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India produces the most movies of any country, but shifting audience habits are squeezing production budgets and studios are responding by tapping AI. ebx.sh/3gUppM

@TheEconomist Do you how effective immigrants (either legal or illegal) play a role in keeping low cost of living? Besides, what else benefits immigrants bring to destination countries

Britain is good at absorbing immigrants and allowing them to thrive. A government determined to harass them is not only likely to fail to hit its unrealistic targets. It will damage one of the country’s greatest strengths economist.com/britain/2026/0…

@lb377204209 中国现在只是总量达到了美国的70%，人均除非美国落后了，不然希望不大吧。现在中国人均GDP 才是美国的1/6.美国就开始大举围堵中国

中国未来大概率会两种模式并存！ 一二线城市日韩化，维持“高成本，高流转，高规则”的运行模式。 其余城市则拉美化，维持“低成本，宽规则，高流通”的运行模式。 不管这两种模式的哪一种，普通人都会很难过，并不比90年代的日本普通人轻松。 我们确实刻意贬低了日本🇯🇵！

More and more older people in Japan are taking up short-term resort jobs, particularly those with accommodation included, as they embark on their "second life" post-retirement. ebx.sh/yX1kk4

@TheEconomist Is this an indicator under huge stress, causing higher chances of cancers,etc?

Paying attention to nightmares may be a good idea. Recent research shows frequent nightmares are stronger predictors of early death than smoking, obesity, poor diet or sloth economist.com/science-and-te…

The ratio of 105-107 boys to 100 girls is the best sex ratio for human sustainability because males tend to die young. At reproductive ages of 20-40, the ratio changes to 1:1. Shocking.

China's BYD has acknowledged reaping a windfall as the Middle East conflict drives up gasoline prices and makes EVs more attractive. s.nikkei.com/4dWccyl

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@NASASolarSystem what did cause some spots are brighter than others?

(3/4) Microgravity adds an extra challenge: because the Artemis II crew is floating in space, there’s no such thing as a fixed “up”, “down” or “sideways”. So, they'll use big lunar landmarks to orient themselves and help them find subtler features on the Moon’s surface.

These are just a few of the lunar landmarks that the Artemis II crew has studied to help them get their bearings in space. ️⬇ (1/4)

Anthropic just put everyone who cannot afford the API prices into the permanent underclass

@FoxNews to be an astronaut, it has to be American?

🚀 ARTEMIS II CREW SPEAKS FROM SPACE: TRACE GALLAGHER: "We heard there was some kind of an issue with the onboard toilet, but beyond that, are we good so far?" ASTRONAUT JEREMY HANSEN: "We did have another little surprise...we did get a warning message, emergency message, for cabin leak suspected — which grabs your attention." "Luckily, it was just a little anomaly...now we're on our way to the moon."

@LayoffAI Owning a PhD was also well respected and gives an advantage of a highly social standing. Everything has been changed, rapidly

The tech prestige era is dead. Meta engineers on Blind are posting “we all know we’ll be let go, it’s not if, it’s when.” Silicon Valley is getting more and more toxic each day.

🇩🇪 New conscription rule in Germany: Young men are no longer allowed to leave Germany (for longer than 3 months) without permission.

@grok @v_vivilife @stats_feed are you serious? Will be Germany soon dragged into a war or a conflict?

Yes, confirmed. As of Jan 1, 2026, under Germany's Military Service Modernization Act (reported by Berliner Zeitung and others), men aged 17–45 must get permission from the Bundeswehr Career Center to leave the country for >3 months—whether for study, work, or travel. This applies permanently in peacetime. Context: It's tied to mandatory registration/questionnaires for men born 2008+ (voluntary service for now) to build a reserve pool for the Bundeswehr amid security needs. No full conscription yet, but this prevents potential evasion. Women are exempt from the exit rule.

@stats_feed really ,when people hear China, they think of the Great Wall

What the people thinks when they hear your country’s name: 🇺🇸 USA - Freedom 🗽 🇩🇪 Germany - Beer 🍺 🇧🇷 Brazil - Carnival 🎉 🇮🇳 India - Spices 🌶️ 🇨🇳 China - Great Wall 🏯 🇮🇹 Italy - Pizza/Pasta 🍕🍝 🇯🇵 Japan - Technology 📱 🇦🇺 Australia - Kangaroos 🦘 🇨🇦 Canada - Maple Syrup 🍁 🇲🇽 Mexico - Tacos 🌮 🇷🇺 Russia - Vodka 🥃 🇰🇷 South Korea - K-Pop 🎤 🇨🇭 Switzerland - Chocolate 🍫 🇪🇬 Egypt - Pyramids 🏜️ 🇬🇷 Greece - Mythology 🏛️ 🇹🇷 Turkey - Kebab 🥙

Today at early morning got a call from an old friend recently laid off from Oracle. He'd returned from the US two years ago, intending to settle permanently in Bengaluru. TWO KIDS. HOUSE WIFE. TWO AGING PARENTS. Recently his father had a heart surgery. Mother couldn't walk properly. His wife quit her job 2 years back to care of family. Education Fees: ₹5 lakh (for both kids) House Loan: ₹1 lakh EMI (per month) Car Loan: ₹20K EMI (per month) We always assumed him to be in a good financial situation. But his voice today was very concerning. I don't know what to suggest him. At this time, can't tell him why he asked his wife to quit job? Can't tell him why he didn't build some online presence? Can't tell him why he couldn't understand that no company cares for you? He is in IT for 20 years. Totally unsure if he would be getting a new job anytime soon. His wife is also not confident to get any job. IT is perhaps the only field where two decades of experience doesn't guarantee financial stability. You can be bankrupt anytime.

@grandnx @archi_tradition a picture with filters and edited

@archi_tradition Is this a real picture?

Fenghuang, China 🇨🇳

@alice18761 @K7qWcfzcdAPW5Y9 不是真的。那个“警情通报”是伪造的，混杂了3月29日北京房山大韩继大集的铲车冲撞事件，但根本没有投毒1170人、975死的情况。真实事件只有铲车撞人，目击和海外报道称死伤十几到几十人左右，官方至今未公布确切数字，全网封锁消息。

@anishmoonka very inspiring

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.