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Netizen Voices: AI Straight-washes Gay Couple in Imported Horror Movie “Together” [Updated: Film Withdrawn] The critically acclaimed U.S.-Australian body-horror movie “Together” launched in China on September 19. Some viewers noted, alongside cuts to sex scenes, a less familiar and overt form of alteration:...

"The … movie “Together” launched in China on September 19. Some viewers noted, alongside cuts to sex scenes, a less familiar and overt form of alteration: one male character in a scene originally depicting a same-sex wedding was digitally replaced with a woman."
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YouTube video by Abby Sanders What Really Happened to Baby Jane (1963) Comedy Short, LGBTQ+, Drag Queen Parody

It's worth seeing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXD...

As captivating as What Really Happened to Baby Jane?

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Sigh. I know the situation is very difficult for Canada and for Europe, but please, the way out is not to run into Beijing's arms. Don't sell the CCP the rope with which it will hang you.

Japan's new education minister Matsumoto supported Nanjing Massacre-denial film - The Mainichi TOKYO -- Japan's new education minister Yohei Matsumoto was one backer of a 2007 movie that cast doubt on the factuality of the 1937-38

“Japan's new education minister Yohei Matsumoto was one backer of a 2007 movie that cast doubt on the factuality of the 1937-38 "Nanjing Massacre," in which the Imperial Japanese Army killed Chinese POWs and civilians and committed rape …”

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Kulturdebatt: Låt pressen få träffa Gui Minhai! Svenska regeringen hävdar gång på gång att man ”fortsätter arbetet” för Gui Minhais frigivning. Men vad innebär det? Tyst diplomati har misslyckats. Sverige måste kräva att journalister får träffa den...

"Svenska regeringen hävdar gång på gång att man ”fortsätter arbetet” för Gui Minhais frigivning. Men vad innebär det? Tyst diplomati har misslyckats. Sverige måste kräva att journalister får träffa den svenska förläggaren vars ”brott” var att kämpa för pressfrihet"

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30 years after the #UN Conference on Women in #Beijing, the #China gov’t claims to be a champion for women’s rights. The truth? Feminists are persecuted, not celebrated.
CHRD Co-Executive Director @reneexia.bsky.social on the real fight for women in 🇨🇳.
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International efforts to secure #GuiMinhai ’s release have yet to shed light on his whereabouts. Most recently, the European Parliament passed a resolution last week, but #Beijing appears to have simply ignored these calls.
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EU parliament urges China to release Swedish bookseller, 10 years on The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand.

The European Parliament has called on China to release Swedish publisher Gui Minhai, ten years after he went missing in Thailand. In full: buff.ly/UDWB6Cy

Many people are saying that Trump has called an emergency meeting at the newly renamed Department of War to see if there’s anything our warriors, trained to exact maximum lethality against our many enemies without and within, can do to respond to this vicious attack on America.

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

Honorary male.

I note that he’s mainly writing about flowers now in Japan Forward.

LDP's first honorary male leader.

Japan ruling party's leadership race kicks off Monday | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News | Keiko Nagamine The current Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election represents perhaps the most meaningless political contest in recent Japanese history. It reduces the choice to a dichotomy between ultr...

"The current Liberal Democratic Party … presidential election represents perhaps the most meaningless political contest in recent Japanese history. It reduces the choice to a dichotomy between ultranationalist conservatism and hereditary succession …"

Keiko Nagamine on Linkedin.

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Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

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Den Danske Ordbog skal sikres politisk Vi indstiller at kulturministeren pålægges at afsætte cirka 8½ millioner kroner (2025-niveau) årligt på finansloven til driften af Den Danske Ordbog i

Borgerforslag: Økonomisk sikring af Den Danske Ordbog – som nu er lukningstruet.

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Tracing the roots of anti-university rhetoric (opinion) Bradford Vivian writes that growing anti-university sentiment can be traced to pro-authoritarian movements abroad.

This is such a good article on how the undermining of universities is part of an anti-democratic movement:

“Anti-university rhetoric is the language of an international pro-authoritarian movement opposed to centers of learning that model liberal-democratic values”

Just like Kunaichō on Instagram.

Study finds 99% of eel products worldwide come from endangered species - The Mainichi TOKYO (Kyodo) -- More than 99 percent of eel products sold in 11 countries and regions worldwide come from three species at risk of extinction, a rece

"Consumption was heavily concentrated in East Asia, with domestic supply in China accounting for around 60 percent of global distribution from 2020 to 2022. Japan came in second at around 19 percent, but had the highest per capita annual eel supply."

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Og?

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The tourists may be preferable after all.

Which means … Sanseito?

Good point. There is a risk, though, that such regression will only increase the popular appeal.

A further regression of the culture industry.

The "content industry".

Are those his own teeth?