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Normalize normality. These are my views here, not my job’s. RT ≠ endorse

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Joined January 2008
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International law is clear: hospitals lose their protected status when they are used for military purposes. Period.
International law is clear: hospitals must be protected. Period.
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
Prometheus unbound
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Starship is traveling around the world every ~90 minutes right now
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Calling abortion "reproductive rights" is as stupid as calling slavery "property rights". Those who devalue human beings are never on the right side of history!
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
Made on Earth by humans
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You know what other boosters erupted in fiery explosions this year? Virtually everyone else’s. SpaceX accounts for 98% of recovered boosters.
BREAKING: SpaceX’s massive Starship booster erupts in a fiery explosion after an attempted landing catch is aborted during a test flight at Starbase, Texas. While Starship successfully launched, the booster failed to return for its planned tower catch, instead descending into the water.
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Seven Perfect Movies. 1. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA 2. WHAT’S UP, DOC? 3. RIO BRAVO 4. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN 5. THE SEVEN SAMURAI 6. THE GREAT ESCAPE 7. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (The Branagh version)
Seven Perfect Movies: 1. RUSHMORE 2. PULP FICTION 3. GROSSE POINTE BLANK 4. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY 5. STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN 6. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 7. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
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I do love me some revisionist history. Sam Adams had to borrow clothes and money to attend the Continental Congress. George Taylor came to America as an indentured servant. Robert Morris went bankrupt and served time in debtors prison. Francis Lewis suffered financial hardship.
I love my country but the founders were rich white guys trying to protect their real estate holdings.
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Well, sick Canadians might disagree, but they're all dead because MAID is cheaper than single-payer health care.
Call it any name you want Single Payer has been successfully implemented in all other industrialized countries It provides the people taxpayer funded HC and costs much less than all free market alternatives teapaw.org/BKRBusinessMin/status/…
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In-ter-es-ting. Can legal FRTs be close behind?
AG Uthmeier finds Florida’s law banning bump stocks unconstitutional, by @HT_GunWriter thegunwriter.substack.com/p/… @2AFDN
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
Hip hip hurray hurray Three cheers for the FAA @FAANews Go SpaceX. Go Starship.
Starship flight 15 launch license has been granted!
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"No sillier than Moonraker" is not as strong an argument as you might think it is...
DIE ANOTHER DAY. Never been able to figure out why it's so despised. I think it's great fun, certainly no sillier than MOONRAKER which I also enjoy. The CG effects don't bother me either as I've seen a lot worse. It's a good time.
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
I have Microsoft Office installed on my Mac. A perpetual license. Bought outright. So last week, Microsoft pushed an update which essentially bricked it. Couldn't create new documents, only read existing ones, with a banner saying "upgrade" to 365. Well, no. There was a way around it. Delete it all, reinstall, then rip out all of the code enabling updates. Working fine. But this criminal stupidit probably upset someone a bit more vindictive than me. Today we see the result.
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It's also a dead end because each film in the trilogy specifically destroyed the one before it. Awakens said ROTJ didn't really matter, Jedi rewrote Awakens and Skywalker ignored pretty much everything in the whole series.
One of the reasons Star Wars is struggling to figure out where to go next is that the sequel trilogy was a creative dead end. It introduced virtually no compelling new characters worth building spinoff movies around, no particularly memorable new planets or civilizations worth exploring, and did very little to expand the mythology of the galaxy.
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
One of the reasons Star Wars is struggling to figure out where to go next is that the sequel trilogy was a creative dead end. It introduced virtually no compelling new characters worth building spinoff movies around, no particularly memorable new planets or civilizations worth exploring, and did very little to expand the mythology of the galaxy.
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Star Wars 50 aniversario es la película original, tal cual se estrenó en el año 77. Sin nuevas escenas, sin retoques digitales, sin alteración alguna del material original. ¿De dónde ha salido esta copia? En los años 90, el estudio británico y distribuidora Rank, donó al instituto fílmico británico (BFI) una copia nueva en Technicolor IB de la original Star Wars. Las copias en este formato se conservan mucho mejor y no tienden a la degradación de color con el tiempo como en el celuloide Eastman. Esta copia se criogenizó (has leído bien) a -5 grados en los archivos del BFI y ahí ha estado durante 30 años para garantizar su preservación (con muchas otras películas y material fílmico). En 2025, los conservadores del BFI encontraron la película con el añadido que se hizo posterior de Episodio IV, pero también los rollos originales previos incluso a ese cambio: una copia original en dos rollos del material que se estrenó en el año 1977. Tras comprobar la increíble calidad, el celuloide ha pasado por un transfer digital, escaneado en 6K y masterizado en 4K. Se usó software especializado para alinear fotogramas, eliminar imperfecciones (polvo, suciedad…) pero no se ha pasado un proceso DNR (reducción de ruido) y se ha conservado intacto el grano original y la estructura del celuloide. Es la primera vez, desde 1993 con la copia en LaserDisc, que se dispone del master original inalterado y que además, se consigue a tal calidad. La película tendrá estreno en salas IMAX, también en IMAX de 70mm, salas 4K láser… y conservará su relación de aspecto original 2:40:1. El objetivo de este trabajo llamado SW77 era ser lo más fiel posible y tener la copia en mejor calidad del film original. El sonido, que tenía varios masters uno de ellos de 70mm con 6 canales, ha sido restaurado y reconstruido desde 0, pudiendo trabajar con las cintas magnéticas originales con cada elemento aislado y se ha creado una mezcla en Dolby Atmos a partir de este material original. Incluyendo todos los diálogos originales y todos los efectos originales de Ben Burtt. Sin retoques. La música de John Williams ha sido transferida nuevamente desde las cintas analógicas originales de la grabación en 1977 con la London Symphony Orchestra, usando el multipista original que ha dado la mezcla para incorporar, con limpieza de audio, la mejor calidad posible. Lo que se ha hecho con esta copia es una auténtica obra de orfebrería, donde cientos de personas han trabajado para traer la mejor calidad posible a la película original, en un esfuerzo que merece la recompensa de volver a vivir aquello que hace 50 años muchos vivieron. Y aquello que muchos como nosotros no hemos podido vivir en años por la obsesión de George Lucas de modificar el material original. ¡Gracias a todos los implicados por este trabajo y por traerla a todos los países! Allí estaremos para disfrutarla.
A 50 días del 50.º aniversario de Star Wars en 2027, Lucasfilm y Disney informan de que el 19 de febrero estrenarán una versión restaurada de La guerra de las galaxias (1977) en miles de salas de cine de todo el mundo, incluida España. #StarWars50🚀
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
No AI data center is worth losing this.
JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.
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Kevin Creighton retweeted
May I suggest you hold your Pride Night and Muslim Night on the same day next season so we can see what happens?
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I got my exact age. This does not please me.
Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2027
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