I found Frank Herbert’s Dune script. It’s hard to imagine a weirder film version of Dune than the one David Lynch released in 1984, but Frank Herbert found a way. Dune: Part Two is better.
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On popular online platforms, predatory groups coerce children into self-harm
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The war on recovery: how the US is sabotaging its best tools to prevent deaths in the opioid epidemic
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