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[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar.

• Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars

• Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Edward @Edwardthe_III]

@AustinGorton My first ever X-Men comic that started the lifelong hobby. The story may have gone nowhere but my fascination has run on for years thanks to that book.

[Edward @Edwardthe_III]

@SchutteDustin For the love of god please do this when you come to talk to the newspaper class next year

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Americans are being killed in the street by their government. Our Constitution is being shredded and our rights are dissolving. Resist.

Senate Dems should block ICE funding this week. Activate the National Guard.

We can and must stop this.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Undefeated teams, 2025 season 🏈

[Chris Meloni @Chris_Meloni]

1600 Pennsylvania ave
Washington DC

[Zak Keefer @zkeefer]

The last undefeated team in college basketball history.

The first 16-0 team in modern college football history.

One school.

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

Perfection.

[Dani 🩷🧸🎀 @yourrrfavdani]

NFL wants to fine him for this but held a moment of silence for a racist, bigot podcaster. What a joke

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

No warm fuzzies, we've got business to take care of.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Trying to provoke both a world war and a civil war at the same time while demanding a Nobel Peace prize is a level of insanity we’ve never seen ever before.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

MAGA 2021: “You can’t tell me to wear a mask.” “You can’t force a vaccine.” “You can’t make me stay home.”

MAGA 2026: “Just follow orders.” “Have your papers ready.” “Comply and nothing bad happens.”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Stephen Colbert: “Where are the Epstein Files? We were told there would be Epstein Files. You signed a law mandating you would have to release the Epstein Files by the middle of last month, but you still haven’t. It kind of makes you seem like a… pedophile protector!”

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Calling Renee Good a domestic terrorist while pardoning 1600 Jan 6 rioters is an amazing level of BS.

[BonkDaCarnivore @BonkDaCarnivore]

All of these people were given pardons.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If our only option is “obey the nameless masked men or die,” we do not live in a free country

[Indiana Basketball @IndianaMBB]

A tradition unlike any other.

[Indiana Football @IndianaFootball]

Peach Bowl 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗦. 🏆