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Only a few more hours of $13 Regular, Fitted, and Classic Tees plus up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop (prices as marked). Sale ends at 5pm ct today.

Get stuff now: https://davidaugust.thread...
#tshirt #DavidAugust #designs #sale
$13 tees now available in my artist shop, plus everything else on sale until 5pm ct today! davidaugust.threadless.com [image of a red t-shirt with David August's design saying, "I'm fine" a graphic of a person face planted on their front "just accidentally resting"] [image of a light blue t-shirt with David August's design saying, "Exposure Kills" a graphic of a virus particle "Pay My Bills"] [image of a black t-shirt with David August's design with a drawing of Lovelace's face saying, "Lovelace"]
12:49 PM - Mar 25, 2024
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I was graciously referred to a producer during the #WGAstrike about Billy Shakes Is Out for Royalties. Just sent an email, fingers crossed for a meeting.

Billy Shakes is coming for all the royalties he’s owed by the producers, a fun fever dream of a film noir exploitation film.
Billy Shakes Is Out for Royalties a film by David August [drawn image of Billy Shakes aiming a gun] He that dies pays all debts.
06:03 PM - Sep 27, 2023
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Vote yes to give the negotiators what they need to fight for us.

Vote yes here: https://vote.ivsballot.com...

Get your PIN from:
https://vote.ivsballot.com...

#SAGAFTRAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike #SAGAFTRAmembers #VideoGames
[graphic of a raise fist holding a game controller] I Voted Yes! [SAG-AFTRA performer logo] SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media (video game) Strike Authorization 2023
09:55 PM - Sep 12, 2023
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I made this and call it: Refinement

A synthetic person overloads and ignites inside while beholding a koi.
Get a print & more at: https://fineartamerica.com...

#fish #android #robot #koi #overload #synthetic #SelfImmolation #AutoIgnition #fire #Burn #incineration
A synthetic person overloads and ignites inside while beholding a koi.
04:38 PM - Sep 01, 2023
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After 14 days of striking, you can get unemployment benefits as striking worker in New York (so far the only state that gives unemployment to strikers).

PDF from NY state: https://dol.ny.gov/system/...

#ActorsStrike #writersstrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #WGAStrong
WE ARE YOUR DOL NEW YORK Department of Labor UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (UI) AND STRIKES CAN I GET UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (UI) IF I AM OUT ON STRIKE? If you lose your job due to a labor dispute, such as a strike, you may be eligible for UI benefits. Normally, the strike must last for 14 days before you are eligible to receive benefits. This is called a suspension period. However, you may be eligible sooner if: • There is a lockout • Your emplover hires permanent replacement workers • The labor dispute ends and you are still unemployed [more that cannot fit in the alttext but is in the PDF at https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2021/01/p835.pdf ]
01:22 PM - Aug 27, 2023
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Yeah, the AMPTP are not great at...things.

#scandal #ActorsStrike #writersstrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #WGAStrong #UnionStrong #u1
Screenshot of a tweet by Yell in a Strike @jelenawoehr: the AMPTP really said "we're calling Olivia Pope" to the people who created Olivia Pope and played Olivia Pope 9:28 PM • 8/25/23 from Earth
02:16 PM - Aug 26, 2023
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1: Be AMPTP & decide problem w/paying your employees is PR problem.

2: Hire The Levinson Group as your 3rd PR firm to help w/crisis PR.

3: Have TLG's other clients reconsider being clients anymore.

What AMPTP touches withers. Give unions what unions ask for.
#ActorsStrike #writersstrike
Screenshot of tweet by Gina Ippolito @GinaIppy: So the studios hired another PR firm (their third, apparently!) rather than paying the writers and actors, and immediately, one of the PR firms biggest clients tweeted this. Studios and the AMPT are giving a masterclass in buffoonery that will be talked about for years. [quote tweet] USWNT Players @USWNTPlayers: Replying to @mattapearce We stand on the side of the union. #WAStrong #SagAftraStrong 7:34 PM • Aug 25, 2023
10:39 PM - Aug 25, 2023
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Here’s an idea: fair deals for everyone everywhere who makes film and TV. While we’re at it, fair deals for everyone everywhere who works. Full stop.

