…using AI?
Faster, please.
Category Archives: Business
Totalitarian Twitter
The service has just blocked all of my accounts (including my parody @HealthDotGov) account from posting, with no explanation other than:
Tweet from @HealthDotGov failed: To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, your account is temporarily locked. You cannot use the team account while your account is locked.
This is outrageous. No moron who objects to something that I tweet should be allowed to do this.
[Thursday-morning update]
It didn’t seem to last long, and things are back to normal now. Still no idea what happened, though.
Bridenstine
Eric Berger says he’s likely to be approved as NASA administrator.
[Thursday-morning update]
Buzz Aldrin and Greg Autry: It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to run NASA.
My Computer Problems
One of the reasons that posting has been non-existent (in addition to prepping for a hurricane) is that we came to Florida with a broken laptop. Our Toshiba Satellite (a year and a half old) is flaking out, refusing to boot, and when you can cajole it to, it will die in mid session. That means that the only computers we have are our phones and Patricia’s iPad. Which means that I haven’t had a keyboard (other than finger painting on glass, which is largely useless).
I ordered a Bluetooth keyboard from Amazon on Sunday, and it arrived today. I’m typing this with it on the iPad, and I don’t feel crippled any more, but I still have to stab at the glass to make things happen. The mouse is supposed to arrive tomorrow, which will allow me to clear out my mailbox.
I’ll probably write a long essay sometime soon about how much I hate Steve Jobs and his hatred of useful user interfaces over aesthetic ones.
[Late Saturday evening update, as the storm approaches]
It’s not utterly impossible to blog from an iPad, but it’s close enough to it that it’s not going to happen. It is almost impossible to copy and paste, or to embed a tweet. Because apparently Steve decided that mice would not be allowed with His Preciousssss.
[September 19th update]
Welp, the authorized Toshiba repair place says it needs a new mobo and battery. Over $500 for a machine we paid $350 for a year and a half ago. I’m going to go pick it up and see if I can find some used parts. Despite the fact that it only had a year’s warranty, you’d think that Toshiba would be a little embarrassed to have it fail so soon.
[Bumped]
Global Warming
…may be happening more slowly than the models predicted.
You don’t say. But those of us who were appropriately skeptical about the models at the time were called “deniers” and worse.
[via Iain Murray]
[Update a few minutes later]
Tim Ball: Climate models can’t even approximate reality. The hubris of these people who think they can model climate with any confidence whatsoever is astounding.
A Private Chinese Space Company
…wants to emulate SpaceX. I take this much more seriously than anything the Chinese government claims to plan.
The Space Industry
It’s “a fantastic time to be in” it.
I agree. Better late than never.
Jeff Sessions
So Trump called him an idiot, and told him to quit? Well, he is, and he should. But why does he still have his job? For someone who became famous in part for publicly firing people, Trump sure seems to have a hard time actually doing it.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Speaking of idiots, Joe Biden is saying that people who support due process under the law are just like Nazis. Right.
Ron Paul
Boeing and Lockmart seem to be getting their money’s worth for their campaign donations to him. But while he’s clearly a tool, he’s never been the sharpest one in the shed. As Eric notes, the irony is that, prior to SpaceX, it was ULA had an actual monopoly on Air Force launches.
New Glenn
It will now have a seven-meter fairing.
This is another nail in the coffin of SLS.