Peter Steinberg
@steinber.bsky.social
Physicist, Dad, electronic musings as @entropybound (bandcamp & instagram)
The secret service interfering with commercial air travel, esp. the most dangerous parts, is not what I woke up expecting to read. The fact that this is not huge news can only be because of so much other huge news crowding it out.
Amid all the chaos in air travel, a major (bad) milestone has gone overlooked: For the first time, airliners flying in US airspace have come under electronic attack.
I found the perp. You'll never guess who it was.
nymag.com/intelligence...
I found the perp. You'll never guess who it was.
nymag.com/intelligence...
Who Attacked Flights Near the White House?
After a deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C., pilots started receiving alarms that they were next.
nymag.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The secret service interfering with commercial air travel, esp. the most dangerous parts, is not what I woke up expecting to read. The fact that this is not huge news can only be because of so much other huge news crowding it out.
Same guys will call it “leverage”, as offensive as it is to actual levers.
less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest
April 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Same guys will call it “leverage”, as offensive as it is to actual levers.
I really cannot see the logic of @schumer.senate.gov caving on the cloture vote. The government is already shutting down, and the problem is clearly on the republican side. We need to match brinkspersonship with brinkspersonship. Vote no on cloture, please!
March 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I really cannot see the logic of @schumer.senate.gov caving on the cloture vote. The government is already shutting down, and the problem is clearly on the republican side. We need to match brinkspersonship with brinkspersonship. Vote no on cloture, please!
Adding to the sane voices asking the senate democrats to withhold their cloture vote. Amendments won’t make it, and a non-clean CR cedes power and, with it, whatever is left of the minority’s influence. The republicans provide a good example here and @schumer.senate.gov should listen to his voters.
March 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Adding to the sane voices asking the senate democrats to withhold their cloture vote. Amendments won’t make it, and a non-clean CR cedes power and, with it, whatever is left of the minority’s influence. The republicans provide a good example here and @schumer.senate.gov should listen to his voters.
Sadly this is not the first time South Park has amounted to prophecy www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR3...
Blame Canada - South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut (3/9) Movie CLIP (1999) HD
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March 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Sadly this is not the first time South Park has amounted to prophecy www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR3...
The 12 monkeys sequel writes itself, no AI needed.
Reading an internal NIH guidance memo which basically says since we’re probably going to be shutting down labs with little or no notice just be sure to remember about the whole disposing of biohazard materials the right way thing. ☣️ 😬🤡
March 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The 12 monkeys sequel writes itself, no AI needed.
The real pizzagate. Chilling.
"several federal judges in the Washington D.C. area had received pizzas sent anonymously to their homes, which is being interpreted by law enforcement as a form of intimidation meant to convey that a target’s address is known."
www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...
www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...
Exclusive: Judges face rise in threats as Musk blasts them over rulings
U.S. Marshals have warned federal judges of unusually high threat levels as tech billionaire Elon Musk and other Trump administration allies ramp up efforts to discredit judges who stand in the way of White House efforts to slash federal jobs and programs, said several judges with knowledge of the warnings.
www.reuters.com
March 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The real pizzagate. Chilling.
Few things make me feel better these days, but this did.
I am grateful that so many people found my open letter to Elon Musk moving and want to share it. Some well meaning people are just cutting and pasting it on their social media feeds. I would appreciate it if people would link to the version posted on @democracydocket.com instead.
Thanks.
Marc
Thanks.
Marc
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Few things make me feel better these days, but this did.
This is really something. Our guy running our government (i.e. into the ground) has some peculiar anger issues that don’t seem suitable for public life.
Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS
February 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This is really something. Our guy running our government (i.e. into the ground) has some peculiar anger issues that don’t seem suitable for public life.
As their prices increase, and campaign promises look more like “suggestions,” I’m curious if there is any photographic proof that either T***p or M**k have ever purchased or prepared even a single egg themselves, any style, with or without toast.
February 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
As their prices increase, and campaign promises look more like “suggestions,” I’m curious if there is any photographic proof that either T***p or M**k have ever purchased or prepared even a single egg themselves, any style, with or without toast.
Countdown to US government questioning legitimacy of pope to their catholic faith.
If I bragged about going to church all the time and lectured people about catholic faith it would suck a lot for the literal pope to put out a statement on how much I suck
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
February 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Countdown to US government questioning legitimacy of pope to their catholic faith.
