All posts by nedhamson

Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

WGA, Hollywood studios reach a tentative deal to end writers’ strike – Los Angeles Times

The proposed three-year contract, which would still have to be ratified by the union’s 11,500 members, would boost pay rates and residual payments for streaming shows and impose new rules surrounding the use of artificial intelligence.

“We can say, with great pride, that this deal is exceptional — with meaningful gains and protections for writers in every sector of the membership,” the WGA negotiating committee said in a Sunday night message to its members.

Source: WGA, Hollywood studios reach a tentative deal to end writers’ strike – Los Angeles Times

McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities (Me: Who among the readers remembers or knows what McCarthyism is/was… racism, sexism and fascism needs to be called out for what it is and does)

The conservative campaign to harass the libs out of academia has already sent a chill through Texas’ world-class public universities, making professors and administrators so fearful of setting off the lunatics in charge at the Capitol that they censor themselves—in scholarship or in their communications with students and the public… Source: McCarthyism Rides Again at Texas Universities