666 films on my profile

an important Letterboxd milestone

Being both a programmer and an editor is useful, not because I've ever coded anything for Resolve, but because I come up with the most optimal way to do anything. For animations, faking it using masks takes animating from a few hours or days to less than an hour.

As a dev, I wouldn't use DaVinci for this at all. I would just use Excel to graph, then masks to animate. Use a mask over an empty graph to reveal the graph, then mask over multiple versions of the same graph to reveal specific elements.

Smith and Huntsman approached Scott and grabbed his arms. Scott repeatedly pleaded “please” and “what are you doing” in a distressed voice, while Smith and Huntsman pulled him to the ground. At first, the officers held Scott’s arms at his sides while he was lying on his back. In this position, Scott screamed, struggled, and pled with the officers to leave him alone for over two minutes. The officers then eventually rolled Scott onto his stomach, repeatedly ordering Scott to “stop.” With Scott on his stomach and with his hands restrained behind his back, Huntsman put his bodyweight on Scott’s back and neck for about one to two minutes. At the same time Smith put his weight on Scott’s legs, restraining his lower body. Scott’s pleas turned increasingly incoherent and breathless as Huntsman applied his bodyweight. After handcuffing him, the officers attempted to roll Scott on his side, as he continued to incoherently cry out that he wanted to be left alone. When they rolled Scott over, his face was bloody from contact with the ground. Scott stopped yelling and thrashing around after a few minutes. Scott did not respond when Smith and Huntsman tried to wake or revive him. Shortly after, when the paramedics arrived, Scott was still unresponsive. Scott was pronounced dead after paramedics removed him from the scene. Plaintiffs’ expert found that Scott had died from restraint asphyxia.

One might hope that the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority would at least explain why it tossed out the lower court ruling against these officers, who seemingly murdered this man for no reason. Alas, we get nothing.

Here's that now-vacated ruling: cases.justia.com/federal/appe...

business doula: keep emailing!

I've got an interview with a company with a DEI commitment on their website. Hell yeah

New: We found out how much money Nick Fuentes makes from "superchats": $900,000 since the start of Trump's second term. Here's the story of Kristine in Ohio, a food-truck operator who became his most frequent donor, despite not making much money herself: wapo.st/4mERkhv

*exhales*

I need to set up screen time limits for Instagram Reels, man. It's showing me
1. health cranks
2. anti alcohol cranks
3. anti porn cranks
4. misandry cranks
5. misogyny cranks
6. antisemitism cranks
7. car crashes

A old man wearing a hat sits on a bench on the side of a street. A big, modern tram glides by in the background.

A woman wearing a head scarf and a patterned, airy top looks out into the distance over a railing. She is likely looking at a very tall fairground ride peaking high above the tree line. There are mountains way in the background.

A man sits on a bicycle. He is wearing a shirt with an abstract, painterly pattern. There are trees and residential buildings in the background. There is a metal arch on the right side of the frame, connecting the top right corner to the bottom right corner.

Two young girls jump over the curb from the sidewalk to the street simultaneously. There is a sidewalk slightly to the left. They are both wearing t-shirts, jeans and sneakers. The girl on the right has a bag over her shoulder.

#photography

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once again, Reddit is clutch with the resources

btw TV5 has 4000+ free french exercises

I love that raves that have a hardstyle artist always end with it, so people who don't want to listen to it can just go home

Here is one thousand euros

oh fuck off

watched some chopped up motorbikes going through a tiny street in my city. shit tons of noise next to open cafe areas. in any other scenario, making that level of a racket would get your ass beat. we should do that

he has 9.5 thousand Instagram followers, and that's *after* the news broke. shoot your shots, kings

Why was I invited to Beast Studios? YouTube video by Folding Ideas

In classic @foldablehuman.bsky.social fashion, Dan pulls out a single illustrative graph to back his point towards the last few minutes of the video that will make every viewer wince. Like a wrestler pulling out a knife.

Norm. YouTube video by Aron Fromm

sweet animation about Norm Macdonald

Vegetation adorns the frame. There is a simple graffiti of a poke ball on the lower right corner of the frame, painted on a boulder.

A cat sits on a windowsill. Inside, a lamp illuminates some vines. In the foreground, a cyclist wearing black and white clothes and a red backpack is out of focus, riding past the scene on the right.

A yellow tulip and some white flowers are in focus with a shallow depth of field. A tram behind them is out of focus.

A person wearing blue jeans, a blue jacket with red details, a black hoodie, red and green socks and black shoes sits on a park bench next to a river. There are houses and mountains out of focus in the background. Graffiti lines the embankment. A bush takes up the upper right corner of the frame. The weather is overcast.

#photography

Far-right troll account followed by JD Vance on X unmasked “HowlingMutant,” who jokes about rape and the Holocaust, is Alexander Norden of New York City

NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.

Again: the gun you keep in the home for “protection” increases your risk of homicide by 3-fold, of suicide by 5-fold, and for men, risk of suicide more than 10-fold

The second you bring a gun into the home you’ve dramatically increased the risk of death for your family 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Flights banned lolmao

Is that... Really? An Israel pin? Yeesh

Bluesky have-a-da server problémo 🤌🤌🤌

this is a really dumb story that I'm sure I will see 50 times today. company goes out of business, sells its IP for $1, sells its warehouse space for $2. this is what their stock "exploding" looks like

A photo with three almost even horizontal layers. Green grass at the top, dark grey asphalt in the middle, out of focuse stone or concrete at the bottom. A child, blurred by motion and wearing a brown hooded puffer jacket, rides their bike on the asphalt.

A man wearing a bright yellow rain coat, blue jeans and brown boots walks on a sidewalk, away from the photographer. The background is gray and urban. There are some stone water basins to the right.

Three vertical columns each containing three more vertical columns of small square windows on the side of a brown, weathered building. One of the small square windows is red.

Three women sit under a gazebo in a park. A long exposure has rendered the people dancing in front of them almost completely transparent.

#photography

it's more expensive, sure, but I think of it as "this place is already ecologically FUBAR and already needs shading, might as well"

The modern french translation is something like "slut" or "swinger"

i hate that we all talk like fucking incels now