"We will not terraform Mars so much as Mars will areoform us."
On Saturday afternoon, I held a technical session on Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) with a friend. He s working towards his Ph.D. in the space, working on the material s end of the problem. We went over why this was an important focal point for future research and explained the history of NTP in general, including its Continue reading On Conspiracy Theories.
These efforts will evolve and expand over time. - Apple on their "Expanded Protections for Children" I am broke non-liquid right now. Normally, that sentence doesn t have geopolitical ramifications on the creation of hybrid private-public surveillance state. But in my case it does. It started rather innocuously. Someone couldn t send me money. No matter what Continue reading On Apple s Expanded…
He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. [...] there is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work Continue reading On ClubHouse. The World s Open Door
Everyone has a take on Apple s M1. These range from the professional to the enthusiast to the computing equivalent of people-on-the-street. Some of the takes that made it to the HN s front page include, Apple Silicon M1: A Developer s Perspective Apple CPU tricks: memory reordering, JavaScript support, ref counting Running Docker on Apple Silicon M1 Continue reading TANSTAAFL: Apple s M1.…
TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally. Trump s campaign was trolled by TikTok users in Tulsa. After Trump rally falls flat, TikTok teens take a victory lap for fake reservation campaign NYTimes, CNN, and NBC News Headlines In the Platonic Dialogue, Protagoras, we meet a charismatic counterpart to the lifestyle-guru of today, Continue reading On Trolling.
For a long time, I earned my bread and butter by crafting words. I was a practicing wordsmith. Slaving over the sound of language, how it flowed, what it sounded like, and what each word implied. It was laborious, invisible, and frustrating. As ashamed as I am to admit this, writing for years while having Continue reading Branding SHIELD.
Sometimes when I feel contemplative, I start to think about the finer workings of our world, the sheer improbability of it all and the improbable happenstance of history. The long arc that encodes our hope, beauty, truth as well as our profoundly savage nature and despair. And it is at these moments I often arrive Continue reading On the etymology of Batteries.
When asked, between 5% to 11% of children want to be astronauts when they grow up a number large enough to make it a cliche. Of course, the number of boys who want to be astronauts far outweighs the girls, but, if you walk into any kindergarten class in the world, it s a good Continue reading I want to be an ASCAN*