as far as I can tell the main product of this "studio" is not so much an actual production featuring "Tilly Norwood" as a bunch of breathless press releases designed to get people to give them more money
That’s all *any* of this is, too! There are no real products in and of themselves They’re not actually producing anything real that people want! None of them!! Literally none of this is about anything other than getting people to give them more money!!!
I feel goddamn insane
Capitalism doesn't invest in producing new kinds of things any more. It buys up existing things and either strips them for parts to sell as scrap or enshittifies them with paywalls and bricks them if you don't pay a subscription.
And we're at the end of the nostalgia boxes for Packs & Facts!
Worry not, we've got more ready and raring to go, but if you'd like to suggest TCG for me to open, please suggest things to my Throne wishlist! :D - throne.com/kdinjenzen
Oh! And today's fact is about ME again~ <3
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From: The Kidnapping of the Sun and Moon (1968), dir. Sándor Reisenbüchler, Pannonia Film Studio
Note: flashing images
Thread.
I really liked this discussion of prediction markets trying to position themselves as news, and the gaping holes in that argument.
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A different betting-on-murder app, Kalshi, just partnered (read: gave money to) with the Associated Press, which absolutely should know better than to give their golden goose (industry-standard election results) to a gambling site, but apparently they are run by fucking morons now.
Polymarket is trying VERY HARD to wheedle their way into a more socially acceptable space, where instead of being FanDuel for bombings, they are thought of as An Important Dataset. They just partnered (read: gave money to) Substack for this reason. Do not accept the premise. It is bullshit.
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This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.
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News I missed!
Recently, Korea banned ticket reselling.
If you try to resell a concert/play/game/event ticket for more than you paid, the fine is 50X what you tried to charge. Anyone can turn you in and collect 10%.
So long, scalpers.
(Apparently BTS tickets were up to 11k until this passed)
(The screencaps are from this 2020 Daily Beast story I wrote about the absolutely endemic sexual harrassment in the comics industry, back when mainstream outlets briefly cared about that sort of thing)
At a 2015 party during San Diego Comic Con, a visibly intoxicated Allie sexually assaulted novelist and comics writer Joe Harris, grabbing his crotch and biting him on the ear. Writing about the incident in Graphic Policy, Janelle Assellin—a journalist and former editor at DC Comics who had helped spearhead a multi-staffer HR complaint against Berganza in 2010—gathered accounts from multiple sources at the company noting that he’d behaved that way for years, garnering the nickname “Bitey the Clown”; staffers attempting to go through internal channels invariably received cheerful assurances that the problem was being dealt with. (Dark Horse themselves famously ran a 2006 interview with him—since apparently deleted but archived here—that included the joke “Watch out, he bites.”) Allie issued an apology and remained part of the official masthead until 2017, when he became a freelance editor. Nonetheless, he maintained close ties at Dark Horse, continuing to edit and write for Mignola’s Hellboy. While his behavior remained a topic of open discussion on the comics internet for years, Allie likewise continued to be a fixture at conventions and—sources speaking on background to The Daily Beast confirm—a mover and shaker in comics social circles. His behavior was often explained in those circles as substance abuse: since he was now sober, the standard line went, the issue had gone away.
It had not. On June 24, former Dark Horse editor Shawna Gore, now senior editor at Oni Press, publicly accused Allie of sexual assault. Over the course of 14 years, Gore wrote in a horrific account, Allie engaged in a pattern of “chronic, escalating, unchecked abuse that was not related to his alcohol use.” On one occasion in 1999, in the backseat of a minivan filled with their colleagues, Allie put his hands in Gore’s underwear. “For the next 10-15 minutes I had to quietly, physically wrestle against Scott to prevent him from forcibly penetrating me with his fingers,” Gore wrote. She alleges he repeatedly told her to relax as he groped her.
![In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.”
After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efx3llkdwipqoz4ie37tego6/bafkreigxnxkogc44kiumhvur7kdwzh5yhuuq5ydzkd5eiflizie45srk3u)
In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.” After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.
Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.
And I'm not sure how you think Canada can nationalize applied statistics and pattern-recognition software. You seem to think AI is a recent development and that it is a single thing rather than a broad term covering multiple fields.
People are already using AI for medical diagnosis. People are already using AI in railway control systems. People are already using AI in traffic pattern analysis. People are already using AI in translation software. These systems have existed for decades. These are not hypothetical gains.
I think I have 3 stories I probably use the most to show people outside of comics of how ridiculous this industry is. Akira Yoshida. CBLDF being run by a notable predator for years and people not thinking that was monstrous(w/ Gaiman on the board as well, yikes). Scott Allie biting people at cons.
You know what? It works
Speaking at a news conference in Whitehorse, Deputy Auditor General Andrew Hayes called the findings concerning. Story by Sara Connors.
I feel a lot of younger artists nowadays are in the path of permanent wrist damage and burnout with the amount of stuff they feel almost obligated to make in order to feel like they are still relevant and present on peoples timelines.
I was like that with comms, and all I got was damage on my body.
I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.
Mary Shelley: i consent
Percy Shelley: i consent
Lord Byron: i consent
Gravestone of Mary Wollstonecraft: isn't there someone you forgot to ask?
Simmons: once again, the woke mob is forcing PC politics into our classic monsters!
Simmons: what's next?
Simmons: DEI dracula?
Simmons: the wolf they/them?
Simmons: a mummy that likes italians?
Lovecraft: oh no!
Gyllenhaal: you know, you really can't talk about the bride of frankenstein
Gyllenhaal: [sitting backwards in chair] without talking about consent
Dan Simmons: UGH i can't believe frankenstein went woke!
Mary Shelley: shut the fuck up loser
Shelley: let her cook
Maggie Gyllenhaal: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the bride!
Gyllenhaal: the exclamation point denotes excitement
Gyllenhaal: please clap
Everything stops for tea.
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Aqualad riding his seahorse Storm.
According to the 1976 Super DC Calendar today is the birthday of Aquaman's teenage sidekick, and Teen Titan, Aqualad!
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