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    Orbital data centers, part 1: There’s no way this is economically viable, right?

    They do not want us pulling the plug. How many warheads will we need to get up into the constellation to shut it down?
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    Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

    Maybe an inland sea island would be a better dump site? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170926-the-deadly-germ-warfare-island-abandoned-by-the-soviets
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    Developers say AI coding tools work—and that’s precisely what worries them

    Future Shock is thirty years later than I thought. Been watching a ham radio HF modem project the last three weeks. https://github.com/secup/ProjectUltra
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    Data broker hoarding is rampant. New law lets consumers fight back.

    Will the big DBs be compelled to retrain their ML model weights without the DROP demander's data?
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    US spy satellites built by SpaceX send signals in the “wrong direction”

    Mostly encrypted but some open text transmissions seem to indicate a DOGE child sex trafficking network.
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    Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras

    TARGETED ORGAN HARVESTING SYSTEM!
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    Yes, everything online sucks now—but it doesn’t have to

    Enshittification, chickenization, reverse-centaurs, regulatory capture oh my.
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    California’s newly signed AI law just gave Big Tech exactly what it wanted

    Grown not crafted. Learning to want. You don't get what you train for. If anyone builds it, everyone dies.
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    Why does OpenAI need six giant data centers?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range
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    Ars spoke with the military’s chief orbital traffic cop—here’s what we learned

    Space war was all gamed out back when us toddlers were taught not to catch snowflake on our tongues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_nuclear_explosion
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    Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

    Locations of Starlink deorbits? https://fire.airnow.gov/#3.76/56.37/-96.64
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    Starlink kept me connected to the Internet without fail—until Thursday

    Did Starlink sign a Good Neighbor Agreement with those in the debris field? https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/town-reaches-10-5-million-settlement-with-ge-vernova-over-vineyard-wind-blade-failure
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    Conspiracy theorists think their views are mainstream

    Phillip Marshall
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    Southwestern drought likely to continue through 2100, research finds

    Fire up Units 1, 2 and 3. We need the power to run a bigger bullshit machine to get us out of this. I remember the power plant rep and the coal mine rep trying get me to give the least significant digit in the K factor to their side. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Corners_Generating_Station
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    Trump’s claims of a Coca-Cola agreement quickly go flat as nutritionists groan

    While enjoying a fresh squeezed juga de cana in Banos, Equador I reminisced puking over the railing at 4 in the morning starting off a long day installing a belt scale at Roquette in Keokuk, Iowa after a night of river boat gambling. One glass was enough but it was cool watching them feed the...
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    Paramount accused of bribery as it settles Trump lawsuit for $16 million

    Was that the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 aircraft I saw on flight radar today taking a victory flight over Nantucket?
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    Doctors blast Senate bill, point out that 11.8M losing health insurance is bad

    MVP, Neutron Jack was just following the BIG TOBACCO LAWYER/SUPREME COURT JUSTICE's memo.
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    Doctors blast Senate bill, point out that 11.8M losing health insurance is bad

    Take one Naproxen Sodium Tablet 220mg in the morning, work twelve hours then take one Loratadine Tablet 10mg, sleep and repeat seven days a week as long as you can keep up then off to the Soylent Green factory with you peasants.
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    RFK Jr.’s CDC panel ditches some flu shots based on anti-vaccine junk data

    Mad as a hatter or crazy like a fox? There used to be a warning sign Do not eat the fish due to mercury contamination where I would put the canoe in the Sudbury River in Concord MA to fish FairHaven Bay I always thought this was from coal burning power plants in Ohio or local industry not vaccines.
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    Feds poised to approve SpaceX’s takeover of another military launch pad

    https://www.acmetools.com/craftsman-ph-2-x-12-inch-acetate-screwdriver-cmht65007/S0000000078183.html?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping-National-Search%20Only-Profit%20Margin%20Target-36-40&utm_term=4582008569613735&utm_content=Profit%20Margin%2036%25%20-%2040%25