The Curious Engineer

Scanalyst

2025–2026

884 posts

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2026 429

October 2026

  1. The Crazy Years
  2. Grok Slipping Leftward. Bye, Grok
  3. Who Pays for Lawfare?
  4. Burning Car Carrier in the Atlantic (now lithium ion battery fire forum)
  5. Prosecutions for Interference with ICE
  6. Los Angeles Mayor Race 2026
  7. How To Nuke Large Language Model Bias?
  8. The Potpourri
  9. Political Trajectory of Western Europe
  10. On the Edge: Third-Worldism
  11. Babylon Bee 🐝 and other stuff that is funny
  12. “It's a pity both sides can't lose"
  13. Faulty Foundation—The Leaning Tower of San Francisco
  14. October 27, 2026 Israeli Knesset Election
  15. The Crazy Years
  16. The Crazy Years
  17. CTLaw
  18. Faulty Foundation—The Leaning Tower of San Francisco
  19. “It's a pity both sides can't lose"
  20. Babylon Bee 🐝 and other stuff that is funny
  21. This Week’s Book Review - The Phantom
  22. How to stop all these Injunctions
  23. MEI vs DEI
  24. 2024 UK Civil War
  25. Anduril and Palmer Luckey
  26. Anduril and Palmer Luckey
  27. 2024 UK Civil War
  28. MEI vs DEI
  29. How to stop all these Injunctions
  30. You Can’t Be Heard to Say You Looked But You Didn’t See
  31. Weekly Space Report: Orion-HLS Collaboration
  32. You Can’t Be Heard to Say You Looked But You Didn’t See
  33. Grok Slipping Leftward. Bye, Grok
  34. Nayib Bukele
  35. The Road To Panspermia Is Paved With Sexual Perversion
  36. Part 1: Moderna Had a Long History of Failure. Then Along Came COVID.
  37. Los Angeles Mayor Race 2026
  38. The Road To Panspermia Is Paved With Sexual Perversion
  39. Horowitz Interviews Andreessen: "The true story...origin of Netscape"
  40. Battery and Ultra/Super-Capacitor Open Thread
  41. Prosecutions for Interference with ICE
  42. On Partisanship
  43. Political Trajectory of Western Europe
  44. Dear Immigrants
  45. Space, the Final Frontier
  46. The Competency Crisis
  47. Yet Another of Musk's "National Treasure Maneuvers": 1 SpaceX Share Per Child
  48. Victor Davis Hanson - Mexifornia A State of Becoming - Booktalk
  49. Data Centers are a Public Benefit, Let’em be Built on Public Land.
  50. Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis
  51. OpenClaws or OpenClaus?
  52. 2025 Reading
  53. Aviation Accidents
  54. This Week’s Book Review - Texas Cotton and Confederate Finance
  55. Tolkien Movie
  56. Weekly Space Report: Double Catch Planned!
  57. The Foundation World Model That Might Have Been
  58. Plato Goes to China
  59. Modern Warfare
  60. (Leaked) Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Ten Month Report
  61. On Public Executions
  62. Burning Car Carrier in the Atlantic (now lithium ion battery fire forum)
  63. For Columbus Day
  64. Shipping and Freight Open Thread
  65. The “Cornell 7”: The Sexual Revolution Devours its Own Children
  66. "Kill The Boomers!!!"
  67. Marc Andreessen: “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”
  68. How To Nuke Large Language Model Bias?
  69. Inside Shackleton Crater
  70. This Week’s Book Review - Rome to the Stars
  71. Tunnel vs Bridge
  72. The Trivial Problem Of Consciousness
  73. Elegy THIS, JD Vance
  74. Weekly Space Report: Ship 40 Comes Home!
  75. January 2025 Southern California Wildfires
  76. Autonomous Vehicles Open Thread
  77. Indian Government Hides Flood of H-1B Migrants from U.S. Media
  78. There isn't even a name for our war.
  79. NVIDIA—Real Time Rendering with Artificial Intelligence De-Noising
  80. David Brin's "The Postman" As Anti-Life ADL/CIA Propaganda?
  81. Airline Etiquette
  82. This Week’s Book Review - When the River Burned
  83. Bitcoin World Volatility
  84. Please Sir, I want SMR!
  85. Iran War et. seq.
  86. Unusual get out and vote snail mail...
  87. Weekly Space Report: Orbital Starship!
  88. Europe joins the Third World
  89. Hutter Prize Awards Largest Advance in 20 Years on Its Superintelligence Benchmark

September 2026

  1. Boeing 737 MAX Problems
  2. Everybody Has Problems
  3. Democracy - What is it good for?
  4. Hunger In America
  5. Immigration in Los Angeles...
  6. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Fourteenth Flight Test
  7. This Week’s Book Review - Alexander
  8. Weekly Space Report: Wild Starship Launch Schedule?
  9. Prediction Markets Open Thread
  10. Virility: it’s Kismet!
  11. The Many Failures of the CIA -- Told with Humor
  12. Javer Milei Elected President of Argentina
  13. I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
  14. Cursed Units in Science and Engineering
  15. Virgin Hyperloop's Hype Bubble Bursts
  16. Florida v. California re. Commercial Driver's Licenses for Illegals and the Otherwise Unqualified
  17. This Week’s Book Review - The Magical Game
  18. What to do when the war is lost?
  19. Weekly Space Report: Big Orbital Plans!
  20. The Potpourri
  21. Childhood Instinct Affirmed
  22. Divided Europe
  23. History of the "Jerry Can"
  24. Exponential Remediation of Civilization's Footprint
  25. What's to be done - European edition?
  26. Foot in Mouth
  27. This Week’s Book Review - Long Gambit
  28. Weekly Space Report: Morning Launch for TF14
  29. Check out the new countycurrency.org
  30. Science Education
  31. King of Dogs: Life is the training ground for death
  32. arctic satellite launch
  33. Dome of the Rock vs Sortocracy
  34. Dirac's Way to Quantum Gravity (via "Numerology")
  35. Time to end mail-in voting?
  36. Top six weighted companies in the S & P 500 Index account for 31.5% of the portfolio
  37. Weekly Space Report: Roman On Its Way!
  38. This Week’s Book Review - The Eagle and the Hart
  39. Paging Snake Plisken! Zohran Mamdani Open Forum
  40. Scale of the problem
  41. Bureaucracy defeats the US military

