Patrick Mayo 👨🏻‍💻

iOS Developer. Involved in a land war in Asia.

[Mark Taylor @Mark___Taylor]

We have something like 12 holocaust movies per year yet Hollywood has never made a movie about the Wright brothers.

The men who invented flight out of their garage and beat well funded government teams around the world aren’t as interesting as mail women from WW2.

[Greg Joswiak @gregjoz]

All systems glow for a great #WWDC26 next week!

Tune in June 8 at 10 am PT.

[Patrick Mayo 👨🏻‍💻 @Patro85]

My childhood

[Jeff Putnam |✍ @TheJeffPutnam]

It’s 1991 and you’ve just popped the TMNT VHS into the VCR and this comes on:

[Justin Hart @justin_hart]

So in 1829, a 23-year-old farmboy dictates the Book of Mormon in about 65 days — no notes, no rewrites.

In 1980, statisticians ran it through a computer. Not the doctrine — the tiny words every writer uses without thinking. a, of, the, and. The fingerprint you can't fake.

The verdict: two dozen DISTINCT authors inside the book. Odds of one author writing it all — under 1 in 100 billion.

How did Joseph Smieth fake two dozen fingerprints in 65 days? Unless....

[Patrick Mayo 👨🏻‍💻 @Patro85]

I really miss Mr. Rogers.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

Bugs Bunny once threw an immaculate inning with one pitch

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Mexico paid $20 million for eight minutes in this movie. Then those eight minutes forced them to invent an entire cultural tradition.

Before Spectre, Mexico City had no Day of the Dead parade. The holiday was celebrated at home, at cemeteries, with family altars. Quiet, intimate, centuries old. Sam Mendes fabricated a massive street parade for the opening sequence, shot it with 1,500 extras in skeleton costumes across the Zócalo, and audiences worldwide assumed they were watching a real annual event.

Mexico's government had negotiated hard for the placement. Leaked Sony hack emails showed officials offered up to $20 million in tax incentives for four minutes of positive portrayal. Sony was drowning in a $300 million budget. The deal included script changes: the Bond girl had to be a Mexican actress, the villain could not be Mexican, and the city's modern skyline had to appear on screen.

Then the movie opened in 182 countries and tourists started booking flights to Mexico City for the parade.

The parade that did not exist.

Tourism authorities panicked. Visitors were arriving expecting the spectacle they saw in the film and finding nothing. So in October 2016, the government spent $500,000, hired 650 volunteers, built dozens of floats and giant skeleton marionettes, and staged the first real Día de los Muertos parade in Mexico City's history. 250,000 people showed up. They openly called it a "Spectre-style parade" in press materials.

Ten years later, the parade draws millions. Anthropologists call it the "pizza effect," where a cultural element gets exported, transformed abroad, and reimported as authentic. Mexico's most famous public celebration of its most sacred holiday was invented by a British director shooting a $300 million spy movie.

That tracking shot is doing more for Mexico City's economy every November than the $20 million they paid for it.

[Patrick Mayo 👨🏻‍💻 @Patro85]

@MacRumors Funny, I wouldn’t consider a car without CarPlay. Period. End of thought. I have zero desire to have to maintain my podcasts, audiobooks, and music as separate connections to my car, or to have to grab my phone to get something playing.

[MLB @MLB]

One of the wildest stories you may read today ⬇️

A couple accidentally showed up to a game with tickets to the next night's game

So they bought 2 more tickets and ended up catching Willy Adames' home run ball

Then they came back the next night with their original tickets, sitting nearly in the exact same spot as the night before ...

Then Adames hit another home run and they caught it AGAIN 🤯

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Southwest Airlines goes full patriot mode in honor of America 250

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

X truly is the most incredible place on earth

No words

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

U.S. Forest Service law enforcement is now asking for the public’s help identifying a group of Indian nationals seen defacing Cathedral Rock in Sedona, Arizona, a sacred Native American site, with furious Americans demanding their immediate deportation.

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

I always think of this quote on memorial weekend.

[Evan Young @E_A_Young]

Wow! The Fifth Circuit really stepped it up a notch today—new fonts, new margins, new information with the caption.

Last week’s CA5=Dorothy’s farm; new CA5=the colorful land of Oz!

Behold:

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Today, the task force and the DOJ announced a massive take down of two of the largest Medicaid fraud cases in Minnesota state history, as well as the largest autism fraud scheme ever charged by the federal government. Our message is simple: if you’re committing fraud, we will find you, and we won’t rest until justice is served.

[VulpesVenerabilis @VVenerabilis]

Been a fan of Weird A.I. since the 90s.

[Patrick Mayo 👨🏻‍💻 @Patro85]

@j_divis I’m honestly ok being called “not Christian” based on their definition. According to their definition I’m not Christian. I don’t believe in the trinity, nor am I a monotheist. I believe in a personal savior and a literal Heavenly Father, an open canon, and priesthood authority.

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

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