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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · Dec 11

Space isn't just the final frontier, it’s a battleground. 🚀 Give the gift of imagination this holiday season with Tales of the United States Space Force, a science fiction and fact anthology that boldly explores what's being done about it, and what might be. www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/...

Tales of the United States Space Force

Tales of the United States Space Force [Hardwick, C. Stuart] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Tales of the United States Space Force

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 1d

Things are tough for a lot of people, but ignore the TikTok apocalyptism. A big part of the problem is that since Reagan, economist pay too much attention to market value and too little to the state or ordinary people. Still, this is NOT a depression, not yet.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 2d

Words matter.

In the 1970s, after Jaws (1975) came out, a 12-year-old boy named Hunter Scott watched the famous scene where Quint recounts the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Curious whether the story was real, Scott began researching it for a school history project in Pensacola, Florida.

As he dug deeper, he discovered that Captain Charles B. McVay III had been court-martialed and blamed for the disaster—even though evidence and survivor testimony showed it was unfair. Scott interviewed dozens of survivors, reviewed official Navy records, and compiled a compelling case showing that McVay had been scapegoated.

His project gained national attention in the 1990s. He later testified before Congress in 1998 alongside Indianapolis survivors, presenting his research and arguing for McVay’s exoneration. In 2000, largely as a result of that effort, Congress passed a resolution clearing Captain McVay’s name, and President Bill Clinton signed it into law.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

This is very sad.

Honoring The Legacy Of Robert Murray-Smith

We at Hackaday are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Murray-Smith. The prolific experimenter had spent over a decade on YouTube, creating more than 2,500 videos where he gleefully d…

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

As a Cold War Air Force brat, I saw workplace integration at the BX, commissary, barber's & library, & thought nothing of seeing it on Star Trek. And for that, I am eternally grateful.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

Dear Internet: Crediting the owner of an image you've stolen is still theft. It might not make you a dime and so might not be actionable, but let's not kid ourselves. But stealing the photo and posting "credit to the respective owners?" Really? You can at least take 10 seconds to find the name.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 5d

Democrats: "The Economy Stupid." Focus on a sound, inclusive economy, and you win. Take sidetrack bait and you lose.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 6d

The world need Monty Python's Flying Circus -- today more than ever.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 8d

The Texas homicide rate is actually 65% higher than California's.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 11d

BTW, shout out to author Lenore Alecto for nagging me to finally try Obsidian. It's a nice and quite useful tool.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 11d

Obsidian has a setting "Convert Pasted HTML to Markdown." When ON, text from a browser becomes markdown with distortion & extra lines. When OFF, text from a browser still becomes markdown, but correctly. So...not sure what the setting should be called, but....something else.

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Tseikkis @tseikkis.bsky.social · 11d

For those who care, this is a pretty okay take on the topic

youtu.be/E-yaxqDsfgY

Why Everyone Suddenly Has Autism (It’s Not What You Think)

YouTube video by Be Smart

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 11d

It's October, which means the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award is accepting applications from now through February 1. Pro-tip: Leave yourself time for editing, critique, revision.

Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award

Baen's eBook marketplace. eBooks with no DRM in every major format--for the Kindle, iPad, Nook, and more.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 12d

So many people have inspired me to be nothing like them.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 12d

Your neighbors who disagree about how to make the world better are not the problem. Those manipulating you to hate your neighbors are the problem.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 13d

Jane Goodall lived a long and fruitful life, contributing much to our science, and often overcoming barriers pointlessly, self-destructively place in her path by our own species' less evolved aspect. Goodbye, Dr. Jane.

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 13d

No matter what you think of it, this is accurate:

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 14d

Apropos of nothing, here's a little wisdom from the culture of one of the U.S.'s strongest and closest allies, South Korea:

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C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 14d

There is absolutely nothing wrong with (an unambiguous) terminal preposition, but I felt like being petulant. Good on you for noticing, though. ;-)

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 14d

Agreed. The Apollo program, in a way, was such a great accomplishment specifically because we had so little to gain from it. But OTOH, it advanced precision manufacturing and semiconductors by easily a decade.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 14d

Space exploration already saved us once (by discovering Ozone depletion) and it could save us again in at least two ways that come to mind. But yeah, terraforming Mars is WAY WAY WAY downfield.

C Stuart Hardwick @cstuarthardwick.com · 14d

Dame straight. Notifications are the narcissism of programmers unrestrained by grownups.