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Analysis: in 2025, only 17% of North America's top 100 highest-grossing films were directed by non-white filmmakers, down from 27% in 2021 and 24% in 2023 (Richard Rushfield/The Ankler)
https://theankler.com/p/hollywoods-backslide-into-white-male

Hollywood’s Backslide Into White Male Directors Becomes Undeniable
How to chase away our future, one complacent decision at a time

The obvious result occurs…
“Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
https://www.wired.com/sto…

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

NFL predictions: Lions have separated themselves as the league's best according to proven model

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl

Which Raiders players helped or hurt themselves the most in Week 1? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/which-raiders-players-helped-or-hurt-themselves-the-most-in-week-1-3439036/

This. 👇👇👇
JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question:
Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”
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Eric Champnella (@echamp.bsky.social)
This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves | WIRED #ICE

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Dynamical evolution timescales for the supermassive black hole system in the galaxy NGC 7727 (Arp 222)
P. Berczik, M. Ishchenko, O. Veles, M. Sobolenko, K. Voggel, C. M. Boily, E. Polyachenko, R. State
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02974

Dynamical evolution timescales for the supermassive black hole system in the galaxy NGC 7727 (Arp 222)
Context. A dual active galactic nucleus candidate with a separation of only 500 pc was recently found in NGC 7727. According to the hierarchical merging scenario, such objects would be expected to merge on a timescale of a few hundred Myr. However, estimating the accurate merging timescales for the two nuclei is still a complex challenge. Aims. Using our numerical N-body code, we can trace the full evolution of central black holes during all phases: dynamical friction of unbound black holes, bi…

OpenAI executive Bill Peebles says Sora users can now stop AI-generated versions of themselves from appearing in certain contexts like videos involving politics (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/792638/sora-provides-bet…

Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self
After a week of video slop, OpenAI is putting guardrails in place over how your AI double is used on Sora. 

As for the podcasters themselves, who I’m quite sure are not having any kind of moral awakening here but rather are just sensing their market shifting from under them (again, rats sinking ship):
I’ll happily accept any genuine help taking down the fash — that is how coalitions work — and that doesn’t mean I’m trusting or forgiving anyone.

These forces that make people narrow themselves, avoid humanities, avoid mathematics, avoid whole ways of thinking and seeing…these forces aren’t only people being assholes to each other (though they are that). They’re hierarchy-making and pernicious social engineering. Fight back.