bessantj posted:

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A former business manager of Stan Lee was arrested on Saturday (local time) on elder abuse charges involving the late comic book legend.

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Stan Lee, creator of Spiderman and other superheroes, died in November at the age of 95
His manager faces charges including false imprisonment of an elder adult
Police say Mr Morgan pocketed more than $262,000 from autograph signing sessions Lee did
Keya Morgan was taken into custody in Arizona on an outstanding arrest warrant after being charged by Los Angeles County prosecutors earlier this month.

Mr Morgan faces felony charges including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder adult.

Barry Convex posted:

Not anywhere near the most offensive thing about Man-Eaters, but I also just found out that the book has twelve-year-old girls having erected a shrine to Hillary Clinton as some kind of feminist avatar and lmao, that’s just perfect

E the Shaggy posted:

Only 37 people have bought Ethan's Ribbit Coins, causing Ethan to try to sell people on them like he's on Fox and Friends

https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1189670509383831552?s=20

https://twitter.com/renfamous/status/1189677035653943298?s=20

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However, in 2016, the studio was sanctioned by the US Department of Treasury as a North Korean state-owned enterprise. The US government has twice laid additional sanctions on Chinese companies that have worked with the studio or acted as a go-between, once in 2021 and again in 2022.

All three cities are known to have many North Korean-operated businesses and are main centers for North Korea’s IT workers who live overseas.

Projects Identified

The files related to a range of projects, suggesting several animators were likely involved in the work.

Over the month we observed this traffic, the apparent identity of some of the projects became clear. They included:

Season 3 of “Invincible,” an Amazon Original animated series produced by California-based Skybound Entertainment. A document on the server carried the name of the series and “Viltruminte Pants LLC,” which appears to be part of the Skybound group.
“Iyanu, Child of Wonder,” an anime about a superhero created by Maryland-based YouNeek Studios and being produced and animated by Lion Forge Entertainment for airing in 2024 on HBO Max.
“Dahliya In Bloom” (魔導具師ダリヤはうつむかない), a Japanese anime series scheduled to air from July 2024.

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There is no evidence to suggest that the companies identified in the images had any knowledge that a part of their project had been subcontracted to North Korean animators. In fact, as the editing comments on all the files, including those related to US-based animations, were written in Chinese, it is likely that the contracting arrangement was several steps downstream from the major producers.