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Medvi—the first AI-enabled one-person unicorn—looks to be fraudulent. Incredible.

@deltaIV9250 Truth nuke: Resist libs are catastrophically wrong like this on literally every issue, you just noticed it for spaceflight because you have in-depth knowledge on spaceflight.

Begging resist libs to stop weighing in on spaceflight

Spain passed a law banning trade in defense materials with Israel. Right away, it learned that Airbus, which accounts for 60% of Spain's air exports, cannot operate without Israeli tech and exempted it, gutting the law. So much of what Europe does today is pure virtue signaling.

If "Moon Colonization" causes your "Colonization is bad" neuron to fire you are more of a stochastic parrot than GPT2.

🇯🇵 I often see endless third world resentment toward the West and feel only pity. Hiroshima & Nagasaki were destroyed by atomic bombs. We lost everything. We didn't scream about trauma or demand endless reparations. We rebuilt. Today these cities are beautiful. So, drop the victimhood. Stop blaming history. Change and build something or otherwise get used to being disliked.

Fun fact: the beach is still there and you can still go and SpaceX hosts multiple employee volunteer clean-up events every year. But wait! Your profile says you’re in Ohio, so you’re just concern trolling. Take it to bluesky where someone cares.

Lib: "Trump acts like a king ." Interviewer: "Name 1 thing that makes you think that he acts like a king." Lib: "There are a million of them." Interviewer: "Just name 1 or 2" Lib: "Uhh.. I can't think of none right now."

we accidentally created a time capsule of the last era in which humans wrote code

It's strange to think that people in DC don't know what the future is like, thanks to unions.

Why aren’t any of these at risk hospitals publishing their full accounting so everyone can see where they spend their money ? All but one group of hospitals that I have looked at potentially investing in, spend so much on consultants and fees that it’s no wonder they are at risk Plus, I have NEVER seen an industry that is worse than hospitals when it comes to buying medications and items like implants, screws, other devices. They overpay for everything. And then when you show them how to save money, their “supply chain” employees resist any change. They are so set in their ways, it’s a shock more don’t go out of business. Prove me wrong.

The corporate world built a religion around one lie. That leadership is separable from understanding. That you can run a machine you cannot read. Musk: “At SpaceX, almost all my time is spent on engineering and design.” Not strategy meetings. Not press tours. Not optics. The weeds. Musk: “If you don’t understand something at a detailed level, you cannot make a decision.” If you need someone to translate the problem, you are not the decision-maker. The translator is. You are a rubber stamp with a corner office. We built an entire economy rewarding people who speak in abstractions. Strategy. Synergy. Alignment. Physics does not care about synergy. When the rocket is on the pad, the org chart does not matter. The metallurgy does. If you do not know where the alloy fails, you are not leading. You are guessing with authority. Most executives are operating on secondhand information. Playing telephone with reality. When you delegate the understanding, you forfeit the outcome. They call it micromanagement. It is the opposite. When you understand the work, you know which failures matter and which ones are the price of moving fast. The executive who cannot read the metal panics at every setback. So he punishes it. And the moment you punish failure, your team stops reaching. They do not stop because they are lazy. They stop because they are rational. Nobody takes the shot when missing costs them everything. You do not build rockets with a workforce optimizing for job security. The further you get from the metal, the faster the company rots. The era of the spreadsheet executive is over. The future does not belong to the person with the best summary. It belongs to the one who never needed one.

Angela Merkel just ADMITTED on CAMERA she deliberately flooded Germany with third-world migrants to “stop the far right.” She chose to erase her own people rather than lose power. This wasn’t a mistake. It was demographic warfare. This is TREASON.

@BSF42069 "doesn’t like needless social and political commentary" IS the anti-woke position. Woke and anti-woke are not equally extreme positions, anti-woke represents the social norm before 2010s.

The guy made a book and film purely to entertain and said he doesn’t like needless social and political commentary Now the left is trying to cancel him and the right is praising him as an anti woke hero Insane how fucking deluded people are nowadays

@Megaconstellati @FREESPEECH1017 @SpaceX There's no contradiction. When SpaceX did it, nobody is using the orbit so there's no complaint. Amazon is deploying directly into an orbit Starlink is already using, so of course they're entitled to complain.

