The Flyby #2
Meme coins, data cables, and Lewis Hamilton
1. Business
I mean… this week is all about meme coins. I don’t even know what that means, and I’m pretty sure even the people launching them don’t.
Anyway, this past weekend President Trump was set to take office on Monday but not before partaking in the tradition every president has done since Washington: launching a meme coin.
Not to be outdone, Melania then launched her meme coin not two days later. Thankfully, she warned her fans of fake meme coins using her name. Heaven forbid they attempt to buy $MELANIA and accidentally get shilled into buying the S&P 500.
And yes, of course the pastor that delivered the benediction at the inauguration also launched a meme coin. What is this, 2024?
The crypto community was kind enough to send me $Lorenzo, so I have permanently locked my tokens into a Liquidity Pool, so that I will never sell on the community but rather just earn fees as our token continues to flourish!
Amazing day, all the Glory to God!
CA:… pic.twitter.com/kAZFL3mMmb— Pastor Zo (@pastorzosewell) January 20, 2025
2. Health
Villainizing alcohol has been all the rage lately—most loudly from two professionals I like: Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman. But Nassim Taleb disagrees… so, beer’s back on the menu?
STATISTICAL MEDICINE DU JOUR
The relation between alcohol & cancer (& other ailments) is exaggerated.
~4% of cancer caused by alcohol, disproportionately frm heavy drinkers, you can back-up that a light drinker has <1.02 risk factor. [NONLINEARITY OF DOSE-RESPONSE]. Compensate… pic.twitter.com/5gspk8whNx— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) July 22, 2024
3. Science
Chinese AI company, DeepSeek, recently announced it can perform as good as top chat models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT but for a fraction of the monetary and energy cost.
Call me skeptical but I find it a bit hard to believe... Oh yeah because DeepSeek was trained at least partially on OpenAI’s model and can thank Google AI for some of its success.
4. Military
My mind has recently been blown when I learned about the transatlantic communication cables that connect Europe and North America. Massive data cables that span continents and lay on the bottom of the ocean. What.
Apparently these cables transmit 99% of the world’s data and apparently up to $10 trillion a day in financial transactions. Which seems like a ton considering I didn’t even know these existed a week ago.
For years, the Russian spy ship Yantar has loitered European waters, mapping and gathering intel on these underwater cables that connect the world. Last month, the Eagle S dragged its anchor for dozens of miles in a suspected sabotage of these submarine cables. This week, a British nuclear submarine surfaced close to Yantar, making it clear it was being watched.
5. Awesome
The Lewis Hamilton Era has begun at Ferrari. Here’s hoping he finally is competitive again, but I’ll never forgive him for kicking out Carlos.
“However, if he’s so keen on that eighth world title, you’d imagine that he’d have arrived at the factory on day one, keen to know the car’s secrets and how he can extract the most from its vast arsenal of racing trickery. Instead, he turned up in an SUV in a suit and tie and posed for pictures before talking to fans, under the watchful eye of a video drone which luckily was there to capture the moment.”
-Jeremy Clarkson
I will say, if this is true, it seems so classic Lewis.
