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[Variety @Variety]

The Art Directors Guild released a statement condemning Martin Scorsese’s recent partnership with AI startup Black Forest Labs.

The guild accused one of Hollywood’s most celebrated directors of “turning his back on the human artists who throughout his career have helped him create his most memorable works.”
https://t.co/FLkWMV51Ok

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

George Orwell’s 1984 was published today in 1949.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Support these old school data centres.

[Versatile Pictures @VersPicsSync]

I just submitted "Frostbite" to 1497 Features Lab via https://t.co/TQWYrycJgu! - @DParayitam Here's hoping for the best!

[Versatile Pictures @VersPicsSync]

Reclaiming Brampton: Amreen Kullar's Love Letter to an Immigrant City  - REELway Magazine https://t.co/5qVgHP09PK

[Daily Tatiana Maslany @SestraHulk]

Tatiana Maslany speaks out for Palestine while promoting her Apple TV show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed

“There is no ceasefire in Gaza. Israel is continuing to bombard it. The US & Canada & the UK are all complicit. We have to keep remembering Palestine.”

[GBX @GBX_Press]

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd co-founder:
"I'm ready to admit I break down in tears every morning for Gaza."
"Because I'm 80 years old — and I've never witnessed the genocide of an entire people before my eyes every single day." 🎸🇵🇸💔🔥

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

The Shot just exposed Australia is manufacturing nitroglycerin, nitrocellulose & RDX for Israel's bombs.

These explosives are made in govt-owned plants, leased to Thales, trucked at night to ports, sent via US/Singapore - straight to Gaza & Lebanon.

[Dr.Sam Youssef Ph.D.,Ph.D.,DPT. @drhossamsamy65]

A nationwide general strike was organized in more than 75 cities across Italy, demanding a complete boycott of Israel and the severance of all ties.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Over half of the AI data centers expected to open in the United States are being cancelled or delayed

[Variety @Variety]

Sharon Stone says AI feels like a “cover band” to her: "It’s never going to be the Rolling Stones; it’s always going to be somebody singing the Rolling Stones."

"It’s never going to be me doing a performance; it’s going to be somebody faking me doing a performance. You’re never going to get my crazy idea of the day, which is always going to be better, because it’s going to be — guess what? — new. That’s what makes me interesting. I have new ideas. It’s great in many ways. The things that gather information and stack it up. It’s the tech encyclopedia. I’m all for that. But to imagine that it’s going to run ahead of us — We want to see ourselves. We don’t want to see a robot being us. It’s ew."

https://t.co/kbKNKMq82r

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Suno - a company that trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet", and argues it does not need to pay to do so - is now valued at $5.4 billion.

They will pay for GPUs, and for engineers, but not, apparently, for the music they use - other people's music - without which their models would not work.

I know lots of musicians who will be upset. I am with them.

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Zack Snyder is set to write and direct a reimagining of ‘Escape From New York,’ the dystopian cult classic from John Carpenter, Deadline can confirm.

The project is intended for release in theaters.

Full details here: https://t.co/BGNMIlDFBA

[B/R Football @brfootball]

PSG WIN THEIR SECOND CONSECUTIVE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TITLE 🏆🏆

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo’s Bunia, where a rare type of Ebola is spreading faster than the response. He plans to visit a treatment center and meet with authorities, health workers and affected families. https://t.co/3E6tidaAyu

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Kane Parsons (20) and Curry Barker (26) are now the two youngest directors in history to top the domestic box office.

[Sophy Romvari @SophyRomvari]

Alphabet song from NTBTSTM wins best original song at the Canadian academy awards, truly extraordinary and lmao

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Biggest film deals from this year’s Cannes market:

• ‘THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY’ directed by Garth Davis, starring Florence Pugh - $36M

• ‘BRIGANDS OF RATTLECREEK’ directed by Park Chan-wook, starring Matthew McConaughey, Austin Butler and Pedro Pascal - $30M

• ‘PUMPING BLACK’ starring Jonathan Bailey and Natalie Portman - $20M

• ‘CLUB KID’ directed by Jordan Firstman - $17M

[Carole MacNeil @carolemacneil]

Indian diplomat makes a dramatic accusation against our intelligence service. The Indian High Commissioner to Canada claims our intelligence service is compromised. And we thought they wanted to be friends… https://t.co/CnbYGf4jUK

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.