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Rod Hilton @rodhilton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Honestly, jesus fucking christ. time.com/article/2026...

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Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg @kyracloudy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Passenger says he pulled FlyDubai plane out of its dive after struggle with suicidal pilot: "I watch Air Crash Investigation" (BBC News)

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I really love spacecraft photos with structure in the frame. Makes it seem so much more real.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The funny thing is, I think anyone that has managed a high performing development team before knows this. I felt my skills atrophy and fought hard to get them back.

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Chase Million @millionconcepts.com · 25/09/2026

VP of Firefly quoted here referring to "subsidized cost-per-kilo model" for launch wrt SpaceX. Is everyone coming around to the fact (or finally willing to state publicly) that Falcon 9 was never as cheap as claimed, and that SpaceX has been doing venture backed predatory pricing for a decade?

satellitetoday.com

The Era of Cheap, Price-Per-Kilo Launch is Over, Launchers Say

PARIS — Space launch competitors think it’s time for a new model of pricing in the launch market. Against the backdrop of SpaceX winding down the Falcon 9

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unfortunately, I think I can explain. Pure utilitarianism taken to extreme. A 1% chance of a quadrillion humans in the future is worth more than a billion humans today, direct math. Stars don't matter, population does.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Beautiful. I started on that project in 2020 when everything was PowerPoint and Excel and napkin sketches. (okay, not really, but close.) So incredible seeing it built.

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

approximately one industry in our civilization has figured out "systematically keep track of things that go wrong, and then systematically try to prevent them from happening again", and this is the result

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great article. I'm so shocked that a Facebook product has privacy and access control concerns!

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Well that's certainly a name for a boat.

I had an ex that went to UT Austin and she never forgave me for pointing it out...

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10,000% agree. I'm very gung ho about the long term power in AI and very low on near term use and abuse. Lots of places today it is a net negative.

I can never unsee it for the University of Texas, but I think pointing that out in Houston was a career limiting move a few times for me.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Super excited about this space generally. LLMs, at least the "language" part, are powerful general purpose tools, but the breadth of their output can also be a hindrance in probability space and cost. Similar architectures being more domain specific will be pretty interesting to watch.

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Hah! If there's a use for it,I think that one counts.

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If the Teague sign wasn't in the middle, would've made a hell of an album cover

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I dislike that I understand all of this.

TekknoNerd - Commissions open @tekknonerd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Voyager, walking on those tiny legs.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only way this is going to be solved is human accountability equivalent to a reckless lie. Everywhere. Looking mostly at my own field, but... everywhere.

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

$78 million per crew member, roughly the top end of what the Russians were charging for Soyuz seats after many years of increases and watching NASA just eat it all. "Only ride in town" prices.

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15/09/2026

eg bsky.app/profile/inv1...

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Certainly matches my experience and conversations with many others.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Playing prisoners dilemma with Elon is going to have a very predictable outcome.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wait. Are there people that don't do that? I wonder what that's like.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Distilling this gets me to what software has started calling cognitive debt (queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3807966). Math, like software and like other fields, will have to deal with the cognitive debt associated with LLM use.

Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Didn't know you did that one. Hell of a shot.

Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

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So, to Gene Roddenberry, and all the other absent friends who launched that marvelous starship sixty years ago, who took us along on the adventure of a lifetime: thank you. And to all those who have been inspired by Gene’s vision of a better tomorrow: let’s go there together.

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Neither. (Shuttle.) After that, though...

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I want to hear from the mathematicians at OpenAI about exactly what went down, but yeah.

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Robert Pearlman @collectspace.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A small piece of "Star Trek" history was revealed aboard the International Space Station Tuesday (Sep. 8), 60 years (to the day) after the Starship Enterprise premiered on televisions... Read more: www.collectspace.com/news/news-09...

collectspace.com

Astronaut on ISS celebrates 60 years of 'Star Trek' with prop badge

Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to "Star Trek" by flying the...

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Stoke Space reports raising roughly a billion dollars to accelerate plans for a super-sized version of its Nova rocket. First launch of the original Nova Pathfinder is now set for early 2027, and the larger Nova Block 2 is due to make its debut in 2029. www.geekwire.com/2026/stoke-s... #Space

geekwire.com

Stoke Space raises $1B to expand its footprint and upsize its fully reusable Nova rocket

Seattle-area startup targets early 2027 for first Pathfinder launch, with bigger Nova Block 2 due for 2029 debut.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hide your archaeological treasures, but don't worry about anything that makes food taste good, they won't steal that

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 06/09/2026

I do worry about the epistemological foundations of people who have not yet encountered an LLM being wrong in a way that alters their approach to them.

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Scare-iadne Talchik @ariadnetalchik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

84 knots at the end of the runway (30L/12R) when it hit the fence. I don’t know if 30/12 has EMAS, but I doubt it Touchdown was about 170 so, It WAS slowing down, it scrubbed off about a hundred knots of speed

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Scare-iadne Talchik @ariadnetalchik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Prime Air 767 overran the runway in MIA, no word on injuries yet

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Brandon Haber @malderi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Honestly I'd pay for a modern version of this, not joking.