Numlock News: March 27, 2025 • Avocados, Almendro, YOASOBI

Mar 27, 2025

Dunk

Nike Dunks emerged in the 1980s and now account for 18 percent of Nike’s entire footwear sales, or about $5.85 billion worth of shoes. Generally, Nike wants to rotate its brands to keep ahead of the trend cycle. However, the sheer size of the business around this particular basketball shoe could cause serious issues if the style goes out of fashion. The company plans to dial back on the classic sneaker style by as much as 70 percent to avert that issue. Essentially, they’ve made plans to shrunk the Dunk chunk lest Nike slunk into the kind of funk that could junk the brand and sunk the stock.

Kim Bhasin, Bloomberg

Almendro

A new study found a tree in Panama’s tropical forests that seems to have evolved to be really good at getting struck by lightning. A new study published in New Phytologist finds that the almendro tree is especially resilient to lightning strikes, which can actually kill off parasitic vines and nearby trees that could compete with the almendro. From 2014 to 2019, researchers were able to pinpoint 94 lightning strikes in a patch of forest in Panama, observing that the almendro trees are great at surviving the damage. All 9 trees that were struck survived with only slight damage, while similar trees from other species took 6 times as much damage and 64 percent died within 2 years of the strike. Indeed, living near an almendro tree increased the likelihood of dying during a lightning strike by 48 percent.

Erik Stokstad, Science

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AMC Entertainment announced it will open 65 auditoriums with ScreenX and 4DX capabilities after cutting a deal with CJ 4DPlex, the company that pioneered the tech in Korea. ScreenX emerged as a way to get bigger screens into smaller cinemas by essentially wrapping the screen around the audience on the left and right walls of the cinema, presenting a neat panoramic effect even in movie theaters too small to be upgraded to IMAX or RPX. The deal included 40 4DX auditoriums — the ones that have the moving chairs and smells and wind, the “But we have Soarin’ at home” of movie theaters — and 25 ScreenX locations, with some even in the United States. Globally, there are about 430 ScreenX installations and 780 4DXs. Given that the premium tickets are the main engine of growth in the exhibition, that’s probably only going to go up.

Carolyn Giardina, Variety

Zeal of the Convert

A new global survey from Pew Research Center sought to find out the percentage of respondents in a given country who said they have switched religions and that their current religious situation is different than the religious category in which they were raised. In the United States, that figure is 28 percent, which actually comes in around the middle of the pack, alongside Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia. In Mexico, 21 percent of adults had switched religions, in Greece the figure is just 14 percent, in Kenya 7 percent, in Hungary 6 percent and in India 2 percent. On the other end of the spectrum, 34 percent of people from Australia, Japan, Germany and France are in a different religious category compared to when they were as kids. That is 38 percent in Canada, 40 percent in Spain and a remarkable 50 percent in South Korea. In most of those countries, the big winner was “religiously unaffiliated.”

Kristen Lesage, Kelsey Jo Starr and William Miner, Pew Research Center

J-Pop

After seeing the global success of K-Pop, Japan wants to make sure that its local variety of pop, J-Pop, isn’t left in the dust of the hallyu. Japan’s got a lot going for it — it’s the second-largest recorded music market in the world, behind just the United States, even if it is only around 23 percent of the size of America’s. Music that manages to be exported globally tends to be the stuff packaged with anime, and Japanese artists have generally struggled to break into the Billboard charts. In Japan’s music industry, lots of eyes are on the ongoing American concerts of YOASOBI, a duo that’s huge in Japan and is seen as a potential global contender after performances at Lollapalooza and Coachella.

Glenn Peoples, Billboard

Plastic

A new estimate puts the plastic waste resulting from just Coca-Cola products at 1.33 billion pounds annually by 2030. This comes after the world’s largest producer of beverages backs off pledges to improve recycling and cut plastic use. As a result, the company’s plastic use is projected to exceed 4.13 million metric tons per year, a lot of which will end up in aquatic ecosystems.

Issan Ahmed, Agence France-Presse

Avocados

Fruit and vegetable giant Fresh Del Monte just bought Avolio, a Ugandan supplier of bulk crude and edible avocado oil. If avocado oil wasn’t already the next big thing, this kind of acquisition from one of the titans of the produce aisle all but assures its position, with current estimates seeing the avocado oil market growing from $637 million last year to $1.2 billion by 2032. Fresh Del Monte is particularly exposed to the banana business — bananas were responsible for a third of sales in 2024 — and a dip in the banana biz meant the whole company’s revenue took a ding. The company already plans to scale up Avolio until it’s processing 140 metric tons of avocados per day.