August 2026

  1. Hanlon's Razor is Dead
  2. The Myth of the Rule of Law
  3. AI Lawsuits
  4. Just for fun...
  5. Dropping the “T” from LGBT
  6. This Week’s Book Review - Empire and Frontier
  7. Measles in Pennsylvania?
  8. Weekly Space Report: Louisiana!
  9. From 1945—“The Atom Strikes!”
  10. Subsea Mining
  11. Camp of the Saints
  12. Weight Watchers to be designated a Terrorist Organization?
  13. Weekly Space Report: China's Landspace Success
  14. Agility Robotics “Digit” Human-Centric Robot
  15. This Week’s Book Review - Captain Drew's World
  16. Clarkson’s Farm
  17. Everyone Has Problems - Real Estate Edition
  18. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX IPO!
  19. Long March Competition for Spacex
  20. This Week’s Book Review - Tomato Wyrm
  21. An Experiment to Form a Radio Communication Channel in a Marine Environment
  22. Weekly Space Report: Ship 40 Still Floating!
  23. Aviation Safety Open Thread
  24. The Two Front War
  25. The "Fauci Diary" EXPOSES His Dangerous Hubris
  26. My interview Kanyuk, a foreign volunteer soldier for Ukraine \ stacker news
  27. Possible juror misconduct jeopardizes Maxwell conviction
  28. Let Apollo Astronaut Ed White's Youthful Sacrifice Be a Lesson To Us All
  29. The Costs of Democracy
  30. The Cheap Seats: SCANALYST at the Movies
  31. This Week’s Book Review - Dead Man's Ridge
  32. Weekly Space Report: Recovering Ship 40
  33. Toroidal Mass Flow Aerodynamic EHD Thrust for "UFOs"
  34. Upcoming $101,000,000 Age-reversal X-Prize
  35. Demographic Collapse around the World
  36. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Thirteenth Flight Test
  37. The Problems of the Wealthy ... and Governments
  38. Job-Less Utopia Macroeconomics in the Age of AGI by Marcus Hutter
  39. Dr. Fauci’s Diary
  40. This Week’s Book Review - A Death In Good Society
  41. Weekly Space Report: More Starship TF13 Followup

July 2026

  1. How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism
  2. 2026 Maine US Senate Election
  3. Calling Hypatia
  4. A Step in the Right Direction
  5. Airbus thins the walls on the A350 to increase cabin width
  6. Clippy² — “It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take Over the World”
  7. Twitter, Elon Musk, and 𝕏
  8. “Nuclear Fission Fuel is Inexhaustible”
  9. 9/11: a Parent’s Regret
  10. Kaido Orav's fx-cmix Wins 6911€ Hutter Prize Award!
  11. The Brian Williams Memorial Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect Reading Room
  12. This Week’s Book Review - Who Wins Wars
  13. Bad news for Trantifa, good news for normal people
  14. World Cup fans love America
  15. USA: Should it become a Monarchy?
  16. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 13 Success!
  17. Let's Go, Baseball!
  18. More Proof the Dems are So much Smarter than We Are
  19. Boeing 777x Woes
  20. 2000 Mules
  21. The End of Federalism
  22. The Mystery of Earthquake Lights
  23. Germany Brings Back the Death Penalty
  24. This Week’s Book Review - A Sense of Murder
  25. "Pause Giant AI Experiments"
  26. Apple v. OpenAI
  27. Too Perfect?
  28. AI gambling and momentum stocks
  29. Another one (US consumer EV startup) bites the dust
  30. A Simple Question To Quell "AGI" Hysterics
  31. Weekly Space Report: Starship TF13 Imminent!
  32. This Week’s Book Review - In Deep Water
  33. Douglas DC-3—Flying towards 100 Years
  34. Lambing 2025
  35. Jacksarfatti
  36. Jabowery
  37. The Ethics of Power Seeking
  38. Starlink Gen 3 Constellation
  39. Infernal Affairs
  40. Anti-Tesla Terrorist Acts and Prosecutions
  41. SpaceX Orbital Data Center Constellation FCC Application
  42. “SpaceX” Scammers—YouTube Just Doesn't Care
  43. This Week’s Book Review - Aviation as a Business
  44. Weekly Space Report: Broken Arm in Orbit!
  45. U.S.A. - Rest. In. Peace.

