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9,032,274 просмотров • 3 лет назад

New confirmed airdrop campaign 🪂 💲 FREE 📍 Social tasks 💰 Confirmed airdrop FO airdrop campaign with confirmed airdrop of 600,000 $FO is Live Get started: - Go to - Connect X You'll get a Locked $FO allocation based on your X follower count The more followers you have, the bigger the rewards Now you simply need to perform social tasks to unlock your $FO allocation, It's that simple 👀 ▫️ Ways to unlock Your $FO: - RT posts: Unlock 20% - Invite friends: Unlock 30% - Join the TG group: Unlock 10% - Follow official Twitter: Unlock 10% - Post & share about $FO: Unlock 30% There are many Reward tiers for the $FO airdrop ▫️ $FO Reward Tiers - S tier No follower requirement | 100K slots available | 3 invites | 5 $FO allocation - SR tier 10K followers required | 1,000 slots available | 10 invites | 50 $FO allocation - SSR Tier 100K followers required | 100 slots available | 20 invites | 100 $FO allocation ▫️ Potential - Free to farm - Confirmed airdrop - Gaining momentum on X - Simple tasks: Just Like, RT etc - Strong community (100k+) & collabs - Building AI powered payment features, easing crypto for Web2 users - Founder is 钱峰雷 (Qian Fenglei), a top Chinese entrepreneur & has invested $50M in FO-X Stay positioned for $FO, anon! 🫡

New confirmed airdrop campaign 🪂 💲 FREE 📍 Social tasks 💰 Confirmed airdrop FO airdrop campaign with confirmed airdrop of 600,000 $FO is Live Get started: - Go to - Connect X You'll get a Locked $FO allocation based on your X follower count The more followers you have, the bigger the rewards Now you simply need to perform social tasks to unlock your $FO allocation, It's that simple 👀 ▫️ Ways to unlock Your $FO: - RT posts: Unlock 20% - Invite friends: Unlock 30% - Join the TG group: Unlock 10% - Follow official Twitter: Unlock 10% - Post & share about $FO: Unlock 30% There are many Reward tiers for the $FO airdrop ▫️ $FO Reward Tiers - S tier No follower requirement | 100K slots available | 3 invites | 5 $FO allocation - SR tier 10K followers required | 1,000 slots available | 10 invites | 50 $FO allocation - SSR Tier 100K followers required | 100 slots available | 20 invites | 100 $FO allocation ▫️ Potential - Free to farm - Confirmed airdrop - Gaining momentum on X - Simple tasks: Just Like, RT etc - Strong community (100k+) & collabs - Building AI powered payment features, easing crypto for Web2 users - Founder is 钱峰雷 (Qian Fenglei), a top Chinese entrepreneur & has invested $50M in FO-X Stay positioned for $FO, anon! 🫡

tobi

25,649 просмотров • 1 год назад

#loveintheclouds ❤︎ #houminghao ☁︎ #luyuxiao ep16 - the kiss scenes that were deleted from the drama "PAVILLION KISS" ———— ▫️Establishing shot: The Wugui Sea under the night sky. Ji Bozai had just arrived at the study. He looked exhausted and slightly troubled, with a fine layer of cold sweat on his forehead. Mingyi stood in the small pavilion, holding two wine flasks, waiting for Ji Bozai. Mingyi: Granny Xun gave these to me. ▫️Mingyi smiled at Ji Bozai. ▫️Ji Bozai looked at her, his expression gradually softening. Mingyi and Ji Bozai sat opposite each other in the pavilion, watching the scenery outside. Ji Bozai held a wine flask and drank. ———— Ji Bozai: Success or failure… you can’t hide it from me. But no matter how hard it is, I have to see it through. Mingyi: Your mind is unsettled. Forcing your dan yuan could lead to going astray. Ji Bozai: Going astray… maybe that would be better than how I am now. Mingyi saw his injured hand holding the flask; the blood had dried, but the wound looked worse. Mingyi: After that night, you acted completely calm, but inside, you were just forcing yourself. Ji Bozai paused, set down the flask, and fell silent for a moment. Ji Bozai: …I should have realized. ▫️Mingyi looked at him. Ji Bozai: You said I shouldn’t blame myself for their deaths. But Mu Qibai is ruthless; he would have exterminated them completely. I should have foreseen that. At the time, all I thought about was avenging my master and exposing what happened in Chenyuan to the world. That led Mu Qibai to strike mercilessly, implicating the Weak Water Fairies and those innocent people. It was my fault. They were innocent. The one who deserved to die… was me. Mingyi: And then? ▫️Ji Bozai was stunned. Mingyi: Are you really going to die? If you die, you leave them free to storm Wugui Sea, seize Huangliang Dream, and turn the monsters into an army, bringing ruin to the Six Realms. Is that what you want to see? ▫️ Ji Bozai remained silent. ▫️Mingyi reached out and gently held the prisoner’s mark on Ji Bozai’s wrist. Mingyi: I take back what I said earlier. The Weak Water Fairies and those innocent prisoners—they died because of you. You bear all the guilt, and you must also bear this blood debt. You must confront those people. You need to make the evildoers pay with their lives, so the innocent no longer live in fear, and restore peace and justice to the world. Ji Bozai, that is what you should do, and I believe—you can do it. Ji Bozai looked at Mingyi. Mingyi watched his expression change, understanding that he had taken her words to heart. Ji Bozai: I’ll send them… one by one, to hell. ▫️Mingyi smiled with some relief. She lowered her head, looked at the wound on Ji Bozai’s hand, and took a small bottle of medicine and bandages from her clothes to tend to it. ▫️Mingyi applied the medicine while gently blowing on it to ease his pain. Ji Bozai kept watching Mingyi. Mingyi: Next time, don’t leave injuries untreated. Ji Bozai: Mm. Mingyi: There’s still so much to do. You need to take care of yourself. Ji Bozai: Mm. ▫️Mingyi lifted her head and finally noticed Ji Bozai’s focused gaze. ▫️Their eyes met. Mingyi felt a little awkward but continued wrapping the bandage around his hand. She tied it up, covering the wound but not the prisoner’s mark scar on his wrist. Mingyi: (Gesturing to the scar) Does it still hurt? Ji Bozai: (Lying) …Mm. Mingyi: (Worried) Then what should we do to stop the pain? Mingyi’s eyes were full of genuine concern, pure and untainted. Ji Bozai said nothing. Using his bandaged hand, he brushed aside a few strands of her hair, cupped her jaw and the back of her ear, and gently forced her to tilt her head slightly. Then, he decisively kissed her. Mingyi’s eyes widened briefly, and she instinctively tried to pull back, but Ji Bozai held her firmly, pulling her closer and deepening the kiss. Mingyi closed her eyes, surrendering herself to the moment. ⸻

