Sadly, it’s not a new thing.
If you re interested in why Ireland is so weirdly, unreasonably antisemitic and antiIsrael, here is some of the answer….
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) December 16, 2024
In 1997, I made a tv series @Channel4 about Ireland, Irish nationalism and antisemitism. It happened that my own family were Jewish immigrants to…
I wonder if Bondi will assign some people to look into this?
…is rotting from within. And it’s been doing so for decades, and the stench is starting to get overwhelming.
From Marc Andreeson.
A glimpse into @pmarca’s alternate timeline that we barely avoided
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) December 11, 2024
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BTW, I’m in DC this week at events, so posting will be light.
The preference cascade has arrived.
I certainly feel it.
I’m going to DC tomorrow, so posting may be sporadic, but I hope to find out what’s going on. So posting may be light this week.
The former NASA administrator is the gift that keeps on giving, if you’re into flaming piles of dog poop.
Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin recently released an updated version of his dual-launch Artemis plan to get humans to the Moon. It relies on two SLS Block II launches and a lander that doesn't exist.https://t.co/O1YPM97jnI
— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) December 9, 2024
The Assad regime has fallen. It’s very unlikely to end well.
But it is an opportunity for Israel to enhance its own border security, and it’s taking advantage of it.
What they have not done, and will not do.
I’ve lived here for over four decades, but I hadn’t noticed that it’s apparently become a major new tech hub, with a new nickname, despite the hostile California business environment. El Segundo itself is too small to contain all of the new innovation, so it’s spilling over into Hawthorne, Torrance, and even down to Long Beach. But it seems emblematic that SpaceX started here, over two decades ago, before they outgrew it.
[Update a while later]
Sort of related: How American entrepreneurs can keep us ahead of China in space. General Kwast told me a few years ago that he keeps a copy of my book on his desk.
[Noon update]
Another story about El Segundo.
An interesting history of the American south, and the rise of Trump.