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Having nuanced conversations about anything online is almost impossible because most people are bent on ignoring context

The saddest part about Disney's "live-action" remakes isn't that they're bland and cynical cash grabs by safety-obsessed executives out of good ideas. It's that the good ideas--the Lion Kings, Hunchbacks, and Aladdins of today--are still being pitched. They're just voted down.

THIS could get interesting…. Undoubtedly something to watch. Probably the last thing the city wants 29 days before the NFL Draft is here. triblive.com/news/banner/za…

Telfar celebrated the first day of Eid by donating 100% of their profits to a variety of charities. Including the Black Alliance for Peace, the D12 Movement, All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Sudanese Resistance Front, and the Palestinian Youth Movement.

.@GiantEagle raising money to tackle food insecurity

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. If you lose that, you’re nothing.” - Robin Williams

In a government shutdown, politicians SHOULD NOT be getting paid either. Full stop.

POP THE BUBBLE! POP THE BUBBLE! POP THE BUBBLE! POP THE BUBBLE! POP THE BUBBLE!

People always want creatives to do things NOW NOW NOW. When it’s time to pay your creatives it’s ok to take weeks, months and YEARS though.

An ICE lawyer turned whistleblower is raising the alarm over the deployment of ICE to fill in for TSA airport security officers who are unpaid and quitting as a partial government shutdown drags on. The move "forces the public to submit to a criminal checkpoint system if they wish to exercise their freedom of travel. At best, this forces Americans to accept the same kind of checkpoint systems once used in the Soviet Union and East Germany. At worst, it could result in a violent confrontation between a tired traveler and an inexperienced agent," Whistleblower Aid client Ryan Schwank said in a statement. More: ow.ly/wzmq50YxQ7w @SenBlumenthal

Your limitations are not mine.

Please remember that in Washington, ICE used the last No Kings “protests” as a distraction to kidnap people from the community without anyone knowing. If you are going to attend one of these protests on the 28th, move the crowd to the ICE facilities. Don’t let ICE operate.

I know some of y’all don’t give a fuck about anyone but yourselves and your aspirations are to be a revolutionary, but you cannot be a revolutionary if you do not care about the most vulnerable people in your communities.

CREATIVES please just keep creating during these evil times

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Disney, Sony, Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros. control whether you can take screenshots on Netflix. The five studios created a joint lab in 2006 to draft the security rules that every streaming platform must follow. Netflix pays $20 billion a year for content licenses, and those contracts come with mandatory encryption requirements. The studios decide, and Netflix obeys. One of those requirements: all videos have to be encrypted, so you can't copy them. A piece of software called Widevine, owned by Google, is baked into your phone, your browser, and your smart TV. It routes the video through a protected part of your device so that when you hit the screenshot button, all you get is a black rectangle. The video literally never passes through the part of the device that handles screenshots. And the whole thing barely works anyway. Anyone with a laptop can turn off a single Chrome setting, and screenshots work again. Organized piracy rings don't bother with screenshots at all. They rip entire movies. Piracy sites got 216 billion visits in 2024, up 66% from four years earlier. The encryption stops your aunt from sharing a funny scene on Twitter. It does almost nothing to stop actual pirates. Paradoxically, Netflix's most successful show of all time went viral almost entirely through screenshots and memes. Squid Game cost $21 million to make. Netflix says it generated roughly $891 million in value for the company, measured by how many people it brought to the platform and kept watching. The TikTok hashtag alone hit 44 billion views. Netflix added 4.4 million new subscribers in the quarter it dropped, double the previous quarter's total. Nobody ran a marketing campaign for it. Fans did all the work for free, because they could share what they saw. Netflix made $42.5 billion in revenue last year with 325 million subscribers. A $21 million Korean show returned 42 times its production cost because people posted screenshots and memes. The contracts that block your screenshots were written when piracy meant burning DVDs, not tweeting a frame from Wednesday.

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“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.” ―George Orwell