"Professionals largely view ADHD as a disorder of motivation and attention, a disability located inside the mind that must be solved on a solely individual level. This framing makes it impossible to understand the ADHDer as a unique, neurodivergent social being interacting with a broader cultural and economic context."

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"If you have ADHD and you need help initiating an activity, or you’re the loved one of an ADHDer who’s feeling stuck and you want to offer them support, then body doubling is one of the most practical tools you can use. Body doubling is very simple: the ADHDer who is having trouble starting or staying on task simply sits down with another person who is also working on a focus-intensive project, and the ADHDer feeds off the other person’s social energy and attention in order to get things done."

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"Other practical elements include the explosion in the grain room (which resulted in popcorn) and the pyrotechnics used to blow up an aqueduct (which did not work the first time and took a month to rebuild to shoot again). With the amount of effects the sequence entailed, it was the last VFX shot to get finalized."

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"And while most of the animals were digitally rendered, including Doric’s bird form that falls down a chimney after crashing into a flag, the cat that walks out of the chimney was real."

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"The chase sequence starts, for instance, in the set of the vault room with a computer-generated fly version of Doric. The crew cut a hole in the wall of that set to pull the camera back through it, leading the digital fly before becoming a fully computer-animated scene within the wall. Similarly, the sets used for the portion of the chase where Doric is a mouse were built with a removable floor to allow the camera to get low enough to capture the necessary angles."

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"Preparation for the sequence included storyboards and a rough animation during the previsualization stage — which allowed the team to notice “that you kind of lost your connection to Doric herself” in the initial version, said Snow. “So we changed it so she changed back into herself more.”"

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"There are many reasons. The mustache is masculine but playful in a world enjoying new ways of engaging with gendered styles. It was poised for a comeback after a decade of everyone having beards anyway, and quarantine allowed scads of people to give it a try and realize they liked it."

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"A company with a portfolio of property as large as Airbnb, 5.6 million listings worldwide, is bound to run into issues, but what happens when murder, rape, or violent theft afflict a guest while inside an Airbnb property? Answer: a team of “black box” operatives springs into action with one goal: bury the incident as quickly and cleanly as possible."

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"Gonzales said the case against Thomas “was compromised from the very start by grave errors and lack of probable cause to arrest Mr. Thomas. He was further deprived of his due process rights when the prosecution proceeded even after the erroneous identification came to light, making his conviction fundamentally unfair.”"

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"In fact, a “win-stay, lose-shift” strategy is entirely plausible from a psychological point of view: people tend to stick with a winning strategy."

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