site w/ close links to "Posh George", a key aide of Farage, used a fake document to get its gambling license democracyforsale.substack.com/p/gambling-s...
Gambling site linked to George Cottrell ‘used fake document to get licence’
Questions have been raised over how Tether.Bet, a firm closely linked to Nigel Farage’s right-hand man, obtained documents allowing international operations
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It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.
Amy Acton’s Stepfather Was Charged with Raping Her When She Was a Child. Now Her Ohio Election Opponent Is Using That Against Her
Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio, has previously publicly discussed being sexually abused by her stepfather between the ages of 9 and 12. Her opponent Vivek Ramaswamy recently ...
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“I remember looking out at the crew who were watching the fire move in real time through satellite imagery, and they were thinking, ‘I’m about to lose my home,'” Ahmed said. “It was right there. So much of what is explored, exposed, and satirized in this film was staring us right in the face.”
‘Digger’ Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Riz Ahmed on How the Year’s Riskiest Movie Captures Our Demented Reality: ‘We Are Living in a Satire’
'Digger' Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and Riz Ahmed on Tom Cruise's transformation, keeping the film's twist a secret, and avoiding finger pointing.
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When Trump says the Ukraine does not want to end the war, what he is really saying is that Ukraine does not want to surrender to a deal that he has worked out with Putin which would see the Ukrainians hand over more of their land and people. Speaking the truth is important.
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...
TikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)
Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.
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X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account. This is why Democracy Docket is not built on SubStack or any third-party platform that could one day turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld
Ukraine to resume strikes on Russian refineries, Zelenskyy says ft.trib.al/NOCGoR0
Ukraine to resume strikes on Russian refineries, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian president expresses anger in FT interview at ‘dangerous’ withdrawal of US intelligence sharing and weakening of Starlink satellite internet service
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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 2w agoBeing GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
It just doesn’t get better than this ❤️
jentrification@jentrification.com · 3w agothis is community 🪴
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