June 2026

  1. What Is High-Bandwidth Memory and When Does It Make Sense?
  2. The Case Against Free Trade
  3. This Week’s Book Review - Retracing the Dragoon Trail in Iowa
  4. Weekly Space Report: Star Falls
  5. The Terrifying Titanic Tourist Tragedy: Oceangate Sub Missing
  6. Champlain Towers South Condo Collapse Updates
  7. Believing is Seeing
  8. Fishing Wars
  9. Father’s Day 2026
  10. Final UK Election - Open Thread
  11. The rise of Democratic Socialism in America
  12. Translating Obama's “Disinformation” Speech
  13. Scale of the problem -- Nature Preserve Earth
  14. Fathers’ Day
  15. This Week’s Book Review - Colt Ostergaard: A Man With A Gun
  16. Weekly Space Report: NASA Permanent Moon Base Plans
  17. Midas touch
  18. Elon Musk Announces xAI
  19. Virtual Reality!
  20. "Destination Void" by Frank Herbert Could Be Musk's "Hell's Angels"
  21. Boom go Bust?
  22. This Week’s Book Review - 1941: Thirty Days in May
  23. FOLI RFP: How to mitigate AI-driven power concentration
  24. B-17 Propeller Installation
  25. NASA Independent Study on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
  26. Sovereign - keyword in politics
  27. Could you look a Ridge Runner in the eye?
  28. Radical Centrism
  29. Spin Launch Conducts Successful Suborbital Test Launch
  30. NASA Announces Artemis III Crew
  31. Weekly Space Report: Driving On Towards Test Flight 13
  32. Copyright Protection for Scientific Theories?
  33. This Week’s Book Review - The Hardest, Longest Race
  34. Memories - not the song
  35. Elon Musk on the Canadian Convoy and GoFundMe
  36. Michael Anton—Conservatives and the Right to Revolt
  37. Discouraged or Angry?

May 2026

  1. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Twelfth Flight Test
  2. This Week’s Book Review - Vengeance: The Last Stands of Custer, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull
  3. Weekly Space Report: New Glenn Catastrophe!
  4. Trump Sues WSJ for Defamation
  5. Status Report: Rule of, and Equality Under the Law in These (dis-)United States
  6. New Glenn Static Fire RUD 2026-05-29 01:00 UTC
  7. A Great Filter You Won't See Anyone But Me Bring Up (For Reasons That Will Become Obvious Presently)
  8. Surplus Poetry
  9. America 250!
  10. Public Stocks AI Exposure
  11. Roberts just issued a nationwide injunction…
  12. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 12 Complete
  13. Air France Flight 447—Catastrophe from Confusion
  14. Weekly Space Report: Starship Flight 12 May 19!
  15. Musk's Lack of Standing
  16. Isle of Man and Epstein
  17. Visit to a University
  18. A Plague Upon the Oxford University Press!
  19. ChatGPT instead of Doctors?
  20. This Week’s Book Review - Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf's Viking Conquest
  21. Michael Saylor on Bitcoin, Money, Inflation, Digital Property, and Securities
  22. StarCloud Inforb?
  23. Gerrymandering
  24. This Week’s Book Review - Miss Sally's Son
  25. Weekly Space Report: Perhaps Final Prep for Starship TF12
  26. About those UK local elections ...
  27. How Palantir refactored the government?
  28. SpaceX Space Development Agency Transport & Tracking Tranche 0, Flight 2 Launch
  29. This Week’s Book Review - The Great Lakes Ships of Frank E. Kirby
  30. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 12 Dates!
  31. What's in a title?

April 2026

  1. Third Time’s a Charm
  2. Musk Alarmed At Lawfare Against VDARE As Disclosed by Tucker
  3. Matt Ridley: “The Covid lab leak theory just got even stronger”
  4. This Week’s Book Review - Dekason
  5. Thinking About BattleBots (or "Boy, do I wish I could still talk to John!")
  6. Weekly Space Report: Pad 2 Static Fire Aftermath
  7. Swapping FIOS for Starlink
  8. Thank you Canada
  9. Eye Stoppers
  10. Consciousness as a Field
  11. Almost a Greek Tragedy?
  12. Weekly Space Report: Starship V3 Test Fires!
  13. Homeschooling
  14. This Week’s Book Review - Boomtown: The True Story of the Wickedest Town in Texas
  15. "Elon, you emigrated to the wrong country."™*
  16. On Being Number One
  17. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 12 Forecast
  18. Top Gun Maverick partially reverse engineered via FOIA
  19. The Calculation: Elon Musk Could Have Been 4 Times Wealthier Under A Wealth Tax
  20. "White Privilege" - the Color of Hogwash
  21. Birthright citizenship: the Battle is Joined!
  22. O'Sullivan's First Law Reading Room
  23. Ayyan Hirsi Ali on the "Truce"
  24. This Week’s Book Review - Under the Shadow of Napoleon: The US Army's Doctrine, Education, and Theory of Victory from 1814 to 1941. Second Edition
  25. NASA to Announce Artemis II Crew
  26. They Opened the F—-in’ Strait!
  27. “A Safe and Predictable Outer Space Environment”
  28. Responsibilities of German Citizens
  29. A Tale of Two Restaurants
  30. Monetizing Recent Hypersonic Shockwave Brownfield Software Productivity Gain?
  31. “Billionaires' Tax”—Latest Wealth Tax Scheme
  32. Iran launches three satellites
  33. This Week’s Book Review - An American Yankee in King Alfred's Court
  34. We’ve done it: don’t know whether we’re coming or going!
  35. A Good Tale Spoiled
  36. Sholem Asch. A Unique Author
  37. Perception as the new attack surface

