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David Rubin served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022.
In 2020, under his leadership, the Academy launched the “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for Best Picture eligibility. These rules, still in effect, require films to meet at least 2 of 4 diversity criteria involving race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in on-screen roles, creative leadership, or crew.
Rubin publicly backed the changes and helped appoint the task force co-led by producer DeVon Franklin.
He shifted the Oscars from “best movie wins” to race/gender engineering. A film can now be ineligible for the top prize purely for failing demographic quotas, regardless of quality or audience impact.
Instead of focusing purely on talent and storytelling, the Academy under Rubin institutionalized identity preferences.
Oscars prestige and viewership have tanked. Many see it as performative politics over art. Classics with non-diverse casts would be disqualified.
He helped install the DEI machinery that turned awards into checkboxes and accelerated Hollywood’s quality decline.
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@MattMahanSJ @ChadBianco Matt. that's a bad strategy for you to go and attack Republicans, that doesn't give you any points.
You need higher numbers against your fellow Democrats to pass the primaries
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Here are the facts:
1. I lead the safest big city in America
2. Your pal @ChadBianco's department ranks dead last in solving crime
Californians deserve to know the truth — trust between law enforcement and the community makes us all safer.
RNC Research@RNCResearch
California Democrat Matt Mahan peddles the Democrat lie that sanctuary policies keep Americans safer.
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@Samiel_Reese @andrewztan exactly, that's money sucking machine. you are not just paying the tuition, they also keep asking for hefty donations right on their website.
better just save money and pay for the university tuition if your kid is motivates enough to learn on its own.
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@andrewztan This place costs more to attend high school than Stanford charges in tuition lmfao
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Sending 9 out of 195 graduating seniors to Stanford is insane
Guess which Bay Area high school this is
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It turns out nobody at Anthropic actually knows how to build an LLM, we’ve just been asking an old copy of Bing Sidney
That means if you can _just_ repeat this lecture word for word (before it gets taken down definitely soon), we’d be immediately forced to give you all our money
Roan@RohOnChain
Anthropic pays $750,000+ a year for engineers who can build LLM architectures from scratch. Stanford taught the entire thing in 1 hour lecture & released it for free. Bookmark & watch this today before someone takes it down.
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@bscholl No, it's mostly just because there are fewer garages. European towns are more compact, which has the advantage of making them more walkable, but the downside is that there's less space.
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It could actually be a significant problem that Europe doesn't have enough garages. This sounds like a joke, but I'm serious. Garages let you work on stuff that doesn't matter yet, which is how big things often start. The outliers of ideas need the outliers of space.
Jon Erlichman@JonErlichman
First offices of 6 companies worth a combined $21 trillion.
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@aaron_epstein if you keep attention to details it's not there yet. Many things in the generated designs don't make any sense and it has not improved much from a few months ago.
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It’s never been easier to design your dream house
Drafted@DraftedAI
Outline any shape and Drafted turns it into a real house plan. 🏠 It's a new way to explore the different layouts and room configurations that are possible within your space. Here's how it works 👇
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@SCMountainGoat I notice some people post a response to you and then block you right away so you can not say anything back. easy way to win an argument. this is likely where it's coming from
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It’s always funny when I see posts from people who have blocked me, but I don’t know who they are.
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@ThePrimeagen TPU was announced 12 years ago, nvidia is still around
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The downfall of Nvidia begins?
Long live dedicated silicon
Anthropic@AnthropicAI
We've signed an agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity, coming online starting in 2027, to train and serve frontier Claude models.
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@JarrodHarden2 @MattMahanSJ to answer your last question: in CA there is no incentive to optimize anything, especially in solving homelessness. there are many ways to save money that are not a rocket science, but no one would even try it.
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@MattMahanSJ you claim you have helped thousands. yet, homeless people have increased statewide year over year. IF you have such a great plan that solves the problem, why hasn't it been passed to every County and City statewide?
