Tim Fernholz
@timfernholz
journalist, author, internet participant writing and reporting on space, AI, and public policy I always want to hear your tips and ideas on signal: tim_fernholz.21 timfernholz.substack.com | www.timfernholz.com Oakland, CA
it's great that they're deploying real satellites, but if the booster isn't reusable, it's not clear that the economics work. SpaceX's S-1 discusses not achieving "full reusability," which I read as referring to still having a reusable booster
I can heartily recommend a visit to Brenda's whenever you're in Oakland next www.sfgate.com/food/article...
here's the @theathletic.com pioneering a cool user experience for subscribers
guess who is skeptical about space data centers in the next decade? the fellas down at Bain Capital www.bain.com/insights/orb...
OpenAI's Dean W. Ball on twitter today, discussing K3. It's interesting how tech industry policy thinkers settle on "stop competition" as a priority. The frontier labs would love it if the Trump admin tried to ban Chinese models, and this tweet will appear in the lawsuits challenging such laws.
one thing about Vance's worldview—this is just not historically accurate in any sense
people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
straight to the "but it's significant that I thought this fake stuff was true, isn't it?" defense www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...