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April saw a record amount of ONE PIECE cards through the grading room, captained by the collectability of Monkey D. Luffy. It was enough to power ONE PIECE ahead of all sports categories for the month.

1:59:30. Humanity just got faster. Powered by Adizero. #YouGotThis

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Oda is modern day Shakespeare

Everyone survived!

Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?

Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus gave commencement speech at Penn Engineering School in 2024. He does version of Steve Jobs “paint both sides of the fence even if other people don’t know” attention-to-detail story…about screws for the Cinema Dislay monitor: “Here’s my first [advice]: the care that you put into your work really matters. My first project at Apple was the Cinema Display. It was a large desktop monitor. It had a beautiful clear plastic enclosure that was held together with some screws coming in from the back. These screws were made of stainless steel, and the head of every screw was machined to have a pattern of concentric grooves that shimmered like a CD when light moved across it. I should probably say, if some of you have never seen a CD before, you can ask your parents afterward. At some point in my first year, I found myself at a supplier facility. I was far away from home, it was well past midnight. I was using a magnifying glass to count the number of grooves on the head of this screw, which, remember, lives on the back of the display. And I was arguing with the supplier because these parts had 35 grooves, they were supposed to have 25. I distinctly remember stepping back for a minute and thinking to myself, “What the hell am I doing? Is this normal?” And I thought about it, and I realized it might not be normal, but it’s right. It’s right because I’d already spent months working on that product, and if you’re going to spend that much time on something, you should put in your very best effort. Maybe a customer notices, maybe they don’t, but either way, whenever I saw one of those displays on someone’s desk, it mattered to me to know that my teammates and I had considered everything about it and done the very best job we could.” *** H/T to @kevg1412 for flagging this: aletteraday.substack.com/p/letter-327-j…

2,400 chickens every second

“So let me get this straight, you lost money in NFT‘s so you decided to switch over to Pokémon cards” “That’s right, Dave” “And you’re joining the hobby just as it’s reaching peaks that it’s never reached before” “Yes, Dave, but it’s different this time”

The Kyoto Aquarium in Japan keeps a wall-sized flowchart tracking the romantic relationships, breakups, and drama between their penguins. They update it every year. Red hearts mean couples. Blue broken hearts mean it’s over. Purple lines with question marks mean it’s complicated. Yellow means friendship. Green means enemies. One female penguin reportedly ended six relationships in a single year. The comment under her photo, translated from Japanese, described her as “basically demonic.” Another penguin was caught dating someone 17 years older who also turned out to be their great aunt. And penguins who get broken up with sometimes refuse to eat. Apparently the staff say wing-flapping means flirting, grooming each other means it’s official, and if a penguin steals another penguin’s egg… well, it’s exactly what it looks like.

$2,526,031,083. That's the combined salary this season of players who have already been ruled out of today's games in the NBA.

Rare California’s millionaire tax W for the Sparks

Terrence Shannon Jr and Ayo Dosunmu complete an I-L-L I-N-I🥹

“Because you know what, it's not safe for you in this zoo. Never think that I'm not from Chicago for one second”

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Dating outside my culture (Ye community) is scary, because how am I supposed to explain that this man is the greatest living artist if these visuals alone ain't enough and that this is one of the greatest songs ever made?

I just bought a $5 LeBron Moment on NBA Top Shot but suspect it might be counterfeit. The pixels look off compared to a verified authentic one I already own. To be sure, I paid PSA $100 to grade the metadata; I should hear back in 6-7 months. Wish me luck. 🙏

Victor Wembanyama on a recent NASA stream: “Hey, I'm Victor Wembanyama and I play basketball in the NBA. But I'm not only interested in shooting hoops. I'm also interested in shooting stars, dark matter, and all other types of astronomical phenomena.“ 👽👽 #GoSpursHo #PorVida

Your headphones just became a personal translator in 70+ languages. 🎧✨ Google Translate’s “Live translate” with headphones is officially on iOS. We're also expanding this capability to more countries around the world for both @Android and iOS users. To try it, open the Translate app, tap “Live translate” and connect your headphones.