L. M. Davis
@lmdaviswrites.bsky.social
Author: werepanthers, aliens, immortals, witches.... Award-winning Director. Dry wit. Raging optimist. She/her. #BLM
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Posting my film, Fevered Dreams, everywhere today, because it's about the power of telling and hearing inconvenient truths.
It's 15 minutes, give it a watch, leave a comment, share with your friends.
🙏🏾 and Thank You.
youtu.be/2PVJ0x2gVDk?...
It's 15 minutes, give it a watch, leave a comment, share with your friends.
🙏🏾 and Thank You.
youtu.be/2PVJ0x2gVDk?...
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“We know how this movie ends. Mergers always promise benefits, but they inevitably deliver diminished competition, lower pay and fewer jobs for industry workers,” Writers Guild of America President Michele Mulroney. wapo.st/3MGHcGY
Netflix to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in $83 billion deal
The largest streaming network says it will purchase Warner Bros.’ studios and streaming assets after winning a bidding war with Comcast and Paramount.
wapo.st
December 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
“We know how this movie ends. Mergers always promise benefits, but they inevitably deliver diminished competition, lower pay and fewer jobs for industry workers,” Writers Guild of America President Michele Mulroney. wapo.st/3MGHcGY
Glad I never stopped going to the store.
In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages.
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%.
Read this:
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
groundworkcollaborative.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Glad I never stopped going to the store.
Movie I’ve watched more than 6 times, blah, blah, blah...
December 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Movie I’ve watched more than 6 times, blah, blah, blah...
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Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections
If you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections Position Summary The Director o...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Director of Barnard Archives and Special Collections barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Staff/... Salary range: $120,000–$125,000 annually, commensurate with experience. Please submit your application by January 5, 2026 to be considered.
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
PASS IT ON 📚 📜
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
Pantone really made white the color of the year for 2026.
Geez, could it be anymore blatant.
Geez, could it be anymore blatant.
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Pantone really made white the color of the year for 2026.
Geez, could it be anymore blatant.
Geez, could it be anymore blatant.
This song says "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas."
It's in the southern hemisphere. It's summer there. 😐
It's in the southern hemisphere. It's summer there. 😐
December 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This song says "There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas."
It's in the southern hemisphere. It's summer there. 😐
It's in the southern hemisphere. It's summer there. 😐
"I’ll never be as prescient as I was back in 1984 of imagining this one because I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to be happening a year or two years from now."
Relatable.
Relatable.
James Cameron Wants a New 'Terminator,' But Reality Is Making It Difficult
James Cameron Wants a New 'Terminator,' But Reality Is Making It Difficult
io9 spoke to the 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' director about his plans for his trademark franchise.
gizmodo.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"I’ll never be as prescient as I was back in 1984 of imagining this one because I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to be happening a year or two years from now."
Relatable.
Relatable.
Wanting people to spend the money you refuse to pay them is wild.
If you want people to spend more, pay them more.
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Wanting people to spend the money you refuse to pay them is wild.
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Amazon's Atrocious AI Anime Dubs Are a Dark Sign of Things to Come
Amazon's Atrocious AI Anime Dubs Are a Dark Sign of Things to Come
Prime Video has begun rolling out a supposed beta test using generative AI voices to dub anime—but they're a bad sign regardless of their dismaying quality.
gizmodo.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Amazon's Atrocious AI Anime Dubs Are a Dark Sign of Things to Come
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Trump has literally tried to cancel World AIDS Day. Don't let him. Watch CASHING OUT an amazing New Yorker doc short by Matt Nadel.
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
“Cashing Out” Examines an Investment Strategy That Profited from AIDS Deaths
www.newyorker.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Trump has literally tried to cancel World AIDS Day. Don't let him. Watch CASHING OUT an amazing New Yorker doc short by Matt Nadel.
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
I'm a proud EP.
www.newyorker.com/video/watch/...
Wow. This is garbage.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Wow. This is garbage.
I feel like the retrograde was retrograding this time around.
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
I feel like the retrograde was retrograding this time around.
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
I wonder what the implications of the Open AI rulings will be for people who are using it to generate "content."
Like, will there be grounds for pursuing cases against them or at least for issuing cease and desists?
Like, will there be grounds for pursuing cases against them or at least for issuing cease and desists?
November 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I wonder what the implications of the Open AI rulings will be for people who are using it to generate "content."
Like, will there be grounds for pursuing cases against them or at least for issuing cease and desists?
Like, will there be grounds for pursuing cases against them or at least for issuing cease and desists?
@alexwinter.com Just wanted to say that I very much enjoyed your performance in Waiting for Godot.
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
@alexwinter.com Just wanted to say that I very much enjoyed your performance in Waiting for Godot.
If ever you wonder why they are so angry and full of hate.
November 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
If ever you wonder why they are so angry and full of hate.
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Grab a subscription to be first on the scene for new science fiction, fantasy, & horror books. Reviews, news, interviews, and more!
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One day, someone will write a dissertation or at least a chapter on the experience of watching Wicked in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election juxtaposed against the experience of Wicked: For Good a year into this mess.
It is irksome if not all out enraging.
It is irksome if not all out enraging.
November 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
One day, someone will write a dissertation or at least a chapter on the experience of watching Wicked in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election juxtaposed against the experience of Wicked: For Good a year into this mess.
It is irksome if not all out enraging.
It is irksome if not all out enraging.
And so they set about engineering a recession to wrest back power and make folks desperate to find/keep a job.
Labor gaining just the tiniest amount of power relative to capital a few years back absolutely broke employers' brains
November 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
And so they set about engineering a recession to wrest back power and make folks desperate to find/keep a job.
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Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Interesting read. I disagree with this premise though:
"Altruism is a function of surplus. It is easy to be charitable when you have excess capacity. It is impossible to be charitable when you are fighting for the last bruised banana."
"Altruism is a function of surplus. It is easy to be charitable when you have excess capacity. It is impossible to be charitable when you are fighting for the last bruised banana."
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Interesting read. I disagree with this premise though:
"Altruism is a function of surplus. It is easy to be charitable when you have excess capacity. It is impossible to be charitable when you are fighting for the last bruised banana."
"Altruism is a function of surplus. It is easy to be charitable when you have excess capacity. It is impossible to be charitable when you are fighting for the last bruised banana."