It should be a crime to slow down robotaxis rollout: They cause 80% fewer accidents & injuries Millions of lives are at stake In clinical trials, when a treatment is obviously better, we stop the trial. Shouldn't we do the same here?

Solar takes over ➡️Solar panels & battery costs keep shrinking ➡️Electricity prices drop. Near zero during the day ➡️You will save lots of money if you can use electricity only during the day & unreliably ➡️New industrial giants: cheap to make, less energy efficient What else?

Phantom maps of Yugoslavia: Illiteracy vs Ottoman control vs Topography More in tomorrow's article

Where does the word "slave" come from? From the Slavic people, in Eastern Europe, because of how many of them were enslaved & traded by steppe hordes over thousands of years Just in the 15th & 16th centuries, ~3M ppl were captured from Russia, Ukraine and Poland

Crazy fact to understand the value of currencies: for ~800 years, most of China’s exports were dedicated to sourcing silver so that it could use it internally as currency

Markets now overwhelmingly believe Fordow was destroyed

Can there be an invasion of Iran? Hardly. Two maps explain why, and also why Iran is the way it is today, whether its regime will fall, what other superpowers will do, and in general why Iran is the way it is today 1. Iran is a mountain & desert fortress

Few people understand the significance of this map Why was Italy so divided so late? By then, Spain, Portugal, France, the UK, Hungary, Austria were all quite united. Why not Italy? Part of the reason is right there in the map: the Papal States 🧵

Evolution of Iran over history

Following the good Korean tradition of shady presidents, a court in Seoul indefinitely postponed a trial of Lee Jae-myung, the newly elected left-wing president, who is charged with violating election laws in 2022. He survived an assassination attempt last year.