Ketchup bought the distribution rights from WB for around $50M. I suspect most of the $100M goes to the box office and actors, I'm not sure what percentage WB gets. Likely not much given the large up front payout. That puts WB around $20M in the red on this film (they probably spend around $70-80M making it).

I would define what went down as a major cock up for WB. And no matter how well the film does they will have trouble doing much better than breaking even.

Plus my votes potentially won't count in the next election. (all mail ballots)

I do protest, and I do encourage everyone to be prepared both mentally and financially for a general strike. Because I believe it to be the only way to force representatives to listen to We the People.

It's got AI *slaps hood*

This AI stuff is like 90% marketing. What's extra silly is selling computers with NPUs in them as if you can run local models but then bundling a subscription that tacitly admits that the hardware isn't good enough to run local models of any importance.

After 12 months the subscription to AI Pro is $26.99/mo.

You can cancel the subscription and still use the laptop, but some features that were built into it go away without AI Pro. Such as autonomous agent support, and of course you look 5 TB of cloud storage when you drop Pro.

Nobody? Honest mistake? I guess nobody has to take responsibility for anything anymore. THANKS AI!

Because Republicans believe the average American to be an uninformed lout. That none of this will ever come back to their party. That they can simply pivot away, stir up a new crisis, and we will all forget.

I almost always replace the nasty food with a different icon for the theme.
I don't like the macOS face icon either, looks like some kind of weird Star Trek half black/white freak alien.

In the future, some books may be primarily accessible only through AI. Having no available physical copies nor a legal electronic format.

The author's voice counts for something. Or at least it used to.

I've had otherwise legitimate interviewers where they wanted me to access some weird website or install an app on my phone.
My current employer we use some interview software that tracks the desktop focus to help identify if someone is cutting and pasting into search engines or AI. Not fool proof, but there are plenty of people that didn't realize they granted some key permissions when they signed into the website.
I think it's somewhat invasive, but I just work here and do what they tell me.

Meh. I think it generally gives bad advice, making the writing worse.

If you didn't want to write it

For private citizens, the 13th eliminates the ability of parties to enter in indentured servitude contracts. And civil statutes built around the authority of that Amendment are used to regulate some private actions. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1981, which prohibits racial discrimination in making and enforcing contracts (including by private businesses and schools); 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1982, which prohibits racial discrimination in private property transactions.

You can do that in parallel. Law enforcement and the owner of the private property fixing stuff is not mutually exclusive. I lived in a town with a lot of broken shit because people would wreck it, tag it, carve into it, etc and the city wouldn't pay to fix it. So signs stay covered in lame tags, trash cans in the park don't open anymore, the typical urban decay when a city neither enforces laws nor picks up the tab to set things right.

Private parties can write up any contract they like.

And law enforcement simply investigates vandalism they are not going to pay for it or fix it!