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@jowrotethis Yes. But the vampire version. 🧛‍♂️

Should I fuck around and rewatch LINCOLN?

Next year we’re gonna need a bigger car. #OpeningDay

@darrenrovell Keith Williams Jr is a National Treasure and a regular performer at Dodger Stadium. You’d be so lucky to have a Keith sing the National Anthem for your team.

If this is your Opening Day National Anthem Singer this is going to be a LOOOOONG season….

I don’t normally take sides but this shot is legitimate and facilitates good storytelling.

The iPhone Fold's final design has allegedly leaked. A new CAD shows the device will have a wide, iPad-style aspect ratio with dual cameras and a small Dynamic Island.

My kids are freaking out when we get to have dinner here! They’re gonna love it so much.

Just a few random @disneyland pics I snapped to cleanse your timeline. If you like ‘em follow @version_5571 and give this post a share!

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The Hollow Men American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider. By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants. These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition. In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken. Today, we have severed that link. We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses. If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived. This looting starts in the boardroom. We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year. Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor. And for what? Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love. They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders. And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk? We get the Delegation Economy. When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know. This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering. They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake. While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us. If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag. The time for polite governance is over. If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.

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The whole day came down to this :42 second clip. Family was all together. Crowds had gone. Weather had cooled. Lightning Lanes were irrelevant. Fireworks illuminated the sky. Music was inspiring. This moment is why we go to @waltdisneyworld.

Geo 82 was just meh. Felt like it was just there to capture Disney Adult dollars and built to absolute minimum qualifications.

Huh, good to know.

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@lewiswallace @Codename_Dren @lkahney @erfon Bummer. Economics can get personal in a hurry. Even (or especially) amongst friends. I hope for a private and amicable resolution.

@Codename_Dren @lkahney @erfon Just recorded episode 1 of the Cult of Mac podcast today, with more info on why the split happened. Should be released soon. Long story short, we love and miss Erfon, and wish him well, but the economics and vision (if you can call it that) for the show weren't working out.

@lkahney @lewiswallace if you guys don’t address the situation with @erfon on your first episode of your new show. I’ll never subscribe to it. The way this went down is unprofessional and embarrassing for Cult of Mac.

@BizTechSherpa @lewiswallace @Codename_Dren @lkahney @erfon It did kinda seem like Leander quit cause he wanted to high instead of talk Apple. The weary eyes thing always felt like an excuse IMO. Especially when he popped back in FT immediately after Erfon left. More transparency frm the get go on why Leander left could’ve helped.

@lewiswallace @Codename_Dren @lkahney @erfon It can't be about economics, when Erfon created the show, ran it every week, and Leander was off doing drugs and blinking for a millennium.

Would you go rock climbing at sea? The kids had been eagerly anticipating our @royalcaribbean cruise on Harmony of the Seas to see who could reach the top first!

To our U.S. community and everyone who has been following developments in the U.S. and speaking up - thank you. Your support means a lot. We remain committed to our U.S. customers and are actively exploring paths forward. Thank you for standing with us. #DroneAdvocacy #FCC #dji

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Who has the better beard?