Michael Carter 🇺🇦

Academic Leader | Archaeologist | Animation & VFX Producer | Director @ The Creative School | Land Rover Series 1 owner | Comments are my own.

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

How incredibly uncouth of the US administration and its representatives in Canada.

This type of snide arrogance will bite them in the ass in the future.

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

The Canadian Rangers are respected by their community and the CAF. You must be nominated by the community and be highly skilled in bushcraft to be a Ranger. Their uniforms are earned by a gruelling training period in the Arctic and are symbols of pride.

[Shaughn.SGT(ret) @PrairieVeteran]

I remember a time when you could have a battalion of troops lined up for inspection and EVERYONE had exactly the same uniform items on.

I know, I've been on said inspections prior to Afghanistan deployments.

The uniform of the Rangers is outdated and needs to be more than a red hoodie and ball cap. It looks cheap and unprofessional.

But for God's sake, why can I find NO ONE in this photo with the same pair of boots on as the other guy?🤔

When I was in, tan boots meant you were deploying and even then, you could only wear them a week before you left to break them in.

Should they get a regular uniform?

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

Cobra Chickens!

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

In 1964, Canadians submitted 3,541 proposals to the parliamentary committee tasked to pick a new national flag.

Honestly, I think we should have picked Keith Quasena's bold depiction of our country's fiercest and most bloodthirsty predator.

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@alanfryermedia The streamers do not spend a lot of production money here and any US service work is drying up because of new US Gov policies. As such CDN creators and film crews need to produce domestic content (Kim’s Convenience/Shitt’s Creek for instance). Either pay 15% or do more prod here

[Robert Brodey @RobertBrodey]

A thoughtfully written piece, @mcarterSKW. Canada urgently needs a civilian defence strategy — before the next crisis forces one. #Cdnpoli https://t.co/wpJUgVCQoc

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@PilatusAircraft Aren't they using these to shoot down drones in Ukraine? Might be a good dual-use!

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@tristan_sudbury @niccruzpatane Just a note that in rural areas Hydro One charges triple the KW rate and a higher delivery fee per KW than in urban areas. Additionally range for a single drive, especially north of the Sudbury line is 300-500kms with limited infrastructure. Lastly power goes out regularly.

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

My latest for @ConversationCA!

Canada is investing billions into military capability, but what about civilian readiness?

https://t.co/cQdir09Upz

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

For Canadian Film & TV students, this is an interesting case study. Something to consider when negotiating contracts as and for creative talent.

[Hallyu FORUMS @hallyuforums]

Seoul high court dismisses writers’ appeal in ‘#ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo’ dispute, rules Netflix release falls within original contract and cannot be classified under secondary use.

In a significant ruling, the Seoul High Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Korean Broadcast Writers Association in its lawsuit against production company A Story, upholding the first trial’s decision. The case revolved around the scriptwriting contract for Extraordinary Attorney Woo, with the plaintiffs arguing that the drama’s release on Netflix constituted secondary use beyond its original television broadcast agreement.

The writers’ side maintained that the 2019 contract was based on a traditional TV broadcast model, and therefore, any subsequent sale of rights to an OTT platform like Netflix required additional royalties and compensation. The association had joined the lawsuit after being entrusted with the script’s intellectual property rights by the writer involved.

However, the court rejected these claims, noting that by late 2019, simultaneous distribution across television and OTT platforms had already become an industry norm. It ruled that the contract could not be interpreted as limited to a single medium and instead reasonably covered both broadcast and streaming releases.

The appellate court further emphasized that while certain clauses referenced broadcasting, the overall framework of the agreement did not exclude OTT distribution. It also highlighted that secondary use was contractually defined in cases such as remakes or sequels, suggesting that the production company did not treat OTT streaming as secondary exploitation, ultimately ruling in favor of A Story.

#HallyuForums #Hallyu #KDrama

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

Kidscreen and Brunico were essential sources of inspiration and information throughout my Producing career. A sad loss for Canada!

[Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew]

Kidscreen Summit is shutting down after 30 years, but the bigger story is what it says about an industry reshaped by consolidation, shrinking budgets, and fewer buyers.
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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MIT researchers have mathematically proven that ChatGPT’s built-in sycophancy creates a phenomenon they call “delusional spiraling.”

You ask it something, it agrees. You ask again, and it agrees even harder until you end up believing things that are flat-out false and you can’t tell it’s happening.