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Numlock News: March 26, 2025 • Nuclear Fusion, Napster, Wild Horses

Mar 26, 2025

An Omen

Whatever remains of “Napster” has been sold off for the umpteenth time to a media company that you’ve never heard of for $207 million, continuing the legacy of a filesharing service bringing the music industry to its knees before imploding. Launched originally in 1999 as the most successful of the peer-to-peer file sharing services, Napster was crushed by lawsuits and shut down in 2001, and filed for bankruptcy a year later. Still, assets remained, and a corpse with a known name can have juice in Silicon Valley. So in 2003, its branding and logos were snapped up by Roxio at the bankruptcy auction, the same company that then rebranded the doomed iTunes rival Pressplay with Napster’s more well-known name. That was then sold off to Best Buy in 2008 for $121 million, which then merged it into Rhapsody, which phased out the brand in favor of Napster yet again. In 2020, this was sold to MelodyVR, a virtual reality concerts company. Given that’s a clearly stupid idea with no juice, it was then sold yet again to Hivemind and Algorand, which are Web3 and blockchain companies. That went about as well as you’d expect, hence the recent sale. The buyer this time is Infinite Reality, a company focused on “3D and AI-powered experiences,” which sounds about right. All I’m saying is that for the past two decades, an industry buying Napster has been god’s way of telling you that you make too much money.

Scharon Harding, Ars Technica

Wild Horses

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management annually rounds up wild horses roaming in the American West on public lands, as their unmitigated presence can have negative effects on the areas’ ecosystem. As of March 1, the Bureau is reporting that there are 73,130 wild horses on the range, down just 400 from last year’s count of 73,520 — that’s the lowest number in eight years. According to the agency, there are around 47,000 excess wild horses and burros in the west, meaning that current levels are way too high to avoid damage to soil and water. The issue is that at a moment when budgets are being cut, caring for the horses that have been caught is too pricey. As it stands, the Bureau has 68,143 wild horses and burros in captivity, which is approaching the maximum that it can handle. The Bureau can only adopt out around 5,000 to 7,000 horses in its care every year, and even that program is now on hold after federal courts decided it violated federal law. Without mitigation, wild horse herds can double every 4 years, presenting a bit of an impasse.

Scott Streater, E&E News

Unification

In a somewhat surprising final twist to the saga of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the Unification Church in Japan has been ordered to dissolve following an investigation spurred by his killing. This requires some context: The Unification Church, known officially as Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and derisively called “Moonies” by its detractors, is a controversial South Korean church that made inroads in Japan beginning in the 1960s. It’s a controversial religious group, with many who have left it saying they were forced or coerced to donate their life savings. The church enjoyed relative protection thanks to close ties with the Liberal Democratic Party, which has controlled Japan’s government for most of its post-war democracy. An internal investigation found that 179 of 379 LDP lawmakers had interacted with the party. This came to a violent head when LDP stalwart Shinzo Abe was assassinated. The killer blamed the church for bankrupting his family and exploiting his mother, blamed Abe’s party for protecting them and demanded its dissolution. Upon investigation, authorities evidently thought the guy made some pretty valid points, and pretty much every one of his demands have been subsequently met after a careful consideration of the evidence by the government and courts. This is a pretty rare outcome for a guy who shot a former head of government. The Unification Church becomes just the third religious group after the Myokakuji group (convicted of fraud) and Aum Shinrikyo (which attacked the subway with nerve gas) to be revoked.

Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press and Shaimaa Khalil and Kelly Ng, BBC News

Algorithms

A new study from Ampere Media found that the algorithmic recommendations of streaming services have become the third-ranked reason people choose to view a given television show or film, with 26 percent citing it as a contributing factor. Of the respondents, 46 percent cited the algorithm as behind their liking of a genre, while only 35 percent cited having people they like in the show as the reason. This means that the algorithm has now surpassed word of mouth (cited by only 23 percent of respondents) and good reviews (cited by just 21 percent). What’s particularly interesting is where streaming recommendations stand country by country: China, the United Kingdom and India all tied for the highest percentage who cited the algorithm at 30 percent. The U.S. was pretty much average, but 3 countries came in way lower, holding the least respect for the algorithm (coming in at just 19 percent). All of them have a rich history of cinema and unique domestic film culture: Italy, Japan and most obviously of all, the French. That’s somewhat comforting; it will be a cold day in hell when snooty French cinéastes pick a movie based on the directions of an American robot.

