@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-02-10 04:15:43
SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations with Hollywood begin for actors; the 2023 post-strike deals are set to expire on May 1 for writers and June 30 for actors (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/business/media/hollywood-ac…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-10 02:13:18
Ece Temelkuran:
‘Once you call it fascism you have to act on it’
The Turkish writer on the experience of being ‘unhomed’
and how we can fight the politics of cynicism
In Nation of Strangers, I’m specifically talking about the point where you decide,
how do I survive?
Do I survive like an android or do I survive like a human being?
Because, if we are not careful, this system can make us inhuman very, very quickly.
But there is also another th…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-02-05 02:00:08
dbpedia_writer: DBpedia writer network (2014)
A bipartite network of writers and the written works they created, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.
This network has 135569 nodes and 144340 edges.
Tags: Economic, Production, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social2026-02-07 15:38:12
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 7: Share a pair of consecutive lines of a current or recent project.
A recent commission:
The sensation of his harsh thrusts blended with another stimulation, something more unusual. He felt a grip on his hips with no one standing behind him, he felt drops of sweat fall on his back even though there was nobody above him, and finally, he realised it wa…
@servelan@newsie.social2026-03-09 00:35:24
Roy Wood Jr. Issues Politically Charged Writers Guild Awards Opening
https://deadline.com/2026/03/roy-wood-jr-wga-awards-2026-opening-marjorie-taylor-greene-1236747115/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-10 02:50:48
Q&A with New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle, on why Tucker Carlson may run for president and how that reflects the crumbling of the journalism industry (Pete Croatto/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/jason-zenge…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-04-06 15:54:34
Steelers' $41 million Pro Bowl trade candidate could interest Cowboys, writer believes https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/steelers-41-million-pro-bowl-trade…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-07 05:43:51
"Hungary seized two Ukrainian cash transport vehicles with $40M, 35M euros and 9kg of gold,
detaining seven Oshchadbank staff.
FM Sybiha calls it "state terrorism and racketeering."
GPS puts the vehicles in central Budapest near a security agency."
https://bsky…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-04-09 21:31:13
The WGA-AMPTP deal includes $321M in studio funding for the writers' health fund, higher health insurance premiums, better residuals, and ongoing talks about AI (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/wga-deal-321-million-hea…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-09 16:28:09
A dysfunctional United States government is fertile ground for an authoritarian takeover
But instead of addressing needed changes to address the dysfunction, opinion writers too often choose to focus instead on merely how democratic principles are being sabotaged and by whom.
Until the causes of government failure to live up to democratic principles are actually addressed,
the trend towards more authoritarian rule will continue
regardless of complaints in the media,…