We saw it a week ago and, while it was a good movie, I wasn’t as blown away by it as many seem to have been. But Matt Shapiro thought it was great.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Cats And Cancer
They could be useful in understanding it for humans as well.
This is of particular current interest, given that we just spent several thousand dollars for surgery for one of the cats to remove a tumor in the small intestine. Fortunately, it appears that they got it all, and the prognosis for the 7YO is good.
New-Car “Features”
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.
China’s Weapons
Their failure in Venezuela and Iran will have consequences. They probably already have. And good ones for the good guys. Taiwan can probably breathe a little easier now.
Convenient BS
The legacy of Al Gore’s religious polemic, twenty years on.
He, I think more than anyone, was responsible for the politicization of science.
What A Time To Be Alive
Optimistic thoughts from Sarah Hoyt.
And she doesn’t even mention space.
A Turning Point?
A history, and thoughts on NASA’s needed transition, from Edgar Zapata.
With The Success (So Far) Of Artemis 2
The Current Generation And Space
I've written about this extensively over the years (this, depressingly, is from almost a decade ago: https://t.co/4mnbzkPsvN), but the reason we didn't continue on from Apollo was that we did it the wrong way, the most expensive possible way, because of the "end of the decade"… https://t.co/BjXuPmKvgk
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 2, 2026
How Could I Have Been So Foolish?
I've come to realize today, on the dawn of our first return to the Moon in over half a century, how wrong I've been about space policy for the past decades. Seeing the majestic Space Launch System with its mighty SRBs sitting on the pad now, poised to once again take men to the…
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) April 1, 2026