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@WongUpdates just be James Bong or James Wond

Denis Villeneuve reveals that Amazon rejected his pitch for a completely new take on James Bond starring Benedict Wong. “They didn’t see the vision.” (via: variety.com/2026/film/news…)

@1000HolyPlaces @InsideLucysHead spy detected 😎

@InsideLucysHead Funny, though as an American, I DID in fact know all of this.

A British spy goes undercover in America and tries to infiltrate the political ranks... To get into politics, he has to pass an oral exam. Examiner: When did the USA gain independence? Spy: July 4, 1776 Good. How many continents are there? - Easy peasy, seven. Damn, you're good. Which continent is Turkey in? - Technically, Turkey is in two continents; Asia and Europe, since some parts of- *gets cut off* -Woah, you know your geography. Let's do some history now. Examiner: Who first discovered America? Spy: Most people think Christopher Colombus did, but actually Leif Erikson first discovered the lands of our blessed country, America. Who was the first President of the United States? - Peyton Randolph. George Washington was the country's first *elected* president. But he was by no means the country's first president. At this point, the examiner realised this dude was a spy, because an actual American doesn't know shit.

@aakashgupta you confused because and despite

Let me explain exactly why Apple ships the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom, because no one seems to get it. This is not an oversight. Apple has shipped this exact design since 2015. They updated the mouse in October 2024 to USB-C and kept the port on the bottom anyway. They actively block the mouse from working when it receives power, which kills every third-party case that tries to move the port to the side. Apple watcher John Gruber has said Apple designers tried front-port versions and rejected all of them because every one looked worse. Ten years of memes. A decade of competitor mockery. An entire cottage industry of accessory makers trying to fix this. Apple held the line on every single attempt. The reason is the entire Apple thesis. Every other hardware company asks "is it usable?" Apple asks "is anything visible that I wouldn't put on a museum shelf?" When usability and visibility collide, they hide the usability. iMac power button on the back since 1998. Headphone jack deleted in 2016. Every port stripped from the MacBook Pro for five years before they admitted defeat. Touch Bar replaced function keys for a cleaner look and died after five years. The Magic Mouse is the purest version of the discipline. The cost is a few minutes of charging downtime every couple of months. The benefit is the mouse looks beautiful 100% of the time it is in your hand. Apple ran that trade in 2015 and has refused every chance to renegotiate it. Run the math on what this aesthetic discipline buys them. Apple sells a $99 mouse that has to be flipped on its back to charge. Logitech sells better mice for $40 with the port in the right place. Apple is worth $4.3 trillion. Logitech is worth $15 billion. A 280x gap on the same category of product. The trade was never even close.

@MenNeed2BeHeard rerun married with children where everybody was dysfunctional 😂 there's your equal treatment

The Way Men Are Always Portrayed Turn on a TV show. Any show. Doesn’t matter what it is. Then sit there for ten minutes and just watch how men are portrayed. Not the main character. Not the hero. Just the average guy. The husband. The boyfriend. The dad. He’s usually one of three things. Clueless. Incompetent. Or the punchline. He forgets everything. Messes everything up. Needs to be corrected constantly. Meanwhile the woman in the same scene? Calm. Capable. Always right. And we’re all just supposed to accept that like it’s normal. Like that’s just how things are. But here’s the thing that wasn’t always the case... Go back a few decades and you had men portrayed as strong capable leaders in their families Not perfect, but respected. Now? It’s like the default setting is “man equals problem.” And people wonder why it matters. They’ll dismiss it as no big deal saying things like: “It’s just TV.” “It’s just commercials.” “It’s just jokes.” Except it’s not just one show… It’s all of them. Over and over it’s the same message. The Same framing. And when you repeat something enough people start to believe it. Especially kids… Especially boys. They grow up watching that and what do they see? Men who are jokes. Men who can’t lead. Men who need to be managed. That sticks whether people want to admit it or not. Because if you never see men portrayed with respect you stop associating men with respect. And if you’re a boy watching that you start to wonder where you fit in that picture. And if you’re a man? You’re expected to just laugh it off. The responses are the same every time I bring it up… “Don’t be so sensitive.” “It’s just humor.” But funny how it only goes one direction. You don’t see the same constant portrayal flipped the other way. In fact you rarely if ever see a woman portrayed the way men are cause that wouldn’t fly and everybody knows it. This isn’t about wanting men to be perfect. It’s about balance. It’s about reality. Because men aren’t just one thing. We’re not all clueless. We’re not all incompetent. And we’re definitely not all the punchline. But if that’s the only version that gets shown you can’t be surprised when people start treating it like it’s truth. And you also can’t be surprised when men start checking out of a system that constantly tells them they’re the problem. Which is exactly what they’re doing. #men #menneedtobeheard #mensupportingmen #mensmentalhealth #menstalk

@ChShersh only c++ experts are allowed to hate it. which they inevitably will anyway 😉.

Someone asked me if I like C++ I said, “Yes”. They told me it was a wrong answer.

@LakeShowYo Get Rui to be much more aggressive, to create his own offense, not just wait for passes.

