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20 Nov, 5 tweets, 1 min read
This is why I reached for the space popcorn when NASA assigned responsibility for the moon lander to Elon Musk's other company
Panel gaps are a bigger deal in hard vacuum, no matter how forgiving a fanboy you are
SpaceX's plans depend on being able to produce a magical, reusable, totally reliable next-generation rocket at pennies on the bitcoin compared to competitors, all at ludicrous scale. Musk's ability to run the same clown playbook without ever getting called out is his superpower
I think part of what protects Musk is his manifest sincerity. No one wants the promises to be true more than he does, and that's different from willful deceit. But in the end society is supposed to be organized to keep 12 year olds in adult bodies from running half the economy
They're letting the guy who sold this vision to Las Vegas design the moon lander and I could not be more excited Image

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20 Nov
We need to talk more loudly, and write in bigger print, about the crisis of gerontocracy in the Democratic Party. Biden will be 82 in 2024, Pelosi will be 84, Hoyer will be 85. Is there any way for Schumer (who will be 73) to keep up? Image
You know your organization has a problem if elevating a bunch of baby boomers to leadership would bring down the average age by a lot.
Also kind of hard to talk the 83 year old on the Supreme Court into retiring when an 88 year old Democratic senator is filing for re-election in California, and the President announces he plans to be in office until he's 86.
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14 Nov
The political messaging around Build Back Better continues to be so weird. Going into last week it was the last, best hope of mankind and the Democratic Party. Then Congress left DC and it was not mentioned again. Soon Congress will return and it will be hair-on-fire urgent again
Among the many artificial deadlines coming up there is also the deadline of January 3, 2022, when the Democrats will have been in office for a year without being able to pass their own platform.
Schumer now saying the Senate will take up a big military bill before the President's agenda. Since the Senate elects to only work one more week in November, this pushes consideration of BBB to at least December, another vacation-heavy month for Congress. politico.com/news/2021/11/1…
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29 Oct
Where does she think the profit comes from?
Ocasio-Cortez, who has one of the safest seats in Congress, has spent over $870,000 on Facebook ads in calendar 2021 while excoriating the company for destroying democracy. What ads does she run? Fundraising appeals! Her campaign is just a Facebook profit center with extra steps.
I also think Facebook is evil, which is why I don't give them money.
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27 Oct
Ah, the annual "tech workers are organizing" article is out! latimes.com/business/story…
I have no idea what happened at Hootsuite, but Coinbase and Basecamp solved their activist employee problem quite effectively by getting them all to quit. You'd also think an article like this would mention the crushing defeat of the drive to unionize an Amazon plant at Bessemer. Image
A more honest take on what we're seeing is that the evaporative cooling model of driving out prominent complainers, coupled with the skillful provision of places to vent feelings internally, has been extremely effective at keeping tech employees inert and without a say in policy
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27 Oct
A funny story about how SpaceX dealt with clandestine toilet issues on the recent Micturation 4 flight. This kind of thing is SpaceX's kryptonite—if you look at what breaks on ISS, it's a slog of unglamorous maintenance issues with no cool engineering fix nytimes.com/2021/10/26/sci…
The Mars Toilet has to work without issues in free fall for six months to get to the planet, and then is required by international treaty to work at at least a Biosafety Level 4 containment level (!) while on the Martian surface, which Elon Musk really doesn't like to talk about.
Keeping their off-grid airless mobile home working is the full-time mission of the ISS crew when they're not exercising to slow bone loss. Making this primate zoo not require constant repair and resupply is the real impediment to Mars exploration, not "we need a bigger rocket". ImageImageImage
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22 Oct
What we could really use is a whistleblower from Facebook's dirty tricks division.
The last thing the world needs or want is another one of these. But they are apparently an unavoidable waste product of the surveillance economy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_H…
The most explosive accusation in this whistleblower's affidavit appears to be that a Facebook marketing person told the truth
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