#ActorsStrike #writersstrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #WGAStrong #Netflix
Screenshot of a tweet by carina adly mackenzie @cadlymack: Fun fact: in France, Netflix already reports their viewership to writers monthly and pays writers based on that viewership, because it's the law there. They literally already have this system in place. [quote tweet] @DiscussingFilm: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos is reportedly concerned that if they give a fair deal to writers & actors in the U.S. that it will set a precedent for writers/actors in other territories to ask for fair deals. (Source: [url]) NETFLIX [logo] 1:18 PM • Aug 25, 2023
03:22 PM - Aug 25, 2023
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Pretty low price to pay to unfreeze your business and stop hemorrhaging cash. The AMPTP needs to accept the deal.

#writersstrike #WGAStrong #UnionStrong #film #TV #Movies #television #entertainment #business
Cost of WGA Proposal* Company Annual Cost Annual Revenues Cost % of Revenues Disney $72 mn $82.7 bn 0.088% Netflix $65 mn $31.6 bn 0.206% Warner Bros. Discovery $45 mn $43.1 bn** 0.104% Paramount Global $43 mn $30.2 bn 0.143% NBC Universal $33 mn $121.4 bn 0.027% Amazon $31 mn $514.0 bn 0.006% Sony $24 mn $88.8 bn 0.027% Apple $17 mn $394.3 bn 0.004% *In practice, the above totals over-estimate the impact to the companies’ bottom lines, as many of the costs will simply be absorbed into the budgets of individual television and film projects. **Combined company projection
08:36 PM - Aug 24, 2023
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For a limited time, tees in my Threadless shop are as low as $14, & everything else is on sale! As always, my proceeds from my #WGA & #SAGAFTRA strike designs go to alifeinthearts to support those impacted by the #ActorsStrike & #writersstrike .

Go to: https://davidaugust.thread...
$14 tees now available in my artist shop - plus up to 30% off on everything!
01:26 PM - Jul 31, 2023
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I made this and call it: Avoidable Conflict
A fight that could have been avoided erupts between rioters and rioters.

Get a print & more at: https://fineartamerica.com...

#Fighting #Fear #anger #Guilt #ExcessiveForce #brutality #police #Riot #Rioter
A melee scene of protestors and rioters clashing, three faces are clear and the rest if out off focus. The left most face is concerned and guilty, the center most face angry and in pain, and the right most face is defiant in the face of fear and danger.
01:36 PM - Jul 20, 2023
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Unexpected development at Disney this morning? Or par for the course? You decide.

#Disney #news #ActorsStrike #writersstrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #WGAStrong #orca #Orcas
Link to a thread of the text on my Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/110714591717832479
06:38 PM - Jul 14, 2023
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We are on strike.

#SAGAFTRAStrong #ActorsStrike #WGAStrong #writerstrike #UnionStrong #Fans4SAGAFTRA #Fans4WGA #u1
There's no joy in finding oneself in a fight you did not choose. But such comfort to be in it with your friends, your colleagues and more, all who know everyone earns the right to a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. Dignity and respect still belong to everyone, even if others try to steal it from you or deny it. With patience and perseverance, through hardships unfair but real, we'll fight and prevail, so on some tomorrow even those who would see us hobbled will, even in shock at themselves as they do, marvel at what we've accomplished. In solidarity and hope: the actors join the writers on strike. #SAGAFTRAstrong #ActorsStrike #WGAStrong #WriterStrike #UnionStrong #Fans4SAGAFTRA #Fans4WGA #u1
03:23 AM - Jul 14, 2023
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I am thrilled to help out and collaborate with #wgastrikeshirts on #SAGAFTRA strike shirts. Get yours and together we can make things better for everyone who makes TV and film.

Get them now at https://www.sagaftrastrike...

#SAGAFTRAStrong #sagaftramembers #SAGAFTRAstrike #ActorsStrike
05:02 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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I am thrilled to help out and collaborate with #wgastrikeshirts on #SAGAFTA strike shirts. Get yours and together we can make things better for everyone who makes TV and film.

Get them now at https://www.sagaftrastrike...

#SAGAFTRAStrong #sagaftramembers #SAGAFTRAstrike #ActorsStrike
04:39 PM - Jul 13, 2023
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We protect our careers with consent and compensation for our work and AI now or we’ll have no careers to protect later. We cannot wait until the next negotiations.

