Tim Fernholz
@timfernholz.com
journalist, author, internet participant
writing and reporting on space, technology, and finance
timfernholz.substack.com
www.timfernholz.com
Oakland, CA
writing and reporting on space, technology, and finance
timfernholz.substack.com
www.timfernholz.com
Oakland, CA
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Here's the full lack of clarity on the Shenzhou-20 situation from China's human spaceflight agency in English: english.news.cn/20251111/ff7...
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Here's the full lack of clarity on the Shenzhou-20 situation from China's human spaceflight agency in English: english.news.cn/20251111/ff7...
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RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:41 AM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
a weird one: SF Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed an unknown woman as a city supervisor, and her only previous experience is running the worst pet shop in the city
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
Mayor Lurie’s pick for Sunset supervisor ran pet shop that ‘smelled like death,’ new owner says
The woman described Beya Alcaraz as someone who “cannot run a business,” and said the mayor’s office never spoke to her about the new supervisor’s track record as a business owner.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
a weird one: SF Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed an unknown woman as a city supervisor, and her only previous experience is running the worst pet shop in the city
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
such a cool project and an under appreciated application of ERA5
The 50th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald: A New Perspective on an Old Storm: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
such a cool project and an under appreciated application of ERA5
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Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
tom brady not having a suit that fits drives me nuts
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
tom brady not having a suit that fits drives me nuts
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Looking at these things and deciding that they’re true is just poison for your understanding of the world, but every day millions of people unlock their phones and nod along.
November 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Looking at these things and deciding that they’re true is just poison for your understanding of the world, but every day millions of people unlock their phones and nod along.
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A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a fledgling industry of mounting interest to both Beijing and Washington.
u.afp.com/Sno5
u.afp.com/Sno5
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a fledgling industry of mounting interest to both Beijing and Washington.
u.afp.com/Sno5
u.afp.com/Sno5
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Collecting TikTok avatars of ppl telling me New York will be under sharia law in six months
November 7, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Collecting TikTok avatars of ppl telling me New York will be under sharia law in six months
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Blue Origin, which plans to launch NASA's ESCAPADE twin Mars satellites as early as Nov. 9, posted this update on X.
November 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Blue Origin, which plans to launch NASA's ESCAPADE twin Mars satellites as early as Nov. 9, posted this update on X.
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"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."
With little recourse, U.S. airline leaders skeptical of DOT flight cut justification theaircurrent.com/airlines/air... (via @willguisbond.com & @jonostrower.com) #staycurrent
With little recourse, U.S. airline leaders skeptical of DOT flight cut justification
Concern about political motivation fills the void left by lack of FAA data
theaircurrent.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"We spoke with nine C-level U.S. airline executives and senior officials across six U.S. carriers for this story. They expressed varying degrees of skepticism, but none felt the cuts were without some level of political interference."
this seems like a good message for Dems, curious if it will get uptake
NEW: I’m calling on Trump to cancel private jet flights instead of commercial airlines.
Private jet flights often take a single billionaire passenger, but still put real strain on our air traffic control system.
Private jet flights often take a single billionaire passenger, but still put real strain on our air traffic control system.
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
this seems like a good message for Dems, curious if it will get uptake
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A new Space Policy Edition episode today! Guest Lou Friedman argues that the recent announcement of a potential biosignature collected by Perseverance should reignite our commitment to Mars Sample Return,. www.planetary.org/planetary-ra...
Space Policy Edition: Should a (potential) biosignature revive Mars…
In 1996, a controversial claim of fossilized life in a Martian meteorite ignited a golden age of Mars exploration. Nearly 30 years later, a potential…
www.planetary.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
A new Space Policy Edition episode today! Guest Lou Friedman argues that the recent announcement of a potential biosignature collected by Perseverance should reignite our commitment to Mars Sample Return,. www.planetary.org/planetary-ra...
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Felix Vallotton's noir sensibility shows in his Hopper-like portrait (1896) of Felix Fenéon the editor of the literary and arts magazine La Revue Blanche working at night by a window, the dark panes framing piles of blank white paper.
November 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Felix Vallotton's noir sensibility shows in his Hopper-like portrait (1896) of Felix Fenéon the editor of the literary and arts magazine La Revue Blanche working at night by a window, the dark panes framing piles of blank white paper.
we are deep in Venture Capital's rent-seeking era
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
we are deep in Venture Capital's rent-seeking era
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thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
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This charming if hagiographic article about Cormac McCarthy's insanely huge personal library and the overwhelmed scholars trying to go through it is full of unexpectedly funny evidence of the man's omnivorous curiosity. /v @meganabbott.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
This charming if hagiographic article about Cormac McCarthy's insanely huge personal library and the overwhelmed scholars trying to go through it is full of unexpectedly funny evidence of the man's omnivorous curiosity. /v @meganabbott.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...
.01% of ChatGPT's reported user base is 7 million people
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
.01% of ChatGPT's reported user base is 7 million people
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ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
terrific reporting on the economic realities that drove relatively high-income new yorkers to back Mamdani: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
Zohran Mamdani and the Revenge of the Struggling Yuppie
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
terrific reporting on the economic realities that drove relatively high-income new yorkers to back Mamdani: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/n...
A smart post from Aravind Ravichandran on why science-as-a-service doesn't work for Earth science: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/why-science-...
Why "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth Science
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether commercial Earth observation (EO) companies could replace parts of NASA’s Earth science mission portfolio. With a new Administrator coming in, that de...
newsletter.terrawatchspace.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A smart post from Aravind Ravichandran on why science-as-a-service doesn't work for Earth science: newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/why-science-...
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Some good-ish climate news.
10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are
Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Some good-ish climate news.