George Lucas Calls Darth Maul To Congratulate Him On Disney+ Series

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Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech. A man with Lincoln-ish features, dressed in a flannel shirt and a work jacket, stands in a civic meeting to speak his mind. Men wearing ties turn their attention toward whatever he's saying.

I hope in the Lucas Museum there's a 3D recreation of Rockwell's Freedom of Speech where you can stand in Mister Honesty's place and offer a hot take to a curated online collection. But! If your take is too hot, a trapdoor opens beneath you into the lava pit from Temple of Doom.

FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

The only thing I have to add to this accurate pitch for Farscape is that 1. The ship is alive 2. It’s got a pilot intertwined with the ship & Pilot is both very polite & incredibly sassy

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

A Star Wars oral history: The making of Jedi Outcast | The Spaceshipper Get more from The Spaceshipper on Patreon

To celebrate Jedi Outcast's 24th anniversary, I've updated my oral history. 🫡

You'll learn the full story behind the creation of this SW adventure, including how the same actor played both Gremlins and Luke Skywalker, and how LucasArts reacted when stormtroopers were cut down in pools of blood.

Spielberg saying this about WEAPONS is like Zach Cregger winning an Oscar. It might even be better. Imagine the guy who made JAWS being so thoroughly affected by your filmmaking that you reverse inspired him into NOT making a horror movie.

Swat Kats slapped

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

Pam Bondi - Fired as Attorney General over persistent Epstein files backlash

Dedra Meero in a Narkina prison

"Fascism always eats its foot soldiers and early proponents in the end. If she'd kicked back and just ironed her uniform and played her part, she’d be fine. But she worked too hard. Fascism eats its young." -Tony Gilroy scriptmag.com/tony-gilroy-...

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Just want to tell a story about the day I was proudest of Kat's campaign, and why I'm so excited she's quadrupling down on it.

One day when she was running, a potential constituent reached out to her. She needed baby formula with a specific protein in it ASAP, but she could no longer afford it.

Space travel remains cool as hell

Happy trans day of visibility! To everyone in my life and beyond who is trans: you make the world so much better and I mean that every single day, not just today.

It's Trans Day of Visibility, so we've made our special series about being trans on the internet completely free to read for everyone, forever.

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Here are a few stories from the collection:

Everyone of my generation whose first election was 2000 really can relate to how the world we were promised as children started going to shit pretty much the moment we came of age. And to a degree no one really imagined at the time.

Illinois and Iowa US Senators back ending law that offers protections for internet platform providers, claiming companies are negatively impacting children Senators including Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin support legislation that would sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects internet providers from liability for content posted on their platforms. Communication professors and legal experts say the removal could stifle information sharing, as providers would face a deluge of lawsuits.

Doing away with Section 230 “and really removing a fundamental piece of architecture from the Internet is a really ham-handed blunderbuss way” of trying to address online child exploitation, EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told WVIK. www.wvik.org/wvik-top-st...

that’s right kids. if you ever write a bill it must be by hand. and you have to write it like it’s a wedding invitation (because you’re “inviting” citizens to follow this new law)

I love this photo of Bob Anderson unmasked in the Darth Vader costume; he looks like the ghost of a medieval knight, cursed to evermore wander the earth

Star Wars: A New Hope Began Filming 50 Years Ago Today On March 22, 1976, one of the most iconic films in history commenced principal photography in the deserts of Tunisia. It was a long road to reach that day, and there was an even longer one ahead.

This is lovely.

Typewritten page: "STAR WARS" SET TO BEGIN PRODUCTION IN TUNISIA STAR WARS, the spectacular space adventure-fantasy motion picture, produced by Gary Kurtz and written and directed by George Lucas for Twentieth Century-Fox release, begins shooting on locations in Tunisia on Monday next, March 22, 1976. After 2 1/2 weeks location work, the film will move back to EMI Elstree Studios, London, to complete its 13-week schedule. Major casting announcements will be made shortly. From thousands of light years away come the unusual and unique adventures of hero Luke Starkiller and his friends, both human and not-so-human, in STAR WARS, as they battle numerous villains and creatures in a massive Galactic Civil War.

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"STAR WARS" SET TO BEGIN PRODUCTION IN TUNISIA ON MARCH 22.

rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life

The right is using your dissatisfaction with the Internet as cover to tighten puritan, corporate and government control of speech.

Stand up for free speech by encouraging your electeds to vote against repealing 230.

If you think speech on the Internet is restricted now, wait until platforms HAVE to restrict it to avoid getting sued.

And remember it’s not going to be some enlightened arbiter who decides what’s acceptable speech. Restrictions won’t be based on harm.

It is truly wild how we could be sleepwalking towards the death of free speech on the Internet.

Repealing 230 won’t protect children, but it will chill if not silence speech critical of the government and dominant power structures / paradigms.

Draft AI Framework to Replace State Laws Released by Senate (1) The Senate has released a draft national framework to replace state laws on artificial intelligence and promote the technology’s development while minimizing risks to Americans.

They’re trying to ram through KOSA, a full Section 230 repeal, and a slew of other anti-LGBTQ censorship and surveillance laws under the guise of “cracking down on AI” and a ton of dumb leftists are falling for it.

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Dune poster that says SHEN DUNE: Arrakis Before the Landsraad

Took California less than a day to begin the process of holding people accountable and making efforts to right wrongs. And Chavez was a revered figure! He wasn't some random finance bro pedo from NYC.

Funny how the Ivys/prestige universities and the GOP protect Epstein and his buddies at all costs

Farscape started 27 years ago today.

"Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew."