⚡ I've almost finished the new version of Allmaps Viewer. Currently, it can only render one georeferenced map at the same time. The new version supports viewing hundreds of maps at the same time, and stitching them together. 🗺️🗺️🗺️

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Peter Brötzmann (1941–2023) As a tribute to the German saxophonist who has died at the age of 82, we have made David Keenan’s epic two-part 2012 interview, and Daniel Spicer’s guide to Brötzmann’s many recordings, free to read in our online library: thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the…

1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing. Here's a short personal selection:

8. Honda After overcoming being a poor kid with a rejection from Toyota, Honda created a successful factory. His factory ended up getting bombed during the war: Despite this, he ran outside to collect the fuel cans out of the sky and called them "Little gifts from Truman"

12. 9-Year Old Warren Buffett When Warren Buffett was 9 years old, he read "How To Win Friends and Influence People" The 9 year old did the most Buffett thing ever: • He ran an A/B test of the books principles in social interactions to see if they was true. At 9 years old.

Amen.

R.I.P. Richard Serra, who made us feel space by compressing it and expanding it, by taking ownership of the air surrounding his works. Each one of his sculptures is borderless, it engulfs you, it devours you with its disorienting gravitational pull. You become part of it.

And next time you wait in line, why not focus on your breath instead of pulling out your phone? It will energise you and lower your stress level. What are your favourite breath practices?

Historic Vids Kurt Cobain and Nirvana react to hearing what other artists charge for concert tickets in 1993

This is more than worth reading. Fantastically written. Zero pandering. The message may be chilling, but the writing is some of the best you will ever read. I have no affiliation, except as a fellow earthling. Best -

“Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans.”

my father's first book, life in the semiconductor industry. He didn't go to any fancy schools, he almost won a diesel mechanic scholarship, but "threw it", because he didn't want to be a mechanic, and instead went to an 2 year degree in ONLY EE TX A&M. amazon.com/dp/B0DC75HDTN/

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NEW: There’s been a lot of discussion lately about rising graduate unemployment. I dug a little closer and a striking story emerged: Unemployment is climbing among young graduate *men*, but college-educated young women are generally doing okay.