The Reddit AMA as we know it is dead (qz.com)
The r/IAmA moderators will no longer organize the famous celebrity Q&As
Indiana Jones 5 Box Office Crash Reveals New Danger for Raiders of Nostalgia (www.denofgeek.com)
Disney turned Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny into one of the most expensive movies ever made. So why do audiences seem fairly ambivalent?
‘Squid Game’ Creator Gets No Residuals or IP Ownership Despite Series Earning $900 Million for Netflix (www.complex.com)
"The irony is not lost on us. Pay your writers," the WGA tweeted about Hwang Dong-hyuk's lack of additional compensation for the show's unprecedented success.
The guy who sued Amazon for infringing on his Lord of the Rings fanfic takes a massive L, now owes $134,000 to the Tolkien Estate (www.pcgamer.com)
Author Demetrious Polychron wanted $250 million for infringement of his book The Fellowship of the King.
Science Fiction Is Inherently Rebellious — So Why Don't Some of Its Fans Think So? (bookriot.com)
Sci-fi has always rebelled against the status quo and held a mirror up to current society, helping us to imagine something better.
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade Kickstarted George Lucas' Worst Habit (www.slashfilm.com)
George Lucas took the wrong lessons from the film.
Huge blow to industry as Power Rangers ending production in NZ (www.1news.co.nz)
The iconic show has been shot in New Zealand for the last 20 years, bringing $340 million into the economy.
Don't Replace News Editors With ChatGPT (gizmodo.com)
Replacing news editors with AI is a worry for misinformation, bias and accountability, a professor of information systems argues.
Star Trek: Prodigy Cancelled, Will Be Removed From Paramount+ (gizmodo.com)
The streamer won't move forward with the animated show's previously green-lit second season.
Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet (www.vox.com)
It all starts with a Voltron ship war, because of course it does.
Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite its own lawyers' warnings, authors allege (www.reuters.com)
Ugandan mythologies coming to life in animation and comics (observer.ug)
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For teen girls victimized by ‘deepfake’ nudes, there is little recourse (www.nbcnews.com)
The FBI has warned that technology used to create pornographic deepfake photos and videos was improving and being used for harassment and sextortion.
30 Years Ago, Star Trek's Smartest Show Pushed the Sci-Fi Franchise Into Shocking Territory (www.inverse.com)
Star Trek has always explored the desire for justice, but one 'Deep Space Nine' episode revealed just how complicated that desire can get.
Iman Vellani Details Her X-Men Comics Writing Process (gizmodo.com)
The multitalented star of The Marvels discusses writing Ms. Marvel for Marvel Comics, with a little help from history and... Billy Joel?
New teaser for Netflix’s 3 Body Problem series will make you want to play the game (www.theverge.com)
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem has a new release date and a promising teaser clip to ease the wait.
Wikipedia Is Covering the War in Israel and Gaza Better Than X (slate.com)
Elon Musk isn’t happy about it.
4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images (www.404media.co)
A coordinated campaign to flood the internet with racist images is using Bing and DALL-E 3’s text-to-image AI tool.
Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking (www.honest-broker.com)
The only areas where AI is flourishing are shamming, spamming & scamming
How a Broke Comic Shop Clerk Built a Billion Dollar Empire (www.youtube.com)
Robert Kirkman was dead broke. Then he changed the entire entertainment industry.Links and Reading GuideThe cheapest way to read Invincible and the Walking...
Hayden Christensen’s Star Wars redemption is complete (dorksideoftheforce.com)
Star Wars fans aren’t easy to please, and sometimes the weight of the fandom’s expectations can be suffocating for actors. Hayden Christensen suffered relentless criticism from fans and critics alike for his performance as Anakin Skywalker in Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. While the...
The False Security of Franchise Storytelling (mattgoldberg.substack.com)
Expansive worlds with no easy access points.
Trans Subtext Can Be Powerful. Trans Characters Are Even Better (www.them.us)
Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders makes the case for direct representation.
D&D publisher Wizards says AI art banned from its books going forward (www.polygon.com)
Artist faces pushback after saying AI was used for ‘polish and editing’
Movie extras worry they'll be replaced by AI. Hollywood is already doing body scans (www.npr.org)
Five background actors told NPR they had to undergo face and body digital scans while on TV and movie sets. The use of digital replicas is a sticking point in the ongoing strikes in Hollywood.