#loveintheclouds ❤︎ #houminghao ☁︎ #luyuxiao ep16 - the kiss scenes that were deleted from the drama "PAVILLION KISS" ———— ▫️Establishing shot: The Wugui Sea under the night sky. Ji Bozai had just arrived at the study. He looked exhausted and slightly troubled, with a fine layer of cold sweat on his forehead. Mingyi stood in the small pavilion, holding two wine flasks, waiting for Ji Bozai. Mingyi: Granny Xun gave these to me. ▫️Mingyi smiled at Ji Bozai. ▫️Ji Bozai looked at her, his expression gradually softening. Mingyi and Ji Bozai sat opposite each other in the pavilion, watching the scenery outside. Ji Bozai held a wine flask and drank. ———— Ji Bozai: Success or failure… you can’t hide it from me. But no matter how hard it is, I have to see it through. Mingyi: Your mind is unsettled. Forcing your dan yuan could lead to going astray. Ji Bozai: Going astray… maybe that would be better than how I am now. Mingyi saw his injured hand holding the flask; the blood had dried, but the wound looked worse. Mingyi: After that night, you acted completely calm, but inside, you were just forcing yourself. Ji Bozai paused, set down the flask, and fell silent for a moment. Ji Bozai: …I should have realized. ▫️Mingyi looked at him. Ji Bozai: You said I shouldn’t blame myself for their deaths. But Mu Qibai is ruthless; he would have exterminated them completely. I should have foreseen that. At the time, all I thought about was avenging my master and exposing what happened in Chenyuan to the world. That led Mu Qibai to strike mercilessly, implicating the Weak Water Fairies and those innocent people. It was my fault. They were innocent. The one who deserved to die… was me. Mingyi: And then? ▫️Ji Bozai was stunned. Mingyi: Are you really going to die? If you die, you leave them free to storm Wugui Sea, seize Huangliang Dream, and turn the monsters into an army, bringing ruin to the Six Realms. Is that what you want to see? ▫️ Ji Bozai remained silent. ▫️Mingyi reached out and gently held the prisoner’s mark on Ji Bozai’s wrist. Mingyi: I take back what I said earlier. The Weak Water Fairies and those innocent prisoners—they died because of you. You bear all the guilt, and you must also bear this blood debt. You must confront those people. You need to make the evildoers pay with their lives, so the innocent no longer live in fear, and restore peace and justice to the world. Ji Bozai, that is what you should do, and I believe—you can do it. Ji Bozai looked at Mingyi. Mingyi watched his expression change, understanding that he had taken her words to heart. Ji Bozai: I’ll send them… one by one, to hell. ▫️Mingyi smiled with some relief. She lowered her head, looked at the wound on Ji Bozai’s hand, and took a small bottle of medicine and bandages from her clothes to tend to it. ▫️Mingyi applied the medicine while gently blowing on it to ease his pain. Ji Bozai kept watching Mingyi. Mingyi: Next time, don’t leave injuries untreated. Ji Bozai: Mm. Mingyi: There’s still so much to do. You need to take care of yourself. Ji Bozai: Mm. ▫️Mingyi lifted her head and finally noticed Ji Bozai’s focused gaze. ▫️Their eyes met. Mingyi felt a little awkward but continued wrapping the bandage around his hand. She tied it up, covering the wound but not the prisoner’s mark scar on his wrist. Mingyi: (Gesturing to the scar) Does it still hurt? Ji Bozai: (Lying) …Mm. Mingyi: (Worried) Then what should we do to stop the pain? Mingyi’s eyes were full of genuine concern, pure and untainted. Ji Bozai said nothing. Using his bandaged hand, he brushed aside a few strands of her hair, cupped her jaw and the back of her ear, and gently forced her to tilt her head slightly. Then, he decisively kissed her. Mingyi’s eyes widened briefly, and she instinctively tried to pull back, but Ji Bozai held her firmly, pulling her closer and deepening the kiss. Mingyi closed her eyes, surrendering herself to the moment. ⸻

𝐣𝐢𝐣𝐞𝐣𝐮 𓍼 ོ

61,702 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Pleased to see NHS England Board asked publicly about implementing the Supreme Court ruling—only for Duncan Barton’s response to drift past legal accuracy unchallenged. A masterclass in performative listening & delay tactics ▫️NHS England continues to “assess” whether its policies align with the ruling, despite repeated indications from staff and others that they do not. This lack of alignment has been confirmed by the Supreme Court and multiple tribunals ▫️Wes Streeting, NHS England does not need to wait for EHRC guidance to comply with the law. The Supreme Court has already clarified the legal position, and NHS England should update its policies accordingly and provide reassurance to its workforce. This senior NHS employee will know the EHRC have told services they are responsible for ensuring compliance NOW❕but is pretending otherwise to the board, staff and the general public. This disingenuous behaviour degrades trust and respect for the NHS Sex, the 1️⃣ protected characteristic which has been so poorly served by Board Executives across the NHS should finally be considered as equal. We look forward to NHS England inviting us to contribute to the EHRC implementation planning

Pleased to see NHS England Board asked publicly about implementing the Supreme Court ruling—only for Duncan Barton’s response to drift past legal accuracy unchallenged. A masterclass in performative listening & delay tactics ▫️NHS England continues to “assess” whether its policies align with the ruling, despite repeated indications from staff and others that they do not. This lack of alignment has been confirmed by the Supreme Court and multiple tribunals ▫️Wes Streeting, NHS England does not need to wait for EHRC guidance to comply with the law. The Supreme Court has already clarified the legal position, and NHS England should update its policies accordingly and provide reassurance to its workforce. This senior NHS employee will know the EHRC have told services they are responsible for ensuring compliance NOW❕but is pretending otherwise to the board, staff and the general public. This disingenuous behaviour degrades trust and respect for the NHS Sex, the 1️⃣ protected characteristic which has been so poorly served by Board Executives across the NHS should finally be considered as equal. We look forward to NHS England inviting us to contribute to the EHRC implementation planning

