Hi. Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy) joins Katy and Cody to talk about the Screen Actors Guild going on strike, the ultra-rich media CEOs who want your sympathy, and why there's no reason that social media companies have to show you everyone's awful opinion all the time. SAG-AFTRA on strike: https://apnews.com/article/hollywood-actors-strike-ca3e3eddc910f1e52d618e5e3c394554 Disney CEO Bob Iger says writers and actors not being "realistic": https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/bob-iger-writers-actors-strike-disney-ceo-1235669169/ Hollywood studios "endgame" is to let writers go broke: https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/ Here's Parker's newsletter on social media curation: https://www.readtpa.com/p/against-the-eat-your-vegetables-approach Twitter starting to pay creators in their replies...as long as they're Twitter Blue subscribers: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794189/twitter-blue-monetization-ad-revenue-sharing-payments And here's that stupid Elon Musk tweet about being on a deserted island: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1678805016189235200 Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Some More News and Even More News audio podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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