Highly recommend reading this profile of a leader of nonviolent protest in the West Bank nytimes.com/2024/05/01/mag…

My The New Yorker column this week: Websites are back baby!!! type in a homepage URL today, fight the homogenization of the platform internet. ft. nilay patel, Ben Smith, Defector, Arts & Letters Daily newyorker.com/culture/infini…

A cabinet minister suggesting that fewer prisoners should be taken from the battlefield and more killed would be egregious in any government—but this is especially so for a uniquely rank-agnostic, decentralized citizen army where the chief of staff is effectively competing…

Manta Ray #UUV prototype completes full-scale, in-water testing off the coast of SoCal. DARPA program exhibits modular, first-of-kind capability for an extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle. Built by Northrop Grumman. darpa.mil/news-events/20…

useful explainer on the state of the H5N1 outbreak in cows: statnews.com/2024/04/30/h5n…

did not know death was so purely an investable asset bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

SpaceX launched 12 Falcon missions in April, bringing the YTD count to 43. SpaceX is targeting 148 Falcon launches this year

Launches by month:
Jan: 10
Feb: 9
Mar: 12
Apr. 12

my sources and other reporting say there is no nuclear material on orbit, so hard to square with the CMC analogy

ditching the supercharger team is baffling, even for Tesla...what is even the medium term gain?

Gen Z is still young, but they typically have higher inflation-adjusted net wealth (assets minus debt, including student debt) than prior generations did at their age.

Millennials, who were behind for a time due to the timing of the Great Recession, are now ahead of Boomers. /1

Chair Lucas asks if it's true NASA's considering a change to Artemis III where crew doesn't land. Nelson carefully replies that SpX has signed up to provide lander by Sept 26, then says ppl 'naturally think' about what if it's not ready but the *plan* is for a landing.

NEW: Grow ahead, California — the state has added population again, reversing a multi-year decline. ICYMI:

Retweets are in fact endorsements, Justice Merchan rules nytimes.com/live/2024/04/3…

The Republican presidential frontrunner confirms he wants to build detention camps for illegal immigrants and send the U.S. military to deport ~ 11 million people