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I still remember when I sat in ULA headquarters and their lead mechanical engineer explained to us that reusability was in fact impossible, or more precisely, that the amount of extra fuel and equipment would render net payload reduced to zero.
Impossible is a funny word. $TSLA nitter.cf/SpaceX/status/99503690β¦
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No home and no factory was ever built by people who could only steal bricks back and forth from each other.
Some individuals can have by taking from others. The world as a whole only has what some people made rather than took.
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I can empathise with this take but it seems to me a very 1990s reading. Picard wouldn't really fit the progressive mould today.
Let's remember that he grew up on a family vineyard that had been in the Picard line for generations, run the old way by a family who saw replicators and other modern conveniences as a threat to something worth keeping. That same man later returned to the estate after leaving Starfleet. The tastes he carried with him - Shakespeare, archaeology, a clear preference for the deep past - don't sit easily with a politics that treats tradition as something to get past. His great leadership happened inside Starfleet's rank structure and chain of command.
More importantly, it took place in a post-socialist society that had already solved material scarcity; a post-scarcity future that owed its abundance to earlier capitalist innovation, scientific discovery, and risk-taking. What remained was the work of self-improvement. That combination looks less like progressive politics and more like an older idea of ordered life sustained by inheritance, hierarchy, and the cultivation of character.
Even the milder progressive of the 1990s would have trouble claiming Picard now. A contemporary progressive would read his authority as white male privilege exercised inside a hierarchical military that expands under the name of exploration. Today's self-righteous Jacobins would treat the Federation itself as a form of soft imperialism that absorbs other cultures while calling the process enlightenment.
The family vineyard would be inherited wealth and settler privilege; Shakespeare and archaeology would be the Western canon and colonial grave-robbing. The defence of Lt. Data as a new sentient life form would be dismissed as individualist rights talk that ignores structural power. Add the absence of identity-based solidarity, the human-centred Prime Directive that still ranks other species, and the quiet Eurocentrism of a French captain quoting dead white men on the bridge, and Picard would not be celebrated. He would be cancelled.
This is why both old-school liberals and conservatives could still enjoy 1990s Star Trek. They disagreed about secularism and rationalist visions of society, yet they shared enough ground on duty, hierarchy, inheritance, and the cultivation of character to recognise something of themselves in Picard. The newer Jacobin progressives share almost none of that ground. The distance between the liberalism of that era and the progressivism of this one is, in the end, as wide as a galaxy.
π€π§ π AI 4 Everman retweeted
I canβt even describe how much FSD has enhanced my life. Yesterday, I had an intense day at work. I rushed to get ready for a much needed momβs night out with a friend while taking care of three kids under 5 for dinner with my husband. I get in my car, say where I need to go, and sit back while I am transported to my dinner. It was the first time in my day I was able to kick back, listen to music, and just enjoy the moment β without the additional stress of driving during rush hour. We are living in the future, and I'm here for it.
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Watching all the posts fly about Patrick Stewart, I have noticed something incredibly interesting that reaches deeper into the core of humanity: everyone, across the political spectrum, loved Picard.
The original Picard, from the 1990s. It seems people from all walks of life feel a heartfelt loss, and I think there is more to it than just nostalgia or a celebrity passing.
The TNG stories spoke true to everyone, no matter their politics. It was an era where we were able to agree on fundamental things, where our shared humanity and its complexities were spoken through timeless storytelling. It makes you wonder if that balance is why the 1990s feels like such a golden age in hindsight.
I often see the argument that when the original Star Trek came out, traditionalists were offended by it, and that heavy-handed ideology and corporate pandering in the recent Star Trek series are the same thing. But I would ask: what about The Next Generation? It, too, asked deep, challenging societal questions about the human condition - yet everyone, left and right, loved it.
I realize it was just a show, just a fictional character. But I think there is more to it. It represents something we are all sorely missing today: depth and a sense of shared humanity, delivered without constant virtue signaling, and without corporations trying to monetize every last ounce of our attention.
Perhaps the true magic of Picard - and the era he represents - was that he challenged us to be better without ever making us feel talked down to. He invited us to reflect on our flaws rather than policing them. In losing Patrick Stewart, we aren't just mourning an icon; we are mourning the standard of grace, curiosity, and mutual respect he embodied so brilliantly - and which is becoming harder and harder to find.
