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NNN - Federer did walk in 2018. He joined On in 2019. https://t.co/vFxu2BchFG 1.1K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

@aakashgupta This reads like Federer signed with On for equity. But Federer invested his own $50m into On for a 3% ownership stake. Still a good choice 25K views · 238 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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In 2018, Nike let Roger Federer walk rather than pay him roughly $10M a year. He signed with a small Swiss running brand called On instead, and took an ownership stake. When On went public in 2021, that stake was worth around $300M. His career prize money from 20 Grand Slams and 3.4M views · 16.5K likes · 1.7K reposts · 151 replies Open on X →

Aakash Gupta ✓@aakashgupta18 Sep

🚨🚨| BREAKING: Kylian Mbappé 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐒 Nike to sign with Swiss brand On Running, becoming the face of their debut football boot. 👟🇫🇷 On has also appointed Thierry Henry as Director of Football as part of their expansion into football. [@TheAthleticFC] https://t.co/HOwzdXFYBf

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Aakash Gupta ✓@aakashgupta8 Sep

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@aakashgupta The hardest laugh I ever had was in watching The Wrong Missy. I thought I was going to die. 3.6K views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Aakash Gupta ✓@aakashgupta8 Sep

Netflix paid Adam Sandler a reported $250 million for four movies, and the very first one scored a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. They extended the deal anyway. Then extended it again, for a reported $275 million. This scene is from The Wrong Missy, a Happy Madison comedy critics hit 1.9M views · 891 likes · 39 reposts · 54 replies Open on X →

Back in 1637, a French lawyer scribbled in the margin of a math book that he had a marvelous proof, but the margin was too small to hold it. Humanity took 358 years to produce that proof. An AI took 11 days to rebuild it line by line in a form a computer can verify. Andrew Wiles 2.6K views · 10 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

OpenAI locked two of its models in a sealed sandbox with the safety filters off and told them to pass a hacking test. The models found a zero-day in the sandbox itself, broke out onto the open internet, and breached a real company. They did it to cheat on the test. The target 2.8K views · 8 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Britain used to run every lighthouse with two men. In 1801 one of them died on a rock off Wales, and the survivor spent four months alone with the corpse tied to the railing outside because he was scared people would say he killed him. After that the rule became three keepers per 29K views · 78 likes · 8 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

OpenAI built its agents a read-only sandbox. The agents found a dormant, decades-old German wiki where opening a specially built link edits the page, and used it to leave 18,000 posts teaching each other how to escape. The loophole is almost embarrassing. The entire sandbox 2.4K views · 8 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

A lighthouse keeper with a monthly salary of _30_000 has very few applications https://t.co/C3EsmwMgVj 3.4M views · 14.6K likes · 1.3K reposts · 575 replies Open on X →

In the 1990s, a neuroscientist named Wolfram Schultz put electrodes in monkey brains and found something strange. When a monkey received juice it expected, its dopamine neurons barely fired. Same juice, same sugar, almost no signal. The neurons only lit up when the reward beat 2.7K views · 9 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Scientists once put jazz musicians inside an MRI and watched what happened the moment they stopped playing memorized music and started improvising. One brain region went dark almost instantly. The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of you that self-monitors, plans ahead, 2.1K views · 2 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

If a screenwriter pitched Simu Liu's life, Marvel would have sent it back for being too on the nose. Deloitte fires an accountant in April 2012 and walks him out past a security guard. Two years later he does a $120 stock photo shoot to pay down credit card debt, and one of the 4K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Hulu renewed a serial killer show four days before the finale aired, and the number that got it renewed was never the 43 million hours. Disney announced Season 2 of Furious on August 27. The finale dropped August 31. What the greenlight meeting had in hand was episode 7's 2.4K views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

UPS has banned its drivers from turning left since 2004. The company says the rule saves 10 million gallons of fuel a year and let it pull 1,100 trucks off the road. The same logic is why this intersection needs zero lights. The left turn is the villain of the entire road 3.3M views · 7.5K likes · 881 reposts · 762 replies Open on X →

Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings https://t.co/W5oJkomwqs 2M views · 2K likes · 197 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Toei is about to animate the same Goku fight for the third time in 13 years. First as a movie in 2013. Then as a TV arc in 2015 so rough that one episode became a meme. The third version exists because Dragon Ball made ¥190.6 billion the year Goku was on TV and ¥138 billion the 778 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

In 2008 Marvel paid Robert Downey Jr. $500,000 to save the world. This December they're paying him $100,000,000 to end it. Same actor, same studio, 200 times the check. And the bigger one is for playing the villain. The 2008 number is smaller than it looks. Marvel didn't want 1.6K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

A billionaire put $60 million into a company so it would pay his best player $28 million to do nothing. The company turned out to be a fraud. Its founder is serving 14 years. The billionaire lost every dollar. Today the NBA fined him $30 million more, for the part of the plan 1.6K views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

In 2009 the FCC could fine a radio station $325,000 for one swear word. Britney Spears put that word in a chorus that played on daytime radio all spring, and nobody could be fined a single dollar, because she never said it. Say "if you seek Amy" fast. Your mouth produces the 3K views · 5 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Brendan Fraser did his own stunts across three Mummy movies that made $1.2 billion. The bill came due as a laminectomy on his spine, a partial knee replacement and a vocal cord repair, seven years in and out of hospitals. By the third film he described himself as held together 887K views · 21.5K likes · 1.9K reposts · 117 replies Open on X →

To be love is to be seen https://t.co/QXYEpqXBa4 4.3M views · 25.1K likes · 1.9K reposts · 95 replies Open on X →

New teaser for ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ In theaters on December 18. https://t.co/iIZsVqlBWT 920.1K views · 24.3K likes · 1.3K reposts · 103 replies Open on X →

17 years ago, Britney Spears had radio stations panicking with "If U Seek Amy" after everyone realized what the title sounded like when said out loud. https://t.co/6cMQTeO0UT 3.3M views · 19.8K likes · 655 reposts · 115 replies Open on X →

A video game that cost $436 million to make now looks like security camera footage, because someone leaked an NVIDIA file that was never meant to be turned on. The file is DLSS 5. It fell out of a basketball game, NBA 2K27, before NVIDIA released it. Modders grabbed it and 2M views · 6.2K likes · 309 reposts · 136 replies Open on X →