SEEN in Health

100,603 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

Stop waiting for a smarter model. The agent era starts the day execution costs hit the floor. Ling-3.0-flash quietly showed up on OpenRouter. 124B total params, 5.1B active. No launch event, no marketing push, it just appeared. Output quality matches some flagship models, roughly half the token cost of Claude, and a full commented code block lands the second you hit enter. Spent three days throwing every task I didn't want to do at it: ▫️ 30-page product doc into a structured table. Fewer field errors than when I do it by hand. ▫️ Bug fix spanning 5 files. It wrote the test cases too. ▫️ A 963-line single-file SaaS landing page in one shot. Glassmorphism, particle field, interactive workflow, all of it. I read that landing page line by line. Here's the honest part. Every constraint I wrote into the prompt, it shipped. Particle counts, devicePixelRatio cap, reduced-motion fallback. Not one missed. Anything that needed someone to actually look at the render, it had no idea. The five workflow nodes sit 70px apart, center to center. The circles are 72px wide. The last three pairs overlap. I moved them by hand. This isn't a model you hand strategy to. It's a tireless workhorse. The sharper your instructions, and the more of them a machine can check, the better it holds. Agents have been hyped for two years without landing. The blocker was never intelligence. One run just cost more than paying a person. My setup now: flagship plans, this one executes, and I keep a verification step in between. Tiering your models is the real edge in 2026. Still free right now. 256K context, tool calling on. Take the repetitive, structured, verifiable work off your plate and move it over for two days. Save the budget and your attention for what actually needs thinking. Stop using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. #AI #Agents #LLM

Stop waiting for a smarter model. The agent era starts the day execution costs hit the floor. Ling-3.0-flash quietly showed up on OpenRouter. 124B total params, 5.1B active. No launch event, no marketing push, it just appeared. Output quality matches some flagship models, roughly half the token cost of Claude, and a full commented code block lands the second you hit enter. Spent three days throwing every task I didn't want to do at it: ▫️ 30-page product doc into a structured table. Fewer field errors than when I do it by hand. ▫️ Bug fix spanning 5 files. It wrote the test cases too. ▫️ A 963-line single-file SaaS landing page in one shot. Glassmorphism, particle field, interactive workflow, all of it. I read that landing page line by line. Here's the honest part. Every constraint I wrote into the prompt, it shipped. Particle counts, devicePixelRatio cap, reduced-motion fallback. Not one missed. Anything that needed someone to actually look at the render, it had no idea. The five workflow nodes sit 70px apart, center to center. The circles are 72px wide. The last three pairs overlap. I moved them by hand. This isn't a model you hand strategy to. It's a tireless workhorse. The sharper your instructions, and the more of them a machine can check, the better it holds. Agents have been hyped for two years without landing. The blocker was never intelligence. One run just cost more than paying a person. My setup now: flagship plans, this one executes, and I keep a verification step in between. Tiering your models is the real edge in 2026. Still free right now. 256K context, tool calling on. Take the repetitive, structured, verifiable work off your plate and move it over for two days. Save the budget and your attention for what actually needs thinking. Stop using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. #AI #Agents #LLM

AYi

67,422 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

This is a clip of Lindsay Lohan in the Netflix film “Irish Wish”. It’s a perfect example for how streaming needs affect film quality. Netflix knows people are often playing its content in the background while doing chores. So, the film dialogue is overly-explanatory: ▫️Lohan’s character: “We spent a day together, I admit it was a beautiful day filled with dramatic vistas and romantic rain, but that doesn’t give you the right to question my life choices. Tomorrow I’m marrying Paul Kennedy.” ▫️Lohan’s side-piece: “That will be the last you see of me, because after this I’m off to Bolivia.” According to Will Tavlin, Netflix has 36,000 micro-genres and one category is called “casual viewing” (eg. something people can watch while doing other things and without full focus). Tavlin writes this type of content was traditionally made as “breezy network sitcoms, reality television, and nature documentaries” and now “describes much of Netflix’s film catalog .” Netflix execs commonly provide script notes for screenwriters to “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.” I get the rationale but the approach is the opposite of the classic screenwriting rule to “show, don’t tell”…and becoming the norm. *** Check out the full piece by Will Tavlin at n+1:

