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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 3h

🎶 And I'm proud to be a Cishet White Male Christian Conservative Billionaire American, where at least I know I'm free 🎶

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 6h

Can't unring that bell.

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 6h

the only thing people want to do on Sora, it seems, is generate images of copyrighted characters. now that they can't, they're crashing the fuck out www.404media.co/sora-2-conte...

People Are Crashing Out Over Sora 2’s New Guardrails

OpenAI’s Sora 2 platform started just one week ago as an AI-generated copyright infringement free-for-all. Now, people say they’re struggling to generate anything without being hit with a violation er...

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 6h

There's a lot of uncertainty right now, but if you're a freelancer or gig worker who's responsible for securing your own health insurance, the @freelancersunion.bsky.social offers some great resources to help manage the process.

Freelancer Guide To Health Insurance | Freelancers Union

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 7h

AVATAR: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 20h

ALIEN: FOR GOOD

Thanks For Spooking, Jerk @thx4sharingjerk.bsky.social · 22h

TRON: HAMNET

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 1d

MPA Chief: Open AI “Needs to Take Immediate and Decisive Action” to Prevent IP Infringement On Sora

Is Hollywood’s top lobbying group stepping off the sidelines? In a strongly worded statement from the normally measured Motion Picture Association, CEO Charles Rivkin called on OpenAI to take steps to protect intellectual property in its latest product, Sora 2, an invite-only app that allows users to place themselves in hyperrealistic clips trained on major studios’ IP.

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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen @lisatakeuchicullen.bsky.social · 2d

To our friends who work at CBS News: during these times of turmoil and fear — remember that no matter who owns you or leads you, your rights as a worker are protected by your union. ✊

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 2d

These are the videos posted on the brands' respective YouTube channels, so unclear if the audio correlates with what was played during the live shows. But it is a very curious trend.

Nina Simone vibes for Spring? Groundbreaking.

Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 2d

This is extremely niche (and I'm curious if anyone on this site will even care), but I've noticed three different fashion houses use songs popularized by Nina Simone in their SS'26 runway videos.

1.) Celine - "Sea Lion Woman"
2.) Balenciaga - "Feeling Good"
3.) Bottega Veneta - "Wild is the Wind"

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 2d

Technically the plot of Gossip Girl?

DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 2d

network television needs a tv show with a character who is an active shitposter

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d

Taylor Swift’s “The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” was easily No. 1 at the box office this weekend, selling an estimated $33 million in tickets at theaters in the U.S. and Canada from Friday through Sunday, according to Comscore.

Taylor Swift’s ‘Showgirl’ Promotional Film Collects $33 Million

“The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” drastically outperformed “The Smashing Machine,” a vehicle for Dwayne Johnson, known to fans as the Rock.

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, good point. 👀

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 3d

Warner Brothers hit the jackpot with Chase Infiniti. Not only is she a great actress, but she’s so good at TikTok.

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 5d

This is me and "Wi$h Li$t"

Easy A - Emma Stone - Pocket Full Of Sunshine - Funny Clip (HD)

YouTube video by nicolinesalling

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 5d

"Swift has been pop’s alpha figure for more than a decade, a spot she’s clung to ruthlessly. 'Showgirl' isn’t precisely a goodbye to all that, but it does cast a wary eye on her past while greeting her future with a glee that verges on the unbridled."

Jon Caramanica's review really nails it:

On ‘Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift Has a Lust for Love (and Her Foes)

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 5d

Initial thoughts on Life of a Showgirl:

- “Ruin the Friendship” is the saddest song I’ve ever heard? omg?

- “Wood” shows that Sabrina Carpenter’s fingerprints are all over this album.

- Love hearing Taylor say the word b*** in like every other track. Props to her for letting it rip.

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 6d

“The opt-out process escalates the company’s cavalier approach to intellectual property rights, potentially setting up a legal battle between Hollywood’s biggest studios and the AI start-up.”

OpenAI’s New Video Tool Features User-Generated ‘South Park,’ ‘Dune’ Scenes. Will Studios Sue?

The AI company is requiring copyright holders to opt out of having their material used.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 6d

Sora? Yeah I sure sora lotta copyright infringements in those videos yall have been posting.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

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NPRExtra @nprextra.bsky.social · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today – donate at the link below.

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Michel Martin, NPR @michelmartinnpr.bsky.social · 7d

I never do stuff like this but what the heck ... it's the start of a new era in public media ..

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 7d

Free the homie, Kevin.

3 Lengthy Pythons Spotted Slithering Around a New York City Neighborhood. Only 1 Was Captured

Three ball pythons were spotted in the Forest Park neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. on Sept. 24. One of the snakes was apprehended, while the other two remain on the loose.

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Liz Phelps @lizphelps.bsky.social · 8d

Social media has for sure fried my brain because how on earth did I forget about this.

Police report gives details, timeline of the sexual assault claim against Pete Hegseth

The woman who accused then-Fox News host of sexual assault in 2017 said that she "remembered saying 'no' a lot," according to a police report. Hegseth is President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Secr...

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 8d

It's impossible to separate Hegseth's vision of "warrior culture" from his storied history of violence against women in his life, fundamentalist faith in the patriarchy, and his own pathetic insecurities. I have zero faith he won't entangle us in wars to validate his own flailing gender identity

Battle of the Sexes | Jasper Craven

Pete Hegseth has used his many perches—from Princeton to the Pentagon—to agitate for a kind of trickle-down masculinity.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 8d

Oh to be a fly on the wall of these busses as the generals leave the Trump-Hegseth confab

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