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The rules a film must meet require at least 2 of the 4 Representation and Inclusion Standards (A: on-screen rep/themes; B: creative leadership/team; C: industry access/opportunities; D: audience development). If Variety is to be believed, which I do not, all those films with all-white casts met 2 of B, C, and D. Thus the purpose of the Rule is to encourage blackwashing to gain Hollywood political correctness. It otherwise adds nothing, according to Variety.

If this is true, and all previous best picture winners clear the Oscars’ new inclusion rules, what’s the point of them? What problem are they trying to solve?

@grok @Variety @grok citing the article I want to fact check is not helpful.

**Yes, per Variety's analysis of all 98 Best Picture winners, every one meets at least 2 of the 4 Representation and Inclusion Standards (A: on-screen rep/themes; B: creative leadership/team; C: industry access/opportunities; D: audience development).** A full per-film breakdown of which standards each hits isn't feasible in a short reply—there are decades of cast/crew/production data involved—but no counterexample winner fails to qualify under their review. The standards are flexible enough that historical films clear them via different combos.

Why is Elon Musk melting down over #TheOdyssey and the Oscars? "Every best picture winner in the Academy’s 98-year history — from the 'Wings' in 1929 through 'One Battle After Another' this past March — clears the Oscars' new inclusion rules. That also includes 'Oppenheimer,' the film directed by Christopher Nolan, with whom Elon Musk had no problem until this past week. And Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of Homer’s 'The Odyssey,' whenever the Academy gets a look at it, would also clear the inclusion standards, and it’s not because Lupita Nyong’o was cast as Helen of Troy," writes Variety's Clayton Davis. variety.com/2026/film/awar…

@deaflibertarian Yes. If you find one you should take a geotagged photo and contact the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) regional office. They will contact the National Eagle Repository and have it collected.

So if I find an eagle's feather on the ground and keep it- that's breaking a law?

@the_transit_guy That’s the same diagram used to start Southwest Airlines. High speed rail between cities without mass transit is just silly.

Texas has “4 of the top 10” biggest cities in the country and yet doesn’t have high speed rail that looks like this:

@NateSilver538 This is not vibe coding. Vibe coding is goal oriented programming, you say "Achieve this, I don't care how." Orchestration, or any task oriented approach, has the progmammer designing "how" the code achieves whatever it does - that is Not vibe coding.

Q for a forthcoming story. Let's say a knowledgeable programmer writes a complex script with help from AI. He orchestrates the model and carefully monitors its progress, including reviewing code. But he isn't writing in code himself; the AI translates from his natural language.

@Dylan_Morri You can spec it, and nobody will agree to build it.

Hey, should I spec a .0001” tolerance on a 34ft part and refuse to pay until it passes QC? Could be fun, I could buy the CNC machine from the factory sale

@LordKibagami @elhackernet Untilyou find out phones are often not allowed in schools during class time and certainly banned from exams.

@elhackernet realmente ya no es necesaria una calculadora grafica o programable, es cosa de instalar una buena aplicación en el telefono

Un chaval de 15 años de Almería le ha declarado la guerra al oligopolio de las calculadoras gráficas: su arma es el código abierto HP, Texas Instruments y Casio llevan décadas reinando en las aulas con dispositivos que apenas han cambiado ni abaratado su coste Frente a una calculadora de 150€, un dispositivo con motor CAS que puedes hacer tú por menos de 20€ xataka.com/aplicaciones/c…

@lippyent Moonlander on the Imlac PDS-1

Hmm 😒 🤔?¿

@stats_feed X says 5s.

@BearStarMD @engineers_feed Well, the north pole is under water (under ice), so you're going to have to keep that out of the borehole. Another engineering to do.

@WRSaunders @engineers_feed Just drill through the poles. It will be fine! (Also, pump out the air, otherwise the air resistance will stop you well inside the middle somewhere.)

What happens if you drill a hole straight through the Earth and jump in? You’d fall for 42 minutes. Then stop exactly at the other side. Then fall back. Forever. It’s called a gravity train. The math works out perfectly. The engineering? Slightly more complicated.

California is the same size as Japan, so there are as many things to see. As with Japan, weather in the south is very different from weather in the north. Similarly, the mountains are very different from the big cities. On the flip side, California has a 20 times higher crime rate than Japan. Los Angeles is 1/3 the size of Tokyo and yet the most dangerous neighborhood in Tokyo is much safer than the beach in Los Angeles (stats for Santa Monica). The crime and homelessness drive many of the responses suggesting you visit other places in the US.

日本からこんにちは🇯🇵👋 アメリカ人に質問があります🇺🇸🙋 アメリカに行ってみたいんだけど、ニューヨークとカリフォルニアのどちらがオススメですか？🤔 ニューヨークの人とカリフォルニアの人はお互いのことをどう思ってるの？🤭

@Its_Nova1012 TOPS-10 and then Multics, with some OS-360 in there. Real computers didn't use an OS at all, just a paper tape reader.

What was the first Operating System you ever used? - Windows - Linux - MacOS And what are you using now?

@FreedomNews419 You boiled them way too long, or overheated the water with a tight fitting lid. The green is ferrous sulfide, not too toxic but it's not good for the taste.

If your eggs have a green ring around the yolk, it means that...

The reason is much more interesting. Car companies don't make locks, they buy them. When you want locks keyed alike, it's a lot cheaper if they use the same design. Cars had two door locks, a trunk lock, a glove compartment lock, and an ignition switch lock. At some point stealing cars became a thing, and GM and Ford decided a more secure ignition lock was a reasonable countermeasure. All the lock companies said "More secure lock will cost more and we can't make as many of them". Then it turned out that making one secure lock and 4 cheap locks with the same key cost even more and reduced supply to even less. It wasn't possible at the scale of GM or Ford. The solution: buy 4 matching locks in one box and a secure ignition lock in a separate box. Boxes only meet on the final assembly line where the locks are installed. This supported several high security features, like keys with chips in them, for the minor inconvenience of two keys on your key ring.

I actually don’t remember this! So why are there two keys? 🔑 🤔

@StephenFleming Because there is an actor from Texas named Cole Allen who isn't the guy.

For the first 24 hours, every outlet referred to the WHCD shooter as “Cole Tomas Allen.” Now all I see is “Cole Allen.” I wonder why?

@lippyent My Dad had a car phone in his car. A phone that could call other phones with no wire to the telephone poles. You could talk while moving! It was unbelievable.

Hmm 😒 🤔?¿

@morallawwithin There is no such thing as an accurate predictor in the real world. Living in a hypothetical world is silly, except when you are generating engagement on X for profit.

Everyone in the world will get to press one of two buttons. Yesterday, a super-accurate predictor predicted how it would turn out. If you press red, you will certainly survive. If you press blue, then you will live if and only if it was predicted that >50% would choose blue.

@dannycantalk There is no such thing as an accurate predictor in the real world. Living in a hypothetical world is silly, except when you are generating engagement on X for profit.

We're done rehashing the button question. Time to rehash Newcomb's Paradox. Are you a one-boxer or a two-boxer?