March 2026

  1. This Week’s Book Review - Lock and Load
  2. LLM Black Hat Script Kiddies
  3. Alex Marlow: Lawfare Judges Making Unprecedented Efforts to Shut Down Trump’s Agenda
  4. The Jury Has Spoken. Huh?
  5. Weekly Space Report: March 28
  6. Lessons from the Saga of the Old Truck
  7. This Week’s Book Review - Bloody Skies: XV Fighter Command Against all Odds
  8. Weekly Space Report: V3 Booster Test Fires
  9. Nikola Motors endeavoring to rehabilitate its reputation
  10. Bureaucratization of scientific research in China
  11. Oh, Canada! “People [who] self-identify as pregnant”
  12. The Competence Singularity is Here
  13. Boring topic: Tariffs
  14. A Look Behind the Curtain. Pulleys and Levers of Modernity (Part I)
  15. A Look Behind the Curtain Part II
  16. Half Broke
  17. This Week’s Book Review - The Greatest Scientific Gamble
  18. Weekly Space Report: Booster V3 Testing?
  19. O Wild West Wimp!
  20. Hospital Bill from 1956
  21. Hal Puthoff on “Ultraterrestrial Models”
  22. This Week’s Book Review - Lost
  23. The Falklands Play
  24. Slow Motion Implosion of Microsoft
  25. NASA Issues Request for Information for International Space Station Deorbit Capability
  26. ULA Releases Photo of Blue Origin BE-4 Flight Engine #1 for Vulcan Rocket
  27. A Negotiation for the Ages
  28. Bitcoin at War
  29. Report From Extreme of Old Age
  30. This Week’s Book Review - The Redline Heist

February 2026

  1. The Citrini Memo
  2. Sanctuary! Or, Is Nothing Sacred?
  3. Weekly Space Report: Artemis Massive Redesign!
  4. Iran or the Ukraine?
  5. Run up to the new Opium Wars?
  6. This Week’s Book Review - Texan in Blue
  7. Lines for Happy Jack
  8. Newest Olympic Competitive Sport - Sexual Exhibitionism
  9. Departures
  10. Weekly Space Report: Moon Missions Getting Closer!
  11. Lose one, win one?
  12. Boeing Starliner “Hangar Queen” Crew Flight Test Delayed Again
  13. FAA Releases SpaceX Starbase Programmatic Environmental Assessment, Finds “No Significant Impact”
  14. Competition for SpaceX
  15. The Shape of Things to Come - Nuclear Edition
  16. This Week’s Book Review - The Boundless Deep
  17. Relativity -- The Path Not Taken
  18. Weekly Space Report: Moon First After All
  19. Epstein - Rothschilds - Obama
  20. November 1984—The Forty-Minute Korean War
  21. Europe's Great Mistake
  22. LDP wins massive electoral majority in Japanese House of Representatives snap election
  23. U.S. Presidential Election 2024 post-mortem
  24. Chinks in our Armor
  25. Landing Starship on Mars
  26. This Week’s Book Review - The Man Who Stopped the Sultan
  27. Solving Math Olympiad Geometry Problems with Artificial Intelligence
  28. Servicing and Re-boosting the Hubble Space Telescope with a SpaceX Crew Dragon Mission?
  29. Weekly Space Report: SLS Artemis II Woes
  30. 2026 Super Bowl Commercials Open Thread
  31. Trumps v. IRS
  32. Be Careful What You Wish For
  33. When 240V is not fast enough for your cooking needs
  34. "The Pitt" is the (woke) Pitts
  35. Falcon 9 Flight 596 (Starlink Launch 352) Deorbit Problem Post-Deployment
  36. This Week’s Book Review - Crash Landing
  37. Weekly Space Report: First V3 Launch Tentative Dates

January 2026

  1. Snowstorm January 2026
  2. What's a Factor of 2000 Among Innumerate Morons?
  3. Is OpenAI Imploding?
  4. This Week’s Book Review - Twelve Months
  5. S’no Joke: lost technology.
  6. Weekly Space Report: Starship V3 Test Campaign Woes
  7. The AfD Looks at the World
  8. Trump Order Targets Political Debanking but Spares Visa, Mastercard, Payment...
  9. Regime Change: the weight loss drugs
  10. Tariff Tomorrow?
  11. Dramatic Technique Cultural Variations
  12. This Week’s Book Review - 99 Ways to Die
  13. Weekly Space Report: Twilight without Vampires
  14. Inside a Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facility
  15. Me Too! I Can Do It!
  16. Dynamic Pricing and Pricing Algorithms
  17. America Trembles!
  18. Trump vs Fed Reserve Board of Governors
  19. Crew 11 Medical Evacuation
  20. Inside a Texas Bitcoin Mine
  21. How US Special Forces Infiltrated Venezuela?
  22. "Man Has Forgotten God" - Solzhenitsyn
  23. This Week’s Book Review - The Old Alcalde
  24. Grok 2 & 3 - First Impression
  25. Weekly Space Report: Starbase Pad 2 Major Progress
  26. Silicon Valley Bank Collapses, Seized by Regulators
  27. The Fertile Will Inherit the Earth
  28. A Modest (if Politically Incorrect) Proposal
  29. Protests In Venezuela After Electoral Fraud \ stacker news ~news
  30. PLASMAK: A Fusion Energy Horror Story
  31. More Amazing Results from DALL-E 2 and an Open Source Clone
  32. Safety Via Wolpert-Constrained ML
  33. Ben Shapiro On Retirement
  34. Cranky Old Man Gets Crankier
  35. This Week’s Book Review - Gold Dust
  36. Venezuela - the background
  37. The True Meaning of The Fourth of July
  38. Weekly Space Report: SpaceX 2025 Economics Review
  39. This Week’s Book Review - The Relentless War on Masculinity
  40. Iran's Real Problems
  41. A Book Worth Reading