I just realized that T must be deaf. When we asked him to “bring down egg prices”, he heard those last words as “constitutional rule of law”. Makes sense now.
February 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I just realized that T must be deaf. When we asked him to “bring down egg prices”, he heard those last words as “constitutional rule of law”. Makes sense now.
There’s a broader metaphor here but I just. can’t. quite. articulate it.
February 11, 2025 at 1:03 AM
There’s a broader metaphor here but I just. can’t. quite. articulate it.
Excellent thread on the US DOE - it’s again a reminder that the goal isn’t to save our money, but to wreck our society.
🧵 If you’re applauding the abolishment of the Department of Education, you need to do a little research. You have ZERO clue what the DOE actually does.
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
Here’s a reality check on what the Department of Education actually does:
(1/14)
February 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Excellent thread on the US DOE - it’s again a reminder that the goal isn’t to save our money, but to wreck our society.
And the moral here is that many scientific discoveries - especially paradigm shattering ones - are often accidents that happen while scientists are going about other business. The more you support their freedom, and the more perspectives you welcome in, the more benefit we get as a society.
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
And the moral here is that many scientific discoveries - especially paradigm shattering ones - are often accidents that happen while scientists are going about other business. The more you support their freedom, and the more perspectives you welcome in, the more benefit we get as a society.
I don't know the songs well at all but I was all in on the kendrick show - I presume there were less obvious diss targets than drake, too. And the USA imagery felt patriotic and subversive at the same time.
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don't know the songs well at all but I was all in on the kendrick show - I presume there were less obvious diss targets than drake, too. And the USA imagery felt patriotic and subversive at the same time.
“I am. Somebody!” was powerful and authentic and, these days, necessary.
February 10, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“I am. Somebody!” was powerful and authentic and, these days, necessary.
This Bond villain schtick is not entertaining, at all.
How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?
How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?
And is nuclear cleanup woke?
buff.ly
February 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This Bond villain schtick is not entertaining, at all.
Been thinking about how the N**is contributed to 20th century technology and the first four that jump to my mind are: cars (VW), rockets (V2), big data (via IBM) and propaganda. It reminds me of something (& someone) and makes me wonder how we didn’t connect the dots sooner
February 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Been thinking about how the N**is contributed to 20th century technology and the first four that jump to my mind are: cars (VW), rockets (V2), big data (via IBM) and propaganda. It reminds me of something (& someone) and makes me wonder how we didn’t connect the dots sooner
Truly vile - the race to compliance is betraying vulnerable kids who need help.
NEW — I spoke to a staffer at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) about DOJ's threat to pull funding if the org didn't comply with Trump's DEI executive order, and how org leadership rolled over.
"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.
"Rather than fight back, we chose to sacrifice trans children," they said.
Missing children’s org removes LGBTQIA+ materials per Trump DOJ demand
A staffer at NCMEC confirms the distressing effort to comply with Trump's executive order.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 9, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Truly vile - the race to compliance is betraying vulnerable kids who need help.
I kind of miss the old FG who would ruthlessly put down anyone who gets more attention than him. Like #presidentmusk.
February 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I kind of miss the old FG who would ruthlessly put down anyone who gets more attention than him. Like #presidentmusk.
An eternalstory, but Dylan nailed it in 1983 (via @joshtpm.bsky.social):
"They say that, ‘Patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings’
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king”
– Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ars-l...
"They say that, ‘Patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings’
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king”
– Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ars-l...
Ars Longa Vita Brevis
‘They say that, ‘Patriotism is the last refugeTo which a scoundrel clings’Steal...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
An eternalstory, but Dylan nailed it in 1983 (via @joshtpm.bsky.social):
"They say that, ‘Patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings’
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king”
– Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ars-l...
"They say that, ‘Patriotism is the last refuge
To which a scoundrel clings’
Steal a little and they throw you in jail
Steal a lot and they make you king”
– Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ars-l...
Holy smokes. Is there a backup?
January 31, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Holy smokes. Is there a backup?
This self pwn is a beautiful thing.
January 31, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This self pwn is a beautiful thing.
Verifiable facts and a ghastly outcome.
➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years
Making America Great Again!
January 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Verifiable facts and a ghastly outcome.