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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪

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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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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · Aug 20

Back from @acmsiggraph.bsky.social where my presentation in the Spatial Storytelling track got a warm welcome from a standing room only audience 🙏 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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

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. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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Boooom - go home loser

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3d

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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 3d

When someone centers animals, the economy, national identity, or any other secondary concern while human lives are being extinguished, they reveal an underdeveloped conscience. It’s easier to mourn a camel or a puppy than to face the abyss of human cruelty.

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Bianca Tylek @biancatylek.bsky.social · 3d

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 Prisoners’ Phone Calls

www.nytimes.com

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · Aug 27

TOMMY LASORDA BASEBALL
SEGA 1989

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 4d

So proud of you dude - yr east coast bravery has been duly noted

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 4d

Dodgers Bluesky

Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 4d

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.

Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 4d

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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 6d

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 8d

📷 Souvenir Photo of an Ottoman Father and His Son Having #Coffee and Chatting in the Garden, Istanbul, 1900s “The heart desires neither coffee nor the coffeehouse; the heart seeks love and conversation — coffee is just an excuse.” (Ottoman proverb)

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 8d

Going live at 9a! Come check it out :)

Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 9d

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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YouTube: youtube.com/live/J9Qjs3q...

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/73861...

Twitch: twitch.tv/opencvofficial

Zoom: opencv.org/live

Inside Augmented Reality Film Experience “The Tent”

YouTube video by OpenCV

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Oct 22

“We 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.”

Happy Birthday Ursula K Le Guin

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · Oct 21

It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday.

“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 10d

Holy shit this sucks. Look at that shitty addition.

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 10d

Who knew White House was gutted/removated by Truman btwn ‘49 and ‘52?

I did. I’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

Trump’s “upgrade”, on the other hand, is motel 6 shit

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I have friends everywhere.
#NoKings

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 13d

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.

A set of three political environment factors that contribute to social movement success.

Elite conflict - When elite groups are in conflict with one another, the
political system is more vulnerable. Elites cannot ignore, stigmatize, or repress social movements with a unified
voice during crises. Renegade elites may align with a social
movement.
Public opinion - When a majority of the population supports the goals of a
social movement, policy makers are more likely to negotiate—or face being removed from elected office. Favorable
public opinion provides a promising environment to use
more noninstitutional protests.
Elite blunders - Publicly observed blunders by elites during a social movement conflict bring more support to a social movement
and harm the legitimacy of elite targets.

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Scare-ic Hirsch @ehirsch.bsky.social · 18d

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 I’d ask on here because there are film people and cartoon people and collectors etc

A box for an Iron Giant ceramic tiki mug

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 19d

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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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 19d

“I 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.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’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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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 20d

Inge Morath
Arthur Miller & Pablo Neruda at a bookshop in Greenwich Village, 1966

#BookshopDay

The two writers look at a book, Neruda wearing a soft white hat, Miller smoking a pipe

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — 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: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

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...

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 22d

This feels like a very scary, authoritarian escalation and somebody needs to talk to the airline about what exactly happened here.

Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 24d

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · 24d

Which song? Harry Hood at the Worcester Centrum NYE '93 bro? The whole damn thing??

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