#SAGAFTRAStrong #WGAStrong #writersstrike #IATSEStrong #TeamsterStrong #UnionStrong #Union #creative #ai #GAI #generativeAI #film #TV
The AI actors who don’t exist will be the only ones left with a career to picket next time [all over an image of artificially created people picketing in front of a studio lot gate] davidaugust.com
06:52 PM - Jun 28, 2023
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The world’s largest advertising company is building with Nvidia, one of the largest graphics chip makers, to use AI to replace actors, directors and crew,

https://www.adweek.com/age...

#SAGAFTRAStrong #IATSEStrong #TeamsterStrong #ai #ads
ADWEEK Sign In Subscribe Personalization at scale The partnership between Nvidia and WPP, announced in May, will see the companies develop content through the Nvidia Omniverse, which uses Al to enables creative teams to produce commercial content at scale in a "faster and more efficient" way, which is the primary goal of the tools. Production will not only be more cost-efficient but environmentally sound, as large-scale shoots will not be necessary. Read noted that cutting spend on things like production will be realized "as a reinvestment in quality" elsewhere. "It's going to be a new skill," said Read, who added that "prompt engineer" would become a new job in product engineering to help Al create the necessary content.
06:23 PM - Jun 28, 2023
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Sometimes your weekend plans change,
disappointment happens: no coup for you.

I designed the "I went with Prigozhin to take Moscow and all I got was this stupid t-shirt" shirt, get one from #Threadless :
https://bit.ly/NoCoupShirt

#coup #Moscow #Prigozhin #RussiaCivilWar #tshirt #funny
[photo of women's white t-shirt that says, "I went with Prigozhin to take Moscow and all I got was this stupid shirt"] Sometimes your weekend plans change, disappointment happens: no coup for you. I went with Prigozhin to take Moscow and all I got was this stupid t-shirt Get one at https://bit.ly/NoCoupShirt [photo of men's black t-shirt that says, "I went with Prigozhin to take Moscow and all I got was this stupid shirt"]
01:28 AM - Jun 26, 2023
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Billy Shakes is Out for Royalties: 400 years of payback! ✍️🔫
Insomnia made me make this. I wanna see/be in this movie.
#Shakespeare #film #BillyShakes #ShakespeareSunday
Billy Shakes is Out for Royalties a film by David August In Color [a graphic style image of a badass William Shakespeare holding a gun confrontationally over a red background]
04:03 AM - Jun 07, 2023
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Vote YES for the sagaftra Strike Authorization to help ensure AI safeguards for actors. Let's stand together for our careers and stronger futures.
🗳️✊
Vote at link in bio or here: http://www.sagaftra.org/co...

#SAGAFTRAStrong #UnionStrong #ai #safeguards
[SAG-AFTRA performer logo] SAG-AFTRA DEADLINE MONDAY STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE YES FOR AI PROTECTIONS [all over a black background with a raised drawn fist and union picketers]
09:34 PM - Jun 01, 2023
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I just realized this. 🤯 😝

#Movies #TV #Costumes #wardrobe #Clothes
#MrRogers #MichaelCorleone #TheGodfather #red #cardigan #sweater #NeckTie #CollaredShirt #MovieStill #TVstill
[Mr. Rogers in Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood wearing a red cardigan, white collared shirt and dark necktie, expanded] How did I only just notice that these two men share clothes? [made by] davidaugust.com [Michael Corleone in The Godfather wearing a red cardigan, white collared shirt and dark necktie, expanded]
01:37 AM - May 31, 2023
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Please vote yes today, and if you’ve any questions or want help voting, let me know and I’ll help however I can. Vote here: https://www.sagaftra.org/c...

#SAGAFTRAStrong #sagaftramembers #UnionStrong #performers #u1
[SAG-AFTRA performer logo] SAG-AFTRA STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE YES FOR RESIDUALS vote.ivsballot.com/sagaftra2023 [all over a red background with a drawn raised fist with picketers silhouettes in the background]
12:21 PM - May 28, 2023
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Simple way to suooort your favorite writers during #writersstrike : make the studio/network/streamer pay to spread the word.

Here I’ve replied to struck company’s ad: “pay your writers.”

