***** Google is now implicitly endorsing the violence and worse of the Jan 6 insurrection *****

Let's be clear about what #Google's decision to permit election fraud videos to return to #YouTube really means. Election denialism led DIRECTLY to the horrors of Jan 6. By claiming that such videos are just like any other form of political speech, Google is wittingly or unwittingly ENDORSING that violence into the future. Unfortunately, it's that simple. And as someone who loves YouTube, I am both disappointed and disgusted. -L

'Why AI Is the Most Important Issue in the Writers' Strike'

AI isn't just central to the WGA strike either — it's the first battle in a much larger war that will affect all Americans.
 
I spoke with everyone from WGA Board members to Damon Lindelof about how the alarm bell about #AI was first run within the Guild and why it’s an existential threat to our industry (and countless American industries).

https://open.substack.com/pub/colehaddon/p/why-ai-is-the-most-important-issue?r=1mimd1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#WGAstrong #WGA #screenwriting #writing #writingcommunity

🧐 Life is coding.

Quiet luxury is
'...Mark #Zuckerberg in his signature charcoal-grey T-shirt, which he orders from Brunello Cucinelli in Milan instead of buying from Gap.

The only naff part of quiet luxury is the subtext of money, the subliminal flashing dollar signs of a wardrobe that is trying too hard to send the right signals to other rich people.'

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/jun/02/how-to-get-the-quiet-luxury-look-without-the-vulgar-price-tag

#fashion #style 

Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu, and Michelle Yeoh all looking amazing!!
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

#MetGala #AsianMastodon #KeHuyQuan #StephanieHsu #MichelleYeoh

Terrorism Bulletin

In the coming months, events could mobilize individuals to commit violence. Likely targets of potential violence include US critical infrastructure, faith-based institutions, individuals or events associated with the LGBTQIA+ community, schools, racial and ethnic minorities, and government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement. Please Reblog.
https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-may-24-2023

If you ever wonder how much confidence aerospace companies like SpaceX have in their own technical competence, the answer is: absolutely none, hence getting a special law to exempt them from liability for killing passengers and crew.

https://www.investors.com/news/desantis-rule-shields-musks-spacex-from-liability/

Long-Covid testimony, from my wife. Getting long-Covid or post-Covid or whatever will fuck up your life and is also not nice for your loved ones. Please read and consider: https://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/2023/05/this-is-not-over/

I was just out doing the family shopping at a crowded grocery store, almost nobody wearing a mask.

[Spreading the word on this would be a public service.]