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Google Wants to Get Better at Spotting Wildfires From Space - WIRED (No paywall)
 FireSat is a partnership between Google, the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance, and the satellite builder Muon Space. The collaborative effort was announced in 2024 with the goal of launching satellites specifically designed to spot wildfires. The first satellite of the proposed 50-plus strong constellation launched in March 2025.
The group hopes to get the full constellation up there by 2029. Then, the satellites will be able to orbit the Earth, snapping images of every fire-prone place on the globe. The photos would be captured about 20 minutes apart, enough to catch a small fire before it grows too big, or to observe the progress of an active blaze.The information about a fire’s location could then be beamed to data analysts and machine intelligence systems on the ground more quickly than ever.
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WorkWorkHumanity Is Playing Nuclear Roulette - The Atlantic (No paywall) I believe that the imperialists' aggressiveness makes them extremely dangerous, Castro wrote in a cable to Moscow, and that if they manage to carry out an invasion of Cuba - a brutal act in violation of universal and moral law - then that would be the moment to eliminate this danger forever, in an act of the most legitimate self-defense. However harsh and terrible the solution, there would be no other. WorkThe Dalai Lama faces a horrible dilemma - The Economist (No paywall) For someone approaching his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama is in remarkably good nick. On a mid-June morning, The Economist joined a group audience with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader and watched him greet about 300 devotees and well-wishers individually. Dispensing advice and blessings for over an hour, he paused only once for a sip of hot water. He does this five times a week, plus occasional public teachings, in his adopted hometown of Dharamsala in northern India. WorkJane Street's sneaky retention tactic - The Economist (No paywall) Hedge funds will go to great lengths in pursuit of profits, whether it is by counting cars in satellite photos of parking lots or shipping gold across the Atlantic. Building a compiler - a piece of software that turns human-written code into programs a computer can execute - for your homegrown language? That still raises eyebrows.
WorkWorkThe Woman Who Spent Five Hundred Days in a Cave - The New Yorker (No paywall) When Beatriz Flamini was growing up, in Madrid, she spent a lot of time alone in her bedroom. I really liked being there, she says. She'd read books to her dolls and write on a chalkboard while giving them lessons in math or history. As she got older, she told me, she sometimes imagined being a professor like Indiana Jones: the kind who slipped away from the classroom to be who he really was. WorkWork
WorkWorkThe Perils of Design Thinking - The Atlantic (No paywall) On the first day of a required class for freshman design majors at Carnegie Mellon, my professor stood in front of a lecture hall of earnest, nervous undergraduates and asked, Who here thinks that design can change the world? Several hands shot up, including mine. After a few seconds of silence, he advanced to the next slide of his presentation: a poster by the designer Frank Chimero that read, Design won't save the world. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen, you pretentious fuck. WorkNYC developers gripped by hysteria after Mamdani's sudden rise - WSJ (No paywall) Zohran Mamdani struck fear across the business community after his Tuesday night surprise victory against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who conceded in the city's Democratic primary for mayor. In the days since, phones across the real-estate industry are ringing almost nonstop as panicked executives scrape together their contingency plans. WorkThese 3 cities near Paris deserve more than a day trip - NatGeo Travel (No paywall) Paris lures millions of visitors every year, but day trips are a perennially popular diversion. The Chateau of Versailles, mind-blowing in its grandeur, has instant name recognition all over the world. The Chateau of Fontainebleau coddled eight centuries worth of French monarchs, and its forest was where the world's first-marked hiking trails were born. And Chantilly, equestrian epicenter renowned for its racetrack, is home to France's most important antique art museum, after the Louvre.
WorkEverything we know about Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's wedding - WSJ (No paywall) Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, and Lauren Sanchez, an Emmy-winning TV host and pilot, are celebrating their nuptials this weekend in a three-day Venetian wedding extravaganza. Local vendors, from water-taxi providers to pastry shops to traditional glassblowers, are embracing the event as a once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity. Other residents have protested, unwilling to let their city become a playground for the rich. WorkHeli-hydrant water tanks speed helicopter responses to California wildfires Retired firefighter Mark Whaling knows firsthand what it's like to wait on a helicopter to refill on water while he's battling a blaze on the ground. Before retiring from the Los Angeles County Fire Department, he worked to develop the Heli-Hydrant - a small, open tank that can be located in urban areas to give helicopters a much closer water source than when they have to fly to natural sources such as lakes and rivers. The Heli-Hydrants are drawing interest from officials eager to boost their preparedness for wildfires, especially in the West. One was used nearly 40 times last fall in a fire near San Diego. WorkWork
WorkThe gold bull-market has a dirty secret - The Economist (No paywall) THE MINERS' chants filled the main square of Trujillo, a city on Peru's northern coast. Many of them had travelled from Pataz, a province deep in the Andean hinterlands where a gang recently murdered 13 guards working in a gold mine. There's a lot of crime in the mountains, said a man with a white hard hat. In response to the killings, Peru's government imposed a month-long ban on mining in Pataz. But the protesters wanted to return to work. The miners of Pataz are not criminals. We demand the right to work, read a woman's T-shirt. WorkA Week for the Ages in the Annals of Trump Suck-Uppery - The New Yorker (No paywall) Over the past decade, as I watched ambitious, embattled, fearful, or just plain weak interlocutors deal with Donald Trump, it became obvious that many of them have reached the same conclusion about how best to manage the capricious President: with suck-uppery - the more egregious, the better, and ideally combined with a few strategic rounds of golf that Trump is allowed to win. This has proved to be a much safer choice than actually standing up to him. Just ask Volodymyr Zelensky. Or Angela Merkel. Or Mike Pence. In Trump's first term, Poland proposed to name a new permanent U.S. military installation Fort Trump in his honor. Israel thanked him for recognizing its occupation of the Golan Heights by unveiling a new settlement called Trump Heights. At this point in the Trump era, the path of over-the-top praise has been well-trodden by everyone from Lindsey Graham to the late Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, who, in 2018, nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for pursuing a nuclear-disarmament deal with North Korea that did not, in fact, happen. They know what we all know by now: Trump is a reverse-Machiavelli who prefers the praise of the flatterer, no matter how insincere, to the hard counsel of unpleasant truth. WorkWork
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WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkIs it even possible to convince people to stop eating meat? It's a moral atrocity, involving the confinement and slaughter of hundreds of billions of animals globally each year. It's a blight on the environment. It's terrible for slaughterhouse workers, many of whom suffer from PTSD, anxiety, or depression. Yet factory farming produces something almost everyone wants and that has become culturally, economically, and politically entrenched: cheap meat, milk, and eggs. Work WorkWorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkPeter Thiel: Elon Musk has given up on Mars Elon Musk has abandoned his vision of colonising Mars, according to Peter Thiel. In a new interview with Ross Douthat for the New York Times, Thiel has claimed that the Tesla and SpaceX CEO no longer believes a Martian colony is a viable political project for humans to build a new society. According to Musk's [...]Read More... Work WorkWorkWorkWorkWork TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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