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I am not Dick Cheney.

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i spent much of this summer watching classic Disney animated features and their live-action (and photorealistic cgi) remakes. learned a lot about cel animation technique and Disney's industrial history, nostalgia and IP, and wrote a big feature for Mubi Notebook, link next
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Rozario’s mother addressed the mayor directly: “You came to my home and said you would be a different kind of mayor. We feel betrayed by you. Jessica Tisch ... let Alongi retire without a trial. It seems like you are just letting this happen.” thecityreporter.nyc/2026/10/…

NYPD Blames ‘Human Error’ After Officer in Win Rozario Shooting Is Allowed to Retire

Parents of the Queens teen killed during 2024 mental health 911 call accused Mayor Mamdani of ‘betrayal.’

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Would be nice to know how much talk about AI adoption in the film industry is counting machine learning stuff that was already around and has switched to saying "AI." Izotope has been basically the best audio repair plugin since 2007. I wonder if it's counted now as "adoption."
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Trailer's out for Clarissa. The New York premiere is Sunday at the festival and it opens in December. Plenty of time to get a head start on reflecting about the past as well as your place in society. youtube.com/watch?v=sJAqmdXa…

Clarissa - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters December

Across a single day in Lagos, Nigeria, Clarissa (Sophie Okonedo) pr...

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Americans' views on Islam are more negative than they were after 9/11
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Quoth the poet: “you rollin like Trump, you get your meat lumped” 😔
Palantir
@PalantirTechAug 21
It was great to have @Raekwon at our office again. Congratulations to the Wu-Tang Clan on their farewell tour. Never forget your OGs.
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There is a tactical argument for politicians and pundits to distance themselves from "defund the police." Maybe it is bad for elections. Maybe there's a tradeoff you're willing to make. But "that was crazy" is not even accompanied by "here's my plan to stop police violence."
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The popularity of abolition was a response to the failure and duplicity of reform. Now we have "abolition was stupid," there is no longer a major reform agenda, and the body count is only growing. The bill to end qualified immunity stalled out five years ago. Ask AOC about that.
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The problem with this triangulation is it starts a clock ticking until the next eruption comes and it always does.
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Clarissa is coming to New York! Hearing it's a big year for adaptations of classic texts. 🙂
New York Film Festival
@TheNYFFAug 5
Replying to @TheNYFF @neonrated @searchlightpics @netflixqueue @ARRAYNow
CLARISSA (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri) | U.S. Premiere Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo stars in twin filmmakers Arie and Chuko Esiri’s tender adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s MRS. DALLOWAY, which transports the 1925 novel to contemporary Nigeria while retaining the spiritual essence of Woolf’s themes.
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Only now realizing I should have pitched the team on the tagline being: "What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa."
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thought I'd watch Meek's new video...dawg I hate the shadow primaries
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a lot of arguments for why socialists shouldn’t be for abolishing the police sound identical to what the police were saying in 2020. Only difference seems to be which group shuts up and waits it out when black people are burning something to the ground.
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“It’s not pragmatic. The population doesn’t believe it. They have too much power.” My friend, you are an American trying to vote socialism into being before ecological collapse.
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TRUMP: GOOD CHANCE SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN
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Somebody should have got Derek Jarman to do the Iliad
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leila
@ainiladraJul 4
unbelievable this devoted doctor who heroically continued working despite his son being deliberately murdered as part of the campaign to destroy him & gaza's health system was abducted & is being tortured to death & the regime responsible is still met with handshakes & smiles
Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸
@PalPress24Jul 4
الترجمة: 🔴 #Breaking: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is being held in an underground tunnel and is reportedly subjected to severe abuse. He told his lawyer: “This is the last time you will see me… They brought me here to kill me.” Details in the first comment.
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So why don't you see these people pushing hard for universal healthcare? The workplace protections aren't even great. But I always remember a mentee in a program for doc editors asked me and a longtime editor how to get good insurance and we both immediately said "get married."
Variety
@VarietyJun 16
Indie producers can still make movies like “Obsession” cheaply in the U.S. by shooting nonunion. The breakout horror hit filmed in L.A. for just $750,000, but as domestic production slows, IATSE has been pushing harder to “flip” nonunion projects — driving up costs. “The films I grew up making, for $500,000 or $1 million, the unions are really interested in having those be signatory projects,” producer David Kaplan says. Read the full cover story on the mass exodus of LA productions by @GeneMaddaus: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHp4O
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A real problem with the way these arguments interact with the romance of independent cinema and the realities of mass culture is that there is an argument to be made: the best funded movies are slop!
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But, especially in fiction, people want you to go along with the romantic notion. I've taken less money and worked longer hours for friends. But you have to actually be friends first. Someone who emails you cold to hire you might be a friend later, but they're your boss now.
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