Here’s hoping it’s true:
Banger 😂 pic.twitter.com/9EBbXguUdO
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 3, 2026
Category Archives: Education
Fantastic News
In Blow To Democrats, SCOTUS Rules They Have To Stop Being Racist https://t.co/kKW7YsB3lQ pic.twitter.com/tmszIB4CeJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 29, 2026
Despite the source, it’s not a joke. Here’s more:
A few underrated follow-ons from this voting rights decision:
— Jeremy Carl (@realJeremyCarl) April 29, 2026
(1) it will eliminate a lot of the very worst members of Congress because members elected from majority minority districts conspicuously tended to ignore the interests of White voters in their districts and to engage… pic.twitter.com/Bt1xsLzIEQ
Better Late Than Never
No more Pell Grants for crap degrees. But the loan program still needs a massive overhaul, if not obliterated entirely.
Intelligence Versus Wisdom
Interesting thoughts. One of the purposes of the Senate was to be the wise house, to tamp down the impetuosity of the People’s House. We lost a lot of that with the 17th Amendment.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: “An AI trained on engagement will optimize for engagement. An AI trained on profit will optimize for profit. An AI trained on wisdom would optimize for something else entirely, but we would have to know what wisdom looks like before we could train for it. And we have spent the last century systematically dismantling every institution that once tried to answer that question.”
Disney
An interesting thesis: How it accidentally radicalized generations before they could read.
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.
Newsom Is Gruesome
Gavin Newsom’s Empire Of Fraud
Whatever amount they estimate, I’m sure it’s more. I wonder if this torpedoes his chances at the presidency?
And it’s not just California.
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