Gary Dauphin

He locked in too greedily. Ground too deep. Awakened something dark, a grindset from the ancient world.

TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 1d • Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... • 1d • Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 •~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03

■ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104日日. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. • 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!

目 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 2h • Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social • Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM • Mar 8, 2026

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I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough.
American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

University of Michigan ends ties with program that helped diversify PhDs The University of Michigan has ended its long partnership with the PhD Project after a federal civil rights agreement.

Black women said it best: The Academy won't save us.

Americans have no idea how much the world is shook, folks. Here in Thailand they have a running tally of how many days' worth of fuel the country has left.

This is absolutely hilarious and deserves a Veep-style TV adaptation.

Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

A lot of this is ass covering, but still pretty telling that *Lindsay Graham* is trying to pump the brakes on Bibi's total state collapse train.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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“”Trust me, we are on our own. This regime doesn’t care about us so why would I make a plea to a foreign power to care for us? And tell those saying we asked for this. No! We didn’t ask for the death of our people who were getting killed by the regime anyway.””

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

A black and white photo of Ormes.

Ormes at her drawing table.

Ormes with a Patty Jo doll.

Cartoonist Jackie Ormes, the first Black woman to create a comic strip that was nationally syndicated. Her strips included Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, Torchy in Heartbeats & Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger. Patty Jo became a toy doll in the late 1940s.
#InternationalWomensDay
#InternationalWomensDay2026

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Just FYI, this woman had a “fitness” company and was sued by dozens of women for scamming them out of money and not delivering what she promised. She then pivoted to “Christian” content. Her white cop husband was fired for excessive force. So. Just sit with all that.

A tale of NY basketball in LA, but also LA basketball: Meeting the boys for good (but pricey) seats @ Knicks-Lakers, then taking the kids to Knicks-Clippers tomorrow, where seats are almost just as good but cost almost 1/4 Lakers price #knickssky

🤬 this 🤬

“A documentary about Jewish women’s slave labor during the Holocaust? [CharGPT said to axe the NEH grant cuz] The focus on gender risked “contributing to D.E.I. by amplifying marginalized voices.” ☠️☠️☠️ 🗃️

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

The vibe is definitely different among the rank and file than at any point I can remember. The question is how long it takes for that to filter up to a profoundly risk averse class of elected officials

Renee Good was shot in the head, autopsy commissioned by her family finds Renee Good was shot three times and grazed a fourth time during the Jan. 7 encounter with an ICE officer, according to findings released by her family's attorneys.

1/The failure to investigate Renee Good’s death at all is ongoing scandal. The independent autopsy suggests that Renee Good was still alive after the first shot; it was the third shot that killed her, www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news....

The blatant bigotry of this has already been covered, but "we're not making therapy" is pretty rich from the guy who made for example UP and INSIDE OUT.

And then I, Jake Tapper, will host Republicans after the vote to lie about the war & platform the view that Democrats are voting against the troops. I have no agency of my own. I am but a humble mirror reflecting public opinion & conveying The Questions that Must Be Asked of The Democrats.

Though it is day, the sun cannot be seen in Tehran today because of all the smoke following the US and Israel bombing Tehran's oil refineries. People on the ground describe it as armageddon. History will not forgive Reza Pahlavi, Masih Alinejad, Nazanin Boniadi, and all other "leaders" who tricked Iranians into thinking this war would set them free.

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

even by Trump standards, this is shocking and depraved

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

I read these things and I clearly recall being throughly attacked in an interview for a new America fellowship for having used intersectionality in another project, unrelated to my proposal under review. And it makes everything clearer. This was already underway

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Today on CNN

TAPPER: Where are the health impacts of strikes on fuel sites?

WRIGHT: I would focus on the thousands of American soldiers that the Iranian regime has killed

Fox ran older footage but labeled it as happening Saturday.