Saying that the strike failed is playing into the studio’s hands. WGA considers the strike a victory, and furthermore, the studio downplaying the strike’s agreement is a disinformation campaign they had done before.
Twitter thread by David Slack @/slack2thefuture:
“As WGA leaders meet today to finalize our deal, we begin a new era for writers — and for labor in our industry. But we also begin to face the final and most insidious form of unionbusting propaganda: a years-long effort to sell the lie that our strike was not worth it.
Over the coming days, months, and years, the studios, streamers, and their surrogates will take every opportunity to undermine what we have won together. They will seize on the inevitable consessions and compromises made by our NegCom as proof that we “failed.”
They will urge us to overlook all that we won through hard work and unwavering solidarity. They will claim it wasn’t enough, that we should have gotten X instead of Y, that we lost more by striking than we gained in this new contract. And they will be wrong.
They will tell us that the strike was unnecessary, it was a waste of our time and our savings, that our agents or managers or lawyers could have gotten us everything we won through individual negotiations without anyone having to walk a picket line. Well… then why didn’t they?
As hard as it is to believe right now, these lies can work. They’ve worked before. During our 2017 strike authorization vote, it was shocking to discover how many members believed we lost the ‘07-08 strike, in which we went on strike for the internet — and won the internet.
This didn’t happen by accident. It was the result of years of whispering by studios and anti-union allies. And they don’t just do it because they’re bitter about losing. They push the lie that we used our power and lost because they hope to stop us from using our power to win.
Our strike was necessary because, in our individual negotiations, our employers consistently refused to acknowledge our right and reasonable demands. Because the profound changes we needed could only be won through the unique and overwhelming power of collective bargaining.
Our strike was necessary because our employers made it necessary by driving our income down 23% in 10 years. Because they refused to address free work in features, streaming coverage in comedy-variety, the abuses of mini-rooms and the threat of AI until we withheld our labor
Our strike was necessary. Our strike was effective. Our strike is a victory. If anyone tries to tell you otherwise, it’s ‘cause they never want to see us stand up for ourselves again. Don’t believe it. We won this fight. We’re the WGA, and when we fight, we win. #WGAStrong”
Going from Neil Gaiman’s tumblr (easy guess which show i’m hoping will continue :D) he’s being very cautious and also advocating staying on the picket line for SAG. And he’s not updating twitter yet, hmmm.
Chrome offers adherence to standards as one of their features. But it also introduces new features that look like standards, meant to increase profits for the parent company.
VB.Net was exactly that. Difference being Microsoft’s interest was locking companies and governments onto Microsoft’s enterprise products vs Google’s user tracking. Easy, quick internal web app put together in half a day? Would never work right on Netscape. It takes work to make them work to standards.
I’ve serviced computers where the ide cable key was hand-striped or with some other marking with a marker as opposed to the line (spoon’s red wire) already keyed from factory, somewhere mid 90’s. regular procedure at that shop i think at that time to mark any unkeyed cable found. not that i ever had to mark any single one, so even then they were really old ide cables.
Actually…i kind or remember a motherboard coming up in smoke from one of those when someone made a mistake. brand new first week technician i think.
My parents had the power cord in locked box, so you need a key to turn the computer on, which only they have.
Me and all my siblings learnt to pick lock.
Miss Supranational Malaysia’s national costume is inspired by the Dayak people of Borneo Island. Borneo Island is a special Island that belongs to three countries. Rich with many indigenous traditions and cultures, the Dayaks are one of the largest groups living on Borneo. This national costume is designed to appreciate the...
Back in Malaysia, concertgoers have already been lamenting that so many international artists skip over the country during their international tours, a trend the fracas over Matty Healy looks likely to exacerbate. Meanwhile, observers and activists warn that with upcoming state elections in August, conservative-leaning...
Megathreads of links are so web 1.0. You’d be crying in joy if you found curated five hundred links in a geocities page. Masterlist of five thousand? swoon
Users scattered all over different instances? You sign visitor logs everywhere with your email and sites and basic description so people can find you. Especially if you’re on personal servers, and usually you host other people you invite to share the space.
The Writers Strike Is Over: WGA Votes to Lift Strike Order After 148 Days (variety.com)
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike will end at 12:01 a.m. PT on Wednesday.
Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s (arstechnica.com)
How many people actually dropped Reddit for Lemmy?
It is possible to estimate?
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Habitual social media users post real and fake news mindlessly (dornsife.usc.edu)
SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say (arstechnica.com)
Watching TV shows or movies that display Russia as a military superpower is almost surreal nowadays.
Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.
That thin line of dust left over when you sweep into a dustpan is a real-life zemo paradox.
The dust line thinneth but never gone.
Humans, apparently, throw like gods (lemmy.world)
The Coronavirus Is Bringing Back a 1,000-Year-Old 'Cheese' in Japan (www.atlasobscura.com)
The Mesmerizing Geometry of Malaysia's Most Complex Cakes (www.atlasobscura.com)
Malaysia makes owning an LGBTQ Swatch punishable by up to 3 years in jail (www.nbcnews.com)
lemmy.world/post/2983512...
The oral history of the Hampsterdance: The twisted true story of one of the world's first memes (www.cbc.ca)
How Pottery Offers Glimpses Into Ancient Foodways (www.sapiens.org)
Null terminator (backend.xylight.dev)
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Superconductor Breakthrough Replicated, Twice, in Preliminary Testing (www.tomshardware.com)
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Miss Supranational Malaysia 2023 National Costume (lemmy.zip)
Miss Supranational Malaysia’s national costume is inspired by the Dayak people of Borneo Island. Borneo Island is a special Island that belongs to three countries. Rich with many indigenous traditions and cultures, the Dayaks are one of the largest groups living on Borneo. This national costume is designed to appreciate the...
How Anti-LGBT Laws Are Bad for Economies (time.com)
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Then improve the website, for god’s sake!!! (feddit.de)
AI By the People, For the People (time.com)
You got them city-boys and then you have that one corn-fed country boy who walks through doorways sideways. (feddit.ch)
*Username (psychedelia.ink)