Share: Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched a new Artificial intelligence branch and it’s called Meta AI. Meta AI will have plenty of features that include language modeling and on-the-stop artistic drawing. Another main and popular feature Meta AI provides is a chatbot tool for the image and likeness of famous celebrities with different names attached and is responsive to a specific setting for the user. I might seem innocuous, but I am worried, and you should be, too. AI Chat has the potential …
Prioritizing fast food workers over healthcare workers is ridiculous
Share: Governor Gavin Newsom has recently signed in a new law raising the minimum wage for healthcare workers to be bumped to $25 an hour that will come into effect in 2026. Our healthcare workers need better pay, and it shouldn’t be a 2 year waiting game. This new bill will come into effect following a minimum wage hike for fast food workers to $20 an hour, as brought to light in an article by the Office of the Governor on Sep 28, 2023. It …
Directors deserve a final say on their films (if there’s something new to say)
Share: With many movies emerging from a 90-minute runtime to a 2-hour runtime, it has become a modernized form of cinematic storytelling for some film directors to release “director’s cuts” of their movies. Their films are typically released with a shorter runtime due to many possible reasons spanning from budget cuts and studio executives’ interventions. A director’s cut of a film should only be absolutely released if it is necessary and serves a purpose for the director and their circumstances. Ridley Scott, known for directing …
At best, Kevin de León is a moron. At worst, he ruins the future for Latinos in office
Share: When everyone, including the President of the United States, wants someone out of office, that’s the sign to get bags packed and run for the hills, going as far away from an office with an assistant as humanly possible. Unfortunately, Los Angeles District 14 Councilmember Kevin de León did not get the memo. His unbearable ego outweighs any semblance of accountability or dignity after private, racist conversations surfaced online in 2022 involving de León and three other Councilmembers, embarrassing District 14, my district, in …
Polarization in war drowns out those who need to be heard
Share: Everytime something in the media surfaces about an internationally significant situation, millions across the media, social media, and other forms of sharing become a cesspool of “armchair geopolitical experts.” It muddies the waters and dims the voices of those who actually need to be heard, which in this case is one’s with bombs being dropped on their homes, who are facing the brunt of ethnic cleansing, war crimes, genocide and the denial of their dignity as human beings. The discussions that take place on …
Student loan relief doesn’t ease the burden for borrowers
Share: Last year, I woke up to the most surreal news when President Joe Biden forgave my outstanding student loan debt and declared me almost debt free. This week I was reminded that 6 out of 9 people decided that was stupid and slapped me in the face with my debt again. Now after three years of payments being paused, millions of Americans are coming face to face with their student loans again, but some know their debt will never be paid off. For college …
‘No sabo kids’: A generation of Latinos shamed by native Spanish speakers
Share: In everyday life for Latino kids right now, they balance with the struggle of either being rejected from their families or Latino communities for not speaking Spanish well. On the other hand, it has been an issue for years in this country, especially in the 90s, that Latino students were discriminated against just for speaking their own language during school. Many of these Latino children in current times struggle with understanding Spanish due to many contributing factors such as unacceptance from others, the struggle …
‘Dazed and Confused’ at 30: No, you’re not born in the wrong generation
Share: Writer-director Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” shares a reputation with similar coming-of-age films reminiscing on years past, such as “American Graffiti” and “Lady Bird,” to name a few. Besides their shared high school setting, all three take place at least ten years prior to their release, with “Dazed” being the farthest removed from its setting at a firm 15 years later. But while the movie still holds up on its 30th anniversary, the idealized depiction of the 70s plays a part in the recent …
Editorial: PCC isn’t doing enough to alleviate textbook costs
Share: After sifting through tons of useless information and ads for the school, staff writer Laura Dux finally found her way to the textbook credit page, still with a functioning PIN. Taking it to the bookstore website in hopes of using it, she is greeted with an error: there’s no place to use it. Welcome to our shared frustration with PCC’s lack of communication. The Bookstore credit became something of a staple for new PCC recruits in the post-COVID era. It offered a sense of …
We’re gonna need better movies, not bigger blockbuster bombs
Share: Moviegoers were first introduced to the idea of a summer blockbuster in 1975 when Steven Spielberg’s seminal “Jaws” was released, leading lines out of theater doors and raking in an all-time astonishing number of $100 million at the box office. Nowadays, these numbers shoot off into the billions and are much more common, but movies have begun to sputter and fall flat, which begs the question: What happened? It’s clear that the demand for movies, both new and old, continues to be high, but …