2025 455

December 2025

  1. A Most Worthy Twenty Minutes of Jordan Peterson
  2. Ukraine and Russia: War and Consequences
  3. Weekly Space Report: 2025 Wrap and 2026 Speculation
  4. U.S. Supreme Court Invalidates Biden's Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme
  5. Time for Lofstrom's Server Sky?
  6. For 1st time, automated system lands plane safely after loss of pressurization
  7. The Book of Mormon Redux
  8. Elon Musk on Patents and Intellectual Property
  9. RIP Chris Rea
  10. Latest Round of Bald-Faced Lies, Bank of (un)America edition
  11. An article worth reading
  12. This Week’s Book Review - The Rise of Houston as a Global City
  13. Weekly Space Report: All Hail Our New NASA Administrator
  14. Is this the beginning of the end?
  15. Western Anti-clericalism, 100 years on
  16. Happy Birthright Day
  17. Charlie Kirk Shot Dead in Utah
  18. Modern Human Evolution
  19. Nobel Prize in Physics Lectures 2022—Quantum Entanglement and Local Reality
  20. What about the workers?
  21. The Brightest Star in the Sky
  22. Watch Out, Embraer! And Airbus too ...
  23. The Moon: Is the US doing it wrong?
  24. This Week’s Book Review - The Captains Dinner
  25. The Worm Turns
  26. Weekly Space Report: Super Heavy V3 Tech Review
  27. Fascinating speech by Orban
  28. Nobel Peace Prize winner rescued by Tampa-based organization
  29. Weekly Space Report: Starship 2026 Launch Pace News
  30. Damn Dog Died
  31. The White House, Guest Guidence
  32. Trains and Technology
  33. Europe's Omdurman
  34. This Week’s Book Review - Accidental Pirates
  35. Eggspurt
  36. Gavin
  37. Drlorentz
  38. Hypatia
  39. Union Pacific Bashes LA's Social Justice Reform, Threatens To Leave City Amid

November 2025

  1. This Week’s Book Review - Earth Dragon Run
  2. A Worthwhile Mystery Movie
  3. Large Coronal Mass Ejection on Far Side of the Sun
  4. Weekly Space Report: Booster 18 COPV Failures?
  5. Masonic Mormons and American Zionism
  6. Lawsuits Mount Over Software Used by Landlords to Set Rents
  7. An Octogenarian Morning
  8. Starship in Florida
  9. On a personal note...
  10. Hayli Gubbi Volcanic Eruption in Ethiopia
  11. A Case Against Deportations
  12. This Week’s Book Review - Midnight Flyboys
  13. Reflections on Roadkill (Part 2, short)
  14. Weekly Space Report: Starship SuperHeavy V3 Bump in the Road
  15. Ship Lost Power Before Hitting Key Bridge in Baltimore
  16. No Epstein Client List
  17. Reflections After Driving by Roadkill (Part 1)
  18. Media Meltdown and Sobering Lessons of RFK' Jr.'s Trump Endorsement
  19. pyvibepatcher
  20. Education or Disguised Unemployment?
  21. What Do the Jews Represent?
  22. The Emptying of Rural Japan
  23. At Least Not the Usual Malevolence
  24. What would ASIs find most "interesting" about humans?
  25. This Week’s Book Review - Diogenes
  26. What about that second stage* pitch up?
  27. Weekly Space Report: The Reusability Race Heats Up!
  28. The Archæology Underground
  29. Oh oh! Environmentalists will be unhappy.
  30. AI Data Center Buildup
  31. This Week’s Book Review - Ringer
  32. Thiel on Capitalism
  33. James Watson
  34. Three-Phase Power: Nikola Tesla v. Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
  35. Weekly Space Report: Lots of Pad Work
  36. Ex-Migrant Shelter Director Blows Whistle on Fraud
  37. How a civilization dies
  38. Oh pip! Not aliens!
  39. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
  40. Crusader Cowboy!
  41. Nvidia and Computational Inverse Lithography Technology
  42. A Letter To A Dentist (write-in candidate winner & brother of San Diego LDS Temple President)
  43. This Week’s Book Review - Aviation Therapy
  44. What's next after Trump won ....
  45. Weekly Space Report: Luna!

October 2025

  1. Avalanche Energy Electrostatic Fusion
  2. This Week’s Book Review - Winston and the Windsors
  3. Weekly Space Report: Demolition!
  4. You don't need a weatherman ...
  5. This Week’s Book Review - War Without Mercy
  6. Weekly Space Report: TF11 Recap and Deep Dive
  7. On not selling the rope ...
  8. F-Book Check
  9. Netherlands takes over chip manufacturer Nexperia
  10. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Eleventh Flight Test
  11. Feminism Rots a Woman’s Mind
  12. This Week’s Book Review - The Last Extinction
  13. Weekly Space Report: Final Prep for TF11
  14. The turning point comes, it has
  15. AI DRIVR on Tesla “Full Self-Driving” [V14.1] Has it become self aware?
  16. Grand Jury Indicts NY AG Letitia James On Criminal Bank Fraud, CNN Reports
  17. Trump Administration Threatens No Back Pay for Federal Workers in Shutdown
  18. Are you "Older Than Dirt"?
  19. Ricochet Misses Me
  20. What will it take to make us wake up?
  21. A Frenchman looks at Education
  22. Serbia Overtakes the US
  23. This Week’s Book Review - End Game
  24. “Dost Thou Love Me, Cousin?”
  25. This Week’s Book Review - The Physician of Nineveh
  26. Weekly Space Report: Flight 11 Twists

