Yay! We're finally giving PACE a chance!

Daniel Finkelstein Pwnallthethings

These are the kind of weird, important feedback loops that I became obsessed with while writing Veil.

What Lee said (though I never actually worked with him other than, a little, through that book)

Love this podcast episode, where Jesse and Rob keep trying to talk Akshat into climate socialism and he’s just like “nah, just shape capitalism” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shi…

ispace Founder and CEO Takeshi Hakamada and ispace-U.S. CEO Ron Garan released a joint statement on the announcement by the governments of the United States and Japan upon the signing of the Lunar Surface Exploration Implementing Arrangement.
Read more: ispace-inc.com/news-en/?p=5228

Bloomberg report claims Starlink has — at times — lost 100s of dollars on each of the millions of ground terminals it ships, casting doubt on claims by Elon Musk and the company’s top brass that the business is in “profitable territory.”
finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk…

Question: what limits the number of Falcon 9 launches?
Pad availability? Turnaround of boosters? Starlink production rate? Second stage production and loading?

In a post a few days ago Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 made this comment: 'Basically, Japan is Japan because it has a million small retail businesses.'

I was curious about why they have thrived while other cities have seen them widely replaced by national and international chains.

He kindly…

Here's an image that captures the essence of the last century of Imperial Modernity. In Gaza it has reached an extreme.

Imperturbablement, la Cour des comptes (European Court of Auditors) continue à donner des leçons aux autres institutions alors qu’elle refuse toujours de rendre des comptes pour les détournements de fonds UE commis par plusieurs de ses membres que j’ai révélé (liberation.fr/international/…)

Blimey. Henry Winter is far and away the best there is. I'll subscribe to wherever he is writing next.
I'm stunned any paper would choose to let him go

Magnificent self-own.

I wonder: What public corporation has the highest ratio of consultants to employees?

Coconut miso curry with cod: Chablis or dry Chenin Blanc?
Answers needed in ten minutes or so
#winepairing

Great News!

The production of 'X years left to save the world' messages is now at a record high!

If current trends continue, we should still have 'X years left' well into the second half of the 21st century!

Rob Bellamy Oliver Geden The Honest Broker

At the very least, IPCC & climate scientists should ask for a retraction here. This is not only false (even when reading the 2 page justification for it), it's terrible communication and frankly also stupid. If we had 2 years (we don't), we wouldn't focus on climate finance.

the FALLOUT series is terrific. i have not known rest since being introduced to walton goggins as a ghoul

This is hilarious

Is this not clearly untrue? Is there not a Canadian on Artemis II?