Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever (www.theverge.com)
“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no...
Airfares tumble, helping bring down overall inflation (www.nytimes.com)
Ticket prices are subject to several idiosyncratic factors, but they have eased markedly since last summer’s surge in demand.
Stars leave Oppenheimer premiere as Hollywood actors' strike called (www.bbc.com)
Hollywood actors announce strike in first joint action with writers in 60 years (www.theguardian.com)
The union representing Hollywood actors formally announced a strike on Thursday, expanding the standoff between Hollywood workers and studio executives over wages, AI technology, and how to divide the profits of the new digital streaming era....
Jury finds Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter eligible to face the death penalty (www.cnn.com)
F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill (www.nytimes.com)
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a milestone that could significantly expand access to contraception....
Indigenous women in Canada forcibly sterilized decades after other rich countries stopped (apnews.com)
TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada.
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Payments to Rajan Vasisht, an aide from 2019-21, underscore ties between the justice and lawyers who argue cases in front of him
Hollywood actors poised to strike and join writers on picket lines (www.reuters.com)
A Florida sinkhole that killed a man in 2013 opens for a third time (www.nbcnews.com)
Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts (www.cnn.com)
Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo (www.theguardian.com)
Former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten released from California prison, official says (www.cnn.com)
Bank of America fined $150 million for consumer abuses including fake accounts, bogus fees (www.cnbc.com)
Johnson and Johnson hold millions of lives hostage: restricting the distribution of life saving generic drug (www.youtube.com)
“Multidrug resistant tuberculosis is a growing threat, and bedaquiline is essential to curing it. Generic bedaquiline will drive down the cost of the drug by over 60%, allowing far more communities to access and distribute treatment. Evergreening the patent will cost so many lives over the next four years, which Johnson &...
Trans model and actor is crowned Miss Netherlands and will compete for Miss Universe (www.nbcnews.com)
United flight to Amsterdam reportedly diverted to Chicago over meal choice (www.theguardian.com)
Trump-appointed judge gives a 'break' to Jan. 6 rioter who wants to be a police officer (www.nbcnews.com)
The FDA is being asked to look into Logan Paul's energy drink, which has the caffeine of 6 Coke cans (apnews.com)
UK’s soaring liver cancer death rate blamed on alcohol and obesity (www.theguardian.com)
Idaho Disbands Maternal Mortality Review Committee Amid National Surge in Deaths (lemmy.world)
Idaho is now the only state without a process for reviewing and attempting to prevent pregnancy-related deaths.
This week's record-breaking global temperatures are likely highest in 'at least 100,000 years' (www.cnn.com)
Biden says US destroys last of chemical weapons stockpile (www.reuters.com)
Texans Die from Heat Exhaustion After Governor Bans Mandatory Water Breaks (www.texasobserver.org)
House Bill 2127 preempts municipalities from enacting legislation in eight areas—with predictable results.