September 2025

  1. The Worst Resource Curse?
  2. I don’t ask anyone to understand …
  3. Weekly Space Report: Starship TF11 Soon!
  4. GPT-3 thread on productivity hacks
  5. SCOTUS and Our Democracy™
  6. Can Eurovision Breathe a Sigh of Relief?
  7. Memory Hole—Wikipedia “Mass killings under communist regimes” Page “being considered for deletion”
  8. An Ocean Desert Dress Rehearsal For Space: Baby Gaias
  9. Weekly Space Report: Pad 2 Flame Trench Testing!
  10. This Week’s Book Review - Barbs, Bullets, and Blood
  11. Should the US sell California?
  12. On Systems of Units
  13. Mother Loves You and Your CPAP
  14. This Week’s Book Review - A Family of Good Women
  15. Scam-O-Rama
  16. AfD party has recorded six deaths among its politicians...in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  17. Civilwestman
  18. Weekly Space Report: Starship TF11 Plan Partial Reveal
  19. SpaceX Starlink Group 7-9 Launch: First Direct-to-Mobile Satellites
  20. More on the Universal Postal Union (UPU)
  21. Amazon trying to compete with Temu and Shein
  22. Is this winning?
  23. Antitrust is the Surest Way to Counter Big Tech
  24. This Week’s Book Review - No Man’s Land
  25. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 11 Static Fires
  26. How To Put On A Show!
  27. The Redshift
  28. El Salvador to Build “Bitcoin City”, Issue Bitcoin Bonds
  29. This Week’s Book Review - Nemesis

August 2025

  1. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 10 Success!
  2. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Tenth Flight Test
  3. Change your Profile picture to clippy.
  4. UK wanting to use a page from Trump's SOP?
  5. Lawfare Shifts Gears
  6. The Execution of Socrates
  7. This Week’s Book Review - Fire in the Piney Woods
  8. Blue Origin New Shepard 35 "RSS H. G. Wells"
  9. Be Honest, dear Polymaths..
  10. Weekly Space News: Last Tasks Before Starship Flight 10
  11. Something Else to Ponder
  12. Another Item That Did Not Hit US News
  13. Apt Surnames—Coincidence?
  14. “ Performative Anxiety”?
  15. Cementing BRICS together
  16. The Earth Moves around the Sun ...
  17. This Week’s Book Review - The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr
  18. Weekly Space Report: Test Flight 10 Scheduled!
  19. Observation of Toroidal Pulses of Light
  20. Dao of Capital strategy
  21. The Transfer Agreement + Rentenmark => Militia.Money + No WW II
  22. This Week’s Book Review - A Light in the Northern Sea
  23. Weekly Space Report: Ship 37 Retest Required
  24. If AI is the future ...
  25. Judge Not, that Ye Be Not Judged to be a Rational Human Being
  26. Number Two Tries Harder
  27. Recognising new territory ....
  28. Tucker: Richard Werner Exposes the Evils of the Fed & the Link Between Banking, War, and the CIA
  29. A View on the Shape of Things to Come
  30. Is the tide changing?
  31. Does anyone care ...
  32. This Week’s Book Review - Dancing with Destruction
  33. Weekly Space Report: Jury-rigged Test Fire Success
  34. Paging Snake Plissken

July 2025

  1. Epstein’s Post-mortem “Victim”
  2. Florida to be powered by wind turbines and solar panels. What could go wrong?
  3. Our Fake Reality
  4. Vinod Khosla or Vivek Ramaswamy or Sortocracy?
  5. Weekly Space Report: New Raptor!
  6. This Week’s Book Review - Eagle Days
  7. Weekly Space Report: Busy Launch Pads!
  8. Litigious Vetocracy
  9. Trump v. Vast Left Wing Conspiracy
  10. The Pattern We Are Not Supposed to Notice
  11. Capital “Gains” on Sale of Primary Residence
  12. The Year of Looking Back
  13. Paging Oscar Wilde
  14. Weekly Space Report: Moving On From Ship 36
  15. This Week’s Book Review - Dinner with King Tut
  16. This Week’s Book Review - Sometimes in the Fall
  17. Scotland versus Tibet
  18. Digital Escorts---not an Epstein post
  19. Transforming Pittsburgh's Old Steel Mills into an AI Hub.
  20. The March of Technology -- Elsewhere
  21. If Trump dies from his wound…..
  22. This Week’s Book Review - Dangerous Latitudes
  23. AI DRIVR on Tesla “Full Self-Driving” [V13.2]
  24. Etiquette in the 21st Century
  25. Weekly Space Report: Starship Orbital Tech Deep Dive
  26. Meanwhile, the tide keeps rising ...
  27. Read Me Dr. Socrates?
  28. Lawyer apologizes for fake court citations from ChatGPT
  29. Why South Koreans Aren't Having Kids
  30. The Far Side of the Moon - Not Green Cheese
  31. Intelligent … And Moving
  32. This Week’s Book Review - The Fifty-Year Texas Road Trip
  33. Weekly Space Report: 500 Falcon 9 Flights!
  34. from archived email messages
  35. Happy RE-birthday?
  36. One Emblematic Morning in Modernity
  37. Ancient Civilizations
  38. China is a Quick Learner
  39. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% In 2022 Using The Government’s Previous Formula...
  40. Digital Currencies - Why?
  41. Big Beautiful Bill

