Daniel Svitek
@dasvitek.bsky.social
Space. Engineering. Science. Mechanical engineering in the aerospace sector.
Moralistic garbage. Currently clean on OPSEC. Hiding behind "due process"
dasvitek.substack.com
Moralistic garbage. Currently clean on OPSEC. Hiding behind "due process"
dasvitek.substack.com
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Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Trump is *unilaterally* giving massive tax cuts to private equity, crypto, and foreign real estate investors.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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"My father fled to California six years later to become an American citizen. Why America? Because he sensed that Americans believed not only in 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' but also in due process and in the law itself." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-fathers...
My Father’s Flag and the Idea of America
Over decades, across continents, and through harrowing experiences, my family held on to this bit of cloth as a reminder of everything they believed in—and were running toward.
www.thebulwark.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"My father fled to California six years later to become an American citizen. Why America? Because he sensed that Americans believed not only in 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' but also in due process and in the law itself." www.thebulwark.com/p/my-fathers...
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one of the things i have come to believe about the ~~deep past~~ is that, number one, there appears to enormous diversity and also enormous gaps in hard evidence, through which people project their priors... and also certain identifiable commonalities: scarcity, violence, patriarchy
there's so much obsession with the deep past on the right these days--they make a fetish of "the savannah," hoping to see their own politics reflected back at them. so what do we know of our own history? what can be said clearly, and what remains speculation?
www.patreon.com/posts/143274...
www.patreon.com/posts/143274...
Chapter 3.5: The Savannah, Known and Unknown | Samantha Hancox-Li
Get more from Samantha Hancox-Li on Patreon
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November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
one of the things i have come to believe about the ~~deep past~~ is that, number one, there appears to enormous diversity and also enormous gaps in hard evidence, through which people project their priors... and also certain identifiable commonalities: scarcity, violence, patriarchy
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It's *so* good. Spectacularly written, as always with PB, but such a fascinating window into a distinct moment in scholarly time
A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world’s most influential and distinguished historians.
Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind is now available in #paperback (6 Jan UK pub).
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Peter Brown's Journeys of the Mind is now available in #paperback (6 Jan UK pub).
Order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
It's *so* good. Spectacularly written, as always with PB, but such a fascinating window into a distinct moment in scholarly time
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Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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November 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Why are planetary scientists, astrobiologists and and SETI scientists so negative (pissed off, even) about Avi Loeb’s repeated claims that 3I/Atlas may be an invading alien spaceship?
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For those who keep asking me about 3I/ATLAS, here's a great writeup by my friend
@astrowright.bsky.social
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
@astrowright.bsky.social
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
For those who keep asking me about 3I/ATLAS, here's a great writeup by my friend
@astrowright.bsky.social
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
@astrowright.bsky.social
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
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Montana State Line,
11/10/2025, 5:04:59 PM
11/10/2025, 5:04:59 PM
November 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Montana State Line,
11/10/2025, 5:04:59 PM
11/10/2025, 5:04:59 PM
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I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
The Conspiracy Against America
National Populism and the United States
othermeans.io
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've written about Pericles, Lincoln, and the decay of civic life. You're welcome. I know this is the content everyone wanted.
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
othermeans.io/p/the-conspi...
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The Founders were not infallible, but they were wise, and putting up a wall between the military and law enforcement was correct. www.thebulwark.com/p/founders-t...
The Founders Would Abhor Trump’s Domestic Deployments
And the notion that courts can’t review his National Guard decisions is baseless.
www.thebulwark.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Founders were not infallible, but they were wise, and putting up a wall between the military and law enforcement was correct. www.thebulwark.com/p/founders-t...
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jun 20, 2017)
The James Webb Space Telescope is positioned in Chamber A at NASA Johnson for cryogenic vacuum testing, essential for its operation in space.
flic.kr/p/VQLPan
The James Webb Space Telescope is positioned in Chamber A at NASA Johnson for cryogenic vacuum testing, essential for its operation in space.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on Flickr (Jun 20, 2017)
The James Webb Space Telescope is positioned in Chamber A at NASA Johnson for cryogenic vacuum testing, essential for its operation in space.
flic.kr/p/VQLPan
The James Webb Space Telescope is positioned in Chamber A at NASA Johnson for cryogenic vacuum testing, essential for its operation in space.
flic.kr/p/VQLPan
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If you are thinking, "wow, I wish a resource like this existed for office holders in the Roman Republic" - it does, albeit in book form, as T.R.S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951, 1952, 1960) in two volumes, both hosted online: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you are thinking, "wow, I wish a resource like this existed for office holders in the Roman Republic" - it does, albeit in book form, as T.R.S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951, 1952, 1960) in two volumes, both hosted online: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...
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NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
The episode has contributed to concerns among intelligence allies that Kash Patel, brash and partisan, is also unpredictable and even unreliable.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NYT - Kash Patel's inexperience, his dismissals of top FBI officials and his shift of resources from thwarting spies and terrorism have heightened concerns among the other Five Eyes nations that the bureau is adrift. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/wo...
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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Judge Wolf’s own words www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Judge Wolf’s own words www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Finished Lowenstein's "Ways & Means" on the financial and tax reforms that won the Civil War for the Union—brilliant book that manages to make bond sales gripping & shows how many US institutions (land-grant colleges, Union Pacific, etc) we owe to wartime reforms
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Joey Politano's review of Ways and Means
5/5: "The Yankees did not whip us in the field—we were whipped in the Treasury Department" bemoaned one Confederate officer. The man was half right, as the well-earned American victories on the battle...
www.goodreads.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Finished Lowenstein's "Ways & Means" on the financial and tax reforms that won the Civil War for the Union—brilliant book that manages to make bond sales gripping & shows how many US institutions (land-grant colleges, Union Pacific, etc) we owe to wartime reforms
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
November 11, 2023 at 12:23 AM
#OTD in Weather History, 48 years ago, on November 10, 1975, the ore freighter SS EDMUND FITZGERALD was lost with all hands in a severe storm on Lake Superior.
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
She is perhaps the best known shipwreck on the Great Lakes, and today we remember her loss. 1/
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And finally, Hultquist, Dutter, and Schwab, 2006, "Reexamination of the 9–10 November 1975 “Edmund Fitzgerald” Storm Using Today’s Technology" from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
November 11, 2023 at 2:23 AM
And finally, Hultquist, Dutter, and Schwab, 2006, "Reexamination of the 9–10 November 1975 “Edmund Fitzgerald” Storm Using Today’s Technology" from the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society:
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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The CIIMS team also confirmed that the highest winds overspread Superior and that the Fitzgerald was in the worst place to be when she succumbed.
But what actually caused her to sink? There are a number of theories. 82/
But what actually caused her to sink? There are a number of theories. 82/
November 11, 2023 at 2:02 AM
The CIIMS team also confirmed that the highest winds overspread Superior and that the Fitzgerald was in the worst place to be when she succumbed.
But what actually caused her to sink? There are a number of theories. 82/
But what actually caused her to sink? There are a number of theories. 82/
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Anders Zorn - "In the Port of Hamburg" (1891)
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Anders Zorn - "In the Port of Hamburg" (1891)
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John Singer Sargent "The Staircase at Capri" (1878)
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
John Singer Sargent "The Staircase at Capri" (1878)
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Titan in Violet - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/31NwjM
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Titan in Violet - From Gordan Ugarković (ugordan.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/31NwjM
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Art by • Antoine Christophe
October 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Art by • Antoine Christophe
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Art by • Stephen Fabian
October 16, 2023 at 12:14 AM
Art by • Stephen Fabian
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November 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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