Father/Grandfather Director, producer, actor, writer, humanitarian & Founder of YOUNITE Network & Duke Media Foundation. 🐳
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Thank you #LenaWaithe for this great conversation...
youtu.be/F89mN-ga2mE?si=lnbW… @THR @Variety @accesshollywood @latimesent @nytimes @washingtonpost
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.@elonmusk on the SpaceX IPO:
“It’s hard to believe a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever.”
“If people told me this was going to happen—I would’ve been like, ‘’Man, you must be smoking some really good crack.’”
“If you talk about risk, let me tell you about why there’s really no risk at all.”
Peter Thiel explains how @elonmusk convinced him to bet Founders Fund on SpaceX:
“The internal version in Silicon Valley of both Tesla and SpaceX were that they could never succeed.”
“I had a conversation with Elon about this in the summer of 2008.”
“I asked him when the last successful new car company had been created in the US?”
“The answer was Jeep in 1941.”
“You could say, ‘There’s been no new car company in 67 years, therefore it must be very hard and you should not do it.’”
“The alternate version that Elon gave was, ‘It’s been 67 years. So it’s about time for a new car company.’”
“One of the tremendous advantages that Tesla and SpaceX had was that they were competing with really sclerotic businesses.”
“It turned out that the fact that nobody thought it was doable, and nobody had done it in a long time, paradoxically created a big opening.”
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SpaceX President @Gwynne_Shotwell on how she and @elonmusk split up their roles:
"When Elon asked me to be President in 2008, we made very clear what is my job jar and what is his job jar."
"We gotta be clear: everybody reports to Elon."
"I focus on the day-to-day of business operations, and he focuses on high-level strategy as well as super deep dive on the technical."
Via @CNBC
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Jun 14
Do the Right Thing reunion hell yea
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Fareed Zakaria stood at Bard College’s commencement.
He had a trigger warning.
“I’m about to utter the two most provocative letters in English today. AI.”
Students braced to boo.
Instead, he flipped it.
“I don’t want to talk about AI. I want to talk about HI. Human Intelligence.”
The story:
He pointed to the human brain. 3 pounds. ~20 watts.
Less power than a laptop charger.
AI data centers? They consume enough electricity to power entire cities.
His point: humans aren’t “inferior computers.” We were never computers at all.
The lesson:
“A machine can write a sad poem. But it cannot weep at a funeral. It can generate a love letter. But it cannot fall in love.”
Human intelligence doesn’t win on speed. Or efficiency.
It wins because it’s embedded, consciousness, emotion, morality, memory, relationships, lived experience.
The takeaway:
Don’t ask “what’s left for humans to do?”
Ask “what does AI reveal about everything humans already do, that’s irreplaceable?”
Curiosity. Wisdom. Empathy. Critical thinking.
These aren’t soft skills anymore.
They’re the moat.
Build the tech. Use the tech.
But champion HI, human imagination, human inspiration, human interconnection.
“Our imperfections aren’t bugs in some system’s code. They’re the cracks that let the light in.”
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Marla Gibbs is still acting at age 95! She guest-starred in Chicago Med. Her performance was outstanding, she deserves her flowers. 🌺 ❤️
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Jun 12
bro immigrated from Mexico and took a $28/hr contract welding job in 2015.
didn't even know what SpaceX was.
they gave him $10,000 in stock and let him buy more through payroll deductions.
that stake is now worth $880,000.
and he's one of 4,400 employees who became millionaires on Friday. welders. technicians. cafeteria staff.
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Donny Hathaway absolutely rips on the Rhodes on “The Ghetto”
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Congratulations
@BretWJ what an inspiration...@elonmusk at what email is it best to communicate with you on
..kindly DM & @WE2incubator will send email
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Jun 13
This is 80 and, without a wrinkle on his skin, he aims to reach 100 in 2045.
He beat cancer twice: his name is Ernie Hudson.
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Jun 13
Christopher Nolan really built one of the most distinctive filmographies in modern cinema.
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Jun 13
NEWS: SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell is now worth $1.3 billion.
She joined SpaceX in 2002 as its 11th employee. Today she runs the company's day to day operations as President and COO.
Forbes just placed her on its 2026 list of America's Richest Self-Made Women.
Employee number 11 to billionaire.
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Jun 12
Leonardo DiCaprio has appeared in 12 films nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
He has won Best Actor only once — for The Revenant (2015) — Titanic (1997) The Departed (2006) and One Battle After Another (2025) won Best Picture.
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Duke & Ella — two of the greatest artists in jazz history, together.
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Jun 12
J.P. Morgan SpaceX= Largest IPO
Congratulations to the @spaceX team on this milestone, we were proud to serve as a lead bookrunner on the transaction.
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Jun 12
Elon Musk is now worth more than the next 4 richest people combined.
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Jun 11
Awww the legendary Ms. Patti LaBelle 82, and Ms. Gladys Knight 82, who recently celebrated their birthdays were born 4 days apart. 🥳 Happy Birthday beautiful talented Queens
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