This is a clip of Lindsay Lohan in the Netflix film “Irish Wish”. It’s a perfect example for how streaming needs affect film quality. Netflix knows people are often playing its content in the background while doing chores. So, the film dialogue is overly-explanatory: ▫️Lohan’s character: “We spent a day together, I admit it was a beautiful day filled with dramatic vistas and romantic rain, but that doesn’t give you the right to question my life choices. Tomorrow I’m marrying Paul Kennedy.” ▫️Lohan’s side-piece: “That will be the last you see of me, because after this I’m off to Bolivia.” According to Will Tavlin, Netflix has 36,000 micro-genres and one category is called “casual viewing” (eg. something people can watch while doing other things and without full focus). Tavlin writes this type of content was traditionally made as “breezy network sitcoms, reality television, and nature documentaries” and now “describes much of Netflix’s film catalog .” Netflix execs commonly provide script notes for screenwriters to “have this character announce what they’re doing so that viewers who have this program on in the background can follow along.” I get the rationale but the approach is the opposite of the classic screenwriting rule to “show, don’t tell”…and becoming the norm. *** Check out the full piece by Will Tavlin at n+1:

Trung Phan

2,276,004 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨 UN DECLARES WAR ON DIGITAL FREEDOM 🚨 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has just labeled platforms like 𝕏 a “clear and present danger” to the global agenda — and now he’s demanding total control over what you’re allowed to see, say, and share. 🌐 The UN’s new “Code of Conduct for Information Integrity” calls on governments to: 🔹 Enforce censorship 🔹 Follow EU-style speech laws 🔹 Submit to a UN-run “independent observatory” to monitor compliance Let that sink in: 🛑 An unelected global body wants to decide what’s “truth” 🛑 Your own country is expected to enforce it 🛑 Platforms like X, Telegram, and Rumble are now targets They claim it’s about stopping “disinformation.” But we know what that really means: 💥 Opinions they don’t like 💥 Stories they want buried 💥 Speech they can’t control THIS is the globalist censorship regime in the open. No vote. No consent. Just compliance. If we don’t push back now — the truth will be outlawed.

🚨 UN DECLARES WAR ON DIGITAL FREEDOM 🚨 UN Secretary-General António Guterres has just labeled platforms like 𝕏 a “clear and present danger” to the global agenda — and now he’s demanding total control over what you’re allowed to see, say, and share. 🌐 The UN’s new “Code of Conduct for Information Integrity” calls on governments to: 🔹 Enforce censorship 🔹 Follow EU-style speech laws 🔹 Submit to a UN-run “independent observatory” to monitor compliance Let that sink in: 🛑 An unelected global body wants to decide what’s “truth” 🛑 Your own country is expected to enforce it 🛑 Platforms like X, Telegram, and Rumble are now targets They claim it’s about stopping “disinformation.” But we know what that really means: 💥 Opinions they don’t like 💥 Stories they want buried 💥 Speech they can’t control THIS is the globalist censorship regime in the open. No vote. No consent. Just compliance. If we don’t push back now — the truth will be outlawed.

Jim Ferguson

347,884 просмотров • 1 год назад

The first step on Mars won’t be human. Elon Musk: “We will send the first Starships to Mars with the Optimus robot. It can go out there and explore and prepare the way for humans.” For 4 billion years, life had one rule. New territory required a new body. Fish grew legs for land. Primates grew hands for tools. Humans grew minds for abstraction. Every time life wanted to reach further, biology had to evolve first. Mars is the first time it didn’t. Never before has a species built a separate body to send ahead of itself. Not a rover with a camera. Not a probe collecting samples. A walking machine designed to reshape a world for the species that created it. Optimus lands 2027. Maps terrain. Tests atmosphere. Builds the first infrastructure human hands will ever touch on another planet. Humans arrive two years later. Not into the unknown. Into something already shaped for them. Already waiting. This isn’t engineering. It’s evolution, done deliberately. No species in Earth’s history has ever decoupled its reach from its body. We just did. Optimus walks Mars first so humans walk it safely after. But the real weight of this moment sits deeper than logistics. We just proved that a mind doesn’t have to travel inside the body that built it. It can design a vessel. Send it ahead. Follow when the path is clear. That’s not a Mars mission. That’s a permanent fork in the evolutionary tree. And it only grows outward. Centuries from now, they won’t fixate on the date a human first touched Martian soil. They’ll study the moment a species learned to send its mind ahead of its body. And discovered there was no such thing as too far.

