📜 MAPPED: Ancient Shipping Routes; World's Most Instagrammed Music Festivals; U.S. Corporate Profits Hit Record High

PLUS, ChatGPT reveals the shocking cost of replying to people who say "thank you"

Map of Ancient Shipping Routes

This map compares the shipping routes from the 18th and 19th century to the shipping routes in 1945. And I love it.

Source: Ben Schmidt

There’s something about ancient shipping routes that really gets me going.

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🤖 OpenAI Has Spent $20M+ Replying to People Saying “thank you”

Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, if you didn’t already know. Here he is testifying before Congress:

Anyways, kinda reminds me of this meme from last week:

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🗺️ Ladies and gentlemen, we got a new map projection.

Step aside Mercator. There’s a new projection in town.

It’s called the “Hellereal Boreal Triaxial Projection”.

Source: u/marbellamarvel:

I love how you can see how big the pacific is on this projection.

👉 Here are a few other projections, for reference:

Source: Brittanica

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Mapping the Depths of the Great Lakes

Lake Superior deep af

Lake Erie shallow af

The More You Know 🌈

Source: u/multi_tasker01:

Bathymetric was a new word for me.

Webster defines it as “the measurement of water depth at various places in a body of water”.

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🏖️ Population Change in Iberia (1990-2020)

Another hitter from Milos Makes Maps:

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Most Instagrammed Music Festivals in the World

Source: genuine impact via u/giteam

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Economist Magazine Cover Today vs. 6 Months Age Shows Shocking Reversal

From Market Sentiment:

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U.S. Corporate Profits Hit Record High

From Econovisuals:

CEOs going JP Gottrockets on the bit.

JP Gottrockets, the boss from The Jetsons

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🎶 Banger of the Day

The Fiery Furnaces

Today we have an old classic from the era of Indie Rock.

Blueberry Boat by The Fiery Furnaces

This is prob favorite song from this legendary brother-sister duo. Make sure to listen to the whole thing because it doesn’t start ripping until a few minutes into the track.

• I was once lucky enough to see these guys play live at a very small show in a University cafe.
  

SIDE NOTE: On Instagram, we pair each post with a song that bangs. A lot of people don’t know that we have a comprehensive Spotify playlist with every song we ever played. Click here to check it out. 🎶

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Hey will you do me a favor and pay it forward?

I’m just started this newsletter a month ago. I have like 750 subscribers so far, but I’d really like some more! If you open this link in incognito mode, you can put your friends email and subscribe them too:

https://www.wehavethedata.net/subscribe

*If you’re already logged into Substack then you might have to open it in incognito mode.

• Or just forward them the freaking email.
  

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