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BREAKING: DeSantis Cruises to Victory in Florida

Check back throughout the evening for updates about these important races in Florida. Up-to-the-minute results powered by DDHQ are below. You can sort by race (governor, U.S. Senate, and attorney general) and county. For all races across the U.S.,…

What Was Elon Musk Trying to Say With His Cryptic Tweet about Git and Subversion?

Elon Musk, with the Twitter acquisition, is now the subject of much attention by the general public. Elon is not shy about saying whatever he wants — and being a computer-nerd genius with more money than King Charles III and his late mom, he is…

Are the Undersea Cables We Depend on Vulnerable to Russian Sabotage?

In the last few days, the possible sabotage of the Nordstream pipelines has been a major issue. It’s unclear who has the most to gain from damaging these pipelines, which has left the question open to everyone’s favorite conspiracy, and a plague of…

Monkeypox Boogaloo: Pestilence Panic 2022

Back at the end of January 2020, I wrote “The Great Pestilence Panic of 2020,” PJ Media’s first article on the newly identified Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), or what we now know as SARS-CoV-19, COVID-1, or just Covid. Much has happened since then,…

The First Law of Media Leaks

Leaks are what the D.C. establishment media feeds on. Every day there’s a story sourced to “someone familiar” with some matter “on which the source is not authorized to speak publicly” — or some similar turn of bafflegab. Of course, the establishment…

Hillary Clinton Can't Stop Lying About Her Emails

Boy, if Hillary Clinton is tired of “but her emails,” she should see me. She has nothing on how tired I am. But the topic just won’t go away and in no small part because she won’t stop bringing it up. I guess at her age, you tire quickly. I can’t…

Trump Needs a Lesson on the Constitution

So now it comes out, conclusively, that the FBI BURIED THE HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP STORY BEFORE THE ELECTION knowing that, if they didn’t, “Trump would have easily won the 2020 Presidential Election.” This is massive FRAUD & ELECTION INTERFERENCE at a…

Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek Star and Space Advocate (1932–2022)

On September 8, 1966, my Dad and I rushed home from the office to see the first episode of the new SF series Star Trek. That first episode, The Man Trap, cold-opened with the USS Enterprise in orbit around a pastel-red planet, and cut to the Bridge,…

January 6 Committee Wants $20,000 to Release Surveillance Video

Sometimes, when you look at the news out of Washington, you have to comment, “C’mon. Seriously?” Since the January 6 riots — you know, the “insurrection” — a carefully chosen group of members of Congress have been investigating what happened, while…

Advice for Biden on Energy Policy: Put the Candle Back

In the last year, the Biden Administration has made a lot of policy changes. Many of them appear to have been entirely because there was something Trump did, and since Trump did it, it necessarily must be bad, so Biden (or whoever is really the…

Quick and Dirty Durham Explainer

You can learn a lot by just listening — unless you’re listening to the legacy media. A recent example is the motion Special Counsel John Durham filed in the case of Michael Sussman on Feb. 11. Sussman was indicted for lying to FBI General Counsel…

Don’t push that button: Exploring the software that flies SpaceX rockets and Starships

Spaceflight, from the beginning, has depended on computers – both on the ground and in the spacecraft. SpaceX has carried it to a new level. We recently spoke with Steven Gerding, Dragon’s software development lead, about the special challenges…

Socialist 'Current Affairs' Founder Takes the Red Pill After His Socialist Staff Makes Socialist Demands

I’m going to admit from the start here that until a few days ago, I had no idea who Nathan J. Robinson, nor his publication Current Affairs, were. As a survivor of the late ’60s and a student of history, it would be a surprising “democratic…

COVID: Yes, There Are Tests for the Delta Variant

You learn lots of interesting things on Twitter. Recently, I’ve learned that there is no test for the Delta variant of COVID. Am I understanding this correctly? The CDC says all theses new cases are the Delta variant – but there’s no test for the…

COVID: 35 Texas Democrats Endanger Democracy With Superspreader Attack

Today, let’s examine the continuing train wreck of the Texas Democrats, who fled Texas, moved to D.C. (where they’re staying in pretty nice hotels and Airbnbs at government expense), and somehow have developed at least five cases of COVID…

A Fable: Getting a Second Opinion in a Banana Republic

I want to tell you a little fable. Once upon a time, there was a rich and powerful old man — very rich and powerful. Call him T_. He happened to live in a South American republic — never mind which one, but one that was unusually rich and prosperous,…

Here's What You Need to Know (and Dr. Fauci Won't Tell You) About Herd Immunity

The American public seems to find a lot of things confusing, among them the metric system, the infield fly rule, and herd immunity. With the metric system, the only thing I can suppose is that people find it harder to multiply and divide by 10 than…

Building the software that helps build SpaceX

We’ve talked about the software that flies SpaceX rockets, the team that tests the code to ensure it’s airtight, and the code that helps Starlink satellites communicate with customers and one another. For our last piece, we’re diving into the work of…

Testing software so it’s reliable enough for space

We’ve talked about the engineers who write the code that operates SpaceX spaceships. Now let’s talk about the people who build and maintain the tools and processes that enable the developers and ultimately, help accomplish the mission of flying…

Building a space-based ISP

There are requirements that make software engineers sweat. Massive distribution to thousands of nodes. High reliability and availability. Multiple distinct platforms. Rapid network growth. This is the world SpaceX’s Starlink program, which has set a…