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What a treat to chat with the creators and lead cast of @SHO_Billions at the @paleycenter. Here’s the amazing @AsiaKateDillon —
With @lewis_damian @AsiaKateDillon Maggie Siff @briankoppelman Paul Giamatti @DavidLevien — the brilliant actors and creators of @SHO_Billions
So much fun chatting with these kind & gifted folks on stage and off but especially so close to #DDay75 a particular thrill was @lewis_damian telling me about his relationship with and impressions of the real MAJ Dick Winters whom he portrayed in Band of Brothers.
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“With the Air Force overheard, the Navy shelling [enemy positions], the enemy firing at you and we're firing at them, it was just total chaos. Nobody landed where they were supposed to. It was that kind of chaos."

- Pvt. Arnald Gabriel

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“The water, believe it or not, in June was awfully cold, and that with the combination of fear, it was quite an experience.”

- Pvt. Gabriel

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3/PFC Huston Riley “who after the Nazis shelled his landing craft jumped into water so deep that he had to walk along the bottom until he could hold his breath no more.... Riley became a target for the guns and artillery shells mowing down his comrades.“

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Jake Tapper
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IKE’S DECISION

75 years ago today, one day before #DDay, Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower gave the final order for Operation Overlord to commence the next day.

“O.K., let’s go,” he said.

“The time was then 4:15 a.m., June 5,” Ike later wrote.
2/ Beyond considerations of weather, moon, tide and time of sunrise, Operation Overlord had detractors. Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, a senior commander in the Royal Air Force, had thought the airborne operation would cause a “futile slaughter” of two divisions.
3/ “He believed that the combination of unsuitable landing grounds and anticipated resistance was to great a hazard to overcome,” Ike later recalled in CRUSADE IN EUROPE.

Ike went to his tent “and sat down to think.” He then “telephoned him that the attack would go as planned.”
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Jake Tapper
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BREAKING: After a 14-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, former Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson was arrested today on 7 counts of child neglect, 3 counts of culpable negligence and 1 count of perjury, per Broward State Attorney Mike Satz
2/ The charges relate to Peterson's "lack of response to the Feb. 14, 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School," per Satz.

"If convicted, the 11 charges technically carry a maximum potential punishment of 96 ½ years in state prison."
3/ "FDLE agents interviewed 184 witnesses, reviewed countless hours of video surveillance, and wrote 212 investigative reports, totaling more than 800 hours of investigation"
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Brian Koppelman
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1) I'm trying, on this hiatus from writing/making #Billions, to write something different. I need to start from scratch. There is an urgency in my brain, something that keeps this idea, world, story coming to the fore. And I've noticed, all the old fear coming to fore, too.
2) This feels important to share. Even those of us who KNOW how rough first drafts feel, who know that a finished product--the novel or play or movie--we see is polished and refined and finished, even we can be momentarily defeated by the daunting and seemingly impossible task.
3) I am dead certain I know how to write this. I am made to write it. Have been thinking about it for a long while. More than that, it is insisting on it--showing up when I am exercising or taking walks or journaling.
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Paul Fairie
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Here's an amazing study, about bullshitting -- the idea of claiming knowledge and expertise in areas you don't actually understand. PDF: ftp.iza.org/dp12282.pdf
Method: 40K students in 9 English speaking countries, answering a large survey taken every 3 years.

They asked the students to rate their knowledge of 16 mathematical concepts, 3 of which were fake. Fun.
Who was most full of bullshit? Higher scores here mean 'more bullshit' (claiming knowledge and expertise in literally fictional areas of mathematics):

Canada.

The country with the lowest bullshit score:

Scotland.
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Clara Jeffery
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Catch me up: when/why did everybody start saying "stan"?
Ok, I'll buy that this comes from the Eminem song. (Which yes, I know, that was pre kid and shit.) But...i've never heard it used or seen int #here until a few months ago and now its omnipresent, so what was accelerator?
honestly, I blame @SlackHQ
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Clara Jeffery
@ClaraJeffery
1/ Amid Twitter maybe getting rid of the "like" to promote "better dialog" and certainly giving safe haven to nazis and other extremists, a rant:
2/ You probably noticed how, people came forward to say that they'd reported the bomber for violent threats, and Twitter (as always) did nothing and (as always) now apologizes but (as always) won't say how they'll better handle. They won't, and I'll tell you one big reason why.
3/ to address complaints about threats and "improve the dialog" Twitter introduced the "quality filter." You see fewer threats and hate speech. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S LESS OF IT.
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Tom Podolec Aviation
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Piper PA-28 in distress.
Reported as the right main gear wheel fell off the aircraft on departure.
Pilot is a female student solo pilot.
Flying orbits around Beverley Airport, North of Boston. Instructors in the tower assisting. Emergency services standing by.
Instructor now on radio with Piper pilot;
“You’re doing a great job flying the airplane. We’re going to take our time. We got plenty of time. You’ve got plenty of fuel. We’ve got plentiful of daylight. You always heard me say go back to basics. So we’re going to work the basics.”
Update
Piper PA-28 landed safely.

Instructor says ‘there are lots of people clapping for her’.
Instructor did amazing job talking her down. She was in tears while flying.

She is a student pilot and was on a solo flight when her right main gear tire fell off on departure.
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Brian Koppelman
@briankoppelman
1) This is the call sheet for the pilot of #Billions. Note the date we started: Jan 19, 2015.
2)Fifteen months before, I really thought my career might be over. Or radically smaller. Because in October of 2013 a (bad) movie we wrote bombed and we were fired from an HBO show we were hired to run.
3)Our agents at the time told us we were basically un-hirable. Or that the demand for our services had shrunk. I remember walking New York City in a lost daze.
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