Thursday assorted links

1. Malthusian migrations: the French diaspora is relatively small because the French had their fertility transition earlier.

2. About 31% of Bitcoin is potentially vulnerable to quantum computing attacks?  Here is the associated project.

3. New way to visit an art museum, using o1.

4. New observations on India and America.

5. “The prison admission rate of Black Americans has fallen, but the prison admission rate of White Americans with no college education has dramatically increased for all offense categories.”

6. “Sun Ra Arkestra legend Marshall Allen releases debut album aged 100.”

7. Does this asteroid contain the building blocks of life?

8. Basil Halperin on real interest rates and AGI.