u/Mr_microplastics_Yum

@olisviews on TikTok (I’m not allowed to link)

I always have a look at the physical media when I'm thrifting in hopes of finding something really strange, lost, or forgotten, and I think I hit the jackpot.

Originally I left it behind, a few days ago. I could not stop thinking about it and it was still there when I went back today, so home with me it went.

Since it seems to exist nowhere online, I think I'm going to have to find a way to digitize this thing. It's in pristine condition, luckily, just don't have a player right now.

Sherlock Bally is still out there preaching, too!

I hope a few more people can get a kick out of this. Will update!

Update: I am in touch with one of the people who has kindly offered to digitize it for me and will be sending the tape out in the next couple days. Thank you to both of you for the offer!

https://open.substack.com/pub/hrnews1/p/how-an-israeli-foreign-agent-took?r=1t17zr&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Evidently flirted with Bud/s and joining The SEALS

For banned from the sub for saying this lol

MJs rookie year / at the SDC

When bodycam footage from a February city council meeting in Claremore, Oklahoma, surfaced online, it didn't show a brawl or a threat. It showed a man asking if he could hand over documents. Then an officer's voice, flat and final: "Arrest him." [Darren Blanchard](https://www.404media.co/bodycam-footage-video-claremore-oklahoma-data-center-meeting/) had committed the offense of speaking slightly past a **three-minute** public-comment timer — at a meeting about a **270-to-300-acre** [data center campus](https://www.gadgetreview.com/openai-and-partners-launch-500-billion-stargate-project) proposed for his community. What a trespass charge over a few extra seconds reveals about how towns handle dissent when big infrastructure money arrives is worth your attention.

**Three Minutes, One Arrest, One Bodycam**

*Getting the footage was its own story — and the arrest sequence it captured raises questions that won't disappear.*

At the [February 17](https://www.businessinsider.com/data-center-meeting-claremore-oklahoma-man-arrested-beale-infrastructure-ai-2026-2) Claremore City Council meeting, residents packed the room to address Project Mustang. Blanchard exceeded the comment limit. Officers told him to leave. The bodycam captured him asking to present documents before handcuffs went on. Getting that footage wasn't straightforward — a local requester was initially quoted **$1,750** for the video, then ultimately paid $120.
Here's what the footage and reporting reveal:

Blanchard asked to submit documents before being arrested; the bodycam captures the officer's order in real time.

His legal team reportedly filed a motion to dismiss and requested the city attorney recuse himself, citing the attorney's presence as a witness at the meeting — a claim not yet independently verified in court filings.

The city's initial $1,750 price tag for bodycam footage dropped to $120 to obtain.

Blanchard has said publicly the arrest amounts to retaliation for [protected speech](https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-operatives-built-surveillance-app-143659700.html) and has chilled community participation.

**What Project Mustang Actually Is**

*Behind the arrest is a 300-acre data center proposal that many residents say they learned about too late to meaningfully shape.*

[**Project Mustang**](https://cleanview.co/data-centers/oklahoma/2161/beale-project-mustang), developed by Beale Infrastructure, is planned as a multi-building data center campus in Claremore Industrial Park, with Phase 1 targeting **2028**. City officials say it advances through standard economic-development channels and won't raise local taxes or utility rates, with some infrastructure costs covered by the developer. Project Mustang's terms — acreage, incentives, utility impacts — were substantially set before any public comment session was scheduled.

Residents disagree with that framing. They cite unanswered questions about water consumption, power demand, farmland loss, and [tax incentives](https://www.gadgetreview.com/evil-tech-scandals-failures-that-took-advantage-millions-people)negotiated before meaningful public input happened. Officials call it economic development. Opponents call it a high-impact industrial project with costs still unaccounted for.

**The Right to Speak — And What It Costs**

*Whether a few extra seconds at a public podium justifies a trespass arrest is a legal question — but it's also a civic one.*

**Public-comment periods** exist for one reason: letting residents address elected officials directly. Whether exceeding a timer by seconds justifies a trespass arrest sits in genuinely contested legal territory.

Blanchard's team requesting the city attorney's recusal adds another layer — the official weighing the charge witnessed the arrest firsthand.

Project Mustang may or may not get built. Public-comment clocks will keep running at council meetings nationwide. What happened in Claremore on February 17 is on tape now, and that tape has a way of traveling further than any press release.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/arrest-him-moment-police-handcuffed-152948000.html

Wait for it.

Hey everyone,

Look what I just dug up while cleaning out my parents' house! It's a complete box set of "Quick Start: An introduction to Softimage 3D".

As you can see, it includes:
* 2 Software CD-ROMs
* 1 Hardware Dongle (essential piece of history right here!)
* 3 Manuals/Booklets (some are actually still sealed/unopened)
* 2 Miscellaneous leaflets/documents
* The original outer box

Seeing this legendary software and the hardware dongle really brings back memories (or shows how far we've come). I haven't tried running it yet, but the condition is surprisingly good.

Thought this sub would appreciate a glimpse into the late 90s/early 2000s 3D CGI era!

Does anyone here have memories of using Softimage 3D back in the day?