Nawapon W.

a guy who makes his own luck. and it just sucks so badly.

[Aditya Mishra @adityamtweets]

Assume the movie had flopped and the director lost his entire $750,000 investment. How many crew members would have voluntarily returned their fees to help offset his loss?

This is the fundamental asymmetry in risk and reward. When someone puts up their own capital and shoulders the real financial risk especially in a high-failure industry like entertainment they alone bear the downside.

Yet the moment the project succeeds, suddenly everyone who was paid upfront wants a bigger piece of the pie. The same people who would not have shared in the loss now feel entitled to share disproportionately in the upside.

If you accept payment for your work regardless of outcome, you’ve already been compensated for your risk (or lack thereof). Why should the person who risked everything not be allowed to reap the rewards when their gamble pays off?

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

Ronaldo fans watching Messi still banging in screamers in his 6th World Cup

[Evan Lee @theEvanLee]

Last 30 seconds of the Knicks winning the finals live from West Village FIRE ESCAPE. Best city in the world.🔥👑 #knicks #nyc

[Rensy @RensyMo]

She looks no different than me.

Both her and I born Syrians to Syrian parents

Only difference is she is Muslim and I am Jewish.
If her and I walked together no one would know the difference.
But Americans will keep saying I am white and she is brown.

Make it make sense 🤔

[shoe @shoe0nhead]

sure the beheading in the street stuff is bad but you know whats worse? being called racist online. so be quiet

[Robby Soave @robbysoave]

By the standards of the MeToo era and the Brett Kavanaugh saga, which required us to "believe all women," then the Graham Platner situation is fairly cut and dry. Watch closely as partisan political actors reveal themselves as hacks and hypocrites.
https://t.co/eyWwEKxd6W

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

I'd genuinely like to hear someone explain why Elon Musk doing an autistic wave at inauguration was proof that he is a Nazi who needs to be exiled from public life, but Graham Platner's "Totenkopf" tat is NBD and not disqualifying for a Senate run.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Josh Barro on Platner:

“Graham Platner doesn’t work for a living. As The New York Times reports, the bulk of his income comes from a military disability pension of approximately $60,000 a year. The pension doesn’t mean he’s too disabled to work — he is, after all, currently seeking the job of U.S. Senator — but his recent non-campaign endeavors seem more like hobbies than a career. He runs an oyster farm that principally sells oysters to his mother’s restaurant. He earned a small stipend as his town’s harbor master: $3,000 last year. He lives in a $205,000 house that he bought with a $200,000 loan from his father.”

What a resume.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

R.I.P Marjane Satrapi.

[Meghan McCain @MeghanMcCain]

I want to say something about @60Minutes since so many conservatives are trashing it.

When my Dad was first diagnosed with Glioblastoma and we were trying to decide who he and my mother should sit down with and talk about the end days of his life - we ultimately landed on Leslie Stahl and @60Minutes. Leslie came to our ranch in Sedona and sat down and profiled both my parents together for an exclusive sit down. We ultimately chose Leslie because of her prestige as a journalist and respected history of the show.

Leslie and her crew were simultaneously professional and respectful of the delicate emotional state my entire family was in. She was in our secluded home as we all grappled with the concept that my dad was dying and fast from a rare cancer in front of the entire world. She and her producers did a wonderful job. Feel free to watch it, it’s beautifully done. This is not a situation just any person without experience can airdrop and handle the dynamics of. This is not something a rookie commentator or podcaster could have maneuvered with the respect needed. Experience does matter.

Not all legacy media is garbage nor are all reporters. This “throw all the bastards out” mentality is obnoxious and just going to breed more insanity and distrust on both sides.

I don’t want woke journalism. I don’t want anitwoke journalism. I just want great journalism.

Be careful what you wish for conservatives, - there could come a day when Rachel Maddow is put in charge instead of Bari Weiss and then tell me how you feel. The pendulum swings both ways.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Shocking! This young Iranian woman killed for celebrating khamenei’s death.

