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Release the Mrs. Doubtfire NC-17 Cut
While filming 'Mrs. Doubtfire' (1993), Robin Williams improvised so much that there were PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 cuts of the film
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I’m imagining what would be happening if it were Black people across the nation defying stay-at-home orders and demonstrating in large groups against the law.
Riot units would be breaking up rallies. Tear gas would be flying. Jails would be filling up. Trump would be raging.
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Serious q: can Native American reservations offer abortions, even within the borders of abortion-banning states, due to tribal sovereignty?
@LakotaMan1
do you know?
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Uncut Gems is a masterpiece and Sandler was robbed of the Oscar
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"Like the hilly bumps experts foresee in coming months, the 1918 pandemic hit America in three waves — a mild one that spring, the deadliest wave in fall and a final one that winter."
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If you think about it, Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory was the original Squid Game…
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A candidate in a local election in Belgium received over 4,000 extra votes due to an ionizing particle from the Sun
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Simon & Schuster cancels Senator Hawley’s book. Now Regnery has picked it up. Guess who distributes Regnery? Simon & Schuster. 🤦🏻
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It’s so fucked up we’re close to 100,000 people in this country dead from coronavirus in the last three months. Worse than wars, natural disasters. A whole city’s worth of people, just leveled. And there is no mass public mourning.
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You’re in luck: my friend just opened a new sober bar in Greenpoint last night called Getaway. Loving it so far.
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Watching Hannibal series on Netflix during this yawning dirge of a pandemic, slipping from episode to episode late at night and not really knowing where one ends and the other begins, fitting for this beautiful, phantasmagoric freak show. Convinced it's one of the GOATs now.
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"These models are truly approximating their datasets to an incredible degree"
I've defended gen AI, but this stunning observation from OpenAI engineer James Betker (
@neonbjb
) would seem to bode poorly for the idea the tech doesn't infringe copyright on its training data.
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The worst take on the Disney-Fox deal is the jubilation over X-Men's return to Marvel. Multibillion dollar megacorporate conglomeration and that's what you're focused on?
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Zuck showing off seriously weird VR hurricane disaster tourism on FB right now btw
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Preview of housing for our seapunk overlords circa 2100
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Lots of apocalyptic imagery over the last five years, but this is my new "favorite"
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Who had "return of ancient plagues" in apocalypse bingo?
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Hey today will be my last day
@motherboard
full-time. It's been a trip! Best crew I've worked w/ in this biz. Greatness ahead for all of us.
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Facebook reportedly had tool to remove fake news, shelved it for fear of appearing biased via
@michaelfnunez
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Trump using his Android phone is not joke...it's a huge national security risk via
@josephfcox
@lorenzofb
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Is it just me or is this water fountain a brutalist masterpiece??
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@tedcruz
You helped incite a riot that killed 5 Americans and jeopardized the safety of all your colleagues. Hope you’re proud.
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Disinformation continues to be free
USA Today puts up a paywall, becoming the final major national daily to require readers to pay to read news online, reports
@marcatracy
@nytimesbusiness
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Great email subject to get from your wife out of nowhere lol
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@kylegriffin1
Why was this question even asked? Has anybody actually proposed this outside of this poll?
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Surprise! I have a new job: Editor in Chief of
@InmanNews
. Because real estate is tech now. Here's the deal:
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People say social media is bad and Twitter in particular is a trashfire, but I don’t know how else we would be seeing all of the police and protest violence so clearly
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Glad some of the unemployed are finding new work, at least...
Disneynature’s Elephant, an Original Movie narrated by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, starts streaming April 3, only on
#DisneyPlus
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"It’s become clear to me that that the galaxy is crippled by an abundance of disk formats"
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thanks to
@BryanFuller
and company for creating such a captivating, breathtaking story. I'm looking forward to when some studio is smart enough to greenlight more.
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It’s one of the greatest TV shows of all time for real
Had another conversation with somebody who doesn't like violent film/TV as a rule but loves Hannibal. Asked her why & she said "because none of it is real." It says a lot about everyone involved with the show that so many can have this reaction.
