Marshall Eubanks

Cory's threads are excellent. "The idea that an LLM might be able to stand in for a workshop is grounded in the fallacy that the point of a workshop is to have people tell you how to fix your story, rather than analyzing other people's writing in order to develop your own critical skills."

Not even slightly. The only thing that surprised me is the impact. I checked out some of the early LLMs and they were so full of hallucinations they were worse than useless. Now it's transformed the way we work more than any other single feature I can recall. And I've been doing this for decades.

It's doubled our team's productivity (financial sector, software development). But now we spend most of our time supervising/directing ai agents and checking their work rather than writing code. And our salary has not doubled and our hours have not halved...

How Inversion and NASA Plan to Unlock Interplanetary Aerocapture While using a planet’s atmosphere to secure a satellite’s place in orbit, a process known as “aerocapture”, has been a dream for decades, it’s really hard to actually do. Inversion wants to do it. www.universetoday.com/articles/how...

Raghupathy ‘Siva’ Sivakumar to Serve as Georgia Tech’s Interim EVPR news.gatech.edu/news/2026/10... Sivakumar's appointment as executive vice president for Research begins Nov. 1, 2026.

Rethinking networks in space with Aalyria’s Brian Barritt https://youtu.be/D_BaHm1DGGE In this episode, SpaceNews’ Mike Gruss talks with the CEO of Aalyria Brian Barritt about how networks are evolving, what scaling… https://spacenews.com/rethinking-networks-in-space-with-aalyrias-brian-barritt/

Helms: Think this is a good reccomendation to open have visited SpaceX to look at their lander paradigm , also Blue Origin, want to have dialog with the lander providers on how they are going with their tech and schedule. Also want to understand the uncrewed demo and how this plays down crew risk.

Archaeology fight reopens wounds over peopling of the Americas Challenge to age of Monte Verde site, key evidence for early arrival of humans, draws furious response www.science.org/content/arti...

Interstellar Objects and the New Solar System Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics with Chris Lintott www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRJP...

Tried to keep mostly calm here. BioWare management shouldn't be let off the hook for its own part in the troubles of the past decade, but every story we hear about how EA mismanaged the studio is a reminder that this was entirely avoidable.

#enshittification made me realize that markets are like browsers. Capitalists get to shape which inputs market systems see (property rights, obligations, entitlements) to shape market outcomes. bsky.app/profile/misa...

Before casting your ballot, review EVERY selection on the screen AND the paper ballot or record. If anything is wrong, stop and notify a poll official immediately. Take the time you need. Your vote matters.

These voters said they corrected their selections before casting their ballots. In Madison County, WBBJ reported that the local NAACP and other community organizations received multiple complaints about machines changing voters’ selections.

In Williamson County, voters told WSMV they needed multiple attempts to register their intended choices. One said she selected Democrat Jerri Green, but Republican Marsha Blackburn kept appearing instead. Another reported a similar experience while voting at Nashville’s Hermitage Library.

TENNESSEE VOTERS: Check your ballots carefully. Local news outlets are reporting complaints from early voters who say voting machines displayed candidates they did not intend to select.

The U.S. National Academies released its NASA-commissioned consensus report "Human Exploration Across the Moon": www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEP... This describes science strategy as astronauts return to the lunar surface for the first time since Apollo.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

Lunar Satellites Could Anchor Earth's GPS: Study Finds a Fix for Drifting Navigation Constellations www.newswise.com/articles/lun...

To reflect on how this plays out in mathematics: Editing, especially by a senior coauthor, should include re-thinking the content at a technical level and not just polishing tone. E.g. adjusting lemmas to the minimal hypotheses to show *why* they are true.

Hope blooms in the midst of death and destruction. Curiosity is an act of defiance.

This is incredibly well written, informative, and important. Most civil servants (who remain) are working their asses off, trying to hold the institution together. But they are also often prevented from say true (even obvious) things in public. Those of us with the freedom to do so must speak.

The Ukrainian T-shaped Radio Telescope UTR-2, the world’s largest decameter-wave telescope, is getting a restoration after getting caught in a war zone. astrobites.org/2026/10/15/u...

“He is the biggest known spender on this year’s midterms, $276 million funneled to conservative political groups + Republicans… Musk is also a prominent, and powerful, white supremacist.” Jamelle Bouie asks why Republicans are never asked about Musk’s racism. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/17/o...

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

MMX is on its way - sample return from Phobos (and, probably, Mars as well)! This would be the first mission to retrieve samples from a Martian moon. spacenews.com/japan-launch...

Disentangling Black Hole Photon Rings with Machine Learning arxiv.org/abs/2609.25344 astrobites.org/2026/10/17/p...

We've had our last leap second ! (Killed by the threat of negative leap seconds driven by the liquid outer core.) www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026...

Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine ‐The Telegraph reports. I don't know what they hope to accomplish here, but they are undermining our nation's ability to defend itself just because they dislike the president.

Worse... it will be molotov cocktail of mass destruction!!

Yes... but you can make Molotov cocktails with the wine bottles! Definitely further proof that NATO is attacking innocent ruZZia!

Lindsay Hayes said that the MMX mission will arrive in 2027 to do a survey of the Martian moon Phobos, then land on the surface to extract a sample of Phobos in 2028. ScAN will provide communications support. MMX will build on NASA's Mars exploration in that it will help understanding...

Just a reminder if you wish to listen...

My very preliminary reconstruction of the "Russian Starlink" satellite based on available photos and official imagery. A complete history of the project, technical details and coverage of Rassvet missions are on the site.

New York to ban Central Park’s horse-drawn carriages after death of teenager in accident. apnews.com/article/nyc-...

The Strategic Importance of Cislunar Space www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdpO...

🚀 Liftoff is near! The JAXA-led MMX mission launches on Oct 19/20, 2026, to explore Mars's mysterious moons. It will be the first mission to collect samples from Phobos and bring them back to Earth! 🌌 #MMX #SpaceExploration #Mars

While the metric system is clearly superior for science and international communication, I’ll probably go to my grave using inches and feet for sewing and woodworking.

Astrolight Delivers Space-to-Ground Laser Communications Links www.satellitetoday.com/technology/2...

No shit. Way to tell that crazy Twatzi Laura Looney off, Bill.