If you could give JJ Redick one piece of advice vs the Thunder, what would it be? 🤔

@tanpukunokami Similar to "quite" in British English 🤔

🇯🇵 The Japanese word "chotto" means "a little." It also means "absolutely never." → "Chotto ii?" = Excuse me → "Chotto matte" = Wait a sec → "Chotto…" = Hard NO → "Chotto kibishii" = Absolutely not → "Chotto kawaii" = Actually VERY cute → "Chotto chigau" = You're completely wrong → "Chotto ne…" = Not interested Same word. 7 meanings. Some contradict each other. You don't translate "chotto." You feel it.

@Tazerface16 or, people overrate "thinking."

People understand that LLMs aren't actually "thinking," right?

@zuess05 not knowing the difference is so junior dev lol 😂

I am actually curious. If junior devs are using Claude to write code at a senior level... And senior devs are using Claude to write code at a senior level... What exactly is the difference between the two roles right now, other than a $100k gap in salary?

@adammanross you're always at the center if you can't see objectively 😉

Al Gore lost in 2000 as a centrist. John Kerry lost in 2004 as a centrist. Hillary lost in 2016 as a centrist. Kamala lost 2024 as a centrist. If we’re going to win the 2026 midterms, we must abandon centrism all together. If the Democratic Party is to survive we must go left

@DebatesOnNBA the foul baiting and travelling are unwatchable. not limited to him though.

What do y’all think about people saying Shai Gilgeous-Alexander already lapped Kobe Bryant?

@Jacobtheclipper coach not benching him was the real failure

Murray being prime Kob in their championship run to whatever this version is is wild. How did this dude fall off so hard?! 12 PTS 4-17 FG 🧱

@ALX23uz @schteppe not having throw exception is a feature, a deliberate choice.

@schteppe `std::exception` is deservedly hated, but it has legitimate use cases. As far as I am aware, Rust has no throw+catch mechanic/exceptions. So saying that `Result<T,E>` covers it is plainly false.

Error handling, C++ vs Rust

@raysan5 agreeing on UB is an oxymoron 😂

Why C compilers can't agree in how a standard C library function should works? ☹️ And better not to talk about strncpy()...

@CoachDanGo because of the L sized french fries and cola you inevitably devour along with those ingredients 🫵

You've been lied to. They said burgers are junk food but the truth is they're one of the healthiest meals on the planet when you build it right. All it takes is 5 ingredients: 1. Sourdough bun: fermentation lowers glycemic load, unlocks minerals 2. Grass-fed beef: omega-3s, CLA, iron, B vitamins 3. Raw gouda: K2, B12, probiotics, calcium 4. Romaine lettuce: vitamins A, K, C, folate, fiber 5. Heirloom tomatos: antioxidants, non-GMO, real nutrients Burgers can be one of the healthiest things you put into your body if you build it right. See you at the BBQ.

@jondelarroz does she know what normies have to endure everyday for a fraction of what she got?

Lisa Kudrow is worth $130 million. She made $1 million per episode of Friends. She has worked continuously in Hollywood for 30 years. Last week, with a new HBO Max project to promote, she told a British newspaper the writers' room was brutal, the men discussed their sexual fantasies about Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox, and writers berated cast members over missed lines. Her response at the time: "Say what you like about me behind my back because then it doesn't matter." She said nothing for three decades. The behavior she describes was litigated all the way to the California Supreme Court in 2006, which ruled it was legally acceptable. Kudrow knew. She watched it happen. She kept going. This is the third major Hollywood actress in recent months to rediscover how victimized she was after reaching the top of the industry. Scarlett Johansson describes the Marvel films she negotiated nine-figure contracts to continue making as hypersexualizing. Milly Alcock frames the industry that made her a star before 25 as a source of ongoing harm. None of them quit. None of them reported anything. None of them are struggling. Why are women like this?

@nalinrajput23 and some created a whole new set of problems more painful than what they solved 🥲

Every programming language exists because something was broken. Fix the problem → create a language: • C → OS development was too slow • C++ → C had no structure for large systems • Java → Software couldn’t run across machines • Python → Coding was too complex for humans • JavaScript → Websites were static • C# → Microsoft needed its own ecosystem • Go → Backend systems became too messy to scale • Rust → Memory bugs were destroying systems • Swift → Objective-C was outdated • Kotlin → Android dev was painful • PHP → Web pages needed to be dynamic • Ruby → Developers were miserable • TypeScript → JavaScript errors were unpredictable • SQL → Data was impossible to query cleanly • R → Statistics needed better tools • MATLAB → Engineers needed faster computation • Dart → One codebase for all platforms • Solidity → Trustless digital agreements • Assembly → Direct control over machines • Objective-C → Early Apple app development Languages don’t win because they’re “cool.” They win because they solve pain.

@ash_twtz neovim

Which is actually the best code editor for C/C++ in 2026?

@DanFriedman81 if you're not grateful now, you'll never be no matter how much you've progressed in life.

There are dozens of sitcoms from the nineties that died of audience indifference and that nobody remembers anymore The mostly-white, mostly-male, horny, harsh and way-out-of-line writers of “Friends” are the reason Lisa Kudrow could earn $1 million per episode, and why the show continues to earn her millions in residuals to this day.

@Globalstats11 AirAsia really surprised me there 😂

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