Interesting that the "EMI hardening" is a software/firmware error correction feature and not a physical shielding around the hardware like on military planes.

SpaceX can probably accelerate their flight schedule to accommodate Russian crew needs. There's the question of if Russia is able/willing to pay nearly $100m per seat. Their flights on Crew Dragon are currently paid through NASA in a seat exchange program where they provide flights from this site on Soyuz for US astronauts. They don't actually pony up the cash.

This launch site is also essential to attitude control of ISS. To refuel the ISS stabilizer thrusters and hold it steady while the gyroscopes are relieved periodically requires Progress modules launched from there. There isn't currently a backup plan for those services.

A slop-designed rocket engine might explode violently enough to give another big piece of metal a shot at becoming the fastest human-made object.

Rose: "The sun is too hot, now I shall die"

Cladosporium sphaerospermum: "Fuck yeah, strong ionizing radiation!"

I'm really hoping it pops before the Pitt Race track gets bulldozed.

Story for those not in the know, what's heavily rumored and circumstantially almost certain to be an AI datacenter operation is in the process of buying out Pitt Race at the height of its success from the already generationally wealthy family that owns it for what's rumored to be a 9-digit sum. The race track happens to be next to some major electrical infrastructure. Equipment from the track has already been auctioned off.

I was also kind of hoping the nuclear reactors might get started before it pops but that might be wanting to have the cake and eat it too...

I'm thinking sometime between right now and late 2026. It may be starting to pop already.

The guts of the data centers will mostly head for the landfill (or may get a short stint as cryptocurrency mining or HPC operations at most), they may get repurposed as conventional data centers or possibly warehouses or factories.

Counterpoints: The Great Depression, the impoverishment of the Luddites, the impoverishment of Gen. Y/Z/Alpha. The French revolution was an outlier, and the French aristocracy didn't even have the benefit of a massive heavily automated surveillance apparatus, much less the ability to even dream of armed killbots.

A pesticide for any planets crawling with pesky lifeforms you want to get rid of?

Yup. It's pretty hard to do the right thing when the oil cartel that has invaded Alberta keeps threatening to shit itself and is actively trying to engineer a separatist movement entirely for its own benefit. Here's hoping Carney eventually finds a way to disembowel them.

The last game Sweeney did the artwork for was ZZT. As much as I love playing around with AI art generation for fun, he's really not an expert on this.

They're both cheaper than fossil fuels, the main problem with nuclear has been that it can't be built in time to help with global warming and so can serve as a distraction that ties up resources that could've gone into renewables. A mad scramble to build them for the AI bubble could fix that, at least temporarily.

This gave me the idea to make something like a Shodan search engine for US healthcare but it looks like it's already been done:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.hospitalpricingfil...

If this stupid-ass AI bubble makes governments rush to add lots of nuclear power capacity which will soon have no AI data center to feed, maybe something good could accidentally come from it?

M-Disc is built with the intention of lasting a thousand years. The data layer is a stone-like material.

I keep hearing that people are abandoning Plex but some people are clearly leaving themselves vulnerable to future Plex-user pratfalls because this stuff keeps happening.