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November 2026

  1. Barbarism - Good or Bad?
  2. Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis
  3. Random Observations From Life’s Winter
  4. LiDAR on the Web
  5. Florida v. California re. Commercial Driver's Licenses for Illegals and the Otherwise Unqualified
  6. 2026 US Mid-Term Elections
  7. Michael Anton—Conservatives and the Right to Revolt
  8. Where Cities Get Their Funding
  9. Blended Wing Body (BWB) Aircraft
  10. AI Data Center Buildup
  11. Dear Immigrants
  12. Modern Warfare
  13. Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis
  14. Aviation Accidents
  15. Dandelion - Who Remembers?
  16. Autonomous Vehicles Open Thread
  17. This Week’s Book Review - Javelins in the Half-Light

October 2026

  1. Political Trajectory of Western Europe
  2. Weekly Space Report: Leaky Russian ISS Module Retirement
  3. The Crazy Years
  4. Grok Slipping Leftward. Bye, Grok
  5. Who Pays for Lawfare?
  6. Burning Car Carrier in the Atlantic (now lithium ion battery fire forum)
  7. Prosecutions for Interference with ICE
  8. Los Angeles Mayor Race 2026
  9. How To Nuke Large Language Model Bias?
  10. The Potpourri
  11. Political Trajectory of Western Europe
  12. On the Edge: Third-Worldism
  13. Babylon Bee 🐝 and other stuff that is funny
  14. “It's a pity both sides can't lose"
  15. Faulty Foundation—The Leaning Tower of San Francisco
  16. October 27, 2026 Israeli Knesset Election
  17. The Crazy Years
  18. The Crazy Years
  19. CTLaw
  20. Faulty Foundation—The Leaning Tower of San Francisco
  21. “It's a pity both sides can't lose"
  22. Babylon Bee 🐝 and other stuff that is funny
  23. This Week’s Book Review - The Phantom
  24. How to stop all these Injunctions
  25. MEI vs DEI
  26. 2024 UK Civil War
  27. Anduril and Palmer Luckey
  28. Anduril and Palmer Luckey
  29. 2024 UK Civil War
  30. MEI vs DEI
  31. How to stop all these Injunctions
  32. You Can’t Be Heard to Say You Looked But You Didn’t See
  33. Weekly Space Report: Orion-HLS Collaboration
  34. You Can’t Be Heard to Say You Looked But You Didn’t See
  35. Grok Slipping Leftward. Bye, Grok
  36. Nayib Bukele
  37. The Road To Panspermia Is Paved With Sexual Perversion
  38. Part 1: Moderna Had a Long History of Failure. Then Along Came COVID.
  39. Los Angeles Mayor Race 2026
  40. The Road To Panspermia Is Paved With Sexual Perversion
  41. Horowitz Interviews Andreessen: "The true story...origin of Netscape"
  42. Battery and Ultra/Super-Capacitor Open Thread
  43. Prosecutions for Interference with ICE
  44. On Partisanship
  45. Political Trajectory of Western Europe
  46. Dear Immigrants
  47. Space, the Final Frontier
  48. The Competency Crisis
  49. Yet Another of Musk's "National Treasure Maneuvers": 1 SpaceX Share Per Child
  50. Victor Davis Hanson - Mexifornia A State of Becoming - Booktalk
  51. Data Centers are a Public Benefit, Let’em be Built on Public Land.
  52. Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis
  53. OpenClaws or OpenClaus?
  54. 2025 Reading
  55. Aviation Accidents
  56. This Week’s Book Review - Texas Cotton and Confederate Finance
  57. Tolkien Movie
  58. Weekly Space Report: Double Catch Planned!
  59. The Foundation World Model That Might Have Been
  60. Plato Goes to China
  61. Modern Warfare
  62. (Leaked) Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies Ten Month Report
  63. On Public Executions
  64. Burning Car Carrier in the Atlantic (now lithium ion battery fire forum)
  65. For Columbus Day
  66. Shipping and Freight Open Thread
  67. The “Cornell 7”: The Sexual Revolution Devours its Own Children
  68. "Kill The Boomers!!!"
  69. Marc Andreessen: “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”
  70. How To Nuke Large Language Model Bias?
  71. Inside Shackleton Crater
  72. This Week’s Book Review - Rome to the Stars
  73. Tunnel vs Bridge
  74. The Trivial Problem Of Consciousness
  75. Elegy THIS, JD Vance
  76. Weekly Space Report: Ship 40 Comes Home!
  77. January 2025 Southern California Wildfires
  78. Autonomous Vehicles Open Thread
  79. Indian Government Hides Flood of H-1B Migrants from U.S. Media
  80. There isn't even a name for our war.
  81. NVIDIA—Real Time Rendering with Artificial Intelligence De-Noising
  82. David Brin's "The Postman" As Anti-Life ADL/CIA Propaganda?
  83. Airline Etiquette
  84. This Week’s Book Review - When the River Burned
  85. Bitcoin World Volatility
  86. Please Sir, I want SMR!
  87. Iran War et. seq.
  88. Unusual get out and vote snail mail...
  89. Weekly Space Report: Orbital Starship!
  90. Europe joins the Third World
  91. Hutter Prize Awards Largest Advance in 20 Years on Its Superintelligence Benchmark

September 2026

  1. Boeing 737 MAX Problems
  2. Everybody Has Problems
  3. Democracy - What is it good for?
  4. Hunger In America
  5. Immigration in Los Angeles...
  6. SpaceX Starship-Super Heavy Fourteenth Flight Test
  7. This Week’s Book Review - Alexander
  8. Weekly Space Report: Wild Starship Launch Schedule?
  9. Prediction Markets Open Thread
  10. Virility: it’s Kismet!
  11. The Many Failures of the CIA -- Told with Humor
  12. Javer Milei Elected President of Argentina
  13. I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
  14. Cursed Units in Science and Engineering
  15. Virgin Hyperloop's Hype Bubble Bursts
  16. Florida v. California re. Commercial Driver's Licenses for Illegals and the Otherwise Unqualified
  17. This Week’s Book Review - The Magical Game
  18. What to do when the war is lost?
  19. Weekly Space Report: Big Orbital Plans!
  20. The Potpourri
  21. Childhood Instinct Affirmed
  22. Divided Europe
  23. History of the "Jerry Can"
  24. Exponential Remediation of Civilization's Footprint
  25. What's to be done - European edition?
  26. Foot in Mouth
  27. This Week’s Book Review - Long Gambit
  28. Weekly Space Report: Morning Launch for TF14
  29. Check out the new countycurrency.org
  30. Science Education
  31. King of Dogs: Life is the training ground for death
  32. arctic satellite launch
  33. Dome of the Rock vs Sortocracy
  34. Dirac's Way to Quantum Gravity (via "Numerology")
  35. Time to end mail-in voting?
  36. Top six weighted companies in the S & P 500 Index account for 31.5% of the portfolio
  37. Weekly Space Report: Roman On Its Way!
  38. This Week’s Book Review - The Eagle and the Hart
  39. Paging Snake Plisken! Zohran Mamdani Open Forum
  40. Scale of the problem
  41. Bureaucracy defeats the US military

August 2026

  1. Hanlon's Razor is Dead

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