The first step on Mars won’t be human. Elon Musk: “We will send the first Starships to Mars with the Optimus robot. It can go out there and explore and prepare the way for humans.” For 4 billion years, life had one rule. New territory required a new body. Fish grew legs for land. Primates grew hands for tools. Humans grew minds for abstraction. Every time life wanted to reach further, biology had to evolve first. Mars is the first time it didn’t. Never before has a species built a separate body to send ahead of itself. Not a rover with a camera. Not a probe collecting samples. A walking machine designed to reshape a world for the species that created it. Optimus lands 2027. Maps terrain. Tests atmosphere. Builds the first infrastructure human hands will ever touch on another planet. Humans arrive two years later. Not into the unknown. Into something already shaped for them. Already waiting. This isn’t engineering. It’s evolution, done deliberately. No species in Earth’s history has ever decoupled its reach from its body. We just did. Optimus walks Mars first so humans walk it safely after. But the real weight of this moment sits deeper than logistics. We just proved that a mind doesn’t have to travel inside the body that built it. It can design a vessel. Send it ahead. Follow when the path is clear. That’s not a Mars mission. That’s a permanent fork in the evolutionary tree. And it only grows outward. Centuries from now, they won’t fixate on the date a human first touched Martian soil. They’ll study the moment a species learned to send its mind ahead of its body. And discovered there was no such thing as too far.

Dustin

72,004 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Francis Ford Coppola’s new film “Megalopolis” cost $120m and he self-financed it (including money from selling his winery). Coppola is a legend of “going all in” and “putting skin in the game”. The GOAT example is “Apocalypse Now”, his classic 1979 war film with arguably the most insane production story ever. Let’s rewind to 1975, the year Copolla turned 36: he is on top of Hollywood after directing “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather II” (1974). What does Coppola choose to do next? Make a film about the Vietnam War. The script was based on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, the 1889 novel about the horrors of colonialism in the Belgian Congo. The major studios all said “no” to Coppola’s pitch for three major reasons: 1️⃣ He wanted full creative control 2️⃣ He wanted to own all of the film rights 3️⃣ The Fall of Saigon happened in April 1975 and the American audience wasn’t exactly asking for a Vietnam War film (the studios wanted Coppola to make another Mafia flick) Coppola was undeterred and made a huge bet. “The Godfather II” cost $14m and the director estimated that “Apocalypse Now” would be the same budget. He put up $7m (mostly from those sweet Godfather checks) and raised another $7m from United Artists (which bought domestic distribution rights for ~7 years). But the project was a disaster from the start. Filming started in The Philippines in March 1976 and was supposed to last 3-4 months…it would take 16 months: ▫️Harvey Keitel was the initial lead but Coppola fired him after one week. ▫️Martin Sheen (Captain Willard) took the lead role but drank so much on set that he gave himself a stress-induced heart attack and almost died. ▫️Dennis Hopper was doing 3g of coke and 20+ drinks a day while on set (him and Marlon Brandon also hated each other). ▫️A typhoon destroyed 80% of the set and delayed filming for 2-3 months. ▫️Actual dead bodies — stolen from a local grave — were used on set and the Filipino government and its strongman leader Ferdinand Marcos threatened to shut down production after finding out. ▫️Marlon Brando (Col. Kurtz) demanded a huge fee ($3m+ for 3 weeks of work and 10% of the film’s gross). He then showed up late, asked for rewrites, declined to read Conrad’s book and was so overweight that the costumes wouldn’t fit (to obscure his heft, Copolla filmed Brando in the shadows and had him wear oversized dark clothing). The budget ballooned to over $30m. To maintain creative control and maintain all the film rights, Coppola mortgaged his home and borrowed money against his ownership in The Godfather. After the success of “Star Wars” (1977), Coppola even asked his friend and business partner George Lucas — who was originally tapped to direct Apocalypse — for some funds. I repeat: Coppola went ALL THE WAY IN and had SKIN IN THE GAME. His wife Eleanor took recorded video of all the insanity and the footage was turned into a 1991 documentary (“Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse”). The total cost for the film — including marketing spend — reached $45m. Against all odds, Coppola finished the project and the film was released in August 1979. It grossed $105m and Coppola would make a fortune on future DVD, Home Video and other ancillary revenue streams (below is a trailer for a re-mastered cut from 2019). During the Cannes Festival in May 1979, Coppola famously said of the film: “The way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”

