Some observations from Blake Powers.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Twitter HQ
This seems like an insult to actual flaming dumpsters.
The Coming “Symbolic Analyst” Meltdown
Thoughts on whose jobs are really in jeopardy from the machines.
Starship Performance Update
Wow.
The Anniversary
Thanks for the birthday wishes. Here is what I wrote in 2010 about Challenger.
[Update a while later]
On the thirtieth anniversary, there were still lessons to be learned. In fact, many remain to be learned today, on the thirty-seventh.
After Ten Years
Wayne Hale has been reposting his remembrances of the loss of Columbia.
Predicting The War In The Pacific
This is interesting. A marine did it two decades before Pearl Harbor.
The Assault Of Environmentalism
[Update a few minutes later]
Here come the bugs. We’ll own nothing, eat insects, and like it.
De-Aging
This guy lost me at the calorie-restricted vegan diet.
American Nomenklatura
What the Twitter files showed. An interesting history of content moderation.