My Mrs. was watching that last night.
Old Walt must be whirling in his cryo chamber.
Politics is Downstream From Culture
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Clem72
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Test screenings, like press screenings, are usually held in/around LA. If their audience felt it was too political/woke, then it's probably completely off the rails. Captain America saves the country from an evil president and insurrectionists. yay.If Disney execs aren’t already reeling over the latest flop, it looks like their next film, "Captain America: Brave New World," is on the fast track to being the next big flop. According to Jeff Sneider of "The Hot Mic" podcast, the movie is being moved to a 2025 release after not preforming well in screening tests.
"The delay was primarily due to the Hollywood strikes, but a follow-up report claimed that the latest Captain America adventure did not go over particularly well in test screenings. Apparently, three key sequences have been cut, and reshoots are planned from January until May/June of next year,” reports ComicBookMovie.
That’s a planned five months of reshoots. Of course, reshoots are common, but it looks like there were enough problems with the film that major changes to the story have to be made in an attempt to salvage it.
An anonymous 4chan user who claims to have been at a Los Angeles test screening—I won’t link to the post because I cannot verify the claim—says that the film is much more political than the Marvel series "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier," from which the film continues. He claims the plot revolves around politics, the president, and an election. And who goes to a Marvel Studios movie for that? The user also claims the president in the film is a Trump proxy and the story devolves into a January 6 metaphor.
Doctor Who Villain CHANGED to Be More INCLUSIVE?!
Changing the Villain Davros - getting rid of the Dalek leader who was in a motorized vehicle
Did not want have disabled people in wheelchairs associated with evil ?
WTF is wrong with these people, what sane person would see a villain in a wheelchair and think ALL people in wheel chairs are EVIL
What's next, bald men with long haired white cats ?
Next progressives will be complaining people in wheelchairs are being erased from entertainment
Intersectionality = only WHITE MEN can be the evil protagonist ANY other ethnicity that is evil is stereotyping
POC = cannot be criminals or thugs or dictators otherwise you are being racist
Microsoft Changes A.I. Image Generator Over Fake Disney Posters
The trend was created using Microsoft’s new A.I. image generator through their subsidiary Bing. Basically, anyone could make their own Disney Pixar-style film poster. Well, now it seems that Disney wasn’t very happy with this trend. Not only would they see this as harmful to their brand, but perhaps even as copyright infringement.
Now it appears that Disney has had a little talk with Microsoft as it is being reported that if attempting to create an image using the word “Disney,” users will see the prompt “the search terms used to guide the AI — was against its policies.”
Andrew White, a partner of the Mayhys & Squire law firm, had this to say on the issue:
“Reproduction of the Disney logo is clear trademark infringement. I would imagine that is why the AI might be jumbling the logo. In this instance, it is likely more for fun than trying to pass the images off for their own film or animation, but that would be a huge issue.”
“From a PR perspective, it is a fine line for Disney seeming to come down on something for fun that is ultimately raising its profile versus something that is actually anti-competitive.“
Microsoft Changes A.I. Image Generator Over Fake Disney Posters
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The trend was created using Microsoft’s new A.I. image generator through their subsidiary Bing. Basically, anyone could make their own Disney Pixar-style film poster. Well, now it seems that Disney wasn’t very happy with this trend. Not only would they see this as harmful to their brand, but perhaps even as copyright infringement.
Now it appears that Disney has had a little talk with Microsoft as it is being reported that if attempting to create an image using the word “Disney,” users will see the prompt “the search terms used to guide the AI — was against its policies.”
Andrew White, a partner of the Mayhys & Squire law firm, had this to say on the issue:
“Reproduction of the Disney logo is clear trademark infringement. I would imagine that is why the AI might be jumbling the logo. In this instance, it is likely more for fun than trying to pass the images off for their own film or animation, but that would be a huge issue.”
“From a PR perspective, it is a fine line for Disney seeming to come down on something for fun that is ultimately raising its profile versus something that is actually anti-competitive.“
I like this one...
Children of Conservative Parents Have Better Mental Health
“As it happens, being raised by liberal parents is a much larger risk factor for mental health problems in adolescence than being raised in a low-income household with parents who did not attend college,” wrote the brief’s author, Jonathan Rothwell, the principal economist at Gallup and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
“Children of conservative parents score significantly better on mental health using either a comprehensive measure of mental health based on several items, or just asking either parent or adolescents to summarize their mental health on a 1-5 scale. The gap is large,” Rothwell continued.
Rothwell and his colleagues at Gallup launched a study over the summer exploring what makes a positive relationship between adolescents and their parents and how the parent-adolescent relationship impacts youth mental health. They surveyed 6,643 parents, including 2,956 who live with an adolescent, and they interviewed 1,580 of those adolescents.
Rothwell wrote about his findings in an IFS blog post, noting that parents’ political ideology “is one of the strongest predictors” of a child’s positive mental health.
“Conservative and very conservative parents are the most likely to adopt the parenting practices associated with adolescent mental health. They are the most likely to effectively discipline their children, while also displaying affection and responding to their needs,” he wrote.
Conversely, he said “liberal parents score the lowest, even worse than very liberal parents, largely because they are the least likely to successfully discipline their children.”
Why We Don’t Recognize Real Nazis Anymore | Konstantin Kisin | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 202
"TRIGGERnometry" co-host Konstantin Kisin grew up in the Soviet Union, so he knows what tyranny looks like. These days, it’s huge mobs of pro-Palestinian protesters prowling the streets, celebrating Hitler — literally. As Kisin tells Glenn: “The people who’ve spent seven years calling people Nazis can’t recognize actual Nazis when they see them.” He suggests that they be rewarded with a one-way ticket to Gaza. Speaking from his home in London — where hundreds of thousands of anti-Israel Brits marched in solidarity with anti-Semitism — Kisin warns Glenn that the situation is about to get even worse. Throughout this episode of “The Glenn Beck Podcast,” he exudes a palpable unease as he charts the telltale signs of a further societal demise, from the indoctrination that has overtaken the education system and the lack of religion to Russia’s war in Ukraine and the terrifying rise of anti-Semitism. He describes his evolution from a centrist-leaning political commentator to someone who sees the far Left for what it is: hateful and dangerous. But Kisin and Glenn’s discussion is not all doom and gloom. Kisin, who’s interviewed notable guests like Jordan Peterson and Bill Maher on his podcast, thinks that a course correction has already started taking place. For example, he tells Glenn why the collapse of the mainstream media is a good thing and why people should be hopeful that social media will someday be as taboo as cigarettes are today. He’s also optimistic about the future of comedy, especially here in America: “People are realizing that wokeness is not the solution to the crisis of meaning and purpose that many young people are suffering.”