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An interview i did for INTO THE AFTERMATH after we won the Jury Prize at @BarrymoreFilm
Inspired + shot during the #pandemic lockdown + the #BLM protests that followed + the film is as much a document to 2020 as it is a work of #speculative #scifi
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The Chronicles of Georgia, a massive and unfinished monument located on Keeni Hill overlooking the Tbilisi Sea in Tbilisi, Georgia 🇬🇪
The monument sits on a hill above the Tbilisi Sea, a large reservoir on the city’s northeastern edge. It was designed by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who began work on it in 1985. It has never been fully completed.
The structure is made up of 16 huge bronze-covered pillars, each around 30-35m tall. That’s roughly the height of a 10-story building.
Every pillar tells a story. The upper sections show Georgia’s kings, queens and heroes, along with key moments from the nation’s long history. The lower sections depict scenes from the life of Christ, reflecting Georgia’s deep Christian roots. It was one of the first countries in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion, in the fourth century.
Visitors climb a wide stone staircase to reach the pillars, where the carved figures tower overhead. On clear days, the site also offers sweeping views of the reservoir, the city and the mountains beyond.
Despite its size, it remains surprisingly quiet and lightly visited.
Tsereteli was one of the world’s most prolific monument builders. His works include the towering Peter the Great statue on the Moscow River, nearly 100m tall.
#archaeohistories
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My uncle spent 40 years as a high school teacher. Saved $250k in a modest nest egg.
At 78, he developed dementia and needed memory care.
The facility cost $8,500 a month.
When his savings ran out after two and a half years, the social worker handed my cousin a stack of paperwork.
She explained the rule: "Medicaid won't cover a single day until he has less than $2,000 in total liquid assets."
He had to sell his car, cash out his remaining life insurance, and empty his checking account just to qualify for basic care.
Forty years of discipline, erased down to two thousand dollars so he could die in a shared room.
They don't let working class families leave a legacy.
They make sure you die with zero before they hand you a safety net.
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Best-Selling Author Nassim Taleb Refuses To Lecture In Azerbaijan While Ruben Vardanyan Is Held As A Political Prisoner in Baku
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician, and best-selling author of The Black Swan and Antifragile, has publicly refused an invitation to lecture in Azerbaijan, citing the continued unjust imprisonment of Armenian philanthropist and former Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) State Minister Ruben Vardanyan. Taleb announced the decision on his X account, saying he turned down the invitation despite organizers substantially increasing their offer.
"Was asked to go to Azerbaijan for a lecture. I declined (they yuugely upped their offer, not understanding my ethics, thinking it would make a difference)," Taleb wrote. "I will not set foot in Azerbaijan with Reuben Vardanyan jailed there."
Taleb, a Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering, is one of the most widely read essayists of the past two decades. His five-volume Incerto series, which includes The Black Swan (2007) and Antifragile (2012), has been translated into dozens of languages and has shaped how policymakers, financial institutions, and academics think about risk, randomness, and uncertainty. His commentary on X reaches more than one million followers.
Vardanyan, a Russian-born Armenian businessman and philanthropist and co-founder of the Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, served as the first State Minister of Artsakh from November 2022 until February 2023. He was abducted by Azerbaijani forces on September 27, 2023, at the Lachin Corridor while fleeing Artsakh alongside more than 100,000 Armenians forcibly displaced by Azerbaijan's military assault and ethnic cleansing of the region. On February 17, 2026, after more than two years of unjust imprisonment, the Baku Military Court sentenced Vardanyan to 20 years in prison on 42 trumped-up charges including terrorism, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, all of which he denies. The court did not read the full judgment during the hearing.
Amnesty International called the sentence a "travesty" and said the trial was "incompatible with fair trial guarantees." Vardanyan's legal team said the verdict was "legally unsustainable" and the product of proceedings "driven by political considerations and fundamentally incompatible with the standards of a fair trial." On July 22, 2026, an application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on Vardanyan's behalf after he declined to appeal within the Azerbaijani legal system, which he described as "staged and predetermined."
Taleb has publicly advocated for Vardanyan's release since December 2023, shortly after visiting Armenia to speak at the Science and Business Days conference in Yerevan. In a December 7, 2023 post on X, Taleb called Vardanyan a friend and wrote that he was being treated "not even as a prisoner of war, but as a 'terrorist.'"
Vardanyan is one of 19 Armenian hostages unjustly held in Azerbaijan, seized in September 2023 during the ethnic cleansing that forced the entire Armenian population from occupied Artsakh. He remains imprisoned in Baku.
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It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.
It includes:
64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
Searchable index
Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
Geolocation data
Livemap with minute to minute updates
Victim list
It can be accessed here: ArchiveGenocide.com
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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.
God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.
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A mother who helped her blind daughter graduate from law school by attending every class and reading textbooks aloud for four years was awarded an honorary law degree in recognition of her extraordinary dedication.
In July 2018, Sakarya University awarded an honorary law degree to Havva Kul alongside her visually impaired daughter, Berru Merve Kul, during the school’s graduation ceremony. With limited access to Braille textbooks and audio learning resources, Havva became her daughter’s primary source of academic support throughout law school.
For four years, she accompanied Berru to every class, took notes, and helped her keep up with coursework requirements. At home, she spent countless hours reading law textbooks, case studies, and legal codes aloud so her daughter could prepare for exams. In recognition of her extraordinary dedication, Faculty Dean Professor Mahmut Bilen invited Havva to the stage and presented her with a special degree certificate, earning a standing ovation from the audience.
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A trifecta of mediocrity at best… A perfectly beautiful example of exactly where we are and why everything is so fucken uninteresting…
Lena Dunham on falling in with a crowd of artists in New York City—including the Safdie brothers and Greta Gerwig—and making her first film, “Tiny Furniture.” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Sc…
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Kim Basinger publicly called out the Oscars for snubbing Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing (1990):
“There is one film missing from this list that deserves to be on it because, ironically, it might tell the biggest truth of all. And that’s Do the Right Thing.”
This is on the money…
An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇
"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.
Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.
So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.
Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.
A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."
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Lupita Nyong'o is not the first Black woman who could portray Helen of Troy.
The first was Eartha Kitt, personally chosen by Orson Welles, in a play performed in Paris in 1950.
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ICE relies on private companies to help carry out its thuggery — we need to go after these corporate collaborators
Here's a list of low-lift national targets, mostly public-facing companies with relatively small ICE contracts that are set to expire soon, making them particularly vulnerable to consumer and employee pressure:
Dell ($18.8 million contract with ICE for Microsoft software licenses, expiring March 2026)
UPS ($90,500 small package delivery contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
FedEx ($1 million delivery services contract with ICE, expiring March 2026)
Motorola Solutions ($15.6 million tactical communication infrastructure contract with ICE, expiring May 2026)
Comcast ($24,600 internet services contract for ICE Seattle office, expiring May 2026 — this could be a great fight for new mayor Katie Wilson to take on).
AT&T ($83 million IT and network contract with ICE, with a potential end date of July 2032).
LexisNexis ($21 million data-brokerage contract with ICE — this company is particularly vulnerable to pressure from university students and professor unions, since much of its revenue comes from colleges.)
Home Depot and Lowe’s are using AI-powered license plate readers and feeding this data into law enforcement surveillance systems accessible to ICE. Their parking lots are also regular sites of ICE raids targeting day laborers.
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In 1983, Paul Newman stated that the American state disregards the truth, always creating exaggerated enemies to justify wars and massacres for profit, while ignoring crimes committed by other nations like Israel