Francis Ford Coppola’s new film “Megalopolis” cost $120m and he self-financed it (including money from selling his winery). Coppola is a legend of “going all in” and “putting skin in the game”. The GOAT example is “Apocalypse Now”, his classic 1979 war film with arguably the most insane production story ever. Let’s rewind to 1975, the year Copolla turned 36: he is on top of Hollywood after directing “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather II” (1974). What does Coppola choose to do next? Make a film about the Vietnam War. The script was based on Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness”, the 1889 novel about the horrors of colonialism in the Belgian Congo. The major studios all said “no” to Coppola’s pitch for three major reasons: 1️⃣ He wanted full creative control 2️⃣ He wanted to own all of the film rights 3️⃣ The Fall of Saigon happened in April 1975 and the American audience wasn’t exactly asking for a Vietnam War film (the studios wanted Coppola to make another Mafia flick) Coppola was undeterred and made a huge bet. “The Godfather II” cost $14m and the director estimated that “Apocalypse Now” would be the same budget. He put up $7m (mostly from those sweet Godfather checks) and raised another $7m from United Artists (which bought domestic distribution rights for ~7 years). But the project was a disaster from the start. Filming started in The Philippines in March 1976 and was supposed to last 3-4 months…it would take 16 months: ▫️Harvey Keitel was the initial lead but Coppola fired him after one week. ▫️Martin Sheen (Captain Willard) took the lead role but drank so much on set that he gave himself a stress-induced heart attack and almost died. ▫️Dennis Hopper was doing 3g of coke and 20+ drinks a day while on set (him and Marlon Brandon also hated each other). ▫️A typhoon destroyed 80% of the set and delayed filming for 2-3 months. ▫️Actual dead bodies — stolen from a local grave — were used on set and the Filipino government and its strongman leader Ferdinand Marcos threatened to shut down production after finding out. ▫️Marlon Brando (Col. Kurtz) demanded a huge fee ($3m+ for 3 weeks of work and 10% of the film’s gross). He then showed up late, asked for rewrites, declined to read Conrad’s book and was so overweight that the costumes wouldn’t fit (to obscure his heft, Copolla filmed Brando in the shadows and had him wear oversized dark clothing). The budget ballooned to over $30m. To maintain creative control and maintain all the film rights, Coppola mortgaged his home and borrowed money against his ownership in The Godfather. After the success of “Star Wars” (1977), Coppola even asked his friend and business partner George Lucas — who was originally tapped to direct Apocalypse — for some funds. I repeat: Coppola went ALL THE WAY IN and had SKIN IN THE GAME. His wife Eleanor took recorded video of all the insanity and the footage was turned into a 1991 documentary (“Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse”). The total cost for the film — including marketing spend — reached $45m. Against all odds, Coppola finished the project and the film was released in August 1979. It grossed $105m and Coppola would make a fortune on future DVD, Home Video and other ancillary revenue streams (below is a trailer for a re-mastered cut from 2019). During the Cannes Festival in May 1979, Coppola famously said of the film: “The way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane.”

