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  • After 15 months Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft will finally fly again

    The uncrewed New Shepard 24 test flight will refly the science payloads that were aboard the New Shepard 23 flight, which experienced an engine nozzle failure at 1 minute and 4 seconds following liftoff in September 2022. The capsule’s emergency escape system performed as intended, rapidly pulling the spacecraft away from the disintegrating rocket and…

  • Eight marketing maxims

    These are lessons I learned from Seth a loooooong time ago. I’ve put them into play with 2 businesses and they are now my guiding principles in marketing.

  • Russia’s Goal “Conquering Ukraine”, Say Western Media. Not So, Say Experts

    …if Kyiv and Moscow had reached a deal, which could have happened if it were not for Western interference, Ukraine today would control a greater share of territory. As he writes, “Russia and Ukraine were involved in serious negotiations to end the war in Ukraine right after it started on 24 February 2022”. Regarding that,…

  • The Barnum effect

    The Barnum effect is our tendency to apply personal meaning to statements that could apply to many people. https://sketchplanations.com/the-barnum-effect

  • Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

    From my personal experience… this is where the current GenAI tools shine It’s understandable that some writers and historians think of generative AI as a competitor. After all, AI-produced books are already showing up on Amazon. It’s only a matter of time before the first AI-generated YouTube series takes off — and the first #1…

  • Scientists Warn That the Dubai Climate Conference Is Full of Crap

    Every step of prevarication is a step closer to guillotines #justsayin For the past two weeks, the world’s best and brightest have been meeting in Dubai — under a glittering, color-changing dome built to resemble Islamic geometric art — as the petrostate hosts the United Nations’ latest climate change conference. And experts are calling bull. In interviews with The…

  • China launches mystery reusable spaceplane for third time

    “Based on what little information we have, I think the Shenlong [Chinese spaceplane] and the X-37B are likely doing many of the same missions,” Brian Weeden, Director of Program Planning at the Secure World Foundation, told SpaceNews. “That is, primarily being used for experimenting and testing new technologies, sensors, and perhaps even operational practices. “I think…

  • Voyager 1 is in serious trouble, NASA says

    NASA’s Voyager 1 probe has been cruising into distant space for 46 years old — and some of that advancd age is apparently showing. As NASA explained in a blog update, one of the pioneering probe’s computers, known as its flight data system (FDS), is “not communicating properly.” Because of these translation issues, the craft launched during…

  • Turn Your Voice Into Any Instrument with AI (Tutorial)

  • Pluralistic: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing” (08 Dec 2023)

    Chekov’s Phaser :cheffy_kiss: When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remote, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in…