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Andrew Rettek
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In 2003 I wanted this so I could get Tom Bombidil and Faramir on screen, better Ents, Sarumon of Many Colors, etc. I was so optimistic about the future of movie making.
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The Lord of the Rings reboot is in full swing. Warner Bros. film chiefs Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy visited New Zealand earlier this year to reconnect with Peter Jackson and discuss future films. wp.me/pc8uak-1lCD6q
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The headline is misleading and clearly drafted to encourage clicks at the expense of accuracy. The article makes only a very brief reference to the studio wanting to reconnect with Peter Jackson and the possibility of reboots is not even mentioned twitter.com/bliss_hughes/s…
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Legal immigration is *impossible* for nearly all immigrants wishing to immigrate to the U.S. legally. You can’t just “get in line.” That’s a fiction perpetuated by those who want to keep immigration illegal. My latest report explains why. Here’s the summary in 1 pic... 🧵
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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand."
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I believe loneliness is one of America's great modern social and political problems. And so I'm drafting legislation right now to establish a national strategy to combat isolation and promote connectedness. Stay tuned for more details. thebulwark.com/the-politics-o
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I've spent roughly as much time covering politics and sports in my career so have some unique Lived Experience and the answer is that politics "fans" are an order of magnitude more self-delusional than sports fans it isn't super close tbh.
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Siri: Show me a person who has never met a sports fan! 😃 (or a middle-aged man!!) twitter.com/mattyglesias/s…
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Teach you kids to be risk seeking.
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NEW CATO SURVEY: Nearly a third of Gen Z support the government installing surveillance cameras in every household  to prevent crime and abuse. Opposition to Orwelian-government monitoring has been assumed to be both overwhelming and obvious. But is it? A #CatoPolls  [thread]…
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This currently has the worst community note I've seen. NYC generally has cleaner air, but right now it's unusually bad.
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New York City now has the worst air quality of any city on Earth. If exposed to the current air quality in NYC for 24 hours, it would be equivalent to smoking about 6 cigarettes.
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This is extremely cool and if you have any problems with addictive behavior you should absolutely never play any video games with this device. A/B testing based on your unconscious reactions will get pretty compelling pretty fast.
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Did apple just lowkey launch a v1 brain-machine-interface into the Vision Pro? One of their ex designers just tweeted this: “One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something… Show more
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“Age verification schemes create massive privacy and security concerns, effectively outlawing anonymity online and leaving all users vulnerable to data leaks, corporate snoops, malicious foreign actors, and domestic spying.”
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I tried to round up all the "save the children from the internet" bills in Congress + some of the worst offenders in the states reason.com/2023/05/31/chi
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There are many people who can’t conceive of someone following a principle that has no external enforcement mechanism. “How will this be enforced?” I find that notion extremely alien. Something can be a good principle and practice even if it’s unenforceable outside your own will.
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This is an amazing double self-own. McCarthy blasts Republican majorities for raising the debt ceiling without cuts while he was GOP majority leader, and DeSantis War Room uses McCarthy‘s quote to take a shot at Trump for a debt ceiling increase DeSantis voted for. 😂
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KEVIN MCCARTHY on the debt ceiling: When Trump had majorities in the House and Senate, we “didn’t cut anything…just added more money.”
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If Trump wins the nom, the story will be "come on, DeSantis was down 30 and the signs of a bad campaign were there before the launch." If DeSantis wins the story will be "maybe May of 2023 was a bit early to declare us dead in the water." And I'm done punditing for a year.
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Reminder that 95% of my positive feelings about DeSantis come from the fact that I think he's much more likely to respect the electoral process than Trump would/has. His comments on the First Step Act are despicable.
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DeSantis's comments on the First Step Act are laughable. The recidivism rates from the law are remarkably low. He either doesn't know what he's talking about or he's hoping you're stupid. It's embarrassing. twitter.com/reason/status/…
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