A delightful essay, from Supersonic Redhead:
It Changes the Light First https://t.co/JBNYdsFCUf
— Supersonic Redhead🛫 (@Supersonic_Red) September 22, 2026
It makes me miss Michigan.
Category Archives: General
Some Labor Day Thoughts
…from Supersonic Redhead:
What We Carry Forward Some Thoughts on Work, Talent and the Obligations of Experience https://t.co/o4cMKVptxR
— Supersonic Redhead🛫 (@Supersonic_Red) September 7, 2026
[Afternoon update]
Ask communists to explicitly describe what communism would be like. The answers are hilarious.
— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) September 6, 2026
> Everyone gets a modern urban apartment in a city, no cars
> You don't have to work
> Things are just produced so everyone has stuff somehow
> People work because of a 'sense of… pic.twitter.com/KzG2nT0c8k
All we need to make it happen is the New Soviet Man!
America’s National Parks
A love letter, from a comedienne.
A love letter to America’s national parks
— Arynne Wexler (@ArynneWexler) August 25, 2026
The national parks make America feel like mine.
Not mine in the petty sense of possession. Mine in the strange, almost sacred sense that something can belong to you simply because you belong to it.
We live in an age where everything is…
A Sad Day
RIP, Dolly Parton.
Hard to think of anyone more universally beloved–and deserving of it. RIP Dolly, and woe is we. https://t.co/k5FLH4Bsio
— Joel Engel (@joelengel) August 25, 2026
[Update a while later]
Apocalypse Draws Near As Last Remaining Universally Beloved Human Being Passes Away https://t.co/FNeIqbDq6p
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 25, 2026
More details and reactions.
Off The Air
We’re driving up to Salt Lake City for the Smallsat Conference. Staying in Mesquite, NV tonight, then Park City for the first half of the week. I’ll have laptop, but not sure how much posting I’ll be doing. Comments are open.
The Piscine Massacre
Welp, coons defeated my fencing and got into the fish pond last night. Lost three koi and four goldfish.
— Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) August 18, 2026
Bloggus Interruptus
It’s been a crazy week, at Space Tech Expo in Anaheim on Wednesday and Thursday, then a red eye to DC on Thursday night, and no sleep until last night. On top of that, I failed to pack my keyboard with my laptop, which in addition to being a laptop, has several wonky keys, including “e,” so it’s quite tedious to type on it. So between that and busy at ISDC, probably not much posting until I’m back in the office on Tuesday.
Project Hail Mary
Peter Suderman likes it.
[Afternoon update]
You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.
— Anish Moonka (@AnishA_Moonka) March 20, 2026
Phil Lord and Chris Miller,… https://t.co/dNqGFCikE3
[Late-afternoon update]
Most movies, I leave going “yes, but.”
— Stephen Fleming (@StephenFleming) March 20, 2026
“Yes, but the lighting was too dim.”
“Yes, but the sound mix was terrible.”
“Yes, but they skipped this major plot point.” (If based on a book.)
“Yes, but they completely miscast this character.”
Not “Project Hail Mary.” It hits all the…
Is Artemis Flirting With Disaster?
Thoughts from Glenn Reynolds.
I think it’s unlikely that they’ll lose astronauts, but it’s not a good look. But then, nothing about this program has been a good look.
Brian Doherty
This is a shocking loss. Matt Welch remembers him. I wouldn’t say he was a friend, but we talked occasionally at Reason events.