The Creator of 'Andor' Is Fired Up About the Streaming Wars - Writer Tony Gilroy grabbed a microphone on the streets of New York last weekend to talk a... - https://www.wired.com/story/andor-tony-gilroy-hollywood-streaming-strike/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

The Anticlimactic Death of the Streaming Wars - Productions are grinding to a halt and Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, and Max are leaning hard... - https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-amazon-disney-max-streaming-wars-no-win/ #culture/culturenews #culture/movies #culture/tv #themonitor #culture

How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books - Under a new law, schools in Iowa have to remove titles with specific sexual content from ... - https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-ban-books-iowa-schools-sf-496/ #culture/culturenews #culture/books #themonitor #culture

Wired: How an Iowa School District Used ChatGPT to Ban Books https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-ban-books-iowa-schools-sf-496/ #artificialintelligence #Culture/CultureNews #Culture/Books #TheMonitor #education #Culture #ChatGPT #LGBTQ+ #Books

Marvel's VFX Workers Have Moved to Unionize—and It's a Huge Deal for Hollywood - Artists in the visual effects industry have been talking about unionizing for more than a... - https://www.wired.com/story/marvel-vfx-unionization-big-deal/ #culture/culturenews #culture/movies #themonitor #culture

Wired: Marvel's VFX Workers Have Moved to Unionize—and It's a Huge Deal for Hollywood https://www.wired.com/story/marvel-vfx-unionization-big-deal/ #Culture/CultureNews #Culture/Movies #visualeffects #TheMonitor #hollywood #Culture #Marvel #Movies #Oscars #Film

Meeting Sinéad O’Connor in a Cracker Barrel Parking Lot, 1998 - The Irish singer became world-renown long before artists’ every interaction landed on soc... - https://www.wired.com/story/sinead-oconnor-social-media/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

The Shocking Success of 'Barbie' - Together with Oppenheimer, the so-called Barbenheimer opening weekend topped $244 million... - https://www.wired.com/story/barbie-box-office-oppenheimer/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

‘Barbenheimer’ Signals the Start of Hollywood’s Apocalypse - This weekend, two of the most anticipated movies of the year, Barbie and Oppenheimer, hit... - https://www.wired.com/story/barbie-oppenheimer-barbenheimer-hollywood-future/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

The Hollywood Actors Strike Will Revolutionize the AI Fight - Bold-faced names like Meryl Streep and the halting of production could give artificial in... - https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-sag-strike-artificial-intelligence/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

White Gladis and Her Killer Whales Are Getting Revenge—30 Years After 'Free Willy' - After ramming fancy boats—and sinking three!—orcas have become internet folk heroes. But ... - https://www.wired.com/story/orca-uprising-white-gladis-free-willy-blackfish-social-media/ #culture/digitalculture #culture/culturenews #culture/movies #themonitor #culture

Reddit Won’t Be the Same. Neither Will the Internet - Subreddits and third-party apps are going dark in response to Reddit’s proposed API chang... - https://www.wired.com/story/reddit-api-changes-ai-labor/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

This Is the Worst Part of the AI Hype Cycle - Feeling hype burnout? You’re not alone. - https://www.wired.com/story/ai-hype-cycle-burnout/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

‘One Margarita’ Is the Song of Summer—and the Moment - Creator Angel Laketa Moore’s freestyle went viral on TikTok—and sparked a chain reaction ... - https://www.wired.com/story/one-margarita-song-of-summer-ai/ #culture/digitalculture #culture/culturenews #culture/music #themonitor #culture

'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' Is Everything the MCU Is Missing - For 15 years Marvel has been perfecting the superhero movie formula, rendering the films ... - https://www.wired.com/story/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-review/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

HBO Max, Netflix, Disney+, and the Day Streaming Died - The streaming industry has been facing a reckoning for a while. This week, it hit. - https://www.wired.com/story/hbo-max-netflix-disney-plus-day-streaming-died/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

HBO Continues to Have the Worst Timing - Somehow Warner Bros. Discovery thinks it’s a good idea to relaunch its HBO Max streaming ... - https://www.wired.com/story/hbo-max-launch-bad-timing-wga-strike/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

AI, the WGA Strike, and What Luddites Got Right - English textile workers once destroyed the machines threatening to take their jobs. Scree... - https://www.wired.com/story/wga-strike-artificial-intelligence-luddites/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

The Wildest Statements in Disney’s Lawsuit Against DeSantis - This week, the Mouse House filed a suit claiming the Florida governor is weaponizing gove... - https://www.wired.com/story/disney-desantis-lawsuit-highlights/ #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture

The Bud Light Boycott and the Sad Future of Online Protest - Get ready for an infinite loop of TikTok stitches. - https://www.wired.com/story/bud-light-boycott-tiktok/ #culture/digitalculture #culture/culturenews #themonitor #culture