Rory Mitchell ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’ช
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Rory Mitchell ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ’ช
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Producer & Director of AR, VR and XR, volumetric video. Director of "The Tent" an Augmented Reality volumetric narrative that premiered at SXSW 2024. Https://themercantile.agency
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Back from @acmsiggraph.bsky.social where my presentation in the Spatial Storytelling track got a warm welcome from a standing room only audience ๐Ÿ™ I'd like to turn it into a video series, as well as give that presentation elsewhere if anyone is interested? Posting some pics and slides below!
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. Iโ€™m not backing down, and weโ€™re going to win.
Boooom - go home loser
BREAKING: A federal judge says L.A.-based US attorney Bill ESSAYLI has been acting in the role unlawfully since July, declaring him disqualified from the position. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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When someone centers animals, the economy, national identity, or any other secondary concern while human lives are being extinguished, they reveal an underdeveloped conscience. Itโ€™s easier to mourn a camel or a puppy than to face the abyss of human cruelty.
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Today was a hard day. Regulations that we passed unanimously last year, after 7 years of advocacy, were largely gutted. The FCC capitulated to the correctional telecom industry in roughly doubling rate caps for prison and jail calls. I'm truly sorry.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisonersโ€™ Phone Calls
www.nytimes.com
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TOMMY LASORDA BASEBALL
SEGA 1989
I guess if you think about this more as an indicator of the death of the 500 year old technology known as the printing press it may be less remarkable/scary. I guess the role that journalism will play in society moving forward is more to the point.
A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Itโ€™s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isnโ€™t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...
I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day
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๐Ÿ“ท Souvenir Photo of an Ottoman Father and His Son Having #Coffee and Chatting in the Garden, Istanbul, 1900s โ€œThe heart desires neither coffee nor the coffeehouse; the heart seeks love and conversation โ€” coffee is just an excuse.โ€ (Ottoman proverb)
Going live at 9a! Come check it out :)
I'll be chatting with @philnelson.bsky.social of @opencv.bsky.social tomorrow morning (10/23) at 845a PST about THE TENT and all things Spatial Storytelling (including giving a bit of my talk from SIGGRAPH "Translating Traditional Film and TV Storytelling Into Spatial Narratives") Links below!
I'll be chatting with @philnelson.bsky.social of @opencv.bsky.social tomorrow morning (10/23) at 845a PST about THE TENT and all things Spatial Storytelling (including giving a bit of my talk from SIGGRAPH "Translating Traditional Film and TV Storytelling Into Spatial Narratives") Links below!
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โ€œWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.โ€

Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin
Itโ€™s Ursula Le Guinโ€™s birthday.

โ€œYou cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.โ€
Holy shit this sucks. Look at that shitty addition.
Who knew White House was gutted/removated by Truman btwn โ€˜49 and โ€˜52?

I did. Iโ€™m a nerd. The renovation was necessary cuz it was on the verge of collapse.

It was done w great care and reverence for its historical significance

Trumpโ€™s โ€œupgradeโ€, on the other hand, is motel 6 shit
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Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.

Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
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Are there any fans of The Iron Giant who would want this ceramic tiki mug? I have been carrying it around with me for years and am certain someone wants it in a way that I do not. Thought Iโ€™d ask on here because there are film people and cartoon people and collectors etc
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We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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โ€œI spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.โ€ - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
Iโ€™m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
newsletter.ofthebrave.org
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Inge Morath
Arthur Miller & Pablo Neruda at a bookshop in Greenwich Village, 1966

#BookshopDay
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicagoโ€™s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. โ€จโ€จIt wasnโ€™t the feds โ€”ย  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: โ€˜I didnโ€™t want them to take herโ€™
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
This feels like a very scary, authoritarian escalation and somebody needs to talk to the airline about what exactly happened here.