"AI has discovered critical security vulnerabilities in PHP"... PHP itself is a critical security vulnerability. It can't be fixed, so just stop using it. Burn it to the ground and drop the ashes into the Mariana Trench so no one can ever rediscover it.

There is a new form of the anti-datacenter reaction that isn't about data centers. It's about Buc-ee's. People are now talking about moratoriums preventing large convenience/fuel stores. The common denominator is change and our politics and systems don't know how to deal with a community, market segment, or constituency that wants, even craves, stasis. How do we accommodate those who want stasis AND those who want growth and change in the same country?

"There is something wonderfully rascally about homo sapiens, some bit of scrappiness that has kept us alive all these years. To call this quality “intelligence” is to underrate it. It’s more like being a huge pain in the ass to the universe, and to all the forces within it that wish us dead." experimental-history.com/p/c…

The House @FinancialCmte and Senate finance committees should hold hearings on why stock share transfers are so hard and look for ways to modernize. The SpaceX transfer situation shows how completely antiquated some parts of our financial systems are.

So far I see no significant changes in the final CLD RFP. To paraphrase @rookisaacman , this is a job for Commerce!

"Novelty is not a regulatory gap" spacenews.com/the-u-s-alread… As a founder and GP at Starbridge Venture Capital, I spend a great deal of time looking at the long-term effects of space policy (both intentional and unintentional), and this issue has been brewing for a long time. I am still amazed that serious people read "authorize and supervise" in the OST to mean whatever they personally think it means. The treaties never defined those two terms because they knew it would never pass if they did. Our nation, most of the West, and international law follow the "general permission" or Lotus principle: "that which is not explicitly forbidden is allowed." Those who read their own interpretation into intentionally undefined terms would create a positive legal regime where everything is forbidden unless explicitly allowed. That is un-American. I have no issue with a voluntary informational mechanism within OSC, but I fear, as we saw during the last administration, an authorization regime hidden inside an opaque interagency process. That is just wrong. Any limits on authorization MUST come from specific, limited congressional legislation, not arbitrary bureaucrats.

The SpaceX IPO has one useful side effect: it illustrates with extreme clarity how messed up the stock transfer system is. It. Should. Not. Be. This. Hard!

If you want to directly support ambitious commercial space policy, you should donate to the Space Frontier Foundation. We have been doing that since 1988. @SpaceFrontier spacefrontier.org/

Can we put the Bobiverse books in the e/acc canon yet? simonandschuster.com/series/…

I thought we were supposed to have had the CLD RFP out by now... There must be a serious rewrite going on.

In the early 90s, I talked about what the Internet could be, and everyone said it could never happen. Was I accurate in my timing? No. The Dot-Com bubble delayed some things. Did it matter in the end? No. In the early 2000s, I spoke out about where the space sector could be, and everyone said it could never be done. Was I accurate in my timing? In some ways, yes. In others, no. Will the exact timing matter in the end? No. I still expect a functional Lunar base and people walking on Mars by 2032.

Imagine a future where we limit a child's access to anything invented after 1980. Then, on their 18th birthday, you tell them what you did and why, and then hand them all the modern devices of that era. Imagine you are that child; how do you respond?

This is a serious issue even for tech people. Humans have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize everything. Its why we see faces in clouds or talk to our pets. Non-technology users of AI have no learned safeguards against assuming the AI is "human enough".

I predict that by the end of this year, a state or county will attempt to use Transferable Development Rights to create a technological version of the Montgomery County Agricultural Reserve that prohibits the use of AI within the zone. It may or may not also include social media.

Once you see it, you can't unsee it: CLD should never have been run by NASA. It should have always been in Commerce. The same goes for commercial cargo and crew.