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Not my favorite, but a recent gem I really enjoyed were these monsters from Arcadian(2024). The way they move and appear in the film is very effective, not just the design. Very worth a watch, especially if you love a monster.

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The average American has three friends

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The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

submitted 17 days ago • 54 comments

SCOTUS oral arguments in Mahmoud v. Taylor are in 5 minutes. What is Mahmoud v. Taylor? The Don't Say Gay case out of Maryland and the Fourth Circuit. Gather round. 🧵

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: Alliance Defending Freedom is urging Trump to cut ties with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, org that helps recommend which women's preventive services to cover—including birth control. Letter cites "items that can prevent the implantation of embryos after conception"

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

i'm watching a group of conservative law professors insist that there is a grand debate over birthright citizenship that somehow escaped generations of scholarship and only popped into existence after a right-wing president announced an effort to nullify the 14th amendment.

submitted 29 days ago • 227 comments

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 29 days ago • 365 comments

tired of all the racism

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

there’s a style of reporting that’s basically like “the left hasn’t been duped by the transparently bad faith framing of the right, but I, the reporter, very much have.”

submitted 31 days ago • 77 comments

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 33 days ago • 48 comments

🚨House voting on SAVE Act today, worst voter suppression bill ever considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million w/out access to citizenship docs -69 million women who took spouses last name -ends online + mail registration & voter reg drives www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 34 days ago • 65 comments

If the SAVE Act were enacted, this would be the first federal voter suppression bill in recent memory, and possibly ever,” says Eliza Sweren-Becker, senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice’s voting rights and elections program.

submitted 34 days ago • 69 comments

This is what election-rigging looks like.

submitted 39 days ago • 141 comments

this was my wife's employer, a nonprofit Seattle-area hospital that's being strangled to death by senseless Musk/Trump Medicaid cuts it fired her and most of her team over a three minute zoom call last Tuesday

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Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

submitted 46 days ago • 222 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 46 days ago • 179 comments

This is a major major major scandal and must be treated as such Call your senators Call your congresspeople

submitted 50 days ago • 210 comments

15 years ago I uploaded my first game asset to OpenGameArt.org - and I haven’t stopped since! It’s been an incredible journey, all possible thanks to the #gamedev community. Huge thanks to all of you! Here’s to another 15 years of #gameassets! 🥂

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

just updated with a statement from netease:

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

resharing with alt text. truly terrifying shit in addition to my fear, I feel fury both at the perpetrators and all the facilitators who greased the wheels

submitted 65 days ago • 24 comments

Democrats stop being terrified of being called a socialist challenge. They’re going to call you one regardless. When they do say “Yes, that’s right, unlike Republicans I think American society should be defended and nurtured, not demolished by bigots and sold by billionaires and bosses.”

submitted 68 days ago • 36 comments

GAVIN WTF MY MAN whenever ppl get excited about him i always have to remind them he's a crass politician who'll do whatever to be in power, no matter who it benefits or harms. If you want to join me in yelling at him here's his contact: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/

submitted 68 days ago • 9 comments

1. This morning, California Governor said he was in "complete alignment" with anti-LGBTQ+ hate-influencer Charlie Kirk of TPUSA on transgender sports. He also conceded on trans inmates and gender affirming care for youth. It's so much worse than being reported. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 68 days ago • 358 comments

The public comment period for changing passports to misgender trans people is open. Please take a moment to let them know that you do not support that change.

submitted 79 days ago • 22 comments

I've learned (and I am still learning) how to run a game studio for the last seven years doing both creative and biz. Here's a list of guidelines that work for us and might be useful for others that were lessons I've incorporated with our experience and guidance from others. 🧵

submitted 79 days ago • 16 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 80 days ago • 247 comments

"This is the moment in which they come for trans people. You know the poem by Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller. You know what happens next. Time to fight back." www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.

submitted 81 days ago • 51 comments

Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 90 days ago • 31 comments