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twitter-profile#error”/> thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”mmjukic” data-tweet=”1688928528400871424″ dir=”auto”> First, the evidence. Of the 50 highest-grossing films ever, 94% are based on U.S./UK intellectual property (IP). The other 6% are Japanese. No other countries. Japan is also 56% of the top 50 video games and 28% of the top media franchises, including number one:… Read More »Thread by @mmjukic on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

twitter-profile#error”/> thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”Jim_Jordan” data-tweet=”1684595380770541568″ dir=”auto”> In April 2021, a Facebook employee circulated an email for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg, writing: “We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the [Biden] White House” to remove posts. thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”Jim_Jordan” data-tweet=”1684595385199734784″ dir=”auto”> What did the Biden White House… Read More »Thread by @Jim_Jordan on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

twitter-profile#error”/> Today might have seen the biggest physics discovery of my lifetime. I don’t think people fully grasp the implications of an ambient temperature / pressure superconductor. Here’s how it could totally change our lives. 1. 100 billion kWh of electricity are wasted on transmission losses each year in the… Read More »Thread by @alexkaplan0 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

twitter-profile#error”/> thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”garius” data-tweet=”1683808579042541568″ dir=”auto”> In early 1999 Zip2, the newspaper online directory service Musk had co-founded, was sold to Compaq for $300m. Elon’s share of this was about $20m. Elon begins hitting up old connections from his time at ScotiaBank. He says he wants to launch “A Financial Superstore”… Read More »Thread by @garius on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

twitter-profile#error”/> thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”FromKulak” data-tweet=”1683216200250138625″ dir=”auto”> 2/ The Disney Princess is the perfect archetype of easy natural inherent nobility and morality. She is an artifact of inborn virtue, a born noble, irrespective of parentage. With the naive careless values that come from an easy mastery of her domain thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”FromKulak” data-tweet=”1683216209251106824″… Read More »Thread by @FromKulak on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

twitter-profile#error”/> thread#showTweet” data-screenname=”ATRightMovies” data-tweet=”1681624554970439680″ dir=”auto”> In 1992, student filmmaker Christopher Nolan and girlfriend Emma Thomas took a trip across the English Channel – a recreation of the Dunkirk evacuation route. Nolan said it took 19 hours, freezing cold, and very tough, but it did give him an idea… 2/44 thread#showTweet”… Read More »Thread by @ATRightMovies on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App