VC & doctorate candidate with a focus on ESG & sustainability; advocate for gender diversity & representation in tech.
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Paul Ark retweeted
Golden 😂
10 hilarious Jensen memes breaking the internet right now 🧵👇
1 - "POV: You’re the NVIDIA CEO and Coldplay’s kiss cam finds you 💀"
~ By @dedene
Paul Ark retweeted
Senator-elect James Talarico and Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa visit a Whataburger after their victory rally.
ALT James Talarico and Gina Hinojosa smile and clink large orange-striped Whataburger cups across a booth table as a crowd behind them takes photos with phones.
Paul Ark retweeted
The Daily Show InDecision Desk can now project that Barack Obama has defeated the Cheesecake Factory
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David Faustino aka Bud Bundy from Married With Children and his family dressed as the Bundys for Halloween yesterday 🧡🎃 David dressed as Al his TV Dad. Love it.
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Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for being our friend and for sharing your brilliance, joy, and kindness with the world. 💛💚
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President Trump Was Briefed on a Chinese Spy Plot. He Took No Action. nytimes.com/video/admin/1000… via @NYTimes
Paul Ark retweeted
In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
Paul Ark retweeted
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
alzresearch.org/giving/
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
alzfdn.org/donate/
Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
Paul Ark retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed on the Iran war: “In one fell swoop, he puts both of the key ingredients to the industry that’s holding up the entire stock market in America at risk. We’re depleted with interceptor missiles, Taiwan has never been less secure, and the price of energy has never been higher. Fucking idiot”
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OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
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If you’re not following Newsgirls, you should. They’re investigative journalists who used to work at 60 minutes, & they have incredible skills & sources. One of them even has an Emmy under her belt. They deliver substantive news in the social media style younger audiences prefer.
We think we know what Pentagon whistleblowers will be telling Congress in order to oust Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth- tune into our full episode on YT⚡️ #news #trump #military #petehegseth #midterms
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Every move those KPop Demon Hunters girls make in Netflix's new dance video came from three real women in a dance studio, and one of them is the choreographer behind routines for BLACKPINK and TWICE.
Her name is Leejung Lee. She and two other dancers, Bambi and Nara, performed the whole "How It's Done" routine start to finish, and then Netflix's animators turned them into Rumi, Mira and Zoey. Lee did the motion capture for Rumi in the original movie too. She's said she's usually wiped out after running a routine about twice, and that working on HUNTR/X was a blast because the characters never run out of energy.
And most of this dance was never actually in the movie. The camera kept spinning, somebody was always fighting a demon, and the edit cut away before you could catch more than a few seconds of it. Netflix waited 16 months after the film came out to finally show you the whole thing.
Netflix is borrowing straight from how K-pop companies run their groups. Look at how the video is shot, with one camera that never moves, a wood floor, gear cases pushed up against the wall, the group's logo behind them and everybody in sweats. Real K-pop labels put out a video exactly like that with most new releases, and they do it so fans will learn the dance, film themselves doing it, and post it. Every one of those copycat videos is free advertising for the song.
Netflix needs that more than most. KPop Demon Hunters is the most-watched movie Netflix has ever had, with 482 million views in its first six months, and the sequel isn't due until 2029, in theaters. A normal studio would go quiet for three years and pour everything into a trailer. A K-pop label would never leave fans sitting around with nothing to do for that long, so Netflix is acting like one.
You can see the schedule once you start looking. "How It's Done" got its own single release in January, and the "Golden" lyric video has passed a billion views on YouTube. This week Netflix is dropping practice videos for five songs, and episodes breaking down the signature poses start November 2.
A cartoon group also gets to skip the thing that breaks up real ones. In Korea, idol contracts top out at seven years under the standard contract rules, which is why so many groups lose members or call it quits right around year seven. Riot just ran that play with K/DA, its League of Legends girl group, which came back this month after six years with two of its four singers swapped out and the same four characters on screen that fans have loved since 2018.
I was a producer on Fortnite when we put Travis Scott inside the game, and 12.3 million people logged on at the same time to watch a giant animated version of him perform. People will show up for a cartoon all day long as long as there's a real person underneath it.
The movie won't be back until 2029, and Netflix has figured out how to keep its girl group busy for every one of those years.
