Media Bits and Bytes – September 5, 2023
Portside
As the media world turns and twists
As the media world turns and twists
As the media world turns and twists
Friday Nite Videos | September 1, 2023
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How Ron DeSantis Let Billionaires Destroy Florida. Jamie Raskin on Trump's Possible Disqualification. Poor Things | Movie. Adam Driver talks SAG Strike, Netflix and Amazon. AI Finally Beats Humans at a Real-life Sport — Drone Racing.
AI Finally Beats Humans at a Real-life Sport — Drone Racing
For the first time an AI pilot has beaten champion-level humans at drone racing.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – August 29, 2023
Portside
What to make of the GOP debate, human rights for Juggalos, and more culture clash
labor
Why Are SAG-AFTRA and WGA on Strike? Hollywood Runs on Low Pay and Exploitation
Teen Vogue
Hollywood glamour doesn't pay the rent. Many of the people who actually make the movies and television shows we love so much — whose hard work creates stories, sound stages, spectacular costumes, and so much more — are barely scraping by.
What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The American Prospect
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention. The one-two punch of simultaneous WGA and SAG strikes, for the first time in 60 years, has stalled out virtually all productions.
books
Hollywood Is a Union Town, but the History Is Complicated
The Indypendent
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s — but to achieve that, workers had to overcome “the iron fist of the moguls” and organized crime, says historian Gerald Horne
Media Bits and Bytes – August 22, 2023
Portside
The summer of the flying lawsuits, and more dystopian drama
War Without Humans
TomDispatch
In 1997, Barbara Ehrenreich went after the human attraction to violence in her book Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War. Now, in an updated, adapted version of an afterword, she turns from the origins of war to its endpoint.
Science Sunday: There’s Only One Way To Control AI -- Nationalization
Politico
AI’s infinite potential — and infinite risk — requires federal ownership.
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