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
Not good, but...the number of Americans with four-year degrees has more than doubled in this time period, from 38 million in 1995 to 88 million in 2024, or from 23% of people over 25 to 39%.
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Not good, but...the number of Americans with four-year degrees has more than doubled in this time period, from 38 million in 1995 to 88 million in 2024, or from 23% of people over 25 to 39%.
I'm so curious if they honestly didn't know or thought no one else would care
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I'm so curious if they honestly didn't know or thought no one else would care
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/n...
like, this is embarrassing
November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
like, this is embarrassing
Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
November 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Palantir update via www.wired.com/story/alex-k...
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
.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
I find this take baffling. The US collected $118B of "new" tariff revenue in 2025 versus 2024, which is something like ~7% of the annual deficit of $1.8T. Meanwhile, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill adds $3.4T to the deficit over the next 10 years, but yields have fallen consistently since it was passed.
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I find this take baffling. The US collected $118B of "new" tariff revenue in 2025 versus 2024, which is something like ~7% of the annual deficit of $1.8T. Meanwhile, Trump's Big Beautiful Bill adds $3.4T to the deficit over the next 10 years, but yields have fallen consistently since it was passed.
A priest "strays into a pepper ball"
October 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A priest "strays into a pepper ball"
I'd be retiring too if I had to say things like this at my job
October 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'd be retiring too if I had to say things like this at my job
I am missing the connection between Confederate slavers and Western power, would love the author to draw that line more clearly
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am missing the connection between Confederate slavers and Western power, would love the author to draw that line more clearly
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
October 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
September 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Interesting observation from @ettingermentum.bsky.social in @maxread.info's newsletter this am
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September 19, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Interesting observation from @ettingermentum.bsky.social in @maxread.info's newsletter this am
open.substack.com/pub/maxread/...
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lots of juicy reporting in this story, but some grubby factionalism in the Trump family as Donald Trump Jr.'s friend and Tiffany Trump's father-in-law battle over African mining concessions wrung out of a "US-brokered" "peace deal"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
September 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
lots of juicy reporting in this story, but some grubby factionalism in the Trump family as Donald Trump Jr.'s friend and Tiffany Trump's father-in-law battle over African mining concessions wrung out of a "US-brokered" "peace deal"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/w...
remembering some red sox guys
September 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
remembering some red sox guys
This is how the system is supposed to work, right?
nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html
nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html
August 20, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This is how the system is supposed to work, right?
nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html
nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/security-clearances-scientist-fired.html
I'll know we're really in the space age when I have an actual picture of this, but JPL has announced that the NISAR satellite has unfurled its huge goofy radar antenna
August 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'll know we're really in the space age when I have an actual picture of this, but JPL has announced that the NISAR satellite has unfurled its huge goofy radar antenna
one of my favorite genres of space photo is satellites capturing images of rockets ahead of launch—here's ULA's Vulcan ahead of a mission planned for 7:59 pm ET tonight.
📷: Maxar Technologies
📷: Maxar Technologies
August 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
one of my favorite genres of space photo is satellites capturing images of rockets ahead of launch—here's ULA's Vulcan ahead of a mission planned for 7:59 pm ET tonight.
📷: Maxar Technologies
📷: Maxar Technologies