I’ve lived here for over four decades, but I hadn’t noticed that it’s apparently become a major new tech hub, with a new nickname, despite the hostile California business environment. El Segundo itself is too small to contain all of the new innovation, so it’s spilling over into Hawthorne, Torrance, and even down to Long Beach. But it seems emblematic that SpaceX started here, over two decades ago, before they outgrew it.
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Sort of related: How American entrepreneurs can keep us ahead of China in space. General Kwast told me a few years ago that he keeps a copy of my book on his desk.
Reflections on the past three weeks on Thanksgiving Eve:
The Fumes of the 2024 Election
Three weeks after the election and the fallout from it, we are starting to appreciate the clarity of the vote. It explains much of the present, the past, and the future.
Before you cut off friends and family members over political disputes: listen to @ggreenwald's story about going from trolling Evangelical conservatives online to making genuine connections with them: pic.twitter.com/AlSjgqBmsT
This is a good day to tell you that the term “privileged” is over. For about ten years now, this term has been used as a weapon against others. That’s over now. This characterization of someone as “coming from a place of privilege“…
It’s still a couple months until Trump is inaugurated, but people have lost their fear. Though I suspect that it will take longer to cleanse academia, particularly of the anti-Semitism. But I expect a lot of those who have been the worst on campus may end up being (finally) deported.
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The left will not go quietly. No, the fight has just begun, but the people are willing to do it now, and will not be cowed by them any longer.
Bob Zimmerman says that the American populace has awakened against the woke.
1/ This teacher admits she doesn't know when America was founded. She also says she doesn't teach her students the curriculum, but instead teaches about protesting anti-racism, activism, and Black Lives Matter.