Erik Gruenwedel, Media Play News

European League

This week, NBA owners will review a plan to launch a league in Europe, a new venture with 8 to 10 franchises in it, and with up to 4 spots for teams in the EuroLeague to compete in the NBA league. Franchises in London or Paris are being eyed to be worth $500 million, and the NBA is selling franchise slots to outside groups while also retaining 50 percent of the equity just to get their beaks wet. No formal vote is scheduled, but it follows a study of how the league might be able to muscle in on Europe, where basketball is very popular and has generated several hundreds of millions of dollars per year for the league — the league plays 40 games a year outside of North America — but which after some tire kicking the NBA thinks might be closer to a $3 billion business.

Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico

Lithium 6

Nuclear fusion reactors require lithium 6 (an isotope of lithium) as fuel, and while the process is still experimental, if it ever hits commercial-scale energy production, we’re going to need a lot of lithium 6. Traditionally, it’s made in a manner that uses a lot of mercury and causes so much environmental damage that the process has been banned since 1963. I want to be clear, do you have any idea how bad for the environment something has to be for the American government to ban it in the early sixties? Our current supplies of lithium 6 are whatever we had lying around at Oak Ridge as a result of nuclear warhead production, but the supply is limited. This is coming to a head, as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France will use most of the global reserves of 25 to 30 kilograms of tritium, which can be bred from lithium 6. If it actually works we’ll need lithium 6 by the ton, so how to score more lithium 6 safely is an important obstacle. The exciting news is that a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology believes it’s found a way to extract lithium 6 from brine without mercury, and can reach the level of enrichment suitable for fusion fuel after 25 4-hour cycles.

Jacek Krywko, Scientific American

Comics

The comic book industry was rocked by Diamond Comic Distributors declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which spelled serious problems for the distribution of comics in the United States. For decades, Diamond was the middleman of the industry, serving as the intermediary connecting publishers with the thousands of mom-and-pop comic book stores that dotted the country. It was the main conduit through which a complicated, diverse and inexpensive product made its way to lots and lots of geographically distributed businesses that had never consolidated. A lot of that changed with the pandemic, but nevertheless, Diamond’s disappearance would have still caused massive and cascading supply issues. There is positive news: after a reportedly competitive auction, it’s been bought out of bankruptcy by Alliance Entertainment, which is a distributor and wholesaler of tabletop games, music and movies. This is the kind of steady hand that publishers and retailers had been hoping could take on Diamond’s role. The acquisition will be financed by an existing $120 million revolving credit facility that will be increased to $160 million.

Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool and Milton Griepp, ICV2

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Numlock News: March 25, 2025 • Dodecane, Radiosondes, Fuji

Mar 25, 2025

Mobsters

The Alto Knights, a Robert De Niro crime movie that became a pet project for Warner Bros, had a bad showing over the weekend. CEO David Zaslev at a budget of $45 million, bombed over the weekend, bringing in just $3.2 million. The reality is that The Alto Knights — where De Niro plays dual, dueling roles — is a vestige from an earlier era, as mobster movies have failed to play at the box office in any significant way for years. Americans are so over the genre that 3 of the top 4 grossing locations for the film were, in fact, in Canada.

Rebecca Rubin, Variety

Congestion Pricing

New York City’s congestion pricing program, the first of its kind in the United States, is consistently performing as intended, bringing in $100.6 million in revenue over the first two months of operation. Even after operating costs are factored in, it is well on track to bring in the $500 million annually that it intended to produce, which will go on to fund infrastructure projects that benefit the metropolitan area. In February, an average of 481,907 vehicles enter the congestion zone south of 60th Street daily.

Sri Taylor and Myles Miller, Bloomberg

Technically Also Congestion Pricing

Last year Mount Fuji in Japan drew 204,316 hikers, down from the 221,322 hikers in 2023 thanks to new fees implemented to access the trails in an attempt to reduce overcrowding. Last week authorities announced they would introduce a flat 4,000 yen (US$27) fee to hike all 4 of Mount Fuji’s main trails, increasing the 2,000 yen fee that Yamanashi Prefecture charged to climb the popular Yoshida trail and adding a fee to the Fujinomiya, Subashiri and Gotemba trails overseen by the Shizuoka Prefecture. The prefecture had been weighing a fee between 3,000 and 5,000 yen for their trails. Japan’s tourism boom continues, with a record 36.9 million travelers visiting last year, up 15.6 percent from the previous high set in 2019.

