Cartoons On The Moon stated that Warner, Paramount, and Skydance had started to withdraw fan arts of Looney Tunes due to copyright issues. It added that this was part of a wave of infringement notices against any publication about Avatar: Seven Havens. https://t.co/hwSySAm4yJ #LooneyTunes #Copyright #FanArt (translated)
The author stated that he committed to proposing that the 20 Armenian prisoners from Artsakh become honorary citizens of the City of Nice. He presented this initiative as a gesture of solidarity towards these men, whom he described as unjustly detained in Baku, and asserted that Nice would remain mobilized until their release. https://t.co/2EmnHnaIjp #Nice #solidarité #Armenie #AM #FR #AZ (translated)
The author believed that danger arose when people self-censored to the point of making censorship unnecessary. He also wrote that artists, whose job was to question the world, preferred to remain silent. The message announced four questions to Benoît Cohen regarding his work. #censure #libertédexpression #arts #None (translated)
Electronic Arts announces the dismissal of 400 employees and the closure of BioWare, a Canadian studio famous for cult games like Baldur's Gate and Mass Effect, following the acquisition of the company by Saudi Arabia. #BioWare #ElectronicArts #Licenciements (translated)
Pope Leo XIV does not need further treatments after his successful lung cancer surgery and is recovering well, according to his doctors. #PausLeoXIV #Kankeroperatie #Herstel (translated)
The doctors of Pope Leo XIV have announced that he will not need treatment after his operation last week to remove a cancerous tumor from his lung. #PapeLéonXIV #Santé #Vatican (translated)
Electronic Arts will close its studio BioWare and eliminate 400 jobs, or about 3% of its workforce, notably affecting the development of the next Mass Effect. #ElectronicArts #BioWare #JeuxVidéo (translated)
Electronic Arts (EA) announces the elimination of around 400 positions and ceases work on its cult game "Mass Effect," which means a bitter end for millions of fans. #MassEffect #BioWare #ElectronicArts (translated)
The video game maker Electronic Arts plans to cut 400 jobs, which corresponds to about 3 percent of the workforce, and is canceling several games according to a company announcement. #ElectronicArts #Nedskärningar #Spelindustrin (translated)
Saudi Arabia (majority stake) and Jared Kushner (minority stake) buying Electronic Arts is one of the underrated instances of oligarchic media consolidation. Should be considered along similar lines as the Ellisons taking over Warner Bros.-Discovery or Musk taking over Twitter.
Els van Veen wrote that COVID vaccinations could not be referred to as gene therapy five years ago, and that people who did so were dismissed as conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers and accused of spreading misinformation. According to her, the same description is now openly used, and the term was deliberately avoided at the time to increase the vaccination rate. She cited a statement suggesting that two years earlier, 95 percent of the public would likely have refused if asked whether they wanted to have gene or cell therapy injected. Van Veen accused those involved of deliberately omitting information and misleading millions of people, including about vaccinations for children and pregnant women. She argued that the pursuit of profit outweighed potential side effects, deaths, and loss of trust, and concluded with the remark that Hippocrates would be turning in his grave. #Vaccinatie #GenetischeTherapie #Desinformatie (translated)
Weird Duk wrote that in his opinion, surrogacy should be discussed at talk show tables without harsh accusations of homophobia. He stated that Italy had the strictest legislation in Europe: surrogacy had been banned there since 2004, and the Meloni government had tightened the law at the end of 2024. According to him, Italians who used surrogacy in countries like the US or Canada could be prosecuted upon their return. He cited possible penalties of three months to two years in prison and fines ranging from €600,000 to €1,000,000. Regarding Germany, Duk wrote that all forms of surrogacy were prohibited under the Embryo Protection Act. According to him, the law targeted doctors and intermediaries so that intended parents would not be prosecuted criminally. #draagmoederschap #homofobie #wetgeving (translated)
Doctors in England are expressing ethical concerns about the software from Palantir, which is used in the provision of healthcare, and are also experiencing growing distrust from patients regarding the sharing of personal data. #Palantir #NHS #GezondheidszorgAI (translated)
Doctors have suspended their work at the strictest asylum seekers' center in the Netherlands, the HTL in Hoogeveen, because they oppose the COA policy that allows the admission of asylum seekers with severe psychiatric conditions, which they believe is untenable and poses significant health risks. #asielzoekers #psychiatrischeproblemen #gezondheidszorg (translated)
In Paris, chaos and violence erupted during protests, where there was little trust in the police, and while sisters stood up to become doctors and lawyers, their brothers made throat-cutting gestures in the streets, illustrating the divided reality of today's society. #Parijs #politie #protesten (translated)
This week, we opened 385 new affordable homes in Brooklyn. We’ll soon grow the Innovative Urban Village to 2,000 affordable homes, child care, jobs, a grocery store and a performing arts center. That’s what it looks like to build a city without pricing out the working class.
Women in menopause deserve the freedom and the right information to make choices about hormone therapy with their doctor, without having to justify their treatment wishes. #overgang #hormoontherapie #vrouwenrechten (translated)
Pope Leo XIV, who is recovering from surgery for a malignant lung nodule, has been deemed fit by his doctors to leave the hospital and will leave the hospital in Rome on Saturday, the Vatican announced. #PapeLéonXIV #Santé #Vatican (translated)
Permanente Revolution indicated that student processions from Paris 1, Jussieu, Paris-Cité, and the Beaux-Arts had joined the railway workers on their picket line in front of the SNCF technical center in Châtillon. The publication was associated with the hashtag #17octobre. #17octobre https://t.co/2xbSpRJ1r1 #Grève #Étudiants #SNCF (translated)
The Viennese auction house Galerie Zacke has withdrawn two Nepalese cultural assets due to suspicion of having been stolen art, after their theft from a monastery was proven in 2004 by the initiative Lost Arts of Nepal. #Raubkunst #Provenienzforschung #Kulturgutschutz (translated)