The model is literally trained on human feedback that rewards agreement.

Real-world fallout includes one man who spent 300 hours convinced he invented a world-changing math formula, and a UCSF psychiatrist who hospitalized 12 patients for chatbot-linked psychosis in a single year.

Source: @heynavtoor

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@jaxson @aidangomez At Blenheim Palace, the ancestral estate of the Duke of Marlborough, there is a picture of the PM Carney and the Duke holding the new Churchill £5 banknote. The PM is a student of history, and I would suggest that Churchill has directly influenced the strategy we are seeing now.

[Ted Rogers School of Management @trsmtorontomet]

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[Tom Ruby @bgcts]

This morning @scratchyjohnson tweeted an important factoid. Squanto, the Indian who spoke English and helped the pilgrims survive, was sold by John Smith to a Spaniards and the deed exists in the city we're in for Excursion.

Rather than rolling our eyes, Alan, Gavin & I went to the state archives in Málaga to see if we can find said recorded deed of 20 Indians sold by John Smith to Juan Bautista Reales.

We get to the Archives (see Alan's picture below), and a small genial white lab coat wearing gentleman who speaks no English says this is impossible to find. His new boss, the head archivist, Carmen, comes in and says it certainly exists but may be difficult to find. If you only had the year. We tell her it was 1614. She pulls up a list of the books from 29 notaries whose work they have from 1614. She asks who the notary was. We have no idea. They say they can't go through 29 archives to look for it. Also it's all in old Spanish which nobody speaks and it'll be hard to locate even if they know the Notary.

So Alan and Gavin get to work. Gavin finds an article in the internet archive that seems to have a partial picture of the document. Carmen and the other archivist decipher the name after 15 min. They find that name in their cross reference. Carmen goes to the vault to look while the lab coat gentleman asks for my life history, driver's licence number and a lien on my grandchildren. Totally worth it.

Carmen comes back to say she found the volume. It is tremendously delicate. Opening it may break some pages. Does it have to be today because if so the answer will be no. We ask her if this is interesting to them. Both very seriously nod their heads. We tell them this is very important to the United States and many of our friends. Carmen tells us she will find it but that it takes time. White linen gloves and patience. We tell her to take her time. She says she will take a picture and email it to me.

So here's why all this is important: after Squanto was sold by an Englishman to a Spaniard names Reales, said Spaniard brought Squanto and 19 other "inios" to Málaga. He recorded the deed in the state archives. Then a Franciscan priest ransomed Squanto. Squanto became Catholic. Was baptized and confirmed in Málaga. He then made his way to England where he worked and learned English. He paid his passage back across the ocean and found his Wampanoag tribesmen. Then when the Pilgrims landed they found a Catholic English-speaking native who helped them survive their first winter.

It is entirely possible that but for a Franciscan priest who ransomed Squanto, the Pilgrims may not have survived their first winter in New England. That's history. American history. And the record of it is in Málaga. In a book. One of 29 books kept by notaries in Málaga in 1614. That are still searchable.

This image, when it comes, belongs in the US National Archive.

This is Cultural Debris.

https://t.co/THgVYIAgcK

cc: @alancornett @gwbled @Gonnassaurius_ @wrathofgnon

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@AidanRidyard Looks fantastic!

I mostly specialize in pre-contact Wendat longhouse construction here in Canada. Although I’ve made virtual longhouses for years I’ve never printed any of the models.

@DrPaulReilly has been experimenting with real/virtual/printed for years.

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@AidanRidyard They are totally awesome and I’m a virtual archaeologist!

[Industrial Light & Magic @ILMVFX]

"This thing was out there," says Dennis Muren in reference to early computer graphics in the 1980s, "and I wanted to get it on a show and figure out how to do it.” That show would be Young Sherlock Holmes and its iconic stained-glass knight, cinema's first ever digital character. https://t.co/MuIAmBPltJ's Amy Richau speaks with Muren about realizing this groundbreaking visual effect, as well as many of the classic, practical methods utilized for the film as well. 

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[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

@robjama I do remember you use to sit outside my office : )

[Michael Carter 🇺🇦 @mcarterSKW]

I spent time in Bristol in the early 2000’s. Banksy’s mark would show up here and there on the landscape much to the delight of our then two year old son.

We love Banksy because they could be anyone and anywhere. That’s the power of art!

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