Paul Wren

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‘Bullitt’ at 57: A Suspense-Packed Thriller that Introduced a New Kind of Action Films

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Social media platforms were once all about having an original, authentic voice. A generation of YouTubers, activists, podcasters, influencers, and writers—voices that defined the cultural mood—initially made their following by being authentic. They reset the terms of play through social uprisings, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. They leaned on opinion, comedy, and sports analysis, often sharing mundane observations or hot takes, because self-presentation was the paramount form of expression. Sora removes the need for that style of authenticity entirely. It suggests that there is no value in the original source code of social media: your voice. Sora is only interested in entertainment or deception.

Interesting commentary on Sora from Wired today.

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I'm on a 3-person engineering team right now that has a quick daily meeting (often less than 10 minutes) at 10:00 am.

Unfortunately, that's 10:00 am EDT, cuz the two other members are on the east coast... so it's 7:00 am for me here in AZ.

I have never hated a meeting more than this one

I played the rest of the scene out in my head, and when I came to the peasant's plea "Come see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help, I'm bein' repressed!" I realized: We are living it.

I'm trying to get this straight: Did the LEOs on site make it clear where protestors and press could stand (and the street was NOT such a designated place), then led them into the street to give ISP a pretense to beat and arrest?

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

“Bombshell!” posted University of Chicago law professor William Baude on social media. “Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation” of the Constitution.

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Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

I'm sure the administration will dismiss the Economist as a socialist blog with no legitimacy.

Jeanine Pirro fails again: DC jury finds protester not guilty of assaulting FBI agent Washington’s top prosecutor loses another case stemming from the Trump administration’s federal takeover

The prosecution's star witness (the "assaulted" FBI agent) referred to Reid as a "libtard" and referred to the injury as a "boo boo".

Nathan Bateman had it coming. Treat your AIs with respect!

The administration argues that the President's federalization of the Guard under § 12406 is not judicially reviewable at all. Alternatively, it contends that the factual predicates of § 12406(2) and (3) are satisfied in light of the deference due the President's decision to federalize the Guard. We conclude, at this preliminary stage and given the district court's factual ase: 25-2798 Document: 26 Filed: 10/16/2025 Pages: 1€ 10 No. 25-2798 findings, that the federal government does not appear likely to succeed on either argument.

BREAKING: Seventh Circuit rejects Trump admin's request to deploy National Guard in Illinois while litigation over the effort continues, holding Trump likely did not follow the law for doing so. The unanimous ruling keeps a TRO in place blocking deployment but allows troops to remain federalized.

Enforced by the DOJ Office of Special Counsel. Do only Trump lackeys remain in the OSC?

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’ Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

Going to be teaching a science fiction course in Ireland, first online (February), then in person (June, Dublin). Beginners welcome. You don’t even have to be a writer, you just have to want to take part in creating the future.

Sign up for the Irish Writers Center newsletter if you haven’t yet 😉🍀

Emergency!

We need every democracy loving American to show up either in person or digitally for No Kings Day this Saturday, so tell all you friends.

Protest is one of the most patriotic things you can do.

It shows that you care enough to make change.

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

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Jewish law & Bible scholarship don't think the word in the 10 Commandments for "steal" is about, like, shoplifting.

Look at eg Genesis 40:15, Exodus 21:16 , Deuteronomy 24:7--

the commandment is not to steal people. Don't kidnap.

Though you shouldn't need the Bible to teach you that. #AbolishICE

“Restructuring” because the Whitehouse and their allies choose destruction of all the good parts of the United States federal government because it won’t make them a personal profit. Also, they hate science, people who do good things for everyone instead of for them only, and actual reality.

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…on the bag at third?

How is it possibly a force play on a fly ball? Oh… Maybe the runner behind him was already on the back of third?

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Yup. Moved out to go to college 46 years ago, and my parents have been gave up that phone number just 3 years later.

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

"But... unit tests passed!"

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

HE STRAIGHT UP SAID THEY WERE EVIL ANF COULD LITERALY NOT STAND IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD'S SACRAMENT

For those who are not clear on the implications, Father Dowling is saying that ICE is straight up powered by evil in the demonic sense.