Fun watch. Alert readers will remember Kate Shugak in Anchorage with a nearly empty fridge making a cold ramen salad sans seasoning packet with mayo, mustard, sesame oil, chili oil, and a bunch of asparagus that was almost but not quite past edibility. Yum. (h/t RobR)

Maxwell was the daughter of a British media mogul who embezzled millions from his organization’s pension fund and who drowned falling off his own yacht. She slithered over the pond to the good old US of A and found a substitute in Jeffrey Epstein who was richer than Daddy and had even less of a conscience. I mean, just, you know, ew. (Bloomberg via archive.ph)

And now there’s this:

Quote: “This problem might have been noticed earlier except for one other factor: Elite luxury yachts don’t have to comply with the same robust safety rules as commercial ones. The International Safety Management Code is voluntary for boats registered for private use.”

Evidently immense wealth comes with the conviction that the rules of physics just don’t apply to you. Although perhaps the larger lesson here is that rich people should stick to dry land.
(Wired) (See also Stockton Rush and the Titan submersible.)

Ending apartheid with a fruit they don’t even feckin’ like. Only Ireland.

Fat Bear Week has crowned a new champion. And of course his name is Chunk #FatBearWeek (Alaska Public Media)

Quote for the day

As the President and his Secretary of Defense attacked the modern American Armed Forces as “Fat Generals with too many beards, stupid rules of engagement and special female fitness standards.” or words to that effect, these Generals and Admirals, Command Sargents Major and Command Chief Petty Officers, female and male, Black, White and Brown, sat stony faced and took the grievous insults and verbal tongue lashing like who they are, the best of the best; the Commanders and senior enlisted men of the most powerful military force the world has ever seen, in stony silent fury. —Terrence Goggin

Outro…

Chatter Lagniappe Sunday chenille sisters david nihill fat bear week ghislaine maxwell mike lynch ramen hacks regretting what I said stockton rush tom clancy