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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪
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Producer & Director of AR, VR and XR, volumetric video. Director of "The Tent" an Augmented Reality volumetric narrative that premiered at SXSW 2024.

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Rory Mitchell 🇲🇽🇬🇹🇳🇮🇭🇳🇪🇸🇺🇲🤝💪 @rorymitchell.bsky.social · Aug 20
Back from @acmsiggraph.bsky.social where my presentation in the Spatial Storytelling track got a warm welcome from a standing room only audience 🙏 I'd like to turn it into a video series, as well as give that presentation elsewhere if anyone is interested? Posting some pics and slides below!
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bluser12.bsky.social
This person went on a buying spree over the past 24 hours. Fresh wallet. Only existed since Dec 27th and has only bet on Venezuela-related markets.

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January 3, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
JUST IN—Yván Gil Pinto, Venezuela's Minster of Foreign Affairs, posted an official statement to Telegram. t.me/YvanGilPinto...

"The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack."

Full translation:
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela rejects, repudiates, and denounces before the international community the extremely serious military aggression perpetrated by the current Government of the United States of America against Venezuelan territory and population in the civilian and military areas of the city of Caracas, the capital of the Republic, and the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira. This act constitutes a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter, especially Articles 1 and 2, which enshrine respect for sovereignty, the legal equality of States, and the prohibition of the use of force. Such aggression threatens international peace and stability, specifically in Latin America and the Caribbean, and places the lives of millions of people at grave risk. The objective of this attack is none other than to seize Venezuela's strategic resources, particularly its oil and minerals, attempting to forcibly break the nation's political independence. They will not succeed. After more than two hundred years of independence, the people and their legitimate government remain firm in defending their sovereignty and the inalienable right to determine their own destiny. The attempt to impose a colonial war to destroy the republican form of government and force a "regime change," in alliance with the fascist oligarchy, will fail, as all previous attempts have failed. Since 1811, Venezuela has faced and defeated empires. When in 1902 foreign powers bombed our coasts, President Cipriano Castro proclaimed: "The insolent foot of the foreigner has profaned the sacred soil of the Homeland." Today, with the spirit of Bolívar, Miranda, and our liberators, the Venezuelan people rise again to defend their independence against imperial aggression. People to the streets! The Bolivarian Government calls on all social and political forces in the country to activate mobilization plans and repudiate this imperialist attack. President Nicolás Maduro has ordered all national defense plans to be implemented at the appropriate time and under the appropriate circumstances, in strict accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Organic Law on States of Exception, and the Organic Law on National Security. In this regard, President Nicolás Maduro has signed and ordered the implementation of the Decree declaring a state of external commotion throughout the national territory, to protect the rights of the population, the full functioning of republican institutions, and to immediately engage in armed struggle. The entire country must be activated to defeat this imperialist aggression. He has also ordered the immediate deployment of the Command for the Comprehensive Defense of the Nation and the Steering Bodies for Comprehensive Defense in all states and municipalities of the country. In strict adherence to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, Venezuela reserves the right to exercise legitimate self-defense to protect its people, its territory, and its independence. We call upon the peoples and governments of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the world to mobilize in active solidarity against this imperialist aggression. As Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez Frías stated, “in the face of any new difficulties, no matter how great, the response of all patriots...is unity, struggle, battle, and victory.” Caracas, January 3, 2026
January 3, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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shermanabq.bsky.social
This, 1,000 percent!
January 1, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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thedailyshow.com
As Eric Adams heads off into that great Turkish Airlines lounge in the sky, we remember his legacy
December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
rorymitchell.bsky.social
Sheeeeeeeeeeeeittt. RIP
December 31, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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mrphoenix.bsky.social
Fritz Henle
‘Cleaning Lady in Museum of Modern Art, NYC’
1948
Black-and-white photograph of a black woman in work clothes, sensible shoes, holding a broom. She stands, gazing slightly upwards, in the middle of a gallery space surrounded by bronze sculptures of nude human bodies (female). The room is dark except for one light coming from one side, which illuminates her from the front and casts strong shadows behind her.
December 27, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
perfect metaphors don’t exis—
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 8d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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davesvinappletech.bsky.social
Hope everyone has a wonderful, merry Christmas and a great new year
a picture of a snowy christmas scene with the words merry christmas below it
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December 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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archive.org
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive.

✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️
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December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
rorymitchell.bsky.social
Really enjoyed @mattdpearce.com write-up here, might have to check out Memoirs of Hadrian
mattdpearce.com Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 13d
In reviewing Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Memoirs of Hadrian” I thought about the psychological weirdness of our own imperial ruler guys.

mattdpearce.substack.com/p/dead-dream...
The stranger character is Donald Trump, our developer-king. I wonder what he dreams about at night. The rest is public domain. One of the luckiest people ever, in every sense of that word, who, unlike Musk, seems to enjoy life, with its Pavarottis and Andrew Lloyd Webbers - so how come this president never gets less angry? He spends the days remaking the world in his likeness, gifted like one of the X-Men with an amazing power to transmute desire into concrete reality: He wishes the Kennedy Center were named after him and simply makes it so. Trump's psyche is the only permanent structure in his vicinity. He talks shit like he's going to live forever. A year ago an assassin almost blew his brains out, and this 79-year-old seems no more circumspect about death than if he were still in his twenties.
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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cooperlund.online
Things are going great over at X, The Everything App
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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repbeatty.bsky.social
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
rorymitchell.bsky.social
"SEASONS BEATINGS"
mattufford.bsky.social Matt Ufford @mattufford.bsky.social · 22d
it’d be bad for society but I’m in favor of more fights at Whole Foods. elite news read from the anchor here, too.
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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sesmith.lol
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social this doesn’t qualify as weirdtok but it’s too delightful not to share. Pure joy at one of life’s most wonderful experiences.
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
"the USPS is a miracle. it's in the constitution. for the price of a single stamp you can send a letter across the country, from Hawaii to Maine. Trump is trying to take that away from you. He's attacking Christmas cards and wedding invitations. It's un-American and it has to stop."
February 21, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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D’oh www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Acclaimed Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Detained in Japan on Drug Allegations
The Tony-nominated playwright has been detained in Okinawa since mid-November and was quietly dropped from Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival, where he was due to appear for his indie road movie 'Er...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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catbus.phd
Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'
November 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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amanbatheja.bsky.social
“In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice.

At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid.”
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It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
If AI music takes over "humans will begin to echo the machines, and there will be a downward spiral into slop."
time.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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mmasnick.bsky.social
Have seen a few people passing around this story by Tom Stoppard from just last year, talking about how he learned he was Jewish and also much about his family history, and it's quite a read. He really knew how to write. www.huntingtontheatre.org/2024/09/11/t...
Tom Stoppard: On Turning Out to be Jewish | Huntington Theatre Company
www.huntingtontheatre.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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nellscovell.bsky.social
“--it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back...”

--Tom Stoppard
November 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view. And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone. "When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
rorymitchell.bsky.social
These guys are such losers.
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · Nov 24
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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kottke.org
Real Photos That Look Fake. I’ve seen a bunch of these before, but it’s cool to scroll and get your tiny mind blown over and over again. Human cognition and perception is such a trip. [kottke.org]
Real Photos That Look Fake
I’ve seen a bunch of these before, but it’s cool to scroll and get your tiny mind blown over and over again. Human cognition and perception is such a trip. (via neatorama)
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October 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM