Elsewhere on Wednesday . . .
— Defending silent protagonists in video games (Hookshot, Charge Beam, Revive)
— How China skirts tariffs into the US, and why that might be OK (FreightWaves)
— Inside the seminal ‘Transformers’ AI paper (Wired)
— American tipping etiquette is insane. Just pay people a proper wage already (NPR)
— Leave AT1s alone! (TwentyFour Asset Management)
— Larry’s letter (BlackRock)
— An Influential Economics Forum Has a Troubling Surplus of Trolls (Bloomberg)
— Inside the textile workshop where the past comes to life (Smithsonian)