Eric Wu

Who I am is always Changing, but I will always love acting as a career and as entertainment. I also love God, and won't give that up ever.

[The Academy @TheAcademy]

250 years. One unforgettable backdrop.

From city streets and small towns to deserts, coastlines and monuments, America’s landscapes have helped shape some of cinema’s most enduring stories. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸

Featured films: Field of Dreams, La La Land, The Florida Project, Easy Rider, The Dark Knight, Beasts of the Southern Wild, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Past Lives, No Country for Old Men, Forrest Gump, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, Thelma & Louise, Do the Right Thing, The Way We Were, Rocky

[NASA @NASA]

Happy 250th birthday, America! We got you a present. 🇺🇸

The red, white, and blue stars of this globular cluster shine like a sparkler waved on a dark night in this image from @NASAHubble, released in celebration of the United States' 250th anniversary.

[Samuel L. Jackson @SamuelLJackson]

Wishing You a Blessed Fourth 🙏🏾🇺🇸
Much Love, UNCLE SAM

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

Happy Independence Day!

There’s a story from the end of the Revolutionary War I want to tell as we celebrate America’s 250th Birthday, and it’s one everyone in the world can learn from.

George Washington, at that moment, after commanding the American forces to victory, was the most powerful man in the new country. Many people talked about making him King of America.

Across the ocean, King George was sitting with an American painter, and asked what he thought Washington would do now that the war was ending. The painter said he believed he would go back to his farm.

The King said, “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

As the war officially ended, Washington came to speak to Congress and said, “Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theater of Action.” He returned his commission they’d given him in 1775 - after more than 8 years of leading the Americans to victory without pay, and he was home at Mount Vernon for Christmas.

Of course, he was elected as our first President a few years later, and after two terms, showed the same selflessness again when he willingly gave up his power and went back to Mount Vernon again.

That’s true greatness. He had all the power in the world. But power, alone, does not make you great.

Washington’s greatness came from being a true servant - to a cause much bigger than himself. His greatness was his complete lack of selfishness.

The whole story of American Independence is a story of selflessness. It’s a story of people who set their self-interest aside and worked for each other.

We’ve all heard the line about “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”

Apparently, Ben Franklin might have actually never said that.

But that’s fine, because the same mentality is right there in the last line of the Declaration of Independence, published on this day 250 years ago:

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

We mutually pledge to each other.

No one was in this alone. No one was in it for themselves. This was a group of people with different backgrounds who were in it for each other.

Today is a reminder: greatness comes from what we do for each other, never what we do for ourselves.

That’s a lesson that applies no matter what country you call home.

It’s a lesson that doesn’t require any law passed by a politician, because, let’s be honest, if you’re waiting for selfless politicians, I really hope you are not holding your breath.

All of us have the power to be there for the people around us. For our families and friends. For our neighbors. For everyone.

All of us can reach for greatness.

It’s as simple as looking beyond yourself, seeing past the mirror, picking your eyes up from your phone, and pledging to be there for each other.

Happy Fourth. May you all find your own version of greatness today by lifting each other up.

Lift up your neighborhood. Lift up America. Lift up the World.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

A country’s vitality is deeply tied to the value it affords to human life in every form and condition, acknowledging the dignity endowed upon every human person by virtue of their very existence. The moral greatness of a nation is manifested, above all, in its capacity to support, protect and cherish the lives of all, especially the most vulnerable and those whose worth is questioned.

[SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra]

Join us in wishing a very happy 100th birthday to the legendary actor, filmmaker and comedian @MelBrooks! 🎂🎈🎉 With a career spanning over 7 decades, he has earned many accolades, including EGOT status. With his many iconic roles, Mel has cemented his place in our hearts. 💛

[ToonHive @ToonHive]

Adult Swim has announced a five-part documentary series about Cartoon Network and its legacy.

The series will explore the network’s eras and its legendary artists throughout its 34 year history.

The docuseries will premiere in 2027.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Eric Wu @EricHanweiWu]

@JennyENicholson ah great. This is the Star Wars Hotel all over again!

[Jenny Nicholson @JennyENicholson]

In most industries you can make something that's pretty bad and be like "well it's okay because it's made for little kids" but with theme parks the best and most famous stuff out there is also made for little kids

[Av ☁️ ☀️ @MarioEmmet]

This story shows how difficult parenting can be.

Fergus didn’t want Scrooge to face those harsh truths so early, but if his son was ever going to build a life beyond what was in front of him, he needed that push in the right direction.

[Disney Magic Kingdoms @DisneyMKingdoms]

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[CoveredGeekly @CoveredGeekly]

Alan Tudyk will be honored as a Disney Legend at D23

He will receive the title on August 16, 2026

Be sure to follow @CoveredGeekly for updates from the event LIVE as they happen on stage from Aug 15-16 🔔

[Chris Pratt @prattprattpratt]

Taking home the SEAHAWKS SUPER BOWL RING! Seeing this in person was so surreal. I’ve been a fan as long as I can remember and watching the entire @Seahawks team work their asses off this season to earn this was incredible. Their dedication paid off and we’re Super Bowl champs, baby!! Shout out to @JasonofBH you killed this one. Feeling incredibly proud to be a 12!!!!!

[Eric Wu @EricHanweiWu]

I'm hosting a fundraiser for my birthday!

https://t.co/9BcC0IeTQf

[Fr. Harrison Ayre @FrHarrison]

“In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it and use it.”

THANK YOU POPE LEO FOR SAYING THIS.

Time for the “technology is a tool with no inherent moral position” idea to die!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. https://t.co/VSlFOkxhry

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[Defunctland @Defunctland]

It was once an ambitious "sequel park," a theme park designed to be visited only later in the day. Now, it's been abandoned for three times longer than it operated.
Watch The Abandoning of Celebration City now on Defunctland!