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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-29 16:29:00

Zero chance RFK can tell that a map of the Middle East is "perfect",
or even that it is of the Middle East.
So, either it didn't happen, or Trump drew a made up map of the Middle East, and RFK went along with it.
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
RFK JR: One time, Trump grabbed a placemat, turned it over, took a Sharpie, and drew a perfect map of the Middle East. Then he marked the troop strength of every country along each border on that map. It challenged a lot of the assumptions I had been told about him.

@compfu@mograph.social
2025-12-31 14:31:00

This video essay about the look of Sinners (which was shot on 70mm IMAX and Ultra Panavision) brought up something I hadn't realised until now: the large format gives you a wide field of view with the look of a telephoto lens! What that means is that you get shallow depth of field like in closeup shots with the framing of a wider angle lens.
Personal observation: there's also very little barrel lens distortion that usually comes with wide shots on 35mm.

Screen grab of the movie Sinners by Ryan Coogler. A black pastor is standing inside a room made of white wooden planks and beams. He's forming a silhouette in front of an over-exposed white window. A cross is hanging on the wall screen left and a church boy is out of focus in the foreground. Green lines have been overlaid onto the image to underscore that straight lines at the edges of the frame are actually pretty straight.
A very wide shot from the modern remake of Magnificent Seven, which was shot on 35mm film using anamorphic lenses. Outdoor scene in a wild west town with wooden buildings. A group of at least a dozen people in period clothing is keeping their distance around the central character. He is a middle-aged man with short hair wearing a black dress coat. He's pointing a revolver towards a person just to the right of the viewer. This shot is not the same framing as the one from Sinners but it demons…
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-30 11:09:06

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship
Over a century ago, Alexander Porter Morse was among a trio of thinkers who spearheaded a failed effort
— steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism
— to erase birthright citizenship.
The Trump administration is reviving their arguments to make its case today, some legal scholars say.

The administration is citing arguments “built on a racist foundation,”
Justin Sadowsky, an attorne…

Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship
An argument heading to the Supreme Court is built in part on a post-Civil War campaign that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-30 04:51:14

After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…

The Rise of the Digital Oligarchy
AI has pushed society into a period of tumult and confusion. What comes next will determine if humanity remains the author of its own story.