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Ben Ames

@BenBames

Technology reporter at @DCVelocity, covering all things logistics. Can be found paddling boats, bickering with Alexa. On Mastodon at @benbames@newsie.social

 Massachusetts, USA
Joined July 2015
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Nice take by pal and Milton Alum @BenBames Boston Dynamics will deploy fleet of robots in German e-tailer’s DCs dcvelocity.com/articles/5851…
Boston Dynamics will deploy fleet of robots in German e-tailer’s DCs

Boston Dynamics will deploy fleet of robots in German e-tailer’s DCs

Otto Group will manage logistics tasks at 20 facilities over the next two years using four-legged Spot and container-unloading Stretch units

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I'm not a financial advisor, but... buy-and-hold seems like a sound strategy, regardless of the latest crisis
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Dan Piraro, Bizarro.com (3/17/17)
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Burrito emergency, i guess
Film The Police LA (@FilmThePoliceLA) profile pictureFilm The Police LA
@FilmThePoliceLA13 Sep 2022
A food delivery robot forces it’s way across a police crime scene.
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It's gettin real out here
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Sure, mortgage rates are up. And that's partly because they had no more room to keep dropping..
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This recession could last a while, but the S&P500 is still historically high..
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Firearms pass automobiles as the leading cause of death for U.S. children, theweek.com/school-shootings…
Firearms are now the leading cause of death for U.S. children

Firearms are now the leading cause of death for U.S. children

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“It takes a monster to kill children. But to watch monsters kill children again and again and do nothing isn’t just insanity — it’s inhumanity.” — Amanda Gorman
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"We are not forecasting a recession at the current time but are aware of the probabilities. Executives may want to keep their recession playbooks a little closer to hand, just in case." -- a good explainer piece from FTR, today.ftrintel.com/inflation…
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22! "Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, and Lowes are the four highest-volume importers of containerized goods in the U.S. (more than the next 22 importers combined)" -- Susquehanna Financial Group.
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Impossible to overstate how much a single variable -- oil inflation -- drives the full basket of CPI inflation,
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Wherever we are in the cycle of covid surges, it looks like no one's rushing back to the office..
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This stock market is volatile but still historically high
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That orange line 👀 (vessels waiting on berth at the major west coast ports)
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A little surprised that the "transpo, warehousing, and utilities" sector didn't have more quits in 2021..
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Wait, you can make $100k per year walking dogs?
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It may take more than 24 months..
Cathy Roberson (@cmroberson06) profile pictureCathy Roberson@cmroberson0618 Jan 2022
Even if the pandemic ended today, “It will take another two years for the supply chain to adjust, to be able to remove the backlog of cargo." - DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem albawaba.com/business/pr/dp-…
DP World Chair Tells CNN: Fixing Supply Chain Will Take Years | Al Bawaba

DP World Chair Tells CNN: Fixing Supply Chain Will Take Years | Al Bawaba

In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Richard Quest, DP World Group Chairman and CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem discussed supply chain disruption and the r

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And to summarize this week...
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The transportation share of greenhouse gas emissions comes from road transport (11.9%), aviation (1.9%), shipping (1.7%), and rail (0.4%). Altho I'd like to see those stats divided by total tonnage carried..
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