After that, the Iranians are alone.
A round up of the current state of play in the war that you won’t get from the MSM.
[Update a while later]
If you’d told me a few years ago this is where we’d be on Iran, I’d have said you were high:
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) April 24, 2026
1. Nuke program set back years. Enrichment and reprocessing gutted, weaponization sites destroyed, Fordow inoperable, Natanz in ruins, a generation of senior nuclear scientists…
This article is hilarious with a whole bunch of launch companies in SERIOUS denial.https://t.co/vFrwFOhCAc
— Artificial Gravity Space Stations (@space_stations) September 20, 2026
I used to think maybe I should go to or pay attention to these industry conferences & panels. This is literally anti-signal. You’re dumber if you listen to them than if you don’t. They are afraid to even MENTION SpaceX, which absolutely dominates their industry! https://t.co/elzxdXSlIW
— Robotbeat🗽 ➐ (@Robotbeat) September 20, 2026
[Early-afternoon update]
Loosely translated: “Now that SpaceX has gone off to found a solar system wide civilization we can chop our prices just a bit and people still will prefer our horses and buggies.” https://t.co/zG1TKmtOlS
— Charles A. Lurio (@TheLurioReport) September 20, 2026
Eric Raymond makes the case against it.
This is the case against AI doom. Pass it on
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 17, 2026
First we recaptulate standard x-risk argument: we build AI substantially smarter than humans → it becomes an autonomous optimizing agent → its goals are misaligned → instrumental convergence makes it seek power and resist…
Do Californians really choose to be governed by such low-IQ anal orifices, or is just a sign of how rampant the voter fraud is here?https://t.co/DwQRhHQNkV
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) September 16, 2026
If nobody builds AI, everybody dies?
Ozan runs some numbers.
After the Starship $300/kg price floor nonsense made the rounds, the ones who shared the studies started saying there isn't a better model out there to look at. I'd be willing to bet whatever @mach33 has put out is way better, but I've always run my own numbers on this stuff…
— Ozan Bellik (@BellikOzan) September 7, 2026
I don’t understand, though, how you get two flights per pad per day into SSO, at least not if you want the SSO on the terminator, which is where everyone claims to want to be, for continuous sunlight.
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
Investors are stoked about Stoke’s latest announcement.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
The coming tidal wave of new rockets.
The left is dragging us back to them.
Well, this certainly kicked off a lively discussion (full of nonsense in replies):
Your occasional reminder that physics PhDs are not engineers. The physics PhDs told us that we couldn't do missile defense. https://t.co/ra7Ybd82G0
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) August 31, 2026
On the lunacy of the DSA and the loons who support it, including apparently the “big tent” Democrats.
[Afternoon update]
Yes, McCarthy was right:
Elon Musk a écrit ce matin une phrase que l’école vous a appris à trouver obscène : « McCarthy was right (obviously). » On vous a enseigné à haïr ce nom comme on apprend une table de multiplication, sans jamais vous dire ce qu’il avait vu, et c’est précisément pour ça que la… https://t.co/en8zp64n3g pic.twitter.com/9KCcChoGsC
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) August 31, 2026
Not clear how to post it in English, but there will probably be an option to translate from the French at the link.
A completely rational, unbiased explanation.
We asked AI to give us the unbiased facts about AI data centers: pic.twitter.com/BCp8pesK0q
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 25, 2026