His Honor has reduced Mark Steyn’s punitive damage award from a million dollars to five thousand. He should have reduced it to ten bucks at most. Mine remains at a grand.
15 Minutes To Go
The Starship team is go for prop load. Targeting 5:45pm CT for liftoff of Starship’s eighth flight test.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 3, 2025
The launch webcast will go live ~40 minutes ahead of liftoff https://t.co/Q9HTUSYmtf
[Evening update]
Better luck tomorrow, or if they can’t turn it around that fast, Wednesday. Weather looks better, anyway.
The Depth Of The Corruption
MIND-BLOWING: Just 7,000 politically connected NGOs are hoarding 90% of all taxpayer money meant for nonprofits.
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) March 3, 2025
Roughly $300 billion in government money flows to nonprofits every year—with zero transparency on where that money actually goes.
Elon Musk recently told Joe Rogan… pic.twitter.com/ISqPHbm5gb
Congrats To Firefly
It’s the first successful landing on the Moon of a private company.
But Max Polyakov was screwed over by the Deep State.
Next up: The next flight of Starship/SH tomorrow afternoon.
Cameras Versus Lidar/Radar
Why Elon dropped lidar for FSD.
The reason why Tesla FSD performs better with just computer vision than systems that have LIDAR and radar is a bit counter intuitive. Allow me to try to explain.
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) March 2, 2025
In the early days of self-driving, people thought if you built a really accurate model of what’s happening around the… pic.twitter.com/EY8nNa55fj
Joe Rogan’s Latest Interview With Elon
Some highlights. More to come, I’m sure.
The Zelenskyy Blowup
Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up
— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) March 1, 2025
1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he…
The Counterrevolution
I’d like to think that bloggers played some role.
How Trump Can Save NASA
An analysis by Jim Meigs, in which he quotes Yours Truly.
I strongly disagree that SLS/Orion is the fastest way to get back to the Moon. I’ll be discussing that in a study I’ve done for the Reason Foundation that I hope will be published in a week or three. Briefly, we have all the pieces we need to do it quickly, without SLS/Orion, as long as we’re willing to go back to the Apollo levels of risk acceptance. And we’ll have to do that to beat the Chinese.
“Almost Ready” Is Not The Same As Ready
Thoughts on AI in medicine, from Paul Hsieh.