Sandra VB
@sandravbaptista.bsky.social
🎞️ Film Festival Programmer & Screener
🎬 Actor & Producer: "The Cosmic Idiot" by Andrew Edison (in post-production)
💗 Lifelong Dancer
🎬 Actor & Producer: "The Cosmic Idiot" by Andrew Edison (in post-production)
💗 Lifelong Dancer
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Advice please. Is there a name for the fallacy which goes as follows: "if I'm participating in this, it can't be bad"?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
June 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Advice please. Is there a name for the fallacy which goes as follows: "if I'm participating in this, it can't be bad"?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
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Coyote pups at Graceland Cemetery!
June 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Coyote pups at Graceland Cemetery!
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More Resistance.
Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov
Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.
June 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
More Resistance.
Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov
Thank you @mayorwu.boston.gov
I find it hard to believe that anyone who doesn't enjoy the act of reading could actually comprehend the worlds that the text invites us into 🤩
June 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I find it hard to believe that anyone who doesn't enjoy the act of reading could actually comprehend the worlds that the text invites us into 🤩
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At LAX and all I can do is watch pilots not talking to each other.
#evanescence
#evanescence
May 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
At LAX and all I can do is watch pilots not talking to each other.
#evanescence
#evanescence
I'm attending National Wildlife Federation's event, “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...
Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science · National Wildlife Federation
We need YOU as we rally in support of critical federal government services at risk of being lost forever. The U.S. Geological Survey Ecosystems Mission Area is responsible for many of the programs tha...
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May 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I'm attending National Wildlife Federation's event, “Virtual Rally to Save the Cornerstone of Conservation Science” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...
What a sick place we live in! Immigrants are not fodder for entertainment value. period.
May 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
What a sick place we live in! Immigrants are not fodder for entertainment value. period.
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Famous paper saying AI boosts scientific productivity appears to have been completely faked in every aspect, may even have included the researcher faking a web domain to use as a source for the faked data (!)
via @kevinjkircher.com
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
via @kevinjkircher.com
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
thebsdetector.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Famous paper saying AI boosts scientific productivity appears to have been completely faked in every aspect, may even have included the researcher faking a web domain to use as a source for the faked data (!)
via @kevinjkircher.com
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
via @kevinjkircher.com
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
"Netflix’s capitulation lays it all out in the open, reflecting a climate in which dull, sanitised celebrity docs flood the marketplace while distributors balk at complicated and/or unauthorised films providing complex portraits of their subjects."
Worth A Read.
Worth A Read.
From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?
From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?
As Netflix scraps an epic series exploring the Purple Rain star’s complexities, and Max takes down Leaving Neverland, we ask: are celebrity-endorsed docs, such as the $40m Melania Trump hagiography, the future?
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Netflix’s capitulation lays it all out in the open, reflecting a climate in which dull, sanitised celebrity docs flood the marketplace while distributors balk at complicated and/or unauthorised films providing complex portraits of their subjects."
Worth A Read.
Worth A Read.
Films are a national security threat 🔥
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
President calls films ‘national security threat’ and claims he called on commerce department to immediately enact tariff
Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”.
In his post, he claimed to have authorized the Department of Commerce and the US trade representative to immediately begin instituting such a tariff, although he gave no details on how it would be implemented. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Films are a national security threat 🔥
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So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.
The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy.
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.
If this isn't an oligarchy, what is?
April 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.