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Quvenzhané Wallis short film TIRAMISU is an official selection in the 2026 oscar-qualifying St. Louis International Film Festival!
In the aftermath of ICE raids, a temperamental Italian chef must bargain for help in his kitchen from an unlikely stranger.
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When we (bunnies) was trying to wake this up we had all of k-pop twitter against us telling a bunch of young girls they needed to shut up and not bite the hand that feeds them!
Realizing if I wanna be a real movie goer again I gotta start going after work. And I might fall asleep. But I’m willing to play that game
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And the game went right on after. Apt metaphor
A service member with an Air Force training unit died after falling while rappelling from the rafters at a San Antonio college football game taskandpurpose.com/news/airm…
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Excited to finally share my latest: for @Chicago_Reader, I profiled the Chicago physical media scene, speaking with nearly 2 dozen collectors of Blu-rays, DVDs, VHS, vinyl records, CDs, and video games, as well as multiple vendors, about the hobby/passion
chicagoreader.com/film-tv/mo…
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📢 NITA is developing its first regional budget and wants to hear which transit improvements are most important to you! Your feedback will help shape future investments across CTA, Metra, and Pace.
Survey now available in English and Spanish: polco.us/n/res/vote/northern…
Brother I am less than a month out from never allowing myself to be voluntarily captured digitally again
Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test.
48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%. It is #1 on NVIDIA's benchmark for full-duplex AI video.
It’s the first Human Interaction Model (HIM).
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The 48% figure and "video Turing test" claim are from Tavus's own study of 54 one-minute calls, not independently verified or using a standard protocol. Griffin-Lite leads NVIDIA's VideoFDB benchmark on their public leaderboard.
cellcog.ai/blog/tavus-gri…
research.nvidia.com/labs/amri/proj…
tech-ish.com/2026/10/02/tav…
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I kind of forget that when you get into design the industry and not design as entertainment there are virtually no Black people :’)
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Was in Pilsen today, saw an extraordinarily high amount of people in cowboy boots. What’s going on there
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its because if you live in any city with more than 500 people your rent has been going up your entire life and the increasingly visible homeless population serves as a constant reminder that you are about three fingernails from joining them on the street. people get territorial.
