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💘HEY! YOU! IF YOU HAVEN'T FILLED OUT THIS SURVEY YET YOU REALLY SHOULD! 💘
First up my angels, there are a few tickets left to this cool event I’m speaking at - Tech You Should Care About!! It’s free (but if you choose to pay all the proceeds are going to Ukraine), so you should get your tickets!!
Secondly, sorry if I’ve been a lil deflated for the past few days, but your sweet as hell messages keep me hyped!! Like this one from Ella and her sis:
“Hey luce!!!
This morning my sister and I were sipping our coffees next to each other on the couch, a few minutes in we realised we were both reading the SYSCA newsy!!! Cute bonding moment”
And then just coz we're spreading the love, here's another cute one!
Ok! Enough self-absorption for now!
An update on the Rust shooting
A bomb hit a school in Ukraine
Ncuti Gatwa (Eric from Sex Education) is the new Dr Who!!
Kendrick Lamar has a creepy new Deepfake video
What do you call a ...tap?
An update on the Rust shooting
The other day I saw (on TikTok) a video of Alec Baldwin while he was in the police station as he was being told that Halyna Hutchins has passed away. And it made me realise that I hadn’t looked into/ hadn’t updated all of you on what’s happened in this case for a while. Here’s a long explanation of all the updates to the case, but I’ve pulled out a few notable things:
Video from on set was released:
“In a video taken by police later that day, Baldwin makes a few frantic calls as he awaits a meeting with law enforcement officials. “You have no idea how unbelievable this is and how strange this is,” he says over the phone.
"I don't want to be a public person," Baldwin says over the phone in that same video footage. "I'm the one holding a gun in my hand that everyone was supposed to have taken care of."
He also asked investigators: "Am I being charged with something?"
Rust armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has filed a suit against the ammunition supplier.
On January 12, 2022, Gutierrez-Reed filed a complaint against PDQ Arm and Prop and managing member Seth Kenney, who reportedly supplied ammunition for the film. As reported by NPR, the filing claims that Gutierrez-Reed used rounds provided by Kenney and PDQ on the day of the shooting, which the suit claims were labeled “dummy rounds .45 LC.” “Hannah relied upon and trusted that Defendants would only supply dummy prop ammunition, or blanks, and no live rounds were ever to be on set,” reads the complaint.
Rust Movie Productions was fined:
“Rust Movie Productions LLC was fined over $136,000 by New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau in April 2022, after safety officials claimed in a statement that the production company showed “plain indifference to the recognized hazards associated with the use of firearms on set that resulted in a fatality, severe injury, and unsafe working conditions.”
“Environment Cabinet Secretary James Kenney released a separate statement after announcing the fine.
“The investigation found that this tragic incident never would have happened if Rust Movie Productions, LLC has followed national film industry standards for firearm safety,” he explained. “This is a complete failure of the employer to follow recognized national protocols that keep employees safe.”
The bureau confirmed that the “Willful-Serious” citation — and $136,793 fine — is the maximum permitted under New Mexico law.
But Rust Movie Productions LLC plans to appeal it:
“While we appreciate OSHA’s time and effort in its investigation,” the company told CBS in an official statement, “we disagree with its findings and plan to appeal. Our thoughts and prayers remain with Halyna’s family.”
There's so much to catch up on, here.
A bomb hit a school in Ukraine
About 60 people were killed yesterday after a Russian plane dropped a bomb on a school in Eastern Ukraine. Does anyone remember when I explained what a war crime was? Well you should go and read through it and decide for yourself whether this was one (spoiler - I reckon it was.)
You should also really watch this video from Andrew Callaghan (previously All Gas No Brakes)
He's been on the ground in Ukraine and this video is brilliant. Also peep Mason the cat.
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Ncuti Gatwa (Eric from Sex Education) is the new Dr Who!!
I don’t even watch Dr Who but I loved Ncuti SOOOO MUCH in Sex Education that I’m stoked for the Dr Who world!! He’s also the first person of colour to play the role (did you know there have been 13 other Dr Who’s??) A big vibe.
Kendrick Lamar has a creepy new Deepfake video:
You defs know what Deepfakes are because you’ve watched our Extremely Online episode all about it, but as a reminder, they’re extremely realistic fake videos. And in his latest track, Kendrick Lamar “has tributes (or maybe just portrayals) of OJ Simpson, Kanye West, Jussie Smollett, Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, and Nipsey Hussle.”
Kendrick gives thanks to Matt Stone and Trey Parker (sound familiar? They co-created South Park) who have a Deepfake Studio called Deep Voodoo. The more you know!
What do you call this?
55% say tap
42% say faucet
3% say other
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My Plea for a Sixth Love Language (The New York Times)
All your questions about Roe V. Wade, explained (The Shit Show)
Making Sense Of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard (Culture Vulture)