June 2025

  1. The Battle is Joined
  2. Milton Friedman - Understanding Inflation
  3. This Week’s Book Review - The Winds of Fate
  4. If you think soccer is boring ...
  5. A Japanese Take on the Sherlock Holmes Story
  6. Weekly Space Report: TF11 Soon?
  7. The Flagellants
  8. Dreadnought
  9. Community Polls
  10. Neural Networks: An Alternate History SciFi Story
  11. The Gentlemen Hackers interview: The Grugq (on cybersecurity)
  12. Weekly Space Report: Goodbye Ship 36!
  13. What Is a Father?
  14. This Week’s Book Review - A Case of Mice and Murder
  15. Mind-body problem?
  16. The Shape of Things to Come
  17. We have seen this movie before
  18. Wherefore art thou ArianeSpace?
  19. Oh great, are the mole men real?
  20. Rare Earths - Canary in the Coal Mine?
  21. High Speed Rail
  22. Starship 36 RUD 2025-06-19 04:01UTC
  23. July 2024 CrowdStrike Outage and Resulting Lawsuits
  24. This Week’s Book Review - Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster
  25. Weekly Space Report: Axiom-4 Delays (plural)
  26. Drag King Story Hour
  27. There’s Blasphemy…
  28. My Latest Tech Meltdown
  29. The Futurists and Metaculus
  30. Statistical Snowflakes
  31. This Week’s Book Review - William Phipps and the Diving Bell Bubble
  32. Weekly Space Report: Drama!
  33. Musk Goes After Trump
  34. They like Ike
  35. I’ve never known anyone this shallow.
  36. Hurricane Sam
  37. Nuclear War: A Scenario
  38. Did Anyone Ask the Brits?
  39. Solar Power Satellites—Full Day Symposium at ESA ESTEC
  40. Art Market Bust
  41. This Week’s Book Review - Riders In The Sky
  42. Forget Blue Origin, SpaceX - Here Comes the Competition
  43. Illegal Immigration - The Obvious, Denied Grand Dem Strategy

May 2025

  1. Weekly Space Report: Road To Mars!
  2. Airplane MPG And Continuous Improvement
  3. Geoffrey Hinton, Neural Network Pioneer, on Artificial Intelligence
  4. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Ninth Flight Test
  5. Bill Krause on SV's turning point
  6. Years ago...
  7. Market Failure
  8. Another UFO questionable occurance?
  9. This Week’s Book Review - Friends Indeed
  10. Demented President
  11. The Red MAGA Hat is our Phrygian Cap!
  12. George Orwell Did Not Expect This
  13. Weekly Space Report: TF8 Report Accepted, Cleared for Flight
  14. Weekly Space Report: Nah! No Need to Catch the Booster!
  15. While England Slept ... Or Tried To Make Money
  16. Artificial Intelligence In A Nutshell
  17. The ECB Fears Gold Price Increase will CAUSE Financial Collapse!
  18. This Week’s Book Review - May Day!
  19. Biological Twist in Space
  20. Taiwan Prepares To Shut Last Nuclear Reactor
  21. Is China Falling Into The "Hunter Biden" Trap?
  22. Is the Earth's Magnetic Field Changing?
  23. This Week’s Book Review - Robert E. Howard
  24. Falcon 9 Booster 1091: A Core Booster Being Used Solo
  25. O Solar Mio!
  26. Weekly Space Report: TF9 on May 20?
  27. Flats and Sharps
  28. Communism Today
  29. This Week’s Book Review - Atomic Dreams
  30. Pseudo Folk Music
  31. Zeroing in on Nothing
  32. Descent Into Madness
  33. Space Launch System: The Hits Just Keep On Coming
  34. Got... . despair?
  35. Weekly Space Report: Kuiper on Orbit Finally
  36. Soviet Venus Lander Missions

April 2025

  1. The Case Against Mass Immigration
  2. About the Real McGill-ah
  3. Black Mirrors: CPT-Symmetric Alternatives to Black Holes
  4. A Theory of Addiction (cont. 3 of 3)
  5. A Theory of Addiction and Implications for Human Societies
  6. This Week’s Book Review - Storm-Dragon
  7. Weekly Space Report: Hope for 9
  8. Iron Nitride Magnets
  9. Is Live Action Dead?
  10. This Week’s Book Review - Once Upon a Villa
  11. This Week’s Book Review - Clete
  12. A Theory of Addiction (cont)
  13. Pennsylvania is now at war with Russia
  14. Birthright Citizenship and Nationwide Injunctions
  15. The More Things Change…
  16. Autism, Popper and Kuhn vs RFK Jr.
  17. This Week’s Book Review - The Last Dynasty
  18. Weekly Space Report: Starship Mission Profiles
  19. Blue Origin New Shepard 31
  20. It's in the water!
  21. Unsurprising Accidental Discovery
  22. China Buying Gold, UBS Trading Gold by Smartphone
  23. US Reindustrialization and Immigration
  24. Should We Hate Politicians More than Lawyers?
  25. Pervasive Double Standards in Law
  26. South Africa
  27. Metal Supply Constraints for Alternative Energy
  28. Creeping Decrepitude vs. Normalcy Bias
  29. Writers who Transitioned from Communism to Free Markets
  30. This Week’s Book Review - The Magic Books
  31. Weekly Space Report: Butch's Harrowing Starliner Narrative
  32. What’s The Beef?
  33. The 9% We Must Convince
  34. "Every Reasonable Person Dislikes Trump", says son of "Non Violent" Would-be Assassin
  35. Insight into our Legal System
  36. Why is the treasury yield going up if equity markets are spooked?
  37. Worse than tariffs?
  38. This Week’s Book Review - Nightmare in the Pacific
  39. Musing On Talent
  40. Augmenting Human Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
  41. Weekly Space Report: Booster 14 to Fly Again!
  42. A Modest Proposal for the Current Era
  43. A Memory Hole in Our Lawn: The Housing Market
  44. Allah the President’s Men
  45. Algorithmic Information of the Human Genome

