Greg Knieriemen

Disney Reveals $645 Million Spending On Star Wars Show ‘Andor’ Disney has revealed that the cost of making Star Wars show Andor has surged to $645 million after it spent a record $290.9 million last year on filming its second season.

I always wondered why so many movies are made in the UK - now I know:

"The leading Hollywood studios shoot in the U.K. because its government reimburses up to 25.5% of the money they spend on filming there."

I guess we should be thanking UK tax payers for Star Wars?

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YouTube video by Coldplay Coldplay - ALL MY LOVE (Official Video) (Directors' Cut)

If you watch just one thing today, this is well worth it…

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All this might do is stop impersonation. Real verification would build trust in authentic engagement.

“We are currently offering Officially Verified Badges to journalists, members of the media, elected officials, prominent activists, political operatives, and Very Famous Celebrities.”

I’m sorry, but this isn’t verification, it’s influence gatekeeping. Verification needs to be broader.

Verification needs to be broader across the platform so we can trust our engagement. This limited effort will not thwart troll farms.

“We are currently offering Officially Verified Badges to journalists, members of the media, elected officials, prominent activists, political operatives, and Very Famous Celebrities.”

I’m sorry… but this is way wrong. What they are doing is gatekeeping influence, not verification.

Data resilience firm Veeam scores $15B valuation in $2B secondary sale | TechCrunch Veeam brought on strategic investors including TPG and Temasek to bolster its cap table with sites set on an eventual IPO.

Congratulations to my friends at Veeam, hopefully you all benefit!

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Real verification is the only way. It’s expensive to do it right, but I don’t see another way.

UK financial services cloud Beeks Group mostly quits VMware A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient

“Migration wasn't easy. Beeks runs proprietary software that it had tied to VMware APIs, and that had to be rebuilt to interface with OpenNebula.”

Yes, VMware is sticky… but where there is a will, there is a way.

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Twice at Intel!

Threads had a chance… until the fake notifications in Facebook and Instagram.

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

@awfulannouncing.bsky.social Doing their best to make Bluesky political… what an awful take.

(Gaetz resigned from the House of Representatives, not the Senate)

DJI?

Will the Guardians compete for the World Series in 2025?

Seems like this was inevitable… “DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Chrome to Break Search Monopoly”

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Underrated work hack: Be easy to work with

Hey… @edsai.bsky.social joined the party!

Follow him as I’m sure he will be a wealth of knowledge and wit.

Or don’t.

Am I the only one struggling to follow people back with empty profiles?

Did you complain to YouTube?

If the Fed Is Cutting Rates, Why Aren’t Mortgage Rates Falling? — The Wall Street Journal Consumer borrowing costs haven’t tracked the Fed since it cut rates by half a percentage point in September

Just FYI… mortgage and credit card rates are going to stay high for awhile.

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OK, now that the stampede to BlueSky has died down for a moment, and systems are a bit more stable, let's try sharing this again - our starter pack. Thanks for joining us!

go.bsky.app/EsDR7M7

VMware Fusion and Workstation are Now Free for All Users These powerful desktop hypervisor products are free to all users - commercial, educational, & personal users alike!

Hey, VMware Fusion & Workstation users. So, it's free now. Are you still using it, or have you moved on, because Broadcom?

If you've moved on, what are you using instead, and what's your use case?

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Things I pulled from a drawer today…

#tech

Wasn’t there a movie about this…

About damn time ;)

“Tesla’s computer vision-only approach is never going to work,” says Mary Cummings, a professor of computer science at George Mason University and director of its autonomy and robotics center. 

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Elon Musk finally admits Tesla's HW3 might not support full self-driving Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn’t actually know what it will...

Shocked… not shocked. The only real question… when will he finally admit that FSD isn’t possible with vision only sensors?

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