That Trump/Sisi post got me curious if anyone had written anything unhinged about them on AO3 and all I found was this Abdel Nassir, Anwar el Sadat and Gaddafi love triangle fanfic. In Chinese 😭😭
I agree that expanding this World Cup to 48 teams was a mistake. Belgium, a nation that has never won the World Cup or Euros is playing against 7 time African Champions, Egypt.
evry time anyone criticizes SWANA and dated 3rd world cultural practices its racism shut uuuuuuuuuup women r getting their vaginas cut up and this guy is talking about demonizing black and brown men
@meriworId I think the reason people automatically assume it’s men is due to the, especially post 9/11, media narrative of “black and brown men are evil and backward, and black and brown women need to be saved from them”. Black and brown women have agency, and their own female spaces.
The Art Directors Guild slams Martin Scorsese for his generative AI partnership
They accused him of 'turning his back on the human artists who throughout his career have helped him create his most memorable works'
"Mr. Scorsese asks the question, 'how do you communicate what you see in your head to your cast and crew?' He claims the solution is the use of this generative AI program to do the jobs that are rightfully the jurisdiction of Art Directors Guild"
"Generative AI is only capable of producing this type of 'cinematic intelligence' by ingesting large swaths of copyrighted work, likely scraped from the internet without consent, credit, compensation, or transparency"
"The skills of Art Directors Guild Local 800 artists and designers bring the highest level of value to any film or television production. To think their professional contributions can be mimicked or outshone by generative AI, which is built on work likely stolen from them and many other artists from around the world, is a betrayal of the collaborative nature of cinema"
Norway said that they are not going to play in World Cup in Qatar even if they qualified (they didn’t). Denmark left it until the last minute to confirm their participation in the World Cup 2022Germany forced their players to make political statements before the match in FIFA WC 2022 even though some players didn’t want to do it.
BBC literally disrupted the coverage of one of the best opening ceremonies of the World Cup in Qatar just for virtue signaling.
but for World Cup 2026, the whole media is silent other than a few token articles here and there and Norway and Germany aren’t protesting anything when there’s so much to protest about 🤡