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Studios Are Cutting Staff. Freelancers Will Pay The AI Bill
The Hollywood Sign on Mount Lee, overlooking Hollywood, Los Angeles, 29th October 1993 Earlier this week, Disney announced another round of layoffs, this time targeting Pixar, National Geographic, and the NFL Network (part of ESPN). This latest…
TV industry bigwigs throw weight behind Action for Freelancers' work-life guidelines
BBC, ITV, C4, UKTV and super-indies support principles for out-of-hours contact Guidelines aimed at minimising out-of-hours contact in the TV industry have received backing from a host of major UK broadcasters and production heavyweights. Action…
Puff-Sleeve Smock Dresses Are the Stylish Summer Staple-Old Navy's On-Trend Buy Is Just $24
You've likely heard it one million times already: this summer has been *hot*. With temperatures reaching a sweltering 95°F, the recent heatwaves have sent us into a bit of a fashion panic. Light and airy is inspiring our s ummer outfits right…
Five Steps To Designing A Meaningful Career In The Age Of AI
Your career planning process needs soul. For nearly thirty years, I have been asking people a deceptively simple question: what is the best use of your passions and purpose for your next career chapter? When I started this work, most of my clients…
Lobbying firm pressed for details about payments to journalists for favourable stories
A political lobbying firm secretly paying journalists for articles favourable to its clients is facing calls to reveal full details of the payments, after the practice was denounced as a dangerous “attack on democracy”. MPs, senior…
James McAvoy's 'absolutely fantastic' thriller remake climbs Netflix's trending chart
James McAvoy's thriller remake that has been hailed as 'elegant' and 'smartly executed' is streaming now on Netflix. Speak No Evil, released in 2024, follows an American couple, Ben (Scoot McNairy) and Louise (Mackenzie Davis), who meet a seemingly…
Here's What's New in the iOS 27 and MacOS 27 Second Public Betas
Emily Long Emily Long Freelance Writer Experience Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of…
4 Ways To Build Stability In Gen Z's Liquid Adulthood
Liquid Adulthood is impacting Gen Z - especially in the workforce. Here are 4 ways to help you deal with job instability. A recently viral Forbes article gave a name to what's replaced the old script for growing up: get a degree, land a job, get…
Vibe Coding Is Rewriting Who Gets To Start A Business
Andrej Karpathy, a former researcher at Tesla and OpenAI, introduced the term 'vibe coding' in a single post on X (formerly Twitter) on February 2, 2025. He described it as follows: 'I just see things, say things, run things, and copy-paste things…
I thought perimenopause and middle age were making me exhausted. After years of searching for answers, I learned I had severe sleep apnea.
'You have severe sleep apnea,' the doctor told me in his office while peering into his computer screen at my data. I definitely wasn't expecting to hear that. At 48, I'd spent years assuming my exhaustion was simply a symptom of my stage of life. I…
MLPX: High Yield & A Portfolio Diversifier (Rating Upgrade) (NYSEARCA:MLPX)
Global X MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF (MLPX) is upgraded to buy, driven by strong recent momentum and diversification benefits. MLPX offers a high 3.95% yield, negative beta to the S&P 500, and exposure to both US and ex-US midstream energy…
Court win for NI 'fright-night' performers whose work was cancelled last minute
Jul 23, 202617:09 by Hattie Fisk Alice Adams Lemon, Equity official for Northern Ireland A small claims court in Northern Ireland has defended the rights of a group of freelance performers to be paid after their work was cancelled at the last…
Two Colorado Buffaloes Recruits Who Could be Future NFL Draft Picks
The Colorado Buffaloes have produced four NFL Draft selections under coach Deion Sanders. All of whom represented the same draft class. Sanders plucked those talents from the transfer portal, though. But his 2026 recruiting class presents two…
Margaret Qualley spotted filming dramatic scenes for remake of Sam Neill's cult '80s classic
Margaret Qualley has been spotted in costume filming intense scenes for the remake of an 80s cult classic. The Substance star is set to appear in a new adaptation of Possession, helmed by Smile 's Parker Finn. Starring Isabelle Adjani and the late…
The Odyssey viewers are only just realising they've seen Odysseus in X-Men
Viewers of The Odyssey have just picked up a neat reference to the story in X-Men. Well, not technically within the movie itself, but close enough. As is standard before the start of films, we get a slew of production company logos, with the slate…
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