Thoughts on the various forms of complexity in evaluating it.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The Union Station Debacle
Is there any possibility of reforming NEPA?
Climate, The Movie
It’s out and available for free on line. Spread the word.
The Censorship Industrial Complex
What will it do next?
The Space Force
Rick Tumlinson thinks it needs more vision. I agree.
CSI Orbit
The physical and legal issues of investigating murders in space.
The Google Gemini Fiasco
It wasn’t an accident; Google’s corporate culture is badly broken.
Search-Engine Mystery
I’ve been doing searches for a couple months on “mann steyn simberg trial,” but very little new shows up over time, and it mostly links to articles supportive of Mann. As a result, I had no idea that Just The News had been (like almost no other media outlet) doing good reporting on it since the trial began. Does anyone else want to try?
BS From The FAA
They are grounding Starship until they are satisfied with the mishap investigation.
They have no legal basis for doing this. There was nothing about that flight that endangered the public, which is the only thing they should be concerned about. They do not do mission assurance, and SpaceX shouldn’t have to wait for them to reissue the license to try again.
[Update a few minutes later]
How thirteen different news outlets covered the SpaceX flight.
Doubling Computer Speed
…at half the power, using existing hardware. This seems like a big deal, but I suspect it means rewriting a lot of code. I’m wondering if AI could help with the code rewrite?