I originally thought, “If you plan on charging money someday, you have to earn it,” through hard work and lengthy analysis. We will still do some of that, but I’ve read that people also want bullet points they need to know and will be smarter for it. As always, no charge, but Venmo to a single dad is appreciated. Those $5, $10, $25, @Jason-Miciak donations add up. But let’s earn it first:
MUSK TALKS A BIG GAME, AND IT’S JUST TALK
Ron Filiposki is a Twitter account that is run by four or five people that can be trusted. When Ron posts this, it’s because it was said:
Less than one week ago today, Musk fired Twitter’s entire misinformation department. It is probably too late in the election cycle to have a tweet go viral accusing a Democratic opponent of having an affair with an eighteen-year-old intern, one-third his age, a wholly untrue allegation that could be picked up as total misinformation. But that doesn’t mean it would’ve been stopped two weeks ago had Musk been in charge, and it doesn’t mean it will be stopped three weeks from now when a Democrat does something that infuriates Trump.
No, this will have a much bigger impact if and when indictments start coming down. Only then will we find the true motivation for laying off (firing) the entire misinformation team, among many others, that kept Twitter from being Parler. People will start leaving Twitter in droves, hopefully to this service, but not fast enough.
WE ARE BRANCHING OUT INTO MORE GEN-X CULTURE, AND HERE IS ONE:
Lex and Sam Harris over the future.
In my not-so-humble opinion, the Lex Fridman Artificial Intelligence Podcast is the most valuable, intellectual, and educational podcast available. He has, over a short period of time, grown to millions of viewers as he’s taken on a wide (Very wide) interest in topics.
Yes, the MIT professor and Boston Dynamics robot builder started out almost exclusively in physics, consciousness, and artificial intelligence (obviously) podcasts, but since he has gained worldwide notoriety with over 300 podcasts by spreading his wings with shows that interview people on Catholicism, a former CIA spy, pilots in fighter jets that almost hit UFOs, Brian Greene, the best teaching theoretical physicist out there, and Nick Bostrom, the greatest Simulation Theory philosopher in the world, among many, many others.
It is great to clean your brain and get away from politics, something we’ll try here.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, WE ARE GOING TO THE MOON AGAIN… SORT OF, IN JUST A WEEK
According to CNN, the thrice delayed Artemis mission, which will circle the moon (Sounds unworldly, doesn’t it… when it’s only been fifty-two years that we actually landed on it, with less computing power than your phone… a lot less.)
The hulking rocket at the heart of NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon arrived at the launchpad Friday morning as the space agency gears up for another attempt to get the Artemis I mission off the ground.
Liftoff of the uncrewed test mission is slated for November 14, with a 69-minute launch window that opens at 12:07 a.m. ET. The launch will stream live on NASA’s website.
I did a semi-decent job predicting the events that will occur this year, and the beginning of a new space race was one. This unmanned vehicle will orbit the moon for two days before heading back, and the point is to “take some risks” before sending manned rockets up to do the same thing and plant another flag on the moon.
For all the talk about Mars and being a two-planet species, the moon is actually the key to future space travel. First, it has water. Indeed, it has a lot of water. That helps. It also has lots of lava tubes and tunnels to protect future outposts from being inundated with radiation from space. It is stuffed with Helium Three, a special isotope that is rare on Earth but much more plentiful on the moon. Helium three is great to have around to… make… rocket fuel! Put all that together with far, far less gravity to fight against, and you have your outposts if you want to go anywhere else in space.
Setting up several bases on the moon, one for each of the above missions, becomes - literally, the jumping-off point for future ventures to Mars and asteroids, the current long-term goals. And, just to make it interesting, China is either neck and neck with us or ahead of us in this endeavor. A new space race might help unite the country a little.
STICKING WITH THE SPACE THING: UAPs “UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL PHENOMENA” ARE REAL, AND THE MILITARY HAS NO IDEA WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT:
These are real, released by the U.S. military:
For those of us who have written novels involving UFOs and researched them, you cannot call everyone who believes in UFOs crazy unless you want to call some of America’s most legendary astronauts, people like Buzz Aldrin and Gordon Cooper, crazy. Gordo Cooper said a flying saucer landed right in front of him on an Air Force base.
There is a new documentary coming out made by real scientists, real instruments, real, real, real. It is called “Tear in the Sky,” and the trailer is here: (If for some reason it goes gray, as in my “The Cure” video from Friday, you can still hit the red button, and it’ll go to YouTube and play.
Most people believe that perhaps a few extraterrestrial vehicles were found, crashed, or whatever - early on, and since then, most of the technology has been “ours” (in a sense.) The reason that the military is in the dark is that all of these projects have been moved to the MI Contractors (Remember Ike’s speech, “public policy cannot be captured by a scientific-technological elite.”) and are thus beyond the government. Almost a government within a government. Presidents don’t have a need to know.
Regardless, it is fun to think about… more fun that waiting two days to learn who won Pennsylvania.
We’ll be doing more quick hitters and a few deep dives and figuring out which you like the most. Any help through Venmo to this @Jason-Miciak single dad is appreciated.