Tonnage Tsunami: Can Ports Withstand the Ultra-Large Containership Surge? youtu.be/um5MFniAYik?si… via Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️

Letters: Charles Murray’s Unscientific Case for the Soul wsj.com/opinion/charle… via Wall Street Journal Opinion Steven Pinker (Charles Murray position is reminiscent of the '60s hallucinogen culture, mistaking brain malfunctioning with access to some magical realm.)

Wodehouse in writing is best, but Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie built a pretty good show around the Jeeves and Wooster stories. (Brain too tired to read.) 🧐🤓🎭🤓🧐

I FLEW A FIGHTER JET! youtu.be/de4xRBaDLSo?si… via Xyla Foxlin⚡ w/ Jared Isaacman Envy, envy, envy! Also, a little late but: kudos to Xyla for getting back to flight status. (And nice placement for that interstitial ad… 😂🤣😂🤣😂)

So many books, so little time… HT Greg Egan (Also, I find myself rereading some old favorites in what time is available; not a problem w/ 150-page tomes by Wodehouse, but some are Neal Stephenson's…)

For once a chart of income that uses a proper metric for an extreme-dominated distribution (that of income), the x for a given cumulative probability F(x). (Usually these charts incorrectly and uninformatively use averages, in the form of per-capita.) HT Paul Graham 🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

Literature surveys get a lot of citations, and the bean counters can’t tell them from research papers. So naturally enterprising researchers in some countries have been using LLMs to churn them out by the dozen.

Not to go all CSS on this, but the optics are… not good. 🤔😏🧐

Now, don't be shy, Casey, tell us what you really think about Orion… 😱🧐🤓🧐😱

[Bio]Technology FTW! 🧐🤓😉🤓🧐

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