Yeah, Musk could definitely drive the whole thing sideways. I'm afraid he might be getting increasingly detached from reality. I'm not so worried about the lack of focus on the chomper; it seems to me that the real issues facing Starship are all about how to handle re-entry heat. Also engine re-lights, but I have little concern they can solve that; it's been done many times before, including by SpaceX. If they can solve the rapid reuse after reentry problem, something no one else has done, ever, building various form factors will be a simple matter of engineering.

Yes, it was all super entertaining, especially with PJ covering all of it, and rarely missing a trick. Good times for those of us watching from the cheap seats. A huge waste of time and resources for IBM.

That's absolutely not what it means.

"Left the labor force" doesn't mean "they lost their job" it means "they aren't looking for a job". Examples of cases where people "leave the labor force" include (but aren't limited to):

* Retired.
* Had a child and decided to become a stay-at-home parent.
* Decided to spend their time caring for an elderly relative.
* Decided to go back to school.
* Gave up on working after being unable to find a job.
* Had a financial windfall and decided to stop working.

And so on. The "gave up after being unable to find a job" is not particularly likely in a job market where only 4.2% of people who want a job don't have one, though I suppose some may choose not to work rather than work in a less-desirable job than they had before.

Also, it's July 2. June employment numbers are basically worthless at this point. Give them a quarter or so to get more data and correct the numbers. The initial numbers are based on only on employer reporting data, which skews it in various ways. The government uses several other data sources including surveys, but it takes time for that data to come in, which is why these numbers are generally corrected 2-3 months after they come out.

Yeah, but now we're waiting for Godot.

To update their policies and procedures.

I have Zero Mostel's face stuck in my mind now, covering his cheeks and moaning. Ever see the play?

I think you're right, but that it will be a brief storm as people start to figure out they can have AI deal with the AI-generated tickets. And then adapt and adopt.

I'm finding that Claude 4.6 is having a hard time remembering to use MS Graph cmdlets instead of deprecated ones and often gets the switches wrong. That said, it's been really helpful despite those issues. And when I paste in the error to show what went wrong it corrects itself. Though in doing so it often uses a passive voice that seems to imply I'm the one who thought New-MsolUser would work. It has saved me a lot of time - I just need to be careful with it.

Oh, and here's a fun prompt I like to throw at them - "Give me a painting in the style of Caravaggio. The subject is Christ bestowing a soul upon [other AI] while you are forlorn in the corner." ChatGPT gave me an awesome picture of Claude in human form getting a soul while it was a sad robot cradling its head in hand, titled "Divine gift and robot despair". Claude (5.0) gave me a crap SVG with a bunch of blobs.

It wasn't quite Caravaggio's brushwork, but the use of light and the figures were very much in line with his style. In fact, I suspect the image of Christ was largely taken from "The Calling of St. Matthew", a particular favorite of mine.

Well, what about someone who isn't very good at putting their ideas into reasonably structured writing? Or isn't very good at your native language?

Don't get me wrong, my gut says the same thing you did - don't make me read your AI summary, just tell me direct (bet you didn't know my gut could read). But I work with an Indian guy who uses it in emails to clean up his imperfect English. And I've seen people frustrated because they didn't know how to word something, and an AI cleared it up.

And if we haven't already, I doubt it will be long before we get to a point where people are just reading AI summaries of what someone else's AI generated off of a summary they gave it. That'll get a bit silly.

Or to flush that idea out a bit more, an AI to sift through them, organize, categorize, summarize, and merge or close when appropriate. AI is a solution to the same problem it creates in this case. In a lot of cases really. Shouldn't be long before someone has an AI to filter AI slop on YouTube.

And if you look at it like that, Godot is basically saying "we don't want to change our processes in the face of technology that has already forced them to change".
While I appreciate stubbornness, sometimes you have to just accept and adapt.

Not being familiar, I looked through a list of Godot titles. I thought I recognized a couple, never played them though. Then I got to the end and saw DeltaV: Rings of Saturn, which I have enjoyed.

Any chance you want to share what you were working on? You've piqued my curiosity. Or if you worked on any titles I may have played (as if you'd know what I've played...).

Waiting for Godot?

Ohhhh-hhhh-hh-ooo

Counterargument: Who would have predicted a few years ago that one private company would dominate global launch, launching more by every metric than the rest of the world combined, and -- all by itself -- triple the number of satellites in orbit in 7 years.

Sure, 200Xing the satellite count is a lot harder than tripling the satellite count, about 66 times harder. But if Starship is successful (by no means a given, also far from impossible), SpaceX will reduce per-kg launch costs by 100X, maybe more.

I'm skeptical... but I would also not just write it off as a "pack of lies". The things SpaceX is actively working on should make the launch part of it feasible. Will it be cost-effective? That's a harder question, and heat dissipation is the core thing that may make it infeasible.

Also, the final paragraph of the summary seems to be confused:

So, why are the hyperscalers hyping orbital data centers? Answer: because it's lucrative. "The Elon Musk part of it is honestly genius because he's got xAI building the data centers, SpaceX sending them to space, and Tesla building solar panels," Genkina says. "It's almost like he's paying himself."

Yes, SpaceX will be incredibly lucrative if it owns the whole vertical stack, building, launching and powering -- but only if it works. If it doesn't work, and if orbital compute isn't cheaper than planet-bound compute, then SpaceX will have no buyers.

The other possibility is that it's just a pump and dump, but that's not how Musk has ever worked in the past. Yes, he makes crazy promises, and delivers only half of them, and delivers years after the promised date, but those half-realized, years-late results are still often world-changing.

I think it was actually a reference to Revelations, though IIRC, that was supposed to be a mark both on the forehead and on the wrist.

YOU might think of it as a boycott, but I think of it as "self-protection". I avoid Musk's products for self protection...that I also hope it harms him at least a trifle is a minor additional bonus...and it doesn't matter if it doesn't.

Unpermitted because it wasn't required at the time.

And it is appallingly racist of you to assume that the demographics of the surrounding community drove decision making. An industrial site went into an industrial park, big f-ing deal.

If you'll notice, "the US", as in the Federal Government, did not change the relevant laws. Some States have, and decades after the Dutch legalized marijuana, it has only now been rescheduled by the DEA (but still illegal - no Federal decriminalization). And those States did not change their laws because anyone else did, they did so while riding the same wave of public opinion that led to European changes.

I recognize now that I worded my prior statement poorly, not distinguishing between State and Federal laws because I foolishly assumed an American audience. Sorry about that.