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David Daut
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Movie fan. Animation enthusiast. One-time pretend cowboy. Features writer & producer for the SOC’s Camera Operator magazine and co-creator of Hollow Medium. (He/him)

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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.

Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Genuinely impressed by Levi's speed running of the hard right wing pivot ending with getting stuck exclusively making Christian movie slop.
November 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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We are entering a phase when it will be very important to not hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I never thought that fighting to release the Epstein files, defending women who were victims of rape, and fighting to expose the web of rich powerful elites would have caused this, but here we are."
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Bold move for Peacock to cancel the only show anybody watches on Peacock.
November 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Incredibly conspicuous that a bunch of media folks on here are tripping over themselves to downplay the significance of NYT choosing not to publish the Epstein stuff back in 2015 and then sitting on it for a decade.

Real "Not Involved in Human Trafficking" t-shirt energy.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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And Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr.
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hey, Bob, maybe try implementing competent subtitling for non-English language material before cluttering up the platform with AI slop?
Bob Iger says Disney+ will soon have AI-generated short form content from users

(via THR)
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I was already convinced Epistein was murdered, but I didn't expect "NYT to cover for Trump" to be on the list.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015

What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
“would you like photos of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen?” -Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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After years of delays, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art announced its 2026 opening date. Take a first look inside the $1 billion, 300,000-square-foot museum.
Lucas Museum sets opening date: Take an exclusive first look inside
After nearly four years of delays, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art has announced its opening date.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Spending my birthday snooping around the as yet not open Lucas Museum.
November 11, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Charles E. Schumer puts on a big hot dog costume and gets ready to log on to Bsky dot app
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Brilliant storytelling is when the Incredibles shout plot at you through the speakers on a roller coaster.
This pretty much sums up why Disney Parks are being ripped up to shove up random franchises in every corner. Just a stunning lack of awareness of what makes these things special, why they work.

Sometimes, most of the time, it ain't about storytelling.
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Arrived two hours early for tonight’s American Cinematheque’s Frankenstein screening and Q&A with Guillermo del Toro and still didn’t make it in. By the time they called it and said no one else would be getting in, there was still probably a couple hundred people in line.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
The fall issue of Camera Operator is here! Articles on F1, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. Plus a video interview with the A operator on HIM.

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November 8, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Made a point to take my time and really savor the new volume of STAR WARS: VISIONS. This whole run is great, but out of all of them, I hope someone showed “BLACK” to George Lucas.
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 AM
There’s a sense in which this is probably true of all the major branches of government, but it really feels like the Supreme Court has broken so bad at this point that the only reasonable solution is completely disbanding it and starting over from scratch.
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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the story of this shutdown is that Trump and the Republicans have played the politics significantly worse than Chuck Schumer and folks that's a genuine accomplishment
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM