NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there's a reason why This ought to make for some good reading," NASA's mission management team chair said.

A crewed mission around far side of the moon, with risk of #LOC (loss of crew)
Artemis II risk factors on launch:
micrometeors and orbital debris (MMOD), aka #spacejunk
stress the rocketship is under on launch at #maxQ (maximum dynamic pressure)
qv. Challenger Space Shuttle disaster
#TechScepticism

The Fukushima Coverup, Fifteen Years On Sooner or later, in any foolproof system, the fools are going to exceed the proofs. I awoke on the Friday morning of March 11, 2011, to a peaceful, sunny,

from an industry insider and #whistleblower :
There are 20 copycat designs of the Fukushima reactors that went KA-BOOM still operating in the U.S.

#techscepticism
#envhist
#nuclearplantexplosions
Genpatsu-Shinsai -- a nuclear meltdown triggered by an earthquake

www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/14/t...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

Another corrective piece: "AI hucksters don't tell you that you are going to get charged more for worse things, products that will be substandard, with statistically-camouflaged AI errors."

#TechScepticism
#TechbroFail
#Enshittification
#SycophantMachines
#AIslop
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NYC's Billion Dollar Mistake: The Leaning Tower of New York In the bustling landscape of Lower Manhattan, among sleek office towers and historic cobblestone streets, stands a monument to ambition gone awry – 161 Maiden Lane, better known as One Seaport. As hig...

Nothing left to do but deconstruct the thing, tear it down. What a waste of concrete and steel.

#bizmodelFAIL
#cheapbuildFAIL
#TechScepticism
#boondoggle
#WhiteElephant

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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

"The AI hucksters don't tell you that you are going to get charged more for worse things, products that will be substandard, with statistically-camouflaged AI errors."

#TechScepticism
#TechbroFail
#Enshittification
#StochasticMachines
#AIslop #bizmodel

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