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Blue Origin just launched the giant Bluebird 7 mobile phone satellite into space — but it's in the wrong orbit The company reported that its New Glenn rocket put the satellite into an "off-nominal" orbit around Earth.

Blue Origin just launched the giant Bluebird 7 mobile phone satellite into space — but it's in the wrong orbit www.space.com/space-explor...

I will never get used to the vacuous synchronicity of American leisure alongside wars: the latest bridal fashion, old Kindles dying, best chocolate. Life goes on in wars, always. But this cover is not about life - it is about forgetting, denial, erasure and … consumption.

Arranca en Barcelona la cumbre progresista mundial contra el trumpismo y la ultraderecha El plato fuerte de esta cita tiene lugar el sábado, con la IV Runión en Defensa de la Democracia auspiciada por Pedro Sánchez y el presidente brasileño Lula da Silva

Global Progressive Mobilization summit begins in Barcelona today. www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

For those applying to the ERC grants in Europe: reapplication restrictions are extended. The reason: too many applications and the panels are overwhelmed. Hard times for everyone. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

Tom Waits is back with Massive Attack and the result is so good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

Congratulations! 🎉

Not sure if space tourism is going to pick up any time soon: just attended a workshop where one brilliant presenter showed how building space toilets that reliably work is a real challenge, and that these things frequently break down. Would people really prefer to go to a hotel without a bathroom?

Brooke Bond Picture Cards Book: The Race into Space

Introductory text by Patrick Moore

Gems I find in the flea market, this one is from 1971 👇

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Screenshot of slides for Who Governs Outer Commons? Private Power and the New Politics of Orbital Regulation.

Wrapping up my slides for the Critical Narratives of Outer Space Workshop later this week at Oxford, very excited and looking forward! @alinau27.bsky.social

The Integrity spacecraft just entered the lunar gravitational sphere of influence, at 0438 UTC Apr 6. Wiseman, Glover, Koch and Hansen are now the 25th to 28th humans to have left terrestrial space.

NASA's Artemis II Is the First Crewed Moon Mission Since 1972. Why Are We Going Back? (Gift Article) These lunar resources could be valuable to us on Earth and in space.

Nice interactive report, a bit too rosy perhaps, but easy to follow for the general reader: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s really a shame that we depend on private money just to have a public conversation, and even worse when that exchange often turns into a yelling contest funded by some profit seeking investor.

Hard to provide public goods with private capital, Bluesky edition.

Humanity will do great things, but only after someone takes care of the Outlook problem.🫣

a man in a red shirt is sitting on a couch and saying can i get a hallelujah ! ALT: a man in a red shirt is sitting on a couch and saying can i get a hallelujah !

What would Wolowitz say?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/s...

China’s Aiming for the Moon, and NASA Is Looking Over Its Shoulder

This article pretty much nails it: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/w...

Youths, may I recommend you look up how the subprime mortgage crisis happened? Just, you know, for science

‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control Today, the space around Earth can no longer be considered empty. More than 30,000 objects are in orbit, and that figure is rising exponentially

Please look up: www.theguardian.com/science/ng-i...

Private credit’s moment for a healthy reset Recent ructions highlight the case for better scrutiny of the asset class

Private credit’s moment for a healthy reset www.ft.com/content/4030...

From Braudel, vol.1. And what will the picture look like after private credit?

A selection of photos from our public symposium at IBEI

Last week, we held the final event of the EthnicGoods project in Barcelona, featuring three days of fruitful discussions. The panels, hosted at @ibei.org and the CCCB, brought together diverse perspectives on nationalism.

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This episode is pretty informative: www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2...

The rise of China’s hottest new commodity: AI tokens Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption

The rise of China’s hottest new commodity: AI tokens www.ft.com/content/2567...

Will I Be Paid in Tokens? My AI inference costs hit $100k annualized. Then I cut them 88% in a weekend. Technology companies are adding a fourth component to engineering compensation.

People in the coding business are having an interesting conversation: payments in tokens, and tokenization of future wages tomtunguz.com/inference-as...

The point of putting ice in airports isn’t just to put ice in airports. It’s to normalize putting them anywhere as “extra security.”

This will include polling places w/ long lines in minority communities, polling places in blue/purple districts, & anywhere else it “helps” the people deploying them.

Further privatization is a priority--based on this roadmap, at least...

Thanks for this public service!

We are clearly about to invade Iran. Trump can’t take losing and the US has clearly lost this round of war, and nothing that would allow him to declare victory and leave is possible without ground troops. Which will also be a disaster, requiring even more ground troops as the global economy craters.

Relatedly, Blue Origin just filed plans for a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites. Please read that number again. The current total number of objects in orbit is 36,152. spacenews.com/blue-origin-...