Favorites June 6th 2022
Why not just ship grain overland?
Ukraine (and Russia) use railroad tracks with different spacing than European tracks. In college my Russian Literature & Society professor said this has a defense purpose which is apparently not true.
slowboring.com/p/russias-war-…
So today I learned that there are 4 different rail gauges in Europe!
The iPhone camera is so much better than the ones they're putting in even the newest laptops, so there's no doubt that this is a cool feature. But it looks real dumb.
it's going to be a couple weeks before we find out whether this is real, but it appears that the US has managed to stop or at least suspend the Yemen war
In other news "Biden announced plans to visit Saudi Arabia three days ago"
Threads
• Thread about the terrorist attack on a Santa Clara power substation in 2013. While I had heard about it before, I had never heard this level of detail and it's quite frightening.
• Short thread comparing modern cyber warfare with the development of sonar.