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$100M spent today, gets 100 people indoors 5 years later with the status quo approach. That’s not scalable, it’s not humane, and it’s certainly not progressive to create the perfect solution for the lucky few, while leaving thousands of others to die on the streets.
In San Jose, we changed our approach. We didn’t tax people more; we spent their dollars better to address their biggest issue.
Three years later, we’ve reduced unsheltered homelessness for the first time in a very long time — and helped thousands get back on a path to self-sufficiency. Our answer can’t always be to spend more; we need to spend better. I plan to do that statewide once elected.
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@EthanTenzinAsh @LandOfTheLocke @kangminlee and do you recall a situation when protests like these actually helped to stop such a process? how do you know they worked?
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@LandOfTheLocke @kangminlee This ignores the very obvious fact that authoritarian dictators don’t suddenly become that overnight but rather through a gradual process. Extremely simple concept to understand.
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Then what are you even protesting
Incredible self-own
Senator Mazie Hirono@maziehirono
Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings
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@bumbadum14 that's the only argument people have these days if they have to defend what's going on in CA
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Everything there is to love about California was put there by God and has literally nothing to do with the cities and people here.
camille@peachofthewest
People calling LA ugly and saying that life sucks if you are broke here as if this isn’t free and right behind the city
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@lb_412 @MoundLore well. the original post is about the infra in general and your first response was that it was not your experience. I circled back to say that roads is the simplest part among all
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@immostlyreading @MoundLore I am commenting on road quality. Nothing else.
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Feels like America is wearing out.
bridges getting weight limits instead of replacements, transformers backordered for years, boil advisories that keep coming back, roads patched so many times they don’t resemble what they were built for, crews aging out faster than they’re replaced.
Nothing breaks all at once.
It just gets harder to fix anything.
More specialized parts.
Longer lead times.
Fewer skilled workers.
Costs no one wants to say out loud.
So the goal shifts.
Not improvement.
Just keeping things from getting worse.
That’s where a lot of systems are now… not failing, just slowly becoming unreliable.
Peoples expectations shift.
They plan around delays.
They expect outages.
They lower expectations.
Thats scary.
Once a country accepts decline as normal, it stops seeing it.
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@farzyness babies crying yes, no big deal about it. but if you can not calm down the baby for 10 hours, that perhaps mean you a as a parent need to learn a few things before taking a flight.
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@lb_412 @MoundLore road repairs is the simplest they can do and still doing in many areas, but check the cost of this work. now think about something bigger
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@MoundLore Outside of Los Angeles, some very rural areas, and JFK, I have not witnessed what you described. Even Louisiana has finally repaired most roads.
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@julianweisser before COVID it was nice place to visit every few weeks or even live there for a few years. after COVID it became depressing af.
of course there are nicer areas, but generally speaking it's boring and depressing.
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@a_strider_again @Lobes @ramez Trump is not helping, but you clearly missed the inflation before he was elected. Either try to be objective. or this discussion doesn't make any sense
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@Lobes @immostlyreading @ramez Yep. All while he’s reducing our global power, and increasing our own prices and deficit at home.
His actions are lose-lose-lose. Only beneficiaries are his family and friends.
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A complete self-own. And entirely foreseeable. The damage done might be reperable, but not easily or quickly. It'll take very large and clear steps in the US, including some substantial constitutional and legal reforms to limit the power of a crazy President.
Jostein Hauge@haugejostein
This is wild. People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US. The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
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@immostlyreading @ramez Ok but the EU currently have the same problem with their reliance on US weapons, financial services and technology. Trump has weaponised all these things.
The US becoming an untrustworthy partner is making everything more expensive for everyone.
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@haugejostein EU didn't learn the lesson when they created dependency on Russian oil and gas.
Now let's repeat with China, but for other domains.
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This is wild.
People in *every single one* of the top US allies now think it's better to depend on China than the US.
The global balance of power is clearly tilting away from the US and toward China.
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