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SACRAMENTO —  It turns out high-income people are also fleeing the state — a new twist in the California exit.That should worry ruling liberal Democrats who love to tax wealthy people and spend their money, especially on social programs.Some golden geese are taking flight.For years, once-burgeoning California has been hemorrhaging population. This has been happening on several fronts.More people are leaving for other states than are moving here.The inward flow of foreign immigrants has slowed substantially.Fewer babies…

Charley Gallay/Getty Images Once again, we’re on the eve of a new episode of The Mandalorian. Since The Rise of Skywalker, Star Wars has made itself a comfortable home on Disney Plus, with multiple series under its belt and others in various stages of production for release over the next year or so. But while Lucasfilm has its TV production pipeline down to fine art, the same can’t be said about Star Wars on the big screen. At times, it’s looking like there might be some kind of Star Wars curse, as multiple…

In the years leading up to, and through, World War II, animal behaviorist researchers thoroughly embraced motion picture technology as a means to better capture the daily experiences of their test subjects — whether exploring the nuances of contemporary chimpanzee society or running macabre rat-eat-rat survival experiments to determine the Earth's "carrying capacity." However, once the studies had run their course, much of that scientific content was simply shelved.  In his new book, The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image…

Engineers who joined Meta (formerly Facebook) when its offices were open performed better than those who joined the company remotely amid the pandemic, its Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stressed.According to him, the early analysis of performance data suggests that engineers who either joined Meta in-person and then transferred to remote or remained in-person performed better on average than people who joined remotely."This analysis also shows that engineers earlier in their career perform better on average when…

Kelly Jones of Stereophonics’ new band Far From Saints has been announced as special guests for Kings of Leon’s upcoming May Bank Holiday shows.The band, which features Jones and Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker from The Wind and The Wave, will join the rock legends for two huge outdoor shows taking. place at the iconic Racecourse Ground, home of Wrexham AFC, on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th May 2023.The first show sold out instantly. Local Wrexham-based indie band The Declan Swans will also be joining the bill.Far From Saints…

Dozens of Google Japan employees have organized under the Tokyo Managers' Union. It's the first labor union at Google Japan, according to Meiji University Assistant Professor Ken Yamazaki, who also posted a copy of the group's statements from a press conference. Apparently, the employees chose to organize out of fear that they could be abruptly laid off, especially since some of them are in Japan on work visas.  Their concerns stemmed from the tech giant's announcement back in January that it's cutting 12,000 jobs —…

When Microsoft announced this week that it was laying off 10,000 employees, it wasn’t exactly a shock. Other big companies, including Salesforce, Amazon and Meta, have already been down that road, and the news leaked far and wide before the official announcement on Wednesday. Alphabet joined in today, announcing another 12,000 job cuts. Like these other companies, Microsoft is facing a shifting economic landscape and making adjustments to a workforce that was pumped up after the early days of…

via 20th Century Fox It’s still early days on Deadpool 3, but the latest word on the street points to it being even more exciting for X-Men maniacs than we already thought. Elsewhere, forward-thinking fans may have thought up a way to help save Thunderbolts after it recently hit a big setback, the cast for Captain America: New World Order just keeps on growing, and Marvel‘s most cursed movie of Phase Five finally gets back on track… but is it too late to regain the fandom’s interest? Deadpool 3 rumored to bring…

OnePlanet, one of the fastest growing NFT marketplaces around the globe is talk of the town today. Why? OnePlanet has partnered with Sandbox Network, a YouTube multi-channel network in South Korea, to support the global expansion of Meta Toy DragonZ (MTDZ). OnePlanet will provide technical and ecosystem support to help MTDZ expand from Klaytn to Polygon network. Since OnePlanet’s marketplace launch on Polygon this September, the project has supported the revival of more than 60 Terra-based NFT collections on Polygon. At…

This Twitter Thread is by Judd Legum @JuddLegum (source: 12-16-2022). Legum is a writer and journalist. ABOUT LAST NIGHT I participated in a Twitter space hosted by @katienotopoulos w/a lot of journalists When I joined @jason, one of Musk's apparatchiks, was badgering @drewharwell, a suspended reporter, and Jack Sweeney, the guy behind the accounts that tracked jets🧵 2. Jason was making the point that everyone was upset about the suspension, but we need to focus on the real point: IF YOU POSTED SOMEONE'S REAL TIME…