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π€π§ π AI 4 Everman retweeted
Itβs surprising how many people are still in denial that Tesla launched a Robotaxi.
In this Forbes article the author, an early Waymo employee, claims that the Cybercab β a car with no steering wheel β is actually not unsupervised.
He argues that Cybercabs must be secretly remotely driven, because thereβs no way the AI can do it. This is a laughable argument.
First off, all autonomous vehicles can be tracked by the operator, and they can receive commands remotely. This does not mean theyβre being driven over the internet, which would be unreliable and barely work at all.
Just go try FSD (Supervised), which has no remote monitoring or assistance. Watch how it drives you around safely for thousands of miles and then tell me with a straight face that remote assistance is required.
Itβs also not true that remote help only happens at early stages. all operators including Waymo still do it, and in most cases are required to have the capability by law.
To claim autonomous cars are secretly being driven over the internet is, at this point, tinfoil hat stuff. The AI is driving the car, not a human.
Supervised means someone is in the car responsible for taking over if something goes wrong. Unsupervised means there is not someone in the car supervising. Cybercab without steering wheel is always unsupervised because there is no way to drive it manually.
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Rest easy, Captain. We have the helm. β¨
This is Webbβs look at Westerlund 1, a super star cluster. Because our galaxy is past its peak of star formation, and because stars live relatively short lives, only a few of these clusters exist to give us clues to that past era.
ALT Image description: A quote by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart. "I've come to believe that the stars have always been in my favor." - Jean-Luc Picard. The image shows a dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescopeβs optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colors reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.
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We mourn the passing of Patrick Stewart, who inspired countless individuals at NASA (and beyond) to boldly go where no one has gone before.
ALT Image description: A packed, sparkling starfield captured by our Hubble telescope β with strange new worlds potentially awaiting. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen
π€π§ π AI 4 Everman retweeted
In 1987, Patrick Stewart refused to unpack his suitcase for six straight weeks.
My throat still tightens every time I read why.
Every Hollywood insider told the 47-year-old British stage actor that Star Trek: The Next Generation would be a disaster. Even his closest friend, Ian McKellen, begged him not to throw away his Shakespearean career on a television gamble.
Stewart kept his bags packed by the door, waiting to be fired and sent home to London.
That "six-week failure" lasted 36 years.
Watching him late at night here in Japan, we saw something Hollywood never expected.
In Japan, we call this quiet, unbreakable spirit "Fudoshin," an immovable heart under fire.
Most action heroes scream and fire weapons to look strong.
Captain Picard never needed to raise his voice.
Born into deep poverty in Yorkshire, terrified of a violent home, he left school at age 15 and lost all his hair by 19, convinced his life as an actor was over before it began.
Yet one English teacher, Cecil Dormand, handed that frightened 12-year-old boy a copy of Shakespeare, said "Read it out loud," and secretly paid for his first drama course.
Never forget what happened decades later.
On the morning Queen Elizabeth II knighted him as Sir Patrick Stewart, he invited that same retired schoolteacher to sit beside him at his knighthood luncheon.
No suitcase left unpacked.
No rage on the bridge.
Just a cup of Earl Grey tea, a tug of his uniform, and three quiet words that commanded the galaxy:
"Make it so."
He passed away at 86 surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, and laughter.
And this December, in Avengers: Doomsday, Professor X will grace the screen one final time.
A boy who thought he wouldn't last six weeks in Hollywood gave the world an eternity of nobility.
From Japan, with tears and our deepest salute:
Thank you, Captain. Engage. β¨ππ―π΅
π€π§ π AI 4 Everman retweeted
i havenβt seen anyone share this clip yet so i shall - i know that one frame is a meme but the entire scene is perfect. only patrick stewart could embody so well a man whose first romantic instinct is to reach for shakespeare β€οΈ and the reaction shots are so good lol
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Sesame Workshop mourns the loss of Sir Patrick Stewart. Thank you for being our friend and for sharing your brilliance, joy, and kindness with the world. ππ
π€π§ π AI 4 Everman retweeted
Patrick Stewart's death is a good excuse to share one of my favourite scenes from TNG ("Ethics").
Patrick was awesome. Easily the best actor in the entirety of the franchise (though I also love Shatner). God rest his soul.
