this is so horrible...
'i NEVER ever bind my personal info to any accounts. but recently when i opened an airline app, i noticed my id was bound to a completely unknown number. in that moment, i was pretty horrified. it felt like... you're someone who lives alone. you go to sleep, and wake up the next day to go to work. when you look in your surveillance camera, there's someone else, living in your home. like that feeling. god knows what else they've done with my information, and if they've made money off it? this is boldly commiting a crime.'
Apple’s next CEO designed a mechanical arm in college that helped paralyzed people feed themselves using only head movements. That was 1997. Twenty-nine years later, John Ternus runs a $4 trillion company.
Cook joined Apple in 1998 to fix its supply chain. He became CEO in 2011. His big move was selling subscriptions like iCloud and Apple Music to people who already owned iPhones and Macs. Under him, Apple grew from $350 billion to $4 trillion.
Ternus is a mechanical engineer. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997, where he swam on the varsity team. His first job was building VR headsets at a tiny company called Virtual Research Systems. In 2001 he joined Apple to design computer monitors. Yes, the screens you plug into a Mac.
He climbed fast inside Apple. By 2013 he ran the hardware teams for Macs, iPads, and AirPods. iPhone got added to his plate in 2020. Apple Watch in late 2022. And in January this year, Apple put him in charge of the design team itself, the famous group once led by Jony Ive (the British designer who shaped the look of every iPhone before leaving Apple in 2019). That last move made Ternus the most powerful engineering executive Apple has had since Steve Jobs.
His name is on a lot of products. Every iPad ever made. AirPods. Apple’s switch from Intel chips to its own custom chips. The Vision Pro headset. The new ultra-thin iPhone Air. The iPhone 17. The new affordable MacBook Neo. If you own anything Apple has made in the last decade, his team built it.
He doesn’t appear to have an X account. In his 2024 Penn commencement speech he told graduates: “Always assume you’re as smart as anyone else in the room, but never assume that you know as much as they do.”
Cook ran Apple like a business. Ternus will run it like a workshop. And right now Apple has a problem: it’s widely seen as falling behind in AI. They delayed their big Siri upgrade. They’re now paying Google to use Gemini, Google’s AI, to power the new Siri. The Vision Pro has reportedly sold under one million units since launching in February 2024. Apple sells more than 200 million iPhones every year. So the board’s bet is a hardware guy running the company that needs to fix its AI.
He inherits a company whose annual revenue went from $108 billion to $416 billion under Cook. Wall Street barely reacted. Apple stock closed Monday at $273 and slipped about 1% on the news because everyone had been expecting this for over a year. The 22-year-old who built that feeding arm now has to figure out what comes after the iPhone.
So, let me get this straight..
>Sykkuno's girlfriend finds out her partner of 5 years is a cheater
>devastated, but decides to handle it privately and work through the relationship behind the scenes
>enters Bao, Mal, and Mujin
>Bao knew about the infidelity for months
>instead of being a normal human and telling the victim directly, vague-tweet about "predators" to farm engagement and "omg tea?" replies
>act as the behind-the-scenes gossip ringleader to validate your own moral superiority
>Mal aggressively slides into a bigger creator's DMs
>find out he's a liar and a cheater
>instead of just blocking him and moving on, write a 40-page Google Doc thesis
>try to weaponize your "smaller creator" status to frame standard scummy cheating as some grand exploitative power dynamic
>Mujin sees a private relationship scandal
>smell the sweet, sweet scent of ad revenue and "The Sykkuno Files" clicks
>speedrun a highly-edited hit piece video throwing around "predator" labels to appease the algorithm
>don't even bother giving the ACTUAL victim a heads-up or asking for her consent
>force her trauma onto the public stage, completely removing her agency
>unfollow the accusers right after the drop to pretend you're an "objective journalist" and not a drama farmer
>read the girlfriend's actual statement
>she’s literally terrified, her reality is shattered, and her nightmare was "put on full display and used for profit"
>she explicitly says she wasn't given a choice or even checked on by the "saviors" involved
>these three tried to play the white-knight heroes protecting the community
>all they did was nuke an innocent woman's mental health for a week of relevance and community validation
Mujin, for the love of god, take down the damn video if you actually care about the real victim in this story...
Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.
In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.
Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.
Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.
Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.
REMINDER: Read Choi lied about serving in the military, said he was in Special Ops, and his mission was to “hunt down rapists”. Here’s a video of an actual veteran chewing him out for it.
He also KNOWINGLY gave multiple women STD’s without telling them and is still doing it!
Happy Veterans Day to the REAL vets out there!