Insurers are jacking up rates and “quiet quitting” places they deem too risky. (Yeah, it’s climate-change related.) This puts normal people in a bind — their mortgages require home insurance, for instance, or they’re legally required to have car insurance.
LinkedIn COO Daniel Shapero says we should all get comfortable with AI, and dismisses the notion that AI is overhyped.
And if you’re considering job hopping and want some advice? “The best career decisions that I’ve ever made have been about the people I got to work with,” he says.
Okay. So there’s something called a “Disney Day Drinkers Club” (more than 85,000 members!) and their mascot is a trash can called “Binny.” Disney has moved the trash can.
Too many people were lining up for photos with Binny, blocking the pub’s entrance and causing safety issues, says a Disney spokeswoman.
Moving Binny was a big deal, says Sher, the founder, because of Disney superfans’s obsessive attention to detail, and fandom that can border on fanaticism.
It seems like Bitcoin ETFs may be a new trend for the financiers among us:
The companies getting involved here are, in many cases, household names (and not just for people who have their own pet theories about what happened to Satoshi Nakamoto). Industry giants BlackRock and Fidelity are among those positioned to make the first offerings, which could trade on exchanges like NASDAQ. Expectations around the new ETFs have led to a boom not just of bitcoin’s price but also boosted other digital currencies, including ones that were all but left for dead after their close association with convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
[Intelligencer]
Two planes collided on a runway in Japan. Only 11 people were injured on the larger plane— and hundreds managed to evacuate safely. How? Good engineering, and a good flight crew. On the smaller plane, five people died.
Near-misses have been on the rise in the US. Let’s hope this crash inspires some changes to our systems.
[Intelligencer]
Among the movies featured: The Cassandra Cat (1962), a Czeckoslovak film about a cat who wears sunglasses and reveals human nature. This is a code red for cat people.
[The Criterion Channel]
Can you guess which national parks these people are reviewing?
Too many people, not enough stores, not enough places to buy food.
Absolutely horrible disappointment. There wasn’t a single pickleball court in sight.
The whole place smelled like farts.
Honestly, it’s pretty incredible to watch. Residents of the nearby town, Grindavik, were ordered to leave last month. There have been thousands of earthquakes nearby in the last two months, Reuters reported. The livestream is remarkable right now — shooting plumes of orange magma against a black night sky.
[Live from Iceland]
