Beijing now consider themselves developed. 🌎
China says it won’t ask for the extra time and lighter obligations tied to developing-country status in current and future negotiations.
For a country managing both power and perception, this is careful positioning for a new era.
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Some historical fortunes make today’s billionaires look modest.
Throughout history, rulers, emperors, and industrial titans have controlled levels of wealth that, adjusted for today’s money, are almost impossible to compare.
These were people who didn’t just have money, they controlled systems. While today’s rich are powerful, history had players who operated on a different scale entirely.
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CGI didn’t replace craft. It exposed how much craft was there. 🎞
In Life of Pi and I Am Legend, the frame starts half-empty. In Deadpool and Game of Thrones, it’s foam ledges, tracking markers, stripped-down sets, and actors reacting to space that doesn’t exist yet.
That changes how these scenes read. Oceans, creatures, fire, and skylines can be built in post, but the tension still has to land on set through timing, eyelines, and a face that makes the danger feel real. These before-and-after shots don’t shrink the movies. They make the human work inside them easier to see.
#Movies #Filmmaking #VisualEffects #BehindTheScenes #LifeOfPi
Michael Jackson's Billie Jean reaches No. 1 on Spotify Global. 🎵
The song is getting more than 6 million daily streams more than 40 years after its 1983 release. Billie Jean is also the song associated with Jackson's first televised moonwalk.
The Spotify Global peak gives the 1983 single a new streaming milestone decades after its original run.
#MichaelJackson #BillieJean #SpotifyGlobal #MusicNews #StreamingCharts
'Make Them Cry' now claims Spotify's biggest rap debut. 🎧
The song is being positioned as the largest debut ever recorded for a rap release on Spotify, putting its opening performance above every previous rap launch on the platform. Even without a posted figure here, the claim points to an unusually strong first streaming window.
That makes "Make Them Cry" an immediate commercial outlier in rap's streaming era, with its launch now framed around platform history rather than a routine release-week result.
#MakeThemCry #Spotify #Rap #Streaming #MusicNews
Xi Jinping confirmed a U.S. state visit for 2026. 🇨🇳🇺🇸
The trip would be Xi's first U.S. state visit since 2015 and was confirmed after a Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing. Both leaders are framing 2026 as a reset year for U.S.-China relations.
A state visit would put diplomacy and economic coordination back at the center of the relationship. Any shift in tone between Washington and Beijing can affect trade, investment, and broader global markets.
#XiJinping #USChina #StateVisit #Beijing #Geopolitics
Who looked at a boulder and saw a livable wall? 🪨🤔
From Setenil de las Bodegas to Casa do Penedo and Civita di Bagnoregio, this isn’t one gimmick repeated in different countries. It’s a whole spectrum of people pressing daily life into rock: houses tucked beneath an overhang, a stone home fused to boulders, a village still holding on above an eroding cliff.
What keeps these places lodged in your head is the motive. Most weren’t built to look outrageous. The terrain was the shelter, the insulation, the defense line, or the sacred setting. Spectacle came later, once distance and comfort made the original logic feel extreme.
Now they read like fantasy locations. They were answers to real pressure.
#Architecture #Travel #CliffsideHomes #RockArchitecture #SetenilDeLasBodegas
The Boys got a final poster before its last episode. 📺
The newly released poster accompanies the final episode of The Boys, with copy that traces the title from comics to live-action.
The Boys reaches its final chapter on screen after 7 long years.
#TheBoys #FinalPoster #TVSeries #ComicAdaptation #FinalEpisode
Drake set three one-day 2026 streaming records. 🎧🔥
On May 15, Drake logged the platform's biggest single day for any artist in 2026. The company also said ICEMAN posted the biggest single-day album total of the year and "Make Them Cry" posted the biggest single-day song total so far in 2026.
If the figures hold, May 15 became Spotify's biggest Drake day in history.
#Spotify #Drake #ICEMAN #MakeThemCry #MusicNews
Netflix puts Grown Ups 3 in motion. 🎬
Grown Ups 3 is described as officially in the works at Netflix, with Adam Sandler returning for a new installment. The update revives a comedy franchise that has been inactive for years and moves its next chapter to streaming.
For Netflix, the project would add another familiar Sandler title to a long-running partnership with the actor. For the series, it signals a direct continuation rather than a reboot or remake.
#GrownUps3 #Netflix #AdamSandler #ComedyMovies #Streaming
Rumor says Soldier Boy is out of The Boys finale. 📺
It was reported by Collider that Soldier Boy will not appear in the series finale of The Boys. The update points away from a last-episode return for one of the show's best-known characters as the Prime Video series closes.
Soldier Boy, played by Jensen Ackles, became a major part of the series in season three and has remained central to fan speculation about the ending. If the report holds, the finale will wrap without bringing him back into the final episode.
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