Fantasy filmmaker. Autistic Minnesotan. Proud Farmer-Laborite Socialist trying to do some good. Founder of @BattlemageFilms.

Duluth (he/him)
Joined August 2008
Hey all! Reminder that my debut feature film, Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry, is available in a bunch of places! An opportunistic jerk joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he lives in a fantasy world. They team up and fight crime. Fun stuff! battlemagefilms.com/gleahan
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Not that I’m surprised, but there’s a disturbing number of Harry Potter costumes in downtown Provo
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Anything Chris Evans can do, Chris Pine can do better.
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I settled with my landlord a little over a year ago, then I got a lucky break and moved out. Don't leave repairs up to the courts like I had to. Duluth won Right-To-Repair a couple months after I settled this lawsuit. St. Paul can have this relief too. Get out there and VOTE!
NEW TODAY: With the help of @DanSuitor, my brother and I just filed a settlement with the St. Louis County Court to end a lawsuit against our landlord, Bob Swanson. /🧵
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Obama's endorsement is a fine pull but it doesn't hold a candle to Talking Directly With The People You Want To Vote For You. Amy, I know you have the capacity. Just knock some regular people's doors. Please. I'm begging you. You don't have to make this so hard.
Thank you, President Obama!
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I love my country, Minnesota. Natural beauty, multiculturalism, & bottomless solidarity. We got trans babes, Somali moms, church ladies, & average Joes looking out for each other. Yes there is hardship & poverty. The cops & every mayor suck ass. And I would die to protect it.
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Listen. If the Vatican starts funding film production like it funded cathedrals a thousand years ago, I'd do it in a heartbeat. Sure, I may be Lutheran but the Catholic Church is way more chill about other denominations now and we're basically the same, right?
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Like, if the Pope called a crusade on AI and drew the battle lines at "Art," I'd sign up for the front lines in a heartbeat.
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Pope Leo getting in on the cool, trendy side of the Butlerian Jihad.
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Samuel T. Weston retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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This is entirely Too Much. We have to stop this.
David Ellison has shown an official graphic of everything Skydance will own after acquiring Warner Bros and Paramount. Assets: • TNT • CBS • CNN • MTV • TCM • Showtime • Adult Swim • DC Studios • Paramount+ • Nickelodeon • HBO/HBO Max • Comedy Central • Cartoon Network Film Rights: • Star Trek • Gremlins • Beetlejuice • DC Comics • Tom & Jerry • Harry Potter • Citizen Kane • Transformers • A Quiet Place • Looney Tunes • The Conjuring • Mortal Kombat • Game of Thrones • Dora The Explorer • Mission Impossible • The Lord of the Rings • SpongeBob SquarePants • Avatar: The Last Airbender • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles • Dune 3 (distribution rights) • Minecraft (distribution rights) • MonsterVerse (distribution rights)
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I'll believe it when I see it, Teddy. You don't have to wait for Kpop Demon Hunters 2 — just start releasing films theatrically right now!
Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos has promised that ‘KPOP DEMON HUNTERS 2’ will receive a “a very broad theatrical release.” (Source: thewrap.com/creative-content…)
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It's fucked up that Minnesota filmmakers' only funding options are "scramble over the same two 5-figure grants" or "make your friends do it for free lol" when we have literal Fortune 500 companies based here who have chosen NOT to go Full Medici with a fraction of their wealth.
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Apple and Amazon are out here funding Content™ regardless of profitability but apparently Target and Best Buy can't be bothered to fund filmmakers' art with little brand integration deals. For shame.
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Spot on
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We are now in the SENATE! After another year of conversations around DC, we have gone bicameral. Steph and I are proud to announce the launch of the Senate Creators Caucus. Washington is making increasingly consequential decisions about AI, social media, online safety, and the future of creative work. Creators, as the front lines of these issues, should be a voice in those conversations, but historically, we've fallen into the cracks of the system. Now we have a seat at the table. More to come soon!
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Democrats could spend a fraction of what they're sending to Ossoff, Talarico, and Sayed to tilt this race Blue. Any guesses as to why they have all but abandoned Angie in terms of fundraising and media support? (rhetorical question. we all know why)
New - Florida statewide races Senate 🔵 Angie Nixon 45% 🔴 Ashley Moody (Inc.) 45% 🟡 Other 3% St. Pete Polls #C - LV - 9/17
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Super cool new MacOS 27 feature that will be VERY useful for all organizing meetings: LIVE CAPTIONS OF SPOKEN AUDIO! Now any convention with a Mac running the slideshow can be more accessible to attendees. The setting is under Settings > Accessibility > Hearing > Live Captions
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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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You make it! A variety! Show! No overcomplicated relational dynamics, no season-spanning arcs — just self-contained episodes where the performers' goal is to entertain the audience with comedy and music. It's "SNL" with puppets. Doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.
There are currently no active conversations for a full ‘MUPPET SHOW’ series revival. Disney, The Muppets Studio and Point Grey Pictures have had difficulties with deciding on a premise for the series that they can all agree on. (Source: Deadline)
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