@FREESPEECH1017 LOL. @SpaceX complaining about what they did themselves repeatedly without getting ever sanctioned: x.com/i/status/12923…

SpaceX files letter of complaint against Kuiper for injecting satellites not in accordance with their agreed "Orbital Debris Mitigation" commitments. Re: Kuiper Systems, LLC, ICFS File No. SAT-MOD-20211207-00186 Dear Ms. Dortch, Amazon is continuing to violate its approved orbital debris mitigation plan and the express conditions in its license—dispensing satellites 50-90 km higher than authorized and without adequate coordination or information sharing. Amazon’s and its launch partner Arianespace’s negligence needlessly and significantly increases risk to other operational systems and inhabited spacecraft. " "Despite its repeated representations and related license conditions, Amazon launched eight times into orbits with insertion altitudes above 450 km without submitting any amended orbital debris mitigation plan or seeking Commission approval for such a change. Most recently, even with input from SpaceX, Amazon’s February 12, 2026, launch on Ariane 6 inserted its satellites at an altitude sufficiently high that it led to unmitigable collision risks with dozens of operational spacecraft. To be clear, Amazon did not update its orbital debris mitigation plan. But more importantly, Amazon did not provide sufficiently accurate ephemerides to facilitate postdeployment deconfliction for that launch, which significantly increased the risks to all satellite operations near the 480 km insertion altitude as well as to inhabited spacecraft. Amazon’s lack of deconfliction forced Starlink satellites alone to perform 30 collision avoidance maneuvers within hours immediately following the Ariane launch to avoid the newly deployed satellites. Even in the presence of these maneuvers, the risk from this insertion is estimated to considerably exceed the Commission’s semi-annual reporting threshold of 1 × 10⁻⁵ for unmitigated conjunctions. Amazon and Ariane unilaterally increased the insertion altitudes for the February 12, 2026, launch with full knowledge that thousands of satellites are already operating at those altitudes and that the Commission approved more to be lowered to those shells to decrease risk. Nonetheless, Amazon and Ariane still chose these high-risk insertion altitudes, which significantly increases collision risks due to known large launch trajectory uncertainties, and in this case ineffective launch collision avoidance screening by Ariane."

@JamesMuncy "at least TWO competing approaches": Yeah, that's the problem, NASA couldn't afford two CLD providers. If CLD providers come back and say: "We're fine with $125M/year for each provider for development" then NASA can go ahead and award two contracts. But will they?

(3) step up and help the CLDs create better 2nd generation space stations to replace ISS...at least TWO competing approaches, so (4) entrepreneurs can ignite the orbital economy, and create wealth for taxpayers, employees, and investors. A PERFECT leap forward!!! 13/13

Like many folks in the space community, I've been watching @NASAAdmin @rookisaacman's media appearances. While always substantively consistent, you sometimes pick up unique insights that he's probably used with his staff dozens of times, but don't come out to the media as frequently. 1/n

@CSI_Starbase Are you freaking kidding me? There's no evidence that US/Israel is deliberately targeting civilians. In the mean time Iran *is* deliberately targeting civilians, including hotels and other civilian infrastructure. You should be asking this question against the Iranian government.

Here’s some important food for thought for every human being on this planet. Is it moral to collectively punish an entire civilian population for decisions made by a ruling class that represents less than 0.5 % of their country? The answer matters. Because the precedent we set today becomes the rules of engagement tomorrow. We are actively rewriting the script that could one day be used against our own families, our own cities, our own children. In other words: would dropping 2,000 lb bombs in the middle of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus, Cairo, or any other city on Earth be an acceptable way to force a government to capitulate? The question isn’t about any one conflict. It’s about the standard we are willing to live and die by when the tables inevitably turn.

my April Fool's joke on my wife did not go as planned...

Dumb people are impressed by complexity. Smart people are impressed by simplicity.

Since Exxon was kicked out of the Dow Jones "Industrial" Average and replaced by Salesforce in August 2020, Exxon is up 325%. Salesforce is down 32%

I mean per the Land Acknowledgement dweebs' Primi occupanti rules, the moon belongs to the USA.