Eva Chanda

@erchanda@spore.social
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Scientist by training. Writer by profession. Wife and mom by choice. Geek by nature. As slow as my favorite animal. 🐱 Patience, Padawan.
#ClimateCrisis #inequality #biodiversity #COVIDisAirborne #COVIDisNotOver #secularhumanist #science #scifi
#DigitalRightsForLibraries
@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

TV Writers Say They’re Striking to Stop the Destruction of Their Profession

Television shows across the country are going dark because their writers have walked off the job. The strikers say they had no choice but to walk, as new technology and the squeeze from executives have put their very livelihood in serious danger.

@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/

Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’

Leonard Leo told GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to give the spouse of the Supreme Court justice « another $25,000 » and to bill a nonprofit organization called the Judicial Education Project.

The Washington Post
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!