Trung Phan

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Before becoming Microsoft’s new CEO in 2014, Satya Nadella wrote a 10-page memo to the board as part of the selection process. He discussed the details of the memo on the BG2 podcast: ▫️Elevator pitch: Two phrases he used were “ambient intelligence” and “ubiquitous computing” (his PR folks told him to dumb it down and he remade the pitch to “mobile first, cloud first layer”, and has executed on exactly that over the past decade). ▫️Mental model of Microsoft = cloud infrastructure is core: “One of the things I've always resisted is thinking of our Cloud the way the market segments it…I don't allocate my capital thinking ‘here is the Azure capital, here is the M365 capital, here is gaming [capital]’ I kind of think, ‘hey, there's a cloud [infrastructure]. That's the core theory of the firm for me. On top of it, I have a set of workloads. One of those workloads happens to be Azure. The other one is M365 [then] Dynamics [then] gaming’…That was all in that memo and pretty much has played out.” ▫️Selling the cloud pivot: “We had a 98% / 99% gross margin business in our servers and clients [division]. People said, ‘oh, good news, you now can move to the cloud and maybe you'll have some margin. [But we already had margin].’[...] My gut was [that cloud first would be] less gross margin but the TAM is bigger…we'll sell more to small businesses. We will sell more in aggregate, in terms of even upsells like the consumption would increase.” Nadella -- who was running Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (which housed Azure) -- also noted that he was able to sell his vision because he was an “insider” (he joined Microsoft in 1992). As a result, his criticisms of the business would also be a criticism of himself. As Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley note in the podcast, Nadella joined when Microsoft was worth $300B and has seen its market cap since grow 10x to $3.25T (one of the best public market CEO runs ever). *** Full podcast def worth a listen:

Before becoming Microsoft’s new CEO in 2014, Satya Nadella wrote a 10-page memo to the board as part of the selection process. He discussed the details of the memo on the BG2 podcast: ▫️Elevator pitch: Two phrases he used were “ambient intelligence” and “ubiquitous computing” (his PR folks told him to dumb it down and he remade the pitch to “mobile first, cloud first layer”, and has executed on exactly that over the past decade). ▫️Mental model of Microsoft = cloud infrastructure is core: “One of the things I've always resisted is thinking of our Cloud the way the market segments it…I don't allocate my capital thinking ‘here is the Azure capital, here is the M365 capital, here is gaming [capital]’ I kind of think, ‘hey, there's a cloud [infrastructure]. That's the core theory of the firm for me. On top of it, I have a set of workloads. One of those workloads happens to be Azure. The other one is M365 [then] Dynamics [then] gaming’…That was all in that memo and pretty much has played out.” ▫️Selling the cloud pivot: “We had a 98% / 99% gross margin business in our servers and clients [division]. People said, ‘oh, good news, you now can move to the cloud and maybe you'll have some margin. [But we already had margin].’[...] My gut was [that cloud first would be] less gross margin but the TAM is bigger…we'll sell more to small businesses. We will sell more in aggregate, in terms of even upsells like the consumption would increase.” Nadella -- who was running Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (which housed Azure) -- also noted that he was able to sell his vision because he was an “insider” (he joined Microsoft in 1992). As a result, his criticisms of the business would also be a criticism of himself. As Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley note in the podcast, Nadella joined when Microsoft was worth $300B and has seen its market cap since grow 10x to $3.25T (one of the best public market CEO runs ever). *** Full podcast def worth a listen:

Trung Phan

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Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss reacts to leaked plans from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (which has ties to the current PM and the Harris campaign) to "kill Musk's Twitter": "It's why we need very strong independent media here in Britain. It's why we need X. I mean, Elon Musk is effectively the leader of the opposition now in Britain. There have been numerous public attacks on X by the Prime Minister. Now, I don't believe that he will succeed if he takes on Elon Musk. But the mentality isn't to have an honest discussion about what's happening in Britain. The mentality is to try and quash any dissent and stop people talking about the very real issues that are affecting us. For example, the sheer scale of illegal immigration into this country. I've been a government minister for ten years. And it was only when I got into 10 Downing Street that I understood the full-scale of what we were up against. Because it isn't just the political parties. It's not just the civil service. The Left has successfully captured the institutions in Britain."

Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss reacts to leaked plans from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (which has ties to the current PM and the Harris campaign) to "kill Musk's Twitter": "It's why we need very strong independent media here in Britain. It's why we need X. I mean, Elon Musk is effectively the leader of the opposition now in Britain. There have been numerous public attacks on X by the Prime Minister. Now, I don't believe that he will succeed if he takes on Elon Musk. But the mentality isn't to have an honest discussion about what's happening in Britain. The mentality is to try and quash any dissent and stop people talking about the very real issues that are affecting us. For example, the sheer scale of illegal immigration into this country. I've been a government minister for ten years. And it was only when I got into 10 Downing Street that I understood the full-scale of what we were up against. Because it isn't just the political parties. It's not just the civil service. The Left has successfully captured the institutions in Britain."

Glenn Beck

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