Asst. Prof. Space Law - Durham University
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#reads: "Notes from the Chairman: A Conversation with Martin Dempsey," Foreign Affairs, v. 95/5 (2016)
Sunderland-born Joseph Swan, early developer of an incandescent electric light bulb, died on this day 1914. He demonstrated his lamp in 1879 to an audience of more than 700 at Newcastle’s Literary and Philosophical Society.
#reads: Michael J. Lynch, China: From Empire to People’s Republic, 1900-49, (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003).
#reads: Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
This is really emblematic of the current HE situation in which one half of the university is screaming at the top of their lungs about the problems of AI and the other half is desperately trying to implement it into everything regardless of its usefulness.
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The stuff going around about how conservative art isn’t good/doesn’t exist is interesting because what it means, which is true, is that the American conservative wing 2026 is completely incapable of making good art. There are several reasons for this but they boil down to the absence of vision 1/3
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Really good summary of the SpaceX S-1 from @timfernholz.com here
techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/s...
