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New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic
May 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The instinct to use Twitter to answer questions like “why is this street closed?” has definitely been the hardest (social media) habit to break
Public service accounts were so crucial to Twitter and Musk undermined them almost immediately after his takeover.

Twitter employees warned him when he wanted to change verification. One specifically used a tsunami situation as an example. From @kateconger.com and me in our book, Character Limit.
December 5, 2024 at 9:25 PM
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!
data.consilium.europa.eu
November 27, 2023 at 8:54 PM
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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It’s officially Binding Hook launch day! Learn more about our mission from James Shires and Max Smeets @maxwsmeets.bsky.social , our Managing Editors: bindinghook.com/articles-bin...
Introducing Binding Hook
Managing Editors Max Smeets and James Shires introduce our new platform…
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November 7, 2023 at 3:13 PM