Sam Chandler

Michael Shellenberger: "I think free speech is hanging by a thread globally and that thread is Elon Musk… What's happening on X is the change of consciousness and… the establishment is desperate to either shut it down or censor it"

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I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.

JUST IN: Wikipedia bans prolific editor after investigation reveals he was responsible for over a million pro-hamas edits on the site.

Farmer pays $5–$8 per cow per month. A New Zealand company puts a solar-powered smart collar on cows. It tracks location 24/7, health, temperature, chewing activity, breeding. Farmer just opens a simple app and draws a line on the map. That line becomes the fence. As cows approach the boundary, the collar beeps and vibrates. With one tap, the whole herd moves to fresh grass or the milking shed. No physical fences. Less labor. Huge cost savings for farmer. Already on 700k cows across New Zealand, Australia, and the US. and now in talks to raise at a $2B valuation led by Peter Thiel.

Last night's keynote "Flat Out Like a Nation Sinking" Northern Beaches Liberal Party Event From the audience reaction after, I don't think their members are happy with the party's policy platform.

What a moment of pride for Spain. Its PM Pedro Sanchez is having his face emblazoned on Iranian missiles in gratitude for his support for the Iranian regime.

NEW YORK: The New York Senate is considering retroactively taxing startup founders who sold their companies last year. A 10-13% hit on exits previously exempt under federal law. North Point Defense founders could owe $100 million. More than a dozen smaller founders could owe millions more. Albany is making New York uninhabitable for entrepreneurs.

Fabulous news! … Britain’s last remaining refineries are closing because it’s cheaper to refine abroad where they don’t pay Mad Ed’s carbon taxes. See? Lower emissions here, less tax revenue here, higher prices here! Perfect strategy 🤡

In 1870, a German chemist named Erich von Wolf was analysing the iron content of various vegetables. He made a decimal point error. He recorded spinach as containing 35mg of iron per 100g. The correct figure was 3.5mg. The misplaced decimal sat in the nutritional literature for decades, entirely unchallenged, because nobody particularly felt like re-testing spinach. In 1929, the Popeye comic strip launched. The creators cited the iron content of spinach as the scientific basis for their character's powers. By this point, the decimal point error was already sixty years old and fully embedded in received nutritional wisdom. The error was identified and corrected in 1937. The correction was not issued with anything approaching the cultural reach of the original claim. Popeye continued punching things. The actual iron content of spinach, 3.5mg per 100g, roughly where it was always supposed to be, is further complicated by the fact that spinach is among the highest-oxalate vegetables known. Oxalates bind to iron and calcium in the gut and remove them before absorption. The iron in spinach absorbs at around 1–2%, compared to 15–35% for haem iron from red meat. You would need to eat roughly a kilogram of spinach to absorb the iron equivalent of a 100g beef steak. There is also the kidney stone question. Spinach contains around 970mg of oxalates per 100g: one of the densest plant sources. Chronic high spinach consumption, particularly raw in daily smoothies, is a documented pathway to calcium oxalate kidney stones. The smoothie industry has not issued a correction. Popeye is still a sailor.

IRS net migration data is out of 2023: 🔴 Red states gained $37.2 billion in income and 492k filers. 🔵 Blue states lost ~$40.8B and 520k filers. CA −$11.9B, NY −$9.9B, IL −$6.0B, MA −$4.2B, NJ −$2.8B.