I haven’t listened yet (it’s a two-hour interview), but I’m sure it’s interesting:
This has gone live now. Wide ranging; how I got in the field, what worthy goals are for the space enterprise, some of what we need, and of course, advanced propulsion. Gets a little emotional in spots. And 2 hours long ….https://t.co/CyO6dZPone
— Jeff Greason (@JeffGreason) April 16, 2026
Thanks to @tmro https://t.co/iIdePreSGP
Interesting thoughts. One of the purposes of the Senate was to be the wise house, to tamp down the impetuosity of the People’s House. We lost a lot of that with the 17th Amendment.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: “An AI trained on engagement will optimize for engagement. An AI trained on profit will optimize for profit. An AI trained on wisdom would optimize for something else entirely, but we would have to know what wisdom looks like before we could train for it. And we have spent the last century systematically dismantling every institution that once tried to answer that question.”
What kind of odious people would have signed up to get this creature elected in the first place?
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 11, 2026
[Tuesday-morning update]
Eric Swalwell and the Brett Kavanaugh karma train.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer set of scumbags.
Also, how Nancy fed Swalwell’s delusions of adequacy.
[Bumped]
…is merely a strategic pause. And the blockade of Iran is part of it.
[Tuesday-morning update]
I’m going to make many of you spitting mad at me for pointing this out, but now that we have started the naval blockade, Iran’s strategic position (which was already hopeless) has become terminal. They are soon going to run out of storage space for their oil. And we haven’t even…
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) April 13, 2026
Yes, they’re expensive to repair, but these are also one of the reasons that new cars have gotten so ridiculously expensive. I don’t need a heads-up display, or a large LCD screen. Give me knobs.
An interesting thesis: How it accidentally radicalized generations before they could read.
The legacy of Al Gore’s religious polemic, twenty years on.
He, I think more than anyone, was responsible for the politicization of science.
…and his empire of fraud.
Unfortunately, it almost certainly extends to voter fraud.
Optimistic thoughts from Sarah Hoyt.
And she doesn’t even mention space.
A history, and thoughts on NASA’s needed transition, from Edgar Zapata.