Illinois Energy Prof on DC's in space. youtube.com/watch?v=WL9JUe…

Six months ago, there was a lot of focus on the idea that the there would be a massive glut of unused computing power which would could a recession as AI use plateaued. The "compute bubble" belief was absolutely everywhere. The degree to which this was wrong deserves some notice

What’s lost in the debate about AI jobs is that when coding is free we will have jobs that we can’t even imagine right now. 50 years ago nobody would understand you if you told them your job was to turn the Flexport 404 error page into a game of Tetris. Flexport.com/404

Some people say Ayn Rand wrote great villains but unrealistic heroes. Orwell shows the deeper problem. He spent his career warning about totalitarianism, then openly aligned himself with ‘democratic socialism.’ That’s not a minor inconsistency. It’s a failure to identify the

Phil Metzger The Great Filter may also lie behind us. Multicellularity was a big jump. Plate tectonics might be rare. Large moons to stabilize the axis might be important. Humans have had some very lucky breaks. No way to know until we GO.

The trend of treating all of AI as One Big Thing that always includes data centers & job changes & education changes & power & accelerating science & misinformation & national security & corporate control & healthcare is going to inevitably lead to some bad policy on all sides.

This is outlining the transition from "going to space" to building civilization in space. And this time, it won’t just be governments. Read the whole thing: nasa.gov/wp-content/upl… Ad astra!

About two months ago I announced that I was beginning a march through my backlog of personal projects with fire and sword and robot friend, aiming to clean out all of my technical debt. I have in fact been maintaining a steady project-release pace of one per day ever since. I'm

The time has come for America to get underway on nuclear power in space🇺🇸

This sucks as I use X as the place where I repost the cool things I saw throughout the day in the off chance someone else finds it interesting. A few, very few :), of you have stuck around for it. If it goes away completely might as just lurk.

Looking back on it my elementary school had to have one military history nut with book buying authority because Mills Elementary had a way more adult selection than you’d expect for a poor elementary school.

Good talk. youtube.com/watch?v=B_7RpP…

I imagine maintenance is a nightmare but the Lotus Esprit is up there with the Lamborghini Countach as forever futuristic looking cars for me. Gorgeous.

Good thread.

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Seeing latter day cypherpunk adjacent reinvention of Fidonet really does drive home the paths not taken as the ecosystem evolved, and what might be different today.

WH40k is definitely a rule of cool universe. The bit I always thought funny, most depictions don't show any way for them to carry magazines. Their carbines are ENORMOUS with corresponding large mags. No wonder everyone carries a sword.

One more. Much of what was said in the China portion just didn't sink in with the questioner. There's a common misunderstanding in all platforms shifts, especially early on, that being cross-platform is somehow easy. There's a simple reason for that which is early in a