Everyone who see ad and looks at replies now sees it.

Let their ad buy spread #WGAStrong .
Screenshot of a tweet thread from a promoted tweet, I have replied to the ad tweet with “pay your writers.”
07:42 AM - May 27, 2023
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Our power lies in our unity. Support our negotiators by voting YES on the Strike Authorization. #SAGAFTRAStrong #UnionStrong #sagaftramember
http://www.sagaftra.org/co...
YES on Strike Authorization [SAG-AFTRA performer logo, SAG-AFTRA #SAGAFTRAstrong all over a red background with drawn raised fist]
03:14 PM - May 26, 2023
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Change starts with us. Vote YES on the Strike Authorization for stronger contracts and better conditions. #SAGAFTRAStrong
Please vote yes here: http://www.sagaftra.org/co...
I voted YES on the SAG-AFTRA Strike Authorization [SAG-AFTRA performer logo, SAG-AFTRA #SAGAFTRAstrong all over a red background with the silhouette of picketers]
03:03 PM - May 26, 2023
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thread 2 Threaded Spouts
ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) don’t understand, they only make it look like they do.

https://medium.com/emilym...
When you read the output of ChatGPT, it's important to remember that despite its apparent fluency and despite its ability to create confident sounding strings that are on topic and seem like answers to your questions, it's only manipulating linguistic form. It's not understanding what you asked nor what it's answering, let alone "reasoning" from your question + its "knowledge" to come up with the answer. The only knowledge it has is knowledge of distribution of linguistic form. It doesn't matter how "intelligent" it is - it can't get to meaning if all it has access to is form. But also: it's not "intelligent". Our only evidence for its "intelligence" is the apparent coherence of its output. But we're the ones doing all the meaning making there, as we make sense of it.
04:20 AM - May 25, 2023
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Couldn’t sleep, so I made this.

The producers need to make a deal. The unions are uniting against them.

Today would be a good day to deal.

#DoTheWriterThing #writersstrike #SAGAFTRAStrong #TeamstersStrong #IATSEStrong #DGAStrong #WGAStrong #UnionStrong #Hulk #HulkSmash
Text says, “AMPTP won’t like us when we’re angry.” A photorealistic fist, with cloth around the wrist, transforming into green as the Hulk does. There are colored Infinity Stones on the 5 knuckles which are labeled: SAG-AFTRA, Teamsters, IATSE, DGA and WGA. Made by davidaugust.com
01:42 AM - May 25, 2023
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Avoiding COVID is always a good idea. Wear as good a mask as you can, avoid crowds, improve air quality/ventilation (like open windows, use filtration) and get fully vaccinated and boosted.

https://johnsnowproject.or...

#COVID #health #Safety
Now, trusted public health and government agencies are correctly stating that repeat infections are harmful. They have started to realize what some commentators figured out in 2020 and 2021 - that SARS-CoV-2 is incompatible with our way of life. This paper?, authored by a coronavirus specialist and some members of the John Snow Project, set out the long-term risks posed by the virus, and many of them have since come to pass. These weren't guesses, they were inferences and extrapolations made based on textbook science, textbook immunology, and extensive study of coronaviruses, their characteristics, and effects on humans.
10:07 AM - May 24, 2023
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Vote yes today, and have your negotiators fighting hard for you tomorrow.

Vote yes: https://www.sagaftra.org/s...

Please ask me any questions you have.
#sagaftramember #UnionStrong #Union #SAGAFTRAStrong #VoteYes
Red background, in a starburst the words “vote yes!” And the SAG-AFTRA logo with the words “SAG-AFTRA Strike Authorization”
03:36 PM - May 20, 2023
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Killer whales are sinking boats, deliberately. Our relationship w/our environment is going a-ok. Killer whale revenge. 😳😝😕

I wanna be in the movie version. 🐳

https://www.livescience.co...
The spike in aggression towards boats is a recent phenomenon, López Fernandez said. Researchers think that a traumatic event may have triggered a change in the behavior of one orca, which the rest of the population has learned to imitate. "The orcas are doing this on purpose, of course, we don't know the origin or the motivation, but defensive behavior based on trauma, as the origin of all this, gains more strength for us every day," López Fernandez said.
01:01 PM - May 20, 2023
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