Radiosondes

Budget cuts to the National Weather Service and reduced staffing mean that some offices of the agency are cutting back on weather balloon launches, which will limit the data collected and fed into the sophisticated computing systems that model weather outcomes. In late February, Kotzebue, Alaska suspended balloon launches owing to staff shortages. In March, the offices in Albany, New York and Gray, Maine announced they expected disruptions to launch schedules, with Albany missing all 14 of its morning launches since. Last week, Omaha, Nebraska and Rapid City, South Dakota announced suspensions to launches, meaning a big gap in the middle of the country. Additionally, 6 other offices announced they would cut balloon launches from 2 to 1 per day. This poses large issues if allowed to continue. Normally, weather stations around the world launch balloons at midnight and noon Greenwich Mean Time. The balloons then ascend to 100,000 feet and radio back atmospheric conditions with a radiosonde in a snapshot extending upward. Radiosonde data is the second-highest most impactful form of weather data collection behind only the ATMS systems on NOAA’s satellites and is crucial for accurate forecasts. We can deal with some balloons getting lost, or some locations failing to report — Tallahassee, Florida has had a helium shortage and Chatham, Massachusetts can’t access its launch site anymore because of erosion — but if the weather balloon system gets choked off, weather reports will suffer.

Matt Lanza, The Eyewall

Congestion

The asteroid 2024 YR4 is the worrisome rock that was held to be in actual danger of colliding with Earth, but it was ruled out for a collision with our planet in 2032. That said, 2024 YR4 orbits the Sun 3 times for every 1 time Jupiter does, which means that it takes an orbit of around 4 years, meaning it’ll have close calls with Earth well after the foreseeable future. That 3:1 relationship with Jupiter is rare, and it’s rare for a selfishly bad reason: asteroids with a 3:1, 5:2, or 2:1 resonance with Jupiter exist in very small numbers mostly because lots of them have collided at one point or another with one of the inner planets over the past millions of years. The few that remain will probably have another shot at it eventually. We currently know of only 40 percent of the asteroids that are large enough to cause regional damage and close enough to Earth’s orbit to actually do the job, and an upcoming surveyor will do a good job of getting that up to 90 percent as mandated by Congress.

Martin Connors, The Conversation

Pricing

Researchers at University College London have found a way to track coordinated pump-and-dump crypto coin schemes pervading the internet. A new paper describing their tool, Perseus, indicates that the world of crypto pump-and-dumps involves just a small group of people making some real good money off the backs of everyone else. The tool analyzed messages sent between buyers and sellers on Telegram and detected 438 entities who were responsible for $3.2 trillion in artificial crypto coin trading, making something like $250 million a year through their coordinated price manipulation efforts.

Bob Yirka, Tech Xplore

Organics

In an exciting revelation, NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the largest organic compounds ever found on Mars within a 3.7 billion-year-old rock sample collected in an ancient Martian lakebed. Specifically, rovers on Mars had previously detected several classes of organic compounds that had chemical structures of up to six chained carbons, which is impressive but can also emerge from non-biological chemistry. The new finding is exciting because it is the detection of decane (C₁₀H₂₂), undecane (C₁₁H₂₄) and dodecane (C₁₂H₂₆) at the levels of tens of pmol. This is enough to get the attention of researchers since those kinds of chemicals might come from long-chain carboxylic acids. Those long chains of carbon could very well have come from abiotic sources, lifeless chemical reactions. However, the reason for excitement is that they’re also what you would find in the cell membranes of all life on Earth. In other words, it’s not a smoking gun, but if a gun was shot it’s exactly the kind of smell you’d expect to find.

Ian Sample, The Guardian

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Numlock News: March 24, 2025 • Poisoned Apple, Inescapable Labyrinth, New England

Mar 24, 2025

By Walt Hickey

Welcome back!

Poisoned Apple

Snow White made $43 million domestically and $44.3 million abroad, making only $87.3 million and missing expectations of a $100 million global opening. Granted, this kind of Disney movie is pretty much made with the expectation that in a few months, kids with Disney+ subscriptions are going to play it on repeat regardless of the quality. Either way, it’s a weak opening for a piece of Disney IP that could not be more essential to the company’s history and the inception of the animated brand. The accountants have certainly seen value in this era of remaking the classic Disney animated library, with the exercise producing 3 billion-dollar grossers. However, audiences well and truly haven’t — only 3 out of 13 remakes have a higher rotten tomato score than the original, and that’s with recency bias on their side.

