Remember that there are righteous people among us, always. Left: Netherlands, 1942 Right: Illinois, 2025

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

So @bencollins.bsky.social woke up today and chose violence on my people.

Stoke Space, one of the Seattle area's brightest space startups, says $510 million in fresh funding brings total capital raised to nearly a billion dollars - and should clear the way for the first launches of its fully reusable Nova rocket next year. www.geekwire.com/2025/stoke-s...

Leaving the Kennedy Space Center today, got a nice view of a New Glenn first stage heading to the pad…

Watched a UHD Bluray for the first time on my new OLED TV, instead of the last 3 months of streaming. Yeah... Might have to pick a few more up. Noticeable difference on a good screen, particularly for movies with such good visuals.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Okay, so the very funniest of part of this article is that I bought Eisenhower's biography at Powell's.

Upgraded to iOS 26 last night. So far... I actually kind of like it. Good software UX used to have personality. The flat design trend of the last few years killed that everywhere. Apple Aero is at least kinda bringing back some personality and I like it.

"Let's see what's out there..." It was 38 years ago today (Sept 28, 1987) that "Encounter at Farpoint" had its premiere broadcast, introducing Capt Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D. I'm proud to have been a member of the team who made the show at Paramount.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

NASA's IMAP mission lifts off on its million mile journey to study our sun's heliosphere.

Working on it. He's got a bit of a head start, though.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The IMAP spacecraft will send a data stream 24/7 on space weather for use by the entire world. Not particularly common for spacecraft to do that!

Super cool mission. Great science. Also I'm biased because I worked on it, just a tiny bit!

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

SpaceX's Public Affairs released a comment today talking about Starship operations at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that contained a questionable Blast Danger Area for the massive rocket. Sources: www.spacex.com/updates#mult... www.faa.gov/space/stakeh...

I was in the engineering room for this capsule's first flight and the high altitude escape test. When I joined Blue it was just a bare structure on the floor. Crazy that it's retired now. Hope it gets a good home.

Every Pandora station I generate walks the graph of all music until it reaches the Tron Legacy soundtrack.

'Liberalism is always doomed to failure' is just a very odd thing to say after roughly 250 years of liberalism being on the march. In 1750 there were between 0 and 1 liberal countries on Earth, depending on the line you want to cut the line on the Dutch Republic. Today there are ~80 of them.

ah, well

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

NASA personnel must follow EOs and treat the President's Budget Request as a mandate. Regardless of their personal feelings. Remember this when HQ people try to say the PBR isn't catastrophic for NASA science. No space people I talk to outside of the agency think NASA is ok.

The only way you didn't go crazy from computer is if you know what really whips the llamas ass

Out of all the insanity coming out about the shooter, seeing older journalists and online accounts parse internet memes like they’re Greek and Roman texts might be one of the most surreal aspects of this whole thing.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

#AA11 #UA175 #AA77 #UA93

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

We were shopping for an EV recently, and this was a hard veto. Disqualified the MachE in particular that we were otherwise interested in.

Replans to accommodate NASA funding constraints ironically increased the cost of the Dragonfly rotorcraft mission to Saturn's moon Titan by nearly $1 billion and delayed launch by more than two years, according to the space agency's internal watchdog. Full OIG report here: go.nasa.gov/3JSiEtm

Still biased, but still the coolest mission in development. Can't wait to see it fly.

I'm going to put aside the weird feeling of seeing a saint born after I was, but since we know the guy was big on halo 2 there are now people who in 2004-2005 got fragged by a saint on xbox live

Now this is a headline. Front page lead in NYT. And very strong, no-BS story by @julianbarnes.bsky.social Barnes and Catie Edmondson. Respect, to all involved. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Given how often this is literally a test in engineering interviews... I'm gonna go with "better"

Things I didn't know I needed.

True in the space biz for many, too.

#FAA #SPACEX Noise Distrubances

For the first time in about 15 years, I'm rewatching Firefly. Faded from the pop culture quite a bit over the years, but Whedon's assholery aside, it holds up very well and hasn't aged a bit. Still as original and funny as ever.

One thing about never-Trump Republicans, during Trump II particularly: They understand that the world they knew is dead. They have no investment in either reviving the former GOP (because they understand it's impossible) or maintaining the pre-2016 Democratic Party (because it's not their party).

we really do need to figure out how this guy managed to create an environment where he can say "i wasted an amount of taxpayer dollars so large I can't even tell you how much it was" & it doesn't cause immediate national outrage

Think I'm going to build a sign and stand outside Microsoft HQ in Redmond to protest against the removal of vertical taskbars in Win11.

Another Hugo Award has successfully passed through the airport after a thorough inspection.

Experimental philosophy

I'm waiting!