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So, whenever I go on a big DW Griffith bashing, I typically get a few responses that miss the point.
First, "I DON'T BELIEVE IN CENSORSHIP, WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO BAN THE FILM!" which is a strawman argument. I never said I wanted it banned. I said that I want it out of the canon.
Im Budgetausschuss wurden zwei Anträge der FPÖ zum "Schutz biologischer Geschlechter" abgelehnt. ➡️ parl.at/gGJ-
💡 Dass der Ausschuss heute über die Anträge entscheiden musste, geht auf entsprechende Verlangen der FPÖ zurück. Wie geht das? Ein nerdiger Thread ⬇️
Dorothy Arzner (1897-1979): Hollywood Pioneer Born in 1897 and coming of age in the silent-era studios, she was one of the first women in Hollywood to successfully move from silent to sound film, directed over 20 features between 1927 and 1943, and became the first woman member of the Directors Guild of America. After studying pre-medicine for a time, she shifted to the film industry in 1919, taking a job as a stenographer at Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount). She soon worked as an editor and writer, cutting films like Blood and Sand (1922), and by 1927 she directed her first feature, Fashions for Women. At a time when female directors were rare and often ephemera, she sustained a career over more than a decade, directing for major studios and commanding real authority on set. In 1929 she directed *The Wild Party*, not only one of Paramount’s early talkies but also the scene where she innovated the boom microphone: confronted with the difficulty of hidden mics restricting actors’ movement, she rigged a microphone to a fishing pole so sound would follow the performers fluidly. That innovation wasn’t just technical—it was symbolic of the freedom she believed cinema could afford. Throughout her career she cast and nurtured actresses like Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Lucille Ball and Rosalind Russell, giving them parts that dared to question conventional femininity. Behind the scenes, she lived boldly: she dressed in trousers and suits when most women were pressured into skirts, and she maintained relationships that defied norms in an era of strict social conformity. After leaving mainstream directing in 1943, she taught filmmaking at institutions like Pasadena Playhouse and UCLA, influencing later filmmakers. She died on October 1, 1979 in La Quinta, California.
Dorothy Arzner (1897-1979): one of the first women in Hollywood to successfully move from silent to sound film; directed over 20 features.
#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen
📣 New exhibition event!
We welcome two historians who will explore the wider context of our latest exhibition
Birgit Kirchmayer will speak about art restitution in Austria and Florian Schwanninger will explore the history of Ranshofen and Braunau am Inn wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/exhibi...
Spotify CEO, Daniel Ek, becomes chairman of Al military start-up after €600 million investment
Parasite becomes aggressive.
Sure all the musicians looking at our £0.0003 Spotify payouts for our work are delighted this is what our fans’ money went towards instead, and the fans equally pleased.
Artists are always very in favour of war, traditionally.
Die Autoren von "Infografiken 2024" der @statistik.at haben sichtlich Spaß gehabt.
www.statistik.at/fileadmin/pu...
Johannes Hahn soll Zypern wiedervereinen?
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William Ansah Sesserakoo (1736-1770) was a Fante prince, the son of a political leader who sold enslaved Africans.
His father sent him to Britain to be educated, but the ship's captain sold him into slavery in Barbados...
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@layersoflondon.bsky.social
Prognosekarte des Pollenfluges der Birke für den 14. April in Österreich der GeoSphere Austria. Die meisten Regionen Österreichs sind für hohen Pollenflug eingefärbt ausgenommen sind die höheren Lagen.
Saisonspitze der Birkenpollensaison!
Die Zeit der Spitzenpollenkonzentrationen durch den Pollenflug der Birke ist gekommen. Sehr schön erkennt man hier, dass höhere Lagen sind begünstigt sind.
Quelle: GeoSphere Austria; www.geosphere.at
Mehr zum Pollenflug: Pollenservice Wien @meduniwien.ac.at
In a searing talk, she details a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of the “broligarchy”: an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives (like Elon Musk) who are complicit in dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world.
12.04.2025 07:08 — 👍 16 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 0Zumindest im Frack erschienen...
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Schönen guten Tag!
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♻️TU Wien turns battery waste into fuel!🔋
Prof. @rupprechter-lab.bsky.social's team developed a nanocatalyst from e-waste & foil that converts CO₂ → methane at 250°C.
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D4GC...
#GreenChemistry
@fwf-at.bsky.social
Diese Woche findet die Diagonale statt. Ihr seid in Graz? Dann könnt ihr jetzt Tickets für den Film gewinnen, den wir am Festival präsentieren:
fm4.orf.at/stories/3046...
Hier der Link auf den Offenen Brief:
www.literaturhaus-graz.at/news/offener...
Looking forward to seeing more from Payal Kapadia
08.03.2025 18:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
eine Frau in einem weißen Mantel und blauen Handschuhen hält ein Reagenzglas
#Weltfrauentag: Heute wird auf Frauenrechte und bestehende Diskriminierungen aufmerksam gemacht sowie die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter gefordert. An der JKU blicken wir auf bisher erreichte Erfolge der Frauenförderung zurück und weisen auf noch bestehende Missstände hin 💡 http://go.jku.at/i25b1
08.03.2025 08:05 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fun takedown of #Vance from 2021, raking him over the coals for being a knowing, calculated fraud without a moral compass.
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Weiß immer noch nicht, wie wir dahin gekommen sind, dass die Leute mit den Galgen und den Hassbotschaften „besorgte Bürger“ sind und die mit den Plakaten voll Solidarität und Gemeinschaftssinn „linke Spinner“.
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James Bond’s next assignment: protect an Amazon fulfillment center from the evils of high corporate taxes and regional zoning laws.
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Licht für die #Ukraine ❤️💙💛
…drei Jahre, letzte Vorbereitungen hier, am Stephansplatz in Wien
Kommt her, um 17h geht es los
Via @caritas-austria.bsky.social 🙏
You can't fool me. Trump, Musk and co. think Fort Knox is where the government's been hiding the Ark of Covenant all these years and they're planning to steal it. Hope they try it too. Didn't work out so well for their Nazi predecessors.
20.02.2025 15:26 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Dazu Last Minute #Filmtipp: Nawalny um 16:00 im #Gartenbaukino www.gartenbaukino.at/programm/naw...
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A gentle reminder about true Romantics. They spend Valentines Day alone.
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OpenAI Says It Will Make Its $200 Deep Research Model Available for Free https://gizmodo.com/openai-says-it-will-make-its-200-deep-research-model-available-for-free-2000563047
12.02.2025 20:47 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Zu den nächsten Parteienterminen beim Bundespräsidenten #VdB darf erst kommen, wer Kelsens "Vom Wesen und Wert der Demokratie" (1920/1929) gelesen hat: Der Kompromiss ist das Wesen der Demokratie, nicht Carl Schmitts Freund-Feind-Schema www.republik.ch/2019/06/22/w... @republik.ch
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Dr. Rebecca Crumpler passed away in Boston in 1895 and is buried in Fairview Cemetery.2
Her life and work testify to her talent and determination to help other people, in the face of doubled prejudice against her gender and race.
Habe so viel Respekt für diesen Mann, bekannt als “Ceasar”, der nun seine Identität preisgibt. Farid Al-Madhhan aus Daraa hat unter enormen Risiko zehntausende Fotos von Folteropfern des syrischen Regimes ins Ausland geschmuggelt. Jetzt kann er erstmals sein Gesicht zeigen
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