Seems to be coming from a hardline pro-Netanyahu guy, posing as an "expert." It would be far too costly for the US to handle another major-scale war (let alone the fact that Turkey is a NATO member), but you never know with this administration.
As seen in MWC26.
FCC has been bending over backwards to accommodate the demands of a select few US firms in the satellite space for a while, and now it threatens the EU for its proposed Space Act. This from MCW in Barcelona: www.politico.eu/article/top-...
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
New punk song lyrics, hot off the press: acme-journal.org/index.php/ac...
The Man Who Stole Infinity
In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism
www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...
On the Birth of a Son
By Su Tung-Po
Families when a child is born
Hope it will turn out intelligent.
I, through intelligence
Having wrecked my whole life,
Only hope that the baby will prove
Ignorant and stupid.
Then he'll be happy all his days
And grow into a cabinet minister.
h/t@Lauren Gilbert
The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...
& then today is one of my favorite Memory Days on the Calendar, highlighting one of my very favorite Americans:
Happy W.E.B. Du Bois Day! ποΈ
Great initiative!
this RAM crisis feels like itβs going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Will be busy for a whileβ¦
So some AI is writing and submitting these using a gmail address? For what? An AI agent with an h-index?? OMG! AGI is here?!?π±
Should we thank the windy weather in Barcelona for this? π
Handwritten note saying: "But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
Let's celebrate #DarwinDay by reminding ourselves that everyone has moments when they feel worse for wear.
Darwin wrote to Charles Lyell in 1861:
"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything."
www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-L...
So, hang in there, #academicsky!
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I wrote a big explainer on the economics of space data centers for you. It's the story I've been wanting to read about this big space infrastructure project, and I hope it will help people understand what's really going on here:
techcrunch.com/2026/02/11/w...
Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught
Whatever he builds there--if at all--would just be a cargo base for his space shipping company. But this sounds too dry, so he just embellishes the narrative with endless fantasies plagiarized from sci-fi movies.
New essay by @steffenmurau.bsky.social on Trump admin's misunderstanding of dollar hegemonyβand four possible futures for the international monetary system. 1/
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
Ah, yes. My default mode whenever I am too overwhelmed by the news: www.santafe.edu/news-center/...
π¨ The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.
ππ¨π©π’π: Finance & democracy
π³Μ²Μ²πΜ²Μ²πΜ²Μ²πΜ²: 4-5 June 2026
ππ±π±ππͺπ€π’π΅πͺπ°π― π₯π¦π’π₯ππͺπ―π¦: March 1. Link below.
We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!
Useful. From Alex Dryden @soasuni.bsky.social via @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
Not sure if it helps, but... www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/the-how-to-b...
I had to stop reading for a bit when I got here because I started to cry.
Alex Pretti seems to have grown up to be everything his parents could have hoped he would be. And then they killed him literally because he was good and decent, brave and righteous.
SpaceX's Starlink dodged 300,000 collisions in 2025.
That's nearly 40 maneuvers per satellite, and it's rising fast β possibly hitting 1 million maneuvers in 2027.
"If they make a mistake, weβre in really big trouble.β
Story by me in @newscientist.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2512...
while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed).
Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
