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UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report finds that films with casts that are 41%-50% BIPOC achieved the highest median global and domestic box office receipts in 2025 (Arushi Jacob/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/diversity-report-casting-in-fil…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Audiences Prefer Diverse Casting in Films
UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report for 2025 reported that audiences prefer diverse casting in films, and the industry's need to focus on diversity.

Arctic winter sea-ice extent fails to expand and sets a new record low in 2026 #Arctic

Arctic winter sea-ice extent fails to expand and sets a new record low in 2026
In 2026, the Arctic winter sea-ice extent (annual maximum extent) reached the lowest value since satellite observations began in 1979, following the previous record low in March 2025. As part of the Arctic Challenge for Sustainability III (ArCS III), the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) maintain a long-term dataset spanning more than 40 years.

"Roberts himself has been an opponent of the Voting Rights Act since he was a young lawyer working in the Reagan administration. In 2013 he led the court in overturning a section of the law that protected voters in areas with a long history of denying Black people the ability to exercise their right to vote. That unleashed a surge of voter suppression laws across the southern U.S."
God won’t save this Supreme Court: That job belongs to all of us
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/supreme-court/5870011-supreme-court-failing-americans/

“During Friday’s Artemis II re-entry,
we will be deploying seismic and acoustic instrumentation at sea across the Southern California Bight
to record the sonic boom produced by the capsule’s re-entry,”
the USGS wrote in an email shared by a user on Reddit.
“Modelling indicates that the acoustic signal may be audible on land in some areas of Santa Barbara County and Baja California, including the Channel Islands.”
On its Facebook, the USGS states the sonic booms…

slop consequences 🥹
I have no illusions that there's gonna be any once slop code does harm, tho. After all, companies got away with all kinds for hand-crafted, artisanal negligence for decades.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-tech…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Only this administration would try to argue a war is over when there are still missiles flying. I thought they had reached peak ridiculousness when they tried to argue with conflict was over because there was a ceasefire in place. When the ceasefire wasn't even holding. #nokings

Here's a photo from a recent hike that I wrote about in my blog ( https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/a-spring-hike-with-unexpected-challenges-in-the-snow/ ).
Well - it's been a very cool day up there :) Nothing much to add that I h…

3 Missing Pieces on Dallas Cowboys Depth Chart Following NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/3-missing-pieces-dallas-cowboys-depth-chart-following-nfl-draft

Source: Ars Technica fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards after his February 13 story had AI-fabricated quotes; Edwards admitted to using Claude and ChatGPT (Maggie Harrison Dupré/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ars-technica-fires-re…

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes
Ars Technica has fired senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following an outrage-sparking controversy involving AI-fabricated quotes.

Some two dozen states challenged Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday,
filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.
The Democratic attorneys general leading the suit argue that Trump is overstepping his power with planned 15% tariffs on much of the world.
Trump has said the tariffs are essential to reduce America’s longstanding trade deficits.
He imposed duties under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 after the S…

More than 20 states sue over new global tariffs Trump imposed after his Supreme Court loss
Some two dozen states challenged President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs on Thursday, filing a lawsuit over import taxes he imposed after a stinging loss at the Supreme Court.