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2020s apple tv might be the closest we’ll ever get to 2000s hbo

Oh look who flinched first lmao, never ever mess with Shai Hulud again

The internet is hands down the greatest invention ever created. These clowns would have rewritten history if the internet didn’t exist.

Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch. There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made. Someone in that room picked up a phone. And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars. American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it. This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions. This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight. You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question. Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that. The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

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$33.1M opening day with zero green screens. Read that again. Project Hail Mary cost $200 million to make. Lord and Miller built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a practical set. Thousands of physical buttons, hundreds of real screens, a hatch modeled after ISS designs. The alien, Rocky, is a full animatronic puppet designed by Neal Scanlan, the creature shop legend behind the best Star Wars practical work. Ryan Gosling acted against a real puppet in every single scene. The movie has 2,018 VFX shots. That sounds like a lot until you compare it to Avatar: Fire and Ash, which ran over 3,500. The difference: Avatar builds the world digitally and asks the audience to believe it. Project Hail Mary builds the world physically and uses VFX to clean up wires, remove puppeteers, and paint in space backgrounds. One approach creates spectacle. The other creates presence. This is a $200 million bet against the last 15 years of Hollywood production logic. After Avengers: Endgame, the industry standardized around green screen stages and digital environments because it was faster and cheaper per shot. Studios could reshoot entire sequences in post. The tradeoff was invisible until it wasn't: audiences started describing blockbusters as looking like "video games." Snow White's $42M opening. The Marvels at $46M. Quantumania. Ant-Man built on a soundstage that looked like it. Lord and Miller went the opposite direction and spent more money on physical construction than most studios spend on entire VFX pipelines. Greig Fraser, the cinematographer who shot Dune, lit the Hail Mary with practical lights so the camera could move freely through real corridors. When Gosling floats in zero-g, that's wire work, not simulation. When he touches a panel, it's a real panel. Guillermo del Toro saw the film and called the commitment to practical sets and puppets "a goal, an aspiration, and a commitment. Especially now." The "especially now" is doing all the work in that sentence. He's talking about an industry where the default response to a $200M budget is to minimize physical production and maximize digital flexibility. Project Hail Mary did the opposite and just posted the biggest non-franchise opening day in domestic box office history. The audience can tell. They've always been able to tell.

PROJECT HAIL MARY in IMAX 70mm, taken by projectionist Taylor Umphenour. This is what the movies were made for.

the way he thought he ate 😭😭

cats holding the nastiest angle on me

Having a terrible night on the game then having to get up and go to work the next day has gotta be top 5 worst human experiences of all time

Competitive Gamermaxxing - No gooning - Hold breath before peaking - Adderall / Vyvanse (user choice) - Caffeine - L-Tyrosine - 7+ Hours of sleep If anyone has anything else to incorporate into my routine, LMK! 🦎

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The reason this feels so good is because your brain was taxing you for a week straight and you didn’t even notice. Every time that undone task crossed your mind, your anterior cingulate cortex fired a conflict signal. Small. Subtle. But metabolically expensive. Your brain was running a background process on that 5-minute task 24/7 for 7 days, burning glucose and generating low-grade cortisol each time it surfaced. Neuroscientists call this the Zeigarnik Effect. Incomplete tasks occupy more mental RAM than completed ones. Your brain literally cannot let go of open loops. So that “5 minute task” was never 5 minutes. It was 5 minutes of execution plus 168 hours of ambient cognitive load. That relief you feel when you finally do it? That’s a dopamine spike from closing the loop combined with a cortisol drop from removing the threat signal. Your body just stopped paying a week-long neurochemical tax on a debt of 300 seconds. This tells you everything about how procrastination actually works. The loop runs like this: task feels slightly aversive → amygdala flags it → you avoid it → avoidance provides immediate relief → brain learns avoidance = reward → task stays open → background stress accumulates → task feels MORE aversive than it originally was. The fix is stupidly simple and Huberman talks about this constantly. You don’t need motivation. You need a forcing function that bypasses the amygdala’s threat assessment. Set a timer for 90 seconds. Tell yourself you’ll stop after 90 seconds. Your prefrontal cortex can override 90 seconds of discomfort. Once you start, the dopamine system switches from avoidance to pursuit, and the task completes itself. The 5-minute task was never hard. The starting was hard. And every hour you waited made starting harder.

First time seeing “btw” being used like this 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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look at the goal of the month nominations for December 2006 😳

I can't help but notice that I am seeing a lot more dragon sighting videos since the advent of generative AI. Could it be that AI's adverse effects on the environment are leading to a change in their behavior, e.g. lack of water sources that causes them to move closer to cities?

This is 100% the best clip you will see today 😭 (via @ESLCS)

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