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Curiosities for 24 - 🦃🍂🥧🏈 -> 30 November 2025
It Makes Sense to Someone, Somewhere’
Samsung brings ads to US fridges.
Samsung is calling it a pilot program for now, which — I kid you not — is meant to “strengthen the value” of owning a Samsung smart fridge.
Have screen - will advertise.
Top 5
01. Can the Golden Age of Costco Last?
When Costco began sourcing most of its farmed salmon (six hundred thousand pounds per week) from Norway rather than Chile, it caused upheaval in the global fishing industry.
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02. Retail Stores May Soon Use Drones to Chase Thieves.
When a store’s security team spots shoplifters leaving the scene, they can activate the drone, which is docked on the roof. Equipped with video and thermal cameras, the drone can track thieves escaping on foot or in a vehicle. Its video feed can then be sent to the company’s security team and transmitted directly to local police.
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03. Five o’clock dinner crowd: why are young Americans eating so early?
Then there’s the issue of making reservations, which has become a bit of a bloodsport. Reservation scalpers are known to gobble up prime tables as soon as they become available, then sell them to the highest bidder.
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04. Quibi was right: How a $1.7 billion failure predicted the future of the internet.
The conventional wisdom was something like: Television is for olds → These guys are trying to do television on phones → The olds who watch TV don’t watch stuff on their phones, and the people who watch stuff on their phones don’t want TV, you dummies.
05. Chinese Company Reportedly Stole Charles Leclerc’s Brainwave Data Among Others.
It remains unclear if the athletes who used the headband are aware of how their brainwave data is being used.
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MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system.
From Liverpool to Wrexham, are U.S. owners taking over English football?
Tangents
Quote
Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
Best for the week ahead!
-Tim