March 2025

  1. The Vernal Pools
  2. The Decline of the West, UK Edition
  3. SpaceX CCSFS/KSC 03/31/2025 Twofer: Starlink 6-80 - SLC-40 and Fram2 - LC-39A
  4. This Week’s Book Review - When the Moon Hits Your Eye
  5. Weekly Space Report: Starship V3 Changes?
  6. Reagan's Republican Kittens
  7. Freedom of Speech in the "Liberal World Order": German Journalist Alina Lipp Persecuted and Facing 3 Years in Prison for Coverage of Ukraine Conflict
  8. “The Window” - by Leonard Cohen
  9. Justice versus the Law, Gangnam Style
  10. Looking back on COVID authoritarianism
  11. Judges versus AI -- You know who wins!
  12. This Week’s Book Review - Garbage Town
  13. Weekly Space Report: Blue Ghost's Farewell
  14. A Determinative Fundamental Inequality
  15. Life in the 1970s
  16. Steve Miller's "Judicial Review" Argument vs Pubescent Girl Monkey Brain
  17. Debt has always been the ruin of great powers, is the US next?
  18. A Compelling South Korean Revenge Drama
  19. Theory of Everything - Recent Cultural/Political
  20. This Week’s Book Review - Mediterranean Sweep
  21. Weekly Space Report: Blue Ghost Winning, Crew Dragon 10 and More
  22. A Fundamental Problem We Must Address
  23. SpaceX Crew-10 Launch
  24. Volodomir, You’re Fired!
  25. Everybody's Got Problems
  26. This Week’s Book Review - Crescent Dawn
  27. Weekly Space Report: Ship V2 is a Dud So Far
  28. Too Many Democrats
  29. Let's talk USAID
  30. Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment—China's Entry in the Photolithography Market
  31. Trump's "Golden Age" vs "The Shithole Age of Hollywood"
  32. Judicial Politics (surprise!)
  33. WHAT IF John Nash was Satoshi Nakamoto?
  34. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Eighth Flight Test
  35. List Five Things You Did Last Week
  36. Crypto in the Real World—Argentina
  37. Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost M1 Moon Landing
  38. Modern Disinformation Techniques & Mind Viruses
  39. The Zeroth Law of Conflict Resolution
  40. damned xfinity / comcast
  41. The Energy Crisis is Over -- maybe
  42. Weekly Space Report: Intuitive Machines IM-2/Athena En Route!
  43. (all caps) GPO & WEP & SSA

February 2025

  1. Sabine Hossenfelder on Existential Physics
  2. Mearsheimer rustling everyone's jimmies
  3. Possibly Useful New Data - Search for Flight MH 370
  4. An Interesting Japanese TV Series
  5. SpaceX IM-1 Nova-C Odysseus Lander Launch
  6. Demography II
  7. Skill and Imagination
  8. Russell Conjugation
  9. You Know You're Living in a Backwater..
  10. This Week’s Book Review - Texas: An American Story
  11. Weekly Space Report: TF8 NOTAM!
  12. Taiwan's Conundrum
  13. Federal Employees Unions and Collective Bargaining
  14. Dental Cavities Were Cured in 1985, but No One Knows It
  15. The End of the World (as we know it? or PERIOD?)
  16. The New Feudalism
  17. Marginal Tax Rates
  18. Scammers come to N.E. PA
  19. Babymamahood TFR
  20. COVID - it's not over
  21. $LIBRA - Interview with Hayden Davis
  22. Bird flu gets to cows
  23. This Week’s Book Review - Dear Miss Perkins
  24. Landlords Have a New Hardball Tactic: Tanking Your Credit Score
  25. Quasi Pair Programming With ChatGPT
  26. Weekly Space Report: Extensive StarShip and Booster Testing
  27. Demography
  28. is there an EE in the house?
  29. Those Damn SPOILED Boomers!!!!
  30. “Bretton Woods III”
  31. Movie Review” “To the Wonder”(2012)
  32. Poetry of Revolution
  33. Puberty Blockers & Trannies
  34. Impression from the Super Bowl LIX
  35. Another Straw in the Wind ...
  36. Request for comments - Paper on "Techno Hutteritism", or planning a community so it can carry culture forward
  37. This Week’s Book Review - The Fires of Gallipoli
  38. Let's Talk Musk's Own Algorithm vs Musk
  39. Weekly Space Report: Pad West Rapid Progress
  40. Sweet Crudescence
  41. Poem of Yesteryear
  42. This Week’s Book Review - The Wrong Stuff
  43. This Week’s Book Review - Monster Hunter Fantom
  44. Weekly Space Report: Next Starship in February?

January 2025

  1. Let It Snow ....
  2. Weekly Space Report: Starship Cargo Deep Dive
  3. Donald Trump and Bitcoin
  4. The Not So Crazy Years
  5. An exceptional video about the Paracas skulls
  6. Milei at Davos
  7. American Social Classes: a Cri de Coeur
  8. Lies From The Pulpit: My Letter to the National Cathedral
  9. Trump Cabinet Appointments and Confirmation Hearings
  10. The Global Locus of Technology Advances
  11. Citizen bitcoin
  12. This Week’s Book Review - The Mighty Moo
  13. Take #Two: a poem for January 20, 2025
  14. Weekly Space Report: Double Boom Week! Starship and New Glenn Booster
  15. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Seventh Flight Test
  16. The Infeasibility of Wind Power
  17. TikTok legislation: what is new or different and significant?
  18. Gerard
  19. Wokism Is Just Beginning
  20. This Week’s Book Review - Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly
  21. Weekly Space Report: Hype for TF7
  22. A Poem for January 20
  23. Indeterminism hidden in Newton's Laws?
  24. Dear Elon: A letter from Sam Hyde
  25. This Week’s Book Review - A Feast of Folklore
  26. Season's greetings?
  27. Weekly Space Report: Flight 7 Test Plan Revealed
  28. Happy New Year - without college football
  29. Modern Memetics
  30. Well, ya' know...

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