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Ryan O'Loughlin

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Film & TV Director #BlueEyeSamurai Character Designer, Animator, Emmy winner https://www.ryanoloughlin.com/ Art @gallerynucleus.bsky.social https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0641675/

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Ryan O'Loughlin @ryanoloughlin.bsky.social · Aug 22

Blue Eye Samurai Season 2 Teaser! From one of the upcoming episodes I directed. Amazing work by our incredible team! Hope you all enjoy…
#blueeyesamurai #netflix #animation

youtu.be/iWYp0f1H-fA?...

Blue Eye Samurai: Season 2 | Official Start of Production | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix Anime

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 20h

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Bjørn Larssen (he/him) @bjornlarssen.com · 23h

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”

Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

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New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.social · 19h

Two starring Jimmy Wang Yu! ZATOICHI MEETS THE ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN (1971) screens at 6:30pm followed by BLOOD OF THE DRAGON (1971) at 8:35pm TODAY, Sunday October 19th, both in 35mm. Tickets: buff.ly/iZQEwvw

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 8d

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11d

screenshot from The Insider - Russell Crowe's Jeffrey Wigand seen from behind in a white collared shirt and gray wig, standing slightly off-center (on the right side of the frame) in his dark hotel room. caption for Pacino's Lowell Bergman (in voiceover) reads, "I'm running out of heroes, man"

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Ryan O'Loughlin @ryanoloughlin.bsky.social · 13d

PIVOT!!

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 13d

OpenAI is backing off its Sora IP opt-out policy after a wave of backlash, promising new controls and dangling possible revenue sharing.
www.cartoonbrew.com/tech/openai-...

OpenAI Retreats From Controversial Sora IP Opt-Out Policy

OpenAI says it will give creators more control over how their characters appear in Sora and plans revenue sharing after backlash to its IP opt-out model.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 13d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 16d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 17d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 20d

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Get their ass, Werner.

Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20d

So this is a very, very desperate move - a very silly app of generative AI slop that will be incredibly expensive for OpenAI to run, and on top of it, they're requiring rights holders to *opt out* once they see violations. You can't do it in advance. They're washed, and trying everything to survive.

OpenAI's New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week

OpenAI doesn't plan to accept a blanket opt-out across all of an artist or studio's work, the people familiar with the new Sora tool said. Instead, it sent some talent agencies a link to report violations that they or their clients discover.
"If there are folks that do not want to be part of this ecosystem, we can work with them," Varun Shetty, VP of media partnerships at OpenAI, said of guardrails the company built into its image generation tool.
OpenAI released the initial version of Sora last December, allowing users to create high-definition video clips from text prompts.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 20d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 23d

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention:

Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

We're about to find out if Silicon Valley owns Gavin Newsom

A guide to the AI and tech bills that have passed the California legislature, and await the governor's signature — or veto.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 25d

not sure I'll ever get tired of Drunken Master II, one of the best Jackie Chan movies - and one of the best actioners - ever made

wide shot of Jackie Chan at the center of an early 1900s Chinese town square during the daytime, some bad dudes surrounding him looking ready to fight. Jackie is doing a bonkers anti-gravity backbend while chuggin booze (there's a guy on the ground rolling away from him who was previously supporting Jackie's weight)

red-faced Jackie clutching his chest like he's in pain, caption reads "Wow, what kind of wine was that?"

Anita Mui with a crowd behind her looking concerned, holding a green bottle. caption reads "The label has a skull on it. I don't know what that is."

Jackie Chan smiling and looking excited, perked back up, caption reads "Oh, that's the good stuff"

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Jun 27

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Ryan O'Loughlin @ryanoloughlin.bsky.social · Sep 18

Union strong✊

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · Sep 18

It's been a historic work for animation labor rights. Workers at Netflix Animation, DreamWorks' Ted, and indie studio SpindleHorse ('Hazbin Hotel,' 'Helluva Boss') have all moved to unionize with TAG.
www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-right...

Animation Guild Celebrates Historic Week Of Union Organizing

Netflix, DreamWorks’ 'Ted,' and indie studio SpindleHorse workers unite with The Animation Guild in a landmark week for animation labor rights.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Nate Terrors @nateming.bsky.social · Sep 18

if DoorDash is asking me to veto a bill "to keep delivery affordable," I'm pretty sure that means I should write in to make sure the bill gets approved

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Ryan O'Loughlin @ryanoloughlin.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Sep 13

Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour.
"Manben" is such a great TV program.
>> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Sep 8

From the 2D openings by chinese FLiiiP Design studio for "I am What I am" & "I am What I am 2" CG animated feature films.
fliiipdesign.com

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sesame Street will be coming to YouTube in January 2026.

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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · Aug 26

Gachiakuta Creator Kei Urana discusses the benefits of Hand-drawn and Digital Art!

Full Video: youtu.be/Eb5MjMP94Co
Sponsored by @yenpress.bsky.social

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Aug 26

"KPop Demon Hunters" is now the most-streamed movie in Netflix history (236 million views).
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Eric Goldman @theericgoldman.bsky.social · Aug 24

It’s funny to be so committed to your anti-theater approach you can’t brag you have the number one movie in America (but let’s see if they decide to tout it come Monday)

Exhibitor Relations Co. @ercboxoffice.bsky.social · Aug 24

TOP 5 DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE*

1. WEAPONS ($15.6M)
2. FREAKIER FRIDAY ($9.2M)
3. FANTASTIC 4 ($5.9M)
4. THE BAD GUYS 2 ($5.1M)
5. NOBODY 2 ($3.7M)

*K-POP DEMON HUNTERS is likely the #1 movie of the weekend, but Netflix has not officially reported this. Update tomorrow.

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Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · Aug 24

In the story of the summer, Netflix just scored its first-ever No. 1 at the U.S. box office with 'KPop Demon Hunters,' a two-month-old film that has already been streamed 300 million times.
www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

Netflix, Sony’s 'KPop Demon Hunters' Hits No. 1 At The Box Office

Despite being available for two months and being seen over 200 million times already, 'KPop Demon Hunters' posted the weekend's top box office performance.

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Chris DeRose @scratchyderose.bsky.social · Aug 23

Physical media forever 😎

Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · Aug 21

My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again.

So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels.
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

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