Half way through The Creature from Jekyll Island; incredible this was written back in the nineties, pre-GFC, absolutely nailing the whole fiat pantomime. Also recommended if you enjoy the sort of footnote and side-quest laden research found in RFK’s Fauci book. Forensic analysis a’plenty but with a light and engaging style.

The shadow of an RAF Vulcan B2 about to pass over the wreckage of USAAF B-24D “Lady Be Good” in the Sahara. The Liberator was lost in the desert due to navigational error in 1943, following a bombing raid on Naples. The in-service dates for these two types were only 11 years apart. Seeing (hearing!) Vulcans at airshows was a childhood highlight for me.

Ok you lovely people, I think I’m only going to post photos here now; the other networks are all rapidly losing their appeal. The first rain in a month has made for some amazing looking apples. It’s been a year of ups and downs on the self-sufficiency trail, but we are certainly not hurting for fruit. Apples, blackberries by the bucket. #farmstr #foodstr #homestead #grownostr

Love what these folks are doing. View quoted note →

Bananas have always been the most perplexing example of international trade in Costco for me. Here’s this low density unfreezable thing that spoils if you so much look at it, takes a bunch of resource to grow and ship thousands of miles and it’s still just a couple of bucks a bunch and appears stubbornly inflation proof. Mortgage application required if you want to buy any tree nuts though. View quoted note →

Dark Forest is far scarier tbh. View quoted note →

In either direction - outward with telescopes like JWST or inward with atom smashers like CERN, we’re just going to find more. More stuff, more layers, more complexity. Nature a fractal; the design work behind this iteration of the sim really was a labor of love. View quoted note →

Watching Dune (the recent one) for the first time on Netflix. So good. I love hard sci-fi.

As #garlic is apparently this evening’s thing, here’s a small portion of our drying stock, pictured for gratuitous nature/tech dichotomy in front of the Tesla Powerwall that keeps our lights on.

The gap between the swallows finishing their evening dance and the bats coming out to start theirs is short. Magical time of day. Swallows are basically day-bats.

Interesting from Elon just now: “Significant dedicated silicon shortage today will give way to a transformer shortage in 1-2 years and then a broader electricity shortage in 2-3 years” Build nuclear. https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vAGRAAmdoqKl

#Bitcoin is computer money so it’s logical it loves the powers of two. Price action in terms of RAM chips over the past three years: 8k, 16k, 32k, 64k, 32k, 64k, 32k, 48k, 16k, 32k. Obviously I’m here for the Gigabyte chips, but what’s next, 16 or 64?

38 years ago today: Phil Collins and then-wife Jill about to board a British Airways Concorde from London to New York, enabling him to take part in both the Live Aid concerts at Wembley Stadium and at the John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. There was indeed something In the Air Tonight, and it was moving at Mach 2.

I know RFK Jr. is all over all the shows right now, but this one was a solid listen. Well structured discussion from Lex. I’d be amazed if the swamp lets him get any nearer to the WH given the clarity with which he speaks on the military industrial complex and intelligence agencies.

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Aside from a retirement-year traverse of Canada, the only overland supersonic flights undertaken by Concorde were over Australia during testing in June, 1972.