Anora's Illusion: Unveiling the Harmful Glamorization of the Commercial Sex Industry — Epik Project At the 2025 Academy Awards last night, Anora , directed by Sean Baker, emerged as a cinematic triumph, securing five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film narrates the tale of An...

This. Captures what bothered me about the film and it's many awards

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To quote Corbin Dallas, "I only know two languages: English and Bad English"

In light of the Trump Administration’s ongoing threats to immigrant communities, it's important for Oregonians to know their rights if approached or detained by ICE.

Visit salinas.house.gov/rights to learn more or call my office at (503) 385-0906.

"Tomorrowland" is back on Disney+ after being off for a while. Can we really fix things? A terrific watch!

The newly refurbished Casa Bonita in Denver is *way* nicer than it used to be. You can enjoy it even without kids!

Yes, Chinese carmaker BYD has a little EV called the Seagull, cost is $10,000

Believe little electrics are on sale in China

I wonder if hail on the roof would make a racket

Just finishing up "Ministry of Time" (on the Obama reading list) and the protagonist buys a handmade bag in the shape of a chicken. She refers to "Chicken Bag" a lot through the rest of the novel.

[6/6] So many alternatives to Twitter: BlueSky, Mastodon, Google Plus (dead), Threads. It all seems too exhausting. Frankly my favorite continues to be Instagram and Flickr, because I like the photographic image as a medium of social connected ness.

[5/ ] Back in the day, when blogs were still cool, I could write an email to a magic account and the mail would automatically turn into a blog post on Wordpress with links posted to Twitter and Facebook. I’m sure such a thing could be cobbled together today, but such a mess would be horrible.

[4/ ] Then Twitter blew up. It became the authoritative source for breaking news, politics etc. But I gradually lost interest. People would tell me that it was a dumpster fire, but I didn’t see it because of my limited . (This was before Elon bought it).

[3/ ] Posting from your cell phone involved using its 10-button numeric keypad to enter alphabetic characters. A 126 character limit to tweets was more than enough, though it put a crimp on posting from a browser.

[2/ ] I mostly only followed technologists that I knew personally. But then there were a few famous people (Star Trek actors, OK?) and news sites.

[1/ ] I originally joined Twitter in 2007, because I had started a group at Intel working on Solaris, and that was the OS that Twitter was built on. Many of the Solaris developers were on Twitter already, so I hopped on.