Do you remember the night the news spread that Ali Khamenei was dead?

Many of us Iranians watched, almost instinctively, took to the streets. Some cried. Some laughed. Some celebrated. Not because we love death, but because we believed the man who had ordered the imprisonment, torture, blinding, and killing of so many innocent people was finally gone.

She celebrated inside Iran. Her name was Nehal Abuqalandari.

Sources say, she was so happy when she heard the news, she got into a car with her friends and drove through the streets of Khorramabad, full of hope, celebrating the removal of a dictator. But the security forces opened fire and a bullet struck her in the chest.

She could have been me. She could have been thousands of other Iranians who celebrated outside Iran. The only difference is geography. I was lucky enough to celebrate in freedom. But she is now gone simply because she celebrated under a warmonger regime.

Three days later, authorities pressured her family to call her a “war martyr” and blame America and Israel for her death. Her family refused. Because they knew who killed her.

Nehal was not killed by a foreign enemy. She was killed by the Islamic Republic, a regime so afraid of its own people.

This is what breaks my heart.

Her friends say she was kind, positive, and full of life. She should be alive today.

Please say her name: Nehal Abuqalandari.
💔

[Rita Panahi @RitaPanahi]

During the BLM riots in the UK, Leftists tore down a statue & chucked it in the river. Same quislings who say we shouldn't 'politicise' Henry Nowak.

[Nick Gillespie @nickgillespie]

A government that can't count votes in a timely manner shouldn't be allowed to run so many aspects of our lives.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Don’t get too upset about the green card rule.

It probably won’t hold up in court. And Trump’s rich donors are probably making the calls now and buying whatever memecoins they need to in order to reverse this anyway.

But keep in mind who these people are going forward.

[Nawapon W. @Dexterno23]

@Mekuna @InnomaruGamez nice :D keep getting good players to the team. MORE ASIANS PLEASE lol

[Colin Moriarty @longislandviper]

An update!

I'm sorry I've been quiet, but I've spent the last couple of days learning as much as I can about PSN account theft: How long it's been happening, why people are being affected, and so on. I've likewise exchanged a ton of emails with and spoken extensively on the phone with multiple high-ranking people at Sony in different departments over a series of lengthy calls. I want to sincerely thank them for listening, asking great questions, being thorough and thoughtful, and doing everything they can to help. I owe them a lot, and it's through their efforts that I hope we will see action.

On the next episode of Sacred Symbols, I will go deep into what we've learned (and because it's so important, we will make this episode free-for-all upon release this Friday). The reality, as far as we can tell, is that the PSN is extremely vulnerable to so-called "social engineering": Using completely mundane information -- like what you'd find on a Wal-Mart or Target receipt (if that) combined with nothing more than an email address -- and using those details to hijack innocent people's accounts via call center customer service representatives. This technique completely circumvents not only your password, but your 2FA, etc. It happened to me, it's happened to many others, and it will continue to happen unless fundamental changes are made.

In addition to the people at Sony that have been so helpful, I want to thank people in my community with IT, infosec (etc.) backgrounds who have stepped up in major ways, all without being asked. We've learned an enormous amount about the who, what, where, why, and so on, all because of these people volunteering their time and effort. I'm actually (pleasantly) shocked how good these folks are. We have been and will continue to be passing along everything we've learned (and continue to learn) to Sony, in hopes that we can be useful in solving this major problem for the entirety of the PlayStation community.

Ultimately, I have two goals:

1.) To help convince Sony that they need to make serious, immediate efforts to secure people's accounts on PlayStation Network. (We are in this stage.)

2.) To help reunify people with their stolen accounts. (This is a big one, and my heart is so heavy for people who have lost access, sometimes for months and even years, through no fault of their own, and with seemingly no recourse for them. It's simply not fair.)

More on the show! In the meantime, be well. <3