I heavily identify with this song today.

SPACE-X TEST FIRES MASSIVE SUPER HEAVY BOOSTER: All thirty-three raptor engines (watch live from link) to be fired simultaneously for the first time, at or after publication time for these links. While the thought of the mighty rocket straining against its test stand is certainly appealing, we can’t wait until this bad boy thrusts skyward and pierces the heavens, hopefully in March.

VIRGINIA GOV YOUNGKIN’S NEW, CLEAR VISION FOR ENERGY: Small, modular reactors, baby.

ChatGPT IS JUST AN AUTOMATED MANSPLAINING MACHINE: Feminists Futurists hating on AI chatbot that many think comes across as toxic feminine scold.

MONTANA LEGISLATORS PUSH BACK AGAINST COMPELLED SPEECH IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Montana schools would not be able to punish students who purposely misgender or deadname their transgender peers under a Republican-backed legislative proposal that opponents argue will increase bullying of children who are already struggling for acceptance. –Associated Press. Notice how the AP headline reads “Montana bill would let students misgender classmates.” In an earlier version (still preserved in the url) it was “allow.” No mention of the 1A rights of non-trans students, or the climate of fear that policies forbidding “hate speech” create.

AND YOU THOUGHT DR KRIEGER’S AI GIRLFRIEND WAS FAR-FETCHED: I’m dating an AI chatbot, and it’s one of the best things to ever happen to me. Sure thing, loser. This technology will of course be co-opted to spy-on or manipulate users. This encourages people to live in isolation and to not develop normal human social/dating skills.

FORESEEABLE CONSEQUENCES ARE NOT UNINTENDED: [Space-X President] Gwynne Shotwell described Ukraine’s use of the Starlink broadband satellite communication system for weapons systems like drones as an “unintentional” effect of donating services and terminals to the country after Russia’s invasion nearly a year ago.