Brandon Haber

"A publicly traded company does not like losing money. When will a publicly traded company start wanting to lose money?"

(This is not an accusation against Boeing.)

Farewell, brave steed.

This day, five years ago.

RIP the Perseverance Skycrane, giving us one of the most badass sci-fi-like photos in space exploration history.

a two-month-old infant who was so sick he was unresponsive in the last day, deported with his family and their total of $190

But only if it was evidence-based (looking at you, CDC)

Announcing a new AWS Service: Mushroom. Generate new mushroom clouds as a service straight from the AWS dashboard!

Millennials killing AI, confirmed.

Real in this elder millennial's experience; I intentionally spend zero time on algo-driven sites. Bluesky and RSS are primary news sources. No Meta products, no TikTok. I know I'm unusual but so happy for it.

I'm not a huge Dune fan but I'm eternally grateful that there is an accepted name for the thing that we need.

Good thing Rust snuck in juuuust under the bar!

"But what if it has bugs?!"
"My brother in Turing have you met another human programmer before"

For many projects, typing speed is a limiting factor and AI can help. For many others, the real limit is the human brain and understanding. AI does not help with this problem, and in fact actively makes it worse.

Hilarious thing about this list is JHU on there, while JHU Applied Physics Lab is 8000 people all working for the government (and mostly for DOD) as a University Affiliated Research Center.

Happy Valen's Time Day

Valen, Minbari not born of Minbari, who is the reason for the season.

I love this place.

For all of Elon's myriad faults, one thing he's been good at is identifying (or creating) a business trend leading to strong first mover advantages (Tesla and SpaceX)

Grok, and AI more generally, is the first time he's trying to compete for real, from behind. It's not going well for him.

"Lena" isn't about uploading Quite a lot of science fiction isn't about what it's about. "Lena" is about uploading, but uploading isn't real. It doesn't exist. It might exist at some point in the future, but that just seems prett...

If you enjoyed my short story "Lena" you may also enjoy this follow-up essay about what I think the story is and isn't about

Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

The USSF-87 mission in flight as one of the GEM-63XL nozzles breaks apart.

United Launch Alliance’s 2026 has gotten off to a bad start.

Another nozzle failure on a GEM-63XL is likely to ground the Vulcan rocket for months, as Northrop Grumman will need to redesign and replace the assembly.

A similar anomaly occurred during the Cert-2 mission in 2024.

I was in the EBR for it and I didn't either!

As someone that worked on it under Constellation, it's amazing the journey that spacecraft has taken. Bravo, godspeed and good luck to the entire team.

There were lots of sound bites on Artemis I talking about the human-rated Orion spacecraft. Fun little bit of trivia - Artemis I Orion was not human-rated. But as of today, the Artemis II version is.

Yeah, we tried to get the booster back on that flight but internal expectations on success... well let's just say opinions on the chances varied widely!

Well, that's fun. Only other flight that did this was New Shepard M6, and few of us expected it!

Stoke Space adds $350M to funding round as it gets ready for the first launch of its reusable rocket Kent, Wash.-based Stoke Space Technologies says it has added another $350 million to its previously announced Series D financing round,

Stoke Space has boosted its Series D financing round to $860 million, with the newly announced $350 million going toward getting the Seattle-area startup's Florida launch pad activated and expanding production capacity for Stoke's fully reusable rockets. www.geekwire.com/2026/stoke-s...

Well said all around.

It is just me on this short 10m flight to AXA.

Pilot asked if I wanted to do any sight seeing on the way.

Okay that is quite a flex to be asked that by a pilot on a purchased ticket.

I do not want to admit how many of these I could drink in one night. Also the LAN parties were Friday nights so you could sleep all day Sunday afterwards.

Do you happen to know if they were the original props or recreations? I would assume recreations and all of those had been auctioned off ages ago.