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@Variety STAR Method, courtesy of Variety: Situation/Task: Created a situation and raised a question Action: Answered it themselves Result: Case closed

Variety invited all three breakout actors of the hit series #HeatedRivalry — Hudson Williams, Connor Storrie and François Arnaud — to participate in the upcoming #ActorsOnActors, but all of them declined. Variety Co-Editor-in-Chief Ramin Setoodeh says, “I’m certain they would have accepted the invitation if it weren’t for one key fact: ‘Heated Rivalry’ isn’t eligible for this year’s Emmys due to a rule technicality, since it’s made by Crave, a Canadian streamer.” Because the series did not originate on a U.S. network or streaming platform, it is ineligible for Emmy consideration. Perhaps the cast worried it would seem presumptuous to take part in a campaign-focused event for an award they cannot win. But Setoodeh questions the logic behind the rule, asking: “When a show captures the attention and affection of so many stateside, why does it matter where it was produced? Aren’t the Emmys supposed to be a celebration of what we actually watch?” wp.me/pc8uak-1lHksY

Yesterday I went shopping and randomly found these 90s treasures.

“Daddy, what’s the difference between a gay man and a straight man?” “Straight men like their buttholes to be big so that poop can slide out no fuss no muss, but gay men prefer their buttholes tight because they’re having dicks put in them and they want to feel it” “Thanks, pa!”

@StockSavvyShay Their customer support rep can’t help me close my bank accounts

$HOOD says states and public-sector groups have approached Robinhood about building their own versions of “Trump accounts” for newborns. Robinhood says the Treasury partnership proved it can support government-scale programs.

I contacted Robinhood customer support but they couldn’t help me close my bank accounts, lol @vladtenev @RobinhoodApp

I like the original Scream, but after Scream 7 I think I’m done with any more sequels centered on Gale Weathers and Sydney Prescott.

I stopped reading Slate a while back and I’m getting close to doing the same with The Daily Beast.

When a film critic says, “F*** off, it’s one star from me,” you know it’s bad.

I want to DoorDash Lard Na Noodle from this Thai restaurant, but it’s not on their menu. Weirdly, I can still order it on Grubhub from the same place.

And scene Michael Burry Sells All His GameStop Stock -- WSJ

GameStop $GME CEO Ryan Cohen’s time on CNBC this morning could have gone better

Claude vs ChatGPT, according to Perplexity.

I’ve been using Voice Dream Reader and Speechify the past few days and they’re pretty great, but I don’t think they’re worth $79.99 or $139.99 a year.

@InsiderPresider @Forbes This is a classic AI reply. 🙄

@Forbes zuckerberg prioritizing ai spending over thousands of jobs seems like a huge shift in priorities honestly kinda wild

Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Costs Contributed To Layoffs Of 8,000 Staffers, Report Says go.forbes.com/BMOgqr

@fantasyfooty Sir, the point you made here is interesting, but I have a question, if you don’t mind me asking. Have you decided on your twitter username?

I'm not against Snape being black in the new Harry Potter series. I'm not against it on principle. There are obviously some pretty awful things and memes being said/shared that are clearly just racist. But it isn't necessarily racist to be a bit annoyed the character has been changed from the book's description, because his appearance carries meaning. 1. Snape is specifically and deliberately described as having "sallow skin" and being "pale." It mirrors the same pale complexion Voldemort has, which is partly why Snape always feels suspicious. They're designed as visual inversions of each other: Snape has a big hooked nose, Voldemort has a flat snakelike one. The whole point of Snape is that he LOOKS like the villain. Everything about his physical description screams untrustworthy. That's Rowling's deliberate misdirection, teaching readers not to judge by appearances. Change the appearance, you risk losing the power of that twist. 2. There's also an irony nobody seems to be talking about. By making Snape the suspicious, untrustworthy, seemingly villainous character AND the only prominent black actor in the cast, you've actually created the exact optics you were presumably trying to avoid. The one black guy is the one everyone's supposed to distrust? How is that progressive? 3. People are making a false equivalence with Hermione being black in the Cursed Child. That's completely fine because the books never say she's white in the text, and it doesn't affect her story either way. Snape's appearance is different. It's written into the plot. 4. The writers now have a real issue down the line. How are they going to portray Snape being bullied when younger? How are they going to portray James Potter suspending Snape upside down with Levicorpus? Surely they aren't going to force racist undertones onto Lupin, Potter, Black and Pettigrew? PLEASE do not turn this into some politically driven TV series where the Marauders' cruelty becomes a racial storyline. That would ruin both Snape AND James.

@bendreyfuss actually the more inclusive acronym is LGBTQIAPK+

LGBTQIA+ is too much. LGBT are all real things. (Except for L which is just the female G, and I’m not sure why they need their own letter.) Q is meaningless. Drop Q. I is real. A is not real. A is pretend. Drop A. And the + is dumb as well. Drop the +. It should be GBTI.