Looks like Hollywood’s writers’ strike is over.

Come, I will conceal nothing from you. If I was a scriptwriter – which is a highly technical specialty that I have neither mastered, nor am even checked out on – I would not have been sanguine about the studios’ most likely attitude towards using AI, either. There’s a suggestion that this dispute has been at least partially addressed, independently of the actors’ strike, which is likewise over things that I actually have some sympathy for.

I can also understand the attitude of a pox on all of their houses, sure. Still: I did grow up in a blue-collar union household. That’s the sort of thing that can grow deep roots in a fellow.

I don’t *know* if the WGA strike and these CW show cancellations are related…

…in fact, in my experience the easy answer is usually the wrong one, so: they’re probably not. Which means that it’s just a malignant coincidence, or the networks are taking the opportunity to save face by axing shows that they shouldn’t have green-lit in the first place, or — something else. Either way, this ain’t a great time to be in the television program business.

Moe Lane

PS: My opinions on the strike itself are mildly complicated. Working conditions probably do suck in that business. I don’t know that for certain, though, because I don’t know anybody in that business.

:level look:

@BarackObama attacks the right of workers to strike. …Wait, WHAT?

Apparently the labor union movement has been deemed to be nonessential government employees:

“If a worker shut down a manufacturing plant until they got what they wanted, they’d be fired.” …Wow. It’s not every day that a Republican gets to stick up for the right of the working man to strike for better pay and working conditions. Makes you wonder whether Barack Obama’s feeling nostalgic for the days when you could just send in the Pinkertons to take care of uppity malcontents… Continue reading @BarackObama attacks the right of workers to strike. …Wait, WHAT?