Ben Silverstein

New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic

“On a scale of cobalt to silica, how would you like your steak cooked?”

If they only knew almost every component for the dish they’re ordering at a restaurant was probably made yesterday at the earliest….

albums like M&A are perfect cds - run times too long for a single vinyl, not quite a double album, and no track can get cut. Not quite the “here’s 12 singles” of streaming, either

Oooooooooh…. Yip, yip yip yip yipyipyip

The instinct to use Twitter to answer questions like “why is this street closed?” has definitely been the hardest (social media) habit to break

The tension between Bildungsroman and bildungspunic is fun too

The Strategy peddles deterrence by punishment, emphasizing the “need to increase the possibility to use … all available tools, to prevent, discourage and, if necessary, appropriately respond to space threats,” which would ostensibly come from a “toolbox for EU joint responses.”

Finally caught up on the new Euro Council Space Strategy for Security and Defence. The doc doesn’t hide from dual use issues, charging system developers to “take into account security and defense users’ needs” while “retaining the civil nature of the Union Space Programme.” Challenging!

Excited to contribute some Day 1 content at a new outlet!

I look at how Europe might best protect its essential space-enabled capabilities, ironically most reasonably accomplished (in a European context) through tools closer to Earth than to orbit:

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