
2025-07-12 02:36:40
A look at celebrity impersonation scams and the steps taken by Hollywood to combat them, including a likeness management tool CAA is developing with YouTube (Rebecca Keegan/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
"The precision of our analysis notwithstanding, the sad truth is that the future looks bleak and insurrectional, particularly for those in the USA. As these words hit the web, the SCOTUS has effectively abolished universal injunctions to presidential power, thereby kicking off the democracy overrule process we predicted exactly three years ago in this magazine–needless to say, a prediction we would have loved to get wrong."
I've been listening to a podcast by the German public broadcaster ARD about the end of the world. Every episode had a different topic and one was about AI. It was mostly sourced from an interview with a youtuber but one idea is now stuck in my head: what if AI doesn't launch nukes but develops into an all-powerful actor whose aims are not aligned with those of human survival? Do we have a precedent?
Yes. There are such super-human and quasi-immortal beings here on earth today…
This is an AMAZING documentary on John Wick. So much background info... like Eva Longoria saving John Wick by funding it at the 11th hour!
▶️ Wick is Pain (2025) Official Trailer – Keanu Reeves, Chad Stahlelski
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LaEjB78QLSE&si=LEmNMM9oWhyTF…