You can now enjoy a colored relief map render of this dataset streamed through Google Earth. Download the .kml file (drive.google.com/file/d/1bS1…) and open it in your Google Earth Pro client. Enjoy!

Australia finally gets some space hardware!

The opening words of that full Alex Jones rant, as I know because it’s my alarm every morning, are: “Look when you realize how fake it all is: the football, the basketball, the lady gaga, the Justin Bieber, who give you these carbon tax messages…” This has me thinking about our work at Terraform. Fundamentally we’re extracting revenue out of every tonne of emitted CO2. This is why we win, we are on the right side of capitalism and will be an extremely positive force on the future of humanity as the fly wheel of continual reinvestment and technology development on the Terraformed gets going. In contrast, you have carbon taxes that are fundamentally unproductive. Take something that generates value, and penalize it. This is how we all end up poor and cold and depressed, with rent seekers in control trying to extinguish every bit of dynamism there is, like I’ve heard is happening in Britain. In contrast, Terraform is a rewarded for every tonne of emitted CO2. Instead of penalizing emission of CO2, we’ll even pay you and cut into our margin (I’m just an intern at Terraform, but in principle this is what collocating DAC with CO2 emitters does). It takes builders to accrue value and rent seekers to destroy it. Either we can reward CO2 emission and minimize negative externalities (close the CO2 loop), or we can tax it and die early deaths. We will win. Happy 250th.

Super exciting!

To celebrate July 4 I ticked off an old objective: navigate to a lost trail more than a century old in my local canyon. We started early to beat the heat and made it with only 45 minutes of bushwhacking. Then we pushed up to the ridge and returned home.

Happy 250th birthday America! As a nation, we have so much history to celebrate, and at @NASA, we are just getting started. God bless the USA 🇺🇸

It is time for Operation Paperclip 2: repatriate the jewels of mittlestand to America. wsj.com/economy/china-is-dev…

The Mississippi, the Colorado, and the Salton Sea. Happy birthday USA! I'm honored to be a part of your most recent 6%.

Five years later, I roast the Claudes for having no instances of Shannon running while we eat the economists.

“There is still a lingering assumption particularly in the professional class that [you shouldn’t] have too many kids if you want to be responsible,” he says. “People haven’t updated their software about the ideas around overpopulation. It’s very clearly not the case. There’s no chance of us spiralling out of control — the new challenge is how do we deal with population decline in the long term.” -- @theandrewglover against anti-natalism news.com.au/lifestyle/parent…

It turns out that price controls create scarcity, who would have thought?

Helicopter landing pads never came close to matching this aura

It bothers me that it's 2026 and we still haven't built a really good all-digital limit-of-physics ground penetrating radar! I'm ready to put resources into this. Send me proposals let's make this happen. We're going to solve archaeology.

No jury would convict!

Yes! Free the appliances!

The thing about secrets is that there's a reasonably large population (millions globally) who can correctly infer them through intuition and knowledge and obsession, but that set almost perfectly overlaps with the set of people who understand why the secrets exist and are usually subtle about it. Same dynamic as x-raying shoes at the TSA.

Nice view of New York yesterday.

When ports and runways become inoperable our warfighters need an agile response to sustain the fight. airship-industries.com 200 ton capacity, fuel efficient airships can deliver loads to unimproved fields with transpacific range - no runway - no problem.

Farming is way older than conventional wisdom suggests. Technology and knowledge could diffuse extremely rapidly even in the stone age. A skilled artisan could walk the length of Eurasia in a few years. We're going to exponentially improve archaeology and classics with technology in the next decade. We will solve many old problems and create numerous new ones.

Tech founders are not below replacement.