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@muddaub
unfollowed her yday after she joked about hacking into Pelosi's comp...some people just can't take anything seriously, even the shit they should
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Human face models reconstructed from DNA people accidentally left in public places. By
@hdeweyh
#biofabricate
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The Internet of Shit Will Remain Shitty For the Foreseeable Future via
@schneierblog
@internetofshit
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.
@BryanFuller
look familiar??
Skeleton praying, detail from the marble floor, Cornaro Chapel, Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome. Italy, 17th century.
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420 is life
Marijuana legalization in Colorado led to a “reversal” of opiate overdose deaths, study finds
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@SaraAlfageeh
Mary Poppins, Mrs. Frizzle, Natasha Leonne in OITNB and Russian Doll, Anna Faris in Smiley Face
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Yes and this is exactly their problem: you need the latter to protect the former
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"Why does Twitter hate us? Why does Twitter hate America? Why does Twitter hate itself?"
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Duterte
CNN's Baldwin: Who’s telling Trump that the death penalty for drug dealers is a good idea?
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This is what ESPN should be running now
Toronto Police say they're investigating this video of three people skateboarding on the Gardiner Expressway - 📹 Morgan Smith
#Toronto
#Skateboarding
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Have we not suffered enough?
Throwback to a young, scrappy and hungry Lin-Manuel Miranda on House in 2009.
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Brb pivoting to become a Baby Yoda News outlet
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Departing Obama Tearfully Shoos Away Loyal Drone Following Him Out Of White House h/t
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You had me at "Millennials are right"
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Underwater w/ Kristen Stewart was dope too
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*anxiety intensifies*
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Neuromancer and
@GreatDismal
were right again. Tessier-Ashpool here we come.
"Because I'm a billionaire, I'm going to have access to better health care so ... I'm going to be like 160 and I'm going to be part of this, like, class of immortal overlords" — Sean Parker IRL
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Men will literally don a leather bat suit and hide in the shadows to engage in vigilante crime fighting, hunting a serial killer while unraveling a noir conspiracy that goes to the highest levels of the Gotham muncipal government and their own family, instead of going to therapy
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@coldhealing
Fridman block is legendary and hilarious given his whole shtick is hearing people out, especially controversial figures
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Also they didn’t resign from the department, just one specific team
They resigned because they thought cops being punished at all was unacceptable.
Get it right.
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New WH just dropped
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All the sci-fi stories had it wrong: AI isn't killing us by physical attacks or computer takeover, but by steadily rotting our minds
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This is one of the best pieces of journalism I've ever read, and a scathing indictment of how
@NYGovCuomo
has failed the backbone of NYC and America's largest regional economy (h/t
@justinjm1
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I feel like Taylor Swift + The National’s ‘Coney Island’ is the definitive song of the pandemic, for me
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Anyone ever figure out why all those big corporate CEOs stepped down in late Feb, Iger and co, did so within days of each other? Probably just a coincidence.
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The whole Trump presidency is probably the worst self-own in American history
One in four doctors in the U.S. is an immigrant. Many of them want to be on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.
But they can't easily transfer their temporary work visas to practice in another hospital because USCIS has cut back on services.
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This is the best thing that has ever happened to
@vice
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@katiedrumm
is the best thing that’s ever happened to me!
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Missouri governor just indicted over "accusations...that he tied up and blindfolded his lover, took a compromising photograph of her without her permission and then threatened to release it if she spoke of their affair."
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Nice story featuring
@vgcerf
@GreatDismal
and
@charltonbrooker
on tech and art and why we need sci-fi to help us imagine the "dark sides" of our advances.
Back in the 1980s, one man envisioned the Internet. Another man foresaw its impact with uncanny prescience.
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Reading the
#Ye24
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“immigration lawyers and advocates question why the Biden administration would choose to reopen a Trump-era facility that was the source of protests and controversy.”
First migrant facility for children opens under Biden
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Protests work
This morning we committed to move resources from the NYPD to youth and social services as part of our City’s budget.
Our young people need to be reached, not policed.
We can do this AND keep our city safe.
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NGL I’m pretty worried that “he probably won’t use nukes” is the new “he probably won’t invade.”
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Funny how the original Matrix's dark gothic set design influenced almost every sci-fi movie after it and now the new one is like the most colorful looking movie I've seen in 2 decades since lol
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