…is a cultural proxy war against AI.
This is what will drive them into space.
Category Archives: Business
“Something About England”
Will it survive, or is it too far gone?
Starship Flight 13
Just two days away.
[Thursday-morning update]
Here‘s what’s riding on the test.
SPCX hit a new low today. Everyone who bought since the IPO is currently underwater. Hard to know where the bottom might be, but it might be near it, and time to get in.
— Rand Simberg (@Simberg_Space) July 15, 2026
[Friday-morning update]
Well, if it hadn’t scrubbed, it would have flown on the 57th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11. Now it has been rescheduled for the same anniversary of the landing, on Monday.
[Bumped]
California, The Racialist State
It’s taking the playbook of South Africa.
Boom
Can it achieve its certification schedule goal?
The article talks about trans-Pacific city pairs, but I have trouble believing it will have that kind of range.
Customizing Netflix
A very useful thread for subscribers:
A woman had Netflix for 6 years.
— Alvin (@Alvin1492840) July 14, 2026
She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night.
Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account.…
End Of An Era
The Conservative Woman is going to Substack.
Farewell thoughts from Kathy Gyngell.
The EPA’s New Diesel Rule
Having fits of regulatory sanity in this administration.
Every. Sixty.Minutes
Bamf pic.twitter.com/6I6IbvKCjm
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 11, 2026
Need to figure out how to integrate that onto an ocean platform.
The Race For Last Place
Thoughts on launch economics from Lux Ascent (that’s a pseudonym — I know who it is, but don’t know if that person wants to remain pseudonymous).