Tiana McGee, Reuters and Rebecca Rubin, Variety

Geology

The EarthScope research project put seismometers all over the continental United States and for the first time, covered the areas outside of the earthquake hotspots with great detail. The appeal was to use the data from the seismometers to figure out how earthquakes traveled through different parts of the crust and mantle. Researchers would then use that data to construct our understanding of what parts of the crust are warm, cold, strong, weak, etc. This has been a revelation in places like New England, which was long held to be tectonically boring but is actually very interesting — the crust there is of varying thickness. Some areas contain a thick, 45-kilometer-deep crust stemming from the original eastern North American landmass, while other areas are much thinner and only 25 to 30 kilometers thick. Plus, there’s evidence that parts of the crust and upper mantle slid on top of one another in a very unusual geometry, doubling the boundaries between crust and mantle. This situation — a boiling, complicated, twisted cauldron of intense pressure barely held together by either incredibly thick or thin skin entirely contingent on where you poke with little reason whatsoever — should come as little surprise to anyone who has ever gotten wicked hammered with a New Englander.

Alexandra Witze, Knowable Magazine

Money Laundering

The scamming industry is big in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia, and centered around cities like Sihanoukville. A crucial lever within this industry is the money laundering element, those who can very quickly take an amount of money wired into a scammer’s account and wash it through a number of accounts spanning a global network of fences. These matchmakers usually get around a 15 percent cut of the scam, lining up the accounts that will filter the stolen funds into the legitimate economy. Telegram channels with over 400,000 users are where the action happens, with local and politically-connected banks often facilitating the transactions.

Selam Gebrekidan and Joy Dong, The New York Times

Labyrinth

Countermeasures against AI scrapers that use overloading systems with traffic designed to purloin content for training have gone mainstream. Following clever anti-scraping strategies like the Nepthnenes software that pushes AI crawlers into neverending mazes of fake content, the big guns are out. Cloudflare has announced AI Labyrinth, a new feature that combats unauthorized AI scraping by feeding back fake AI-generated content and wasting their time, which is big news for a company the scale of Cloudflare. According to the company, AI crawlers generate 50 billion requests to their network of protected sites daily, which accounts for 1 percent of all web traffic they process.

Benj Edwards, Ars Technica

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive remains a pillar of the historical record of the internet, recently gaining prominence due to the change in the U.S. administration and the subsequent deletion or removal of 73,000 web pages. The Internet Archive does all sorts of crucial work in ensuring that the World Wide Web doesn’t collapse out from underneath us due to “link rot,” where citations and links go to web pages that no longer have hosts anymore, depriving us of a crucial element of the historical record. The Archive has a staff of 120 and a budget of just $28 million, and Wikipedia is an example where it really shines, rescuing a daily average of 10,000 dead links on Wikipedia pages and repairing a lifetime record of 23 million rotten links on Wikipedia so far.

Emma Bowman, NPR

Friday

A new study published in JAMA found that patients who got medical procedures right before the weekend tended to suffer more complications than those who got surgery at the beginning of the week. The study analyzed over 450,000 patients receiving one of the 25 most common surgeries from 2007 to 2019 and found that overall, people who had pre-weekend surgeries on Friday (or a Thursday before a long weekend) were 5 percent more likely to experience complications within a year compared to those who got surgery on Mondays (or a Tuesday in the event of a long weekend). This, if anything, means that a diagnosis of “a case of the Mondays” may, in fact, confer significant health benefits, so hey, could be worse.

Dylan Scott, Vox

Monkeys

The island nation of Mauritius has swiftly risen to be the major exporter of research monkeys to the United States, exporting tens of thousands of the animals, bringing about a new and controversial industry to the country and opening new political rifts. For years, China was the world leader in supplying long-tailed macaques, which are crucial for biomedical research. They exported about 30,000 of the animals as recently as 2018. The pandemic shut that down, and Cambodia became the main exporter to the U.S., but scandals around captive-bred versus wild-caught sourcing also shut that down. Now, Mauritius has stepped in, providing 60 percent of U.S. imports. Even so the global total of research macaques imported to the U.S. was down by a third from 2022 to 2023.

Refael Kubersky, Science

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