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The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

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.

Oh yes, I remember that Bond film where the villain decarbonized the auto industry, brought fast internet to everyone on the planet, and helped paralyzed people interact with the world again.

#GlennClose debería haber ganado el #Oscar por #FatalAttraction, pero esta escena por sí sola es la primera y la mejor de una interpretación absolutamente magistral que pasará a la historia. ✨

“The world is not divided between East and West You are American, I am Iranian. We do not know each other, vet we can talk and understand one another perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much greater than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much greater than the difference between me and you. Our governments, however, are very much the same.” - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian-born graphic novelist, illustrator, and filmmaker widely recognized for her acclaimed autobiographical graphic memoir, Persepolis. Born in 1969 in Rasht and raised in Tehran, she came of age during the dramatic events of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the ensuing Iran-Iraq War. As a teenager, she moved to Vienna to continue her education, an experience marked by cultural adjustment, isolation, and questions of identity. These formative years became the foundation for Persepolis, first published in 2000. The memoir chronicles her childhood in revolutionary Iran and her adolescence in Europe, offering a deeply personal perspective on political upheaval, family life, and the search for belonging. The book earned international praise and introduced many readers around the world to the realities of everyday life in Iran during a turbulent era. Satrapi later co-directed the 2007 animated film adaptation, Persepolis, which received the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

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I have never once in my life encountered someone expressing this sentiment. Either I live in quite a bubble, or Ezra Klein does.

In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist. 21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million. And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV. Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham. Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options. She married young during WWII. By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs. She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust. There was just one problem: She was a terrible typist. The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible. One typo could mean retyping an entire page. Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job. But Bette had another skill. She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money. One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization: “An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.” That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint. She poured it into a nail polish bottle. The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors. It worked. For five years, her boss never noticed. Other secretaries did. Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles. Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends. She called the product “Mistake Out.” Then came the twist. In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter. Her boss fired her immediately. It became the best thing that ever happened to her. She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time. Orders exploded. By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year. By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually. Then she did something even more unusual: She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America. Her company offered: • child care • continuing education • leadership roles for women • jobs for disabled workers • integrated staffing This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas. In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million. Six months later, she died at age 56. Half her fortune went to women-focused charities. The other half went to her son. That son was Michael Nesmith. Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees. And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips. It featured short films set to music. PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV. So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create: • a multimillion-dollar company • one of America’s most progressive workplaces • and the blueprint for the modern music video era Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood: The mistake wasn’t the failure. It was the opportunity.

As supporters of both families gathered outside the Collin County courthouse, one local pastor delivered a message focused on healing rather than division. “We have two families — one has lost a son, and one is about to lose a son,” McKinney pastor Lorenzo Henry said. “We got to pray for peace.” Henry said he came to pray for both the Metcalf and Anthony families as the high-profile trial continues to draw national attention. Find more trial updates at the link in our bio.

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The Demolition of Penn Station: America’s Greatest Architectural Tragedy Few decisions in modern history represent a greater act of cultural vandalism than the 1964 demolition of New York’s original Pennsylvania Station. A Beaux-Arts masterpiece of granite, marble, and steel, Penn Station was built like a temple—designed to endure for centuries, perhaps rivaling the Roman Colosseum in longevity. Its soaring columns, grand concourse bathed in natural light, and majestic waiting hall ranked it among the most beautiful buildings ever constructed in America. But as the railroads declined after World War II, so did the station. Maintenance vanished. The roof leaked. The once-glorious halls became havens for vagrants and crime. Instead of investing in restoration, shortsighted executives and city officials guided by cold bean-counter logic chose the wrecking ball. In its place rose Madison Square Garden: a squat, charmless arena perched atop a grim, subterranean warren of low ceilings, harsh fluorescent lighting, exposed tracks, and commuter shops. The result is a functional but soul-crushing transit hub that feels more like a basement than a gateway to the greatest city on Earth. The original Penn Station is gone forever an irreplaceable loss that still stings more than half a century later. It stands as a painful reminder of what happens when a society loses the will to preserve its own greatness.

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#Backrooms is a remarkable achievement, no question, but #Obsession is definitely the B.O. story of the year (so far). For the former (backed by major Hollywood players) the comp is My Big Fat Greek Wedding, while for the latter it’s a micro-budgeted phenomenon—different things.

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