Garrett DeNardo
@garrettd.bsky.social
Just watching movies and putting puzzles together
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Does anyone else feel that in recent decades movies rarely depict average working people? In the 70s and 80s we had movies about struggling families, stories about people most of us could understand. Not necessarily about the struggle, but where it was an obvious factor.
February 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Does anyone else feel that in recent decades movies rarely depict average working people? In the 70s and 80s we had movies about struggling families, stories about people most of us could understand. Not necessarily about the struggle, but where it was an obvious factor.
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Feb 2nd - The great explorer, Captain Spaulding, left New York for Africa.
📽️📅 Animal Crackers (1930)
📽️📅 Animal Crackers (1930)
February 2, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Feb 2nd - The great explorer, Captain Spaulding, left New York for Africa.
📽️📅 Animal Crackers (1930)
📽️📅 Animal Crackers (1930)
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Remembering
Francis Perkins 🙏🏻
Francis Perkins 🙏🏻
January 30, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Remembering
Francis Perkins 🙏🏻
Francis Perkins 🙏🏻
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Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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In a December 16 email to Mother Jones, at which time South Carolina already had more than 100 cases, a spokesperson from HHS downplayed the threat of measles.
Now, with 789 cases and counting, the state's current measles outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was eliminated in 2000.
Now, with 789 cases and counting, the state's current measles outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was eliminated in 2000.
HHS wasn't worried about South Carolina's measles outbreak. It's now enormous.
“CDC is not currently concerned that this will develop into a large, long-running outbreak," the agency said in December.
www.motherjones.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
In a December 16 email to Mother Jones, at which time South Carolina already had more than 100 cases, a spokesperson from HHS downplayed the threat of measles.
Now, with 789 cases and counting, the state's current measles outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was eliminated in 2000.
Now, with 789 cases and counting, the state's current measles outbreak is the nation’s largest since measles was eliminated in 2000.
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Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Terrible restaurant could close unless people enthusiastically embrace bad food, complains chef.
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Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
archive.is/ur35j
archive.is/ur35j
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:
archive.is/ur35j
archive.is/ur35j
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"So who's your favorite actor?"
Me:
Me:
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 AM
"So who's your favorite actor?"
Me:
Me:
I just backed The Making of THE FINAL SACRIFICE on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/rea...
The Making of THE FINAL SACRIFICE
The Flying Dutchman Tells All: After years of wild rumors & speculation, the director of this MST3K classic comes clean!
www.kickstarter.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I just backed The Making of THE FINAL SACRIFICE on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/rea...
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Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
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When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
December 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
When we talk about physical media, we are often only taking about personal collections but a big part of shunning the current digital ecosystem is supporting your local library. Not just for print books and periodicals but for movies, games and other medias too. Get. A. Library. Card.
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"Patrons from Utah to Pennsylvania have apparently been buying Blu-Ray players and borrowing the Criterion Collection because they no longer have patience for the Disney-Hulu-Paramount-Netflix game of IP thrones." lithub.com/have-librari...
Have libraries have become the new Blockbuster?
Streaming is over. The magazine is back. And everyone who’s too online is apparently getting off again. The time is ripe for an analog revolution. And where better to start than the stacks? A…
lithub.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
"Patrons from Utah to Pennsylvania have apparently been buying Blu-Ray players and borrowing the Criterion Collection because they no longer have patience for the Disney-Hulu-Paramount-Netflix game of IP thrones." lithub.com/have-librari...
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I think it’s time for artist’s signatures on film posters to make a comeback, it feels sad not knowing who made the art on a great poster. And not disclosing the artist only aids in devaluing labor, cutting corners + trying to sneak in genai use.
Great signed example: Amsterdamned by Renato Casaro.
Great signed example: Amsterdamned by Renato Casaro.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I think it’s time for artist’s signatures on film posters to make a comeback, it feels sad not knowing who made the art on a great poster. And not disclosing the artist only aids in devaluing labor, cutting corners + trying to sneak in genai use.
Great signed example: Amsterdamned by Renato Casaro.
Great signed example: Amsterdamned by Renato Casaro.
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
I still am beside myself to have this Criterion in hand in 4K. We live in a golden era of physical media.
November 22, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I still am beside myself to have this Criterion in hand in 4K. We live in a golden era of physical media.
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NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.
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Kazuki Motoyama, the creator of Kodansha's ‘Super Mario Bros.’ manga, has sadly passed away at the age of 69.
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Kazuki Motoyama, the creator of Kodansha's ‘Super Mario Bros.’ manga, has sadly passed away at the age of 69.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Mail day today from @diabolikdvd.bsky.social and I am super excited to rewatch this lovely Second Sight release of Sean Baker's The Florida Project.
October 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Mail day today from @diabolikdvd.bsky.social and I am super excited to rewatch this lovely Second Sight release of Sean Baker's The Florida Project.
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I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.