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
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one thing about Mamdani's youth numbers—it would not surprise me if a lot of young folks have, like a lot of older folks, convinced themselves that Mamdani is trying to go Full Socialism, and are eventually disappointed by what actually happens in office
June 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
one thing about Mamdani's youth numbers—it would not surprise me if a lot of young folks have, like a lot of older folks, convinced themselves that Mamdani is trying to go Full Socialism, and are eventually disappointed by what actually happens in office
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When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.
November 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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NASA and Boeing have modified the Starliner contract to 4 flights (instead of 6), the first of which will carry only cargo. Targeted for April 2026. Other two in the original contract will be options.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
NASA and Boeing have modified the Starliner contract to 4 flights (instead of 6), the first of which will carry only cargo. Targeted for April 2026. Other two in the original contract will be options.
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Every person I know who is roughly my age is dealing with something like this right now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | ‘We Had No Idea What Was Coming’: Caring for My Aging Father
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Every person I know who is roughly my age is dealing with something like this right now www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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The Exploration Company opens a new facility in France, calling it “a new permanent home for building Europe’s cargo return capability.”
europeanspaceflight.com/the-explorat...
europeanspaceflight.com/the-explorat...
The Exploration Company Inaugurates New Facility in France - European Spaceflight
The Exploration Company opens a new facility in France, calling it “a new permanent home for building Europe’s cargo return capability.”
europeanspaceflight.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Exploration Company opens a new facility in France, calling it “a new permanent home for building Europe’s cargo return capability.”
europeanspaceflight.com/the-explorat...
europeanspaceflight.com/the-explorat...
one lesson of the "twitter influencers are just scammers in emerging markets" discourse is that trying to follow real, verified people is good social media hygiene.
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
one lesson of the "twitter influencers are just scammers in emerging markets" discourse is that trying to follow real, verified people is good social media hygiene.
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The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
Cracks me up how you could just replace Venezuela and Venezuelans with Iraq and Iraqis and it’d be indistinguishable from something written in 2002
November 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The idea that we get *less* migration from a destabilized Venezuela is madness.
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one of the few people i want to read on this subject www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
Opinion | The Real Epstein Cover-Up
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November 23, 2025 at 9:47 PM
one of the few people i want to read on this subject www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
the gen x guys are fighting about whether they used to like the beatles but we know its just lead poisoning scrambling their memories
November 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
the gen x guys are fighting about whether they used to like the beatles but we know its just lead poisoning scrambling their memories
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“Salaries are lower in Europe”
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 AM
“Salaries are lower in Europe”
the art on this story embed is perfect, no notes
What started as a wink-wink tradition among dedicated pot smokers to make Thanksgiving more bearable has mushroomed into a full-blown holiday. Behold the “Cousin Walk.” 🔗 on.wsj.com/4oVRf9y
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the art on this story embed is perfect, no notes
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Whoa. CA DMV expanded Waymo's approved operating area to cover a lot of territory. Yesterday it was just the darker area.
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Whoa. CA DMV expanded Waymo's approved operating area to cover a lot of territory. Yesterday it was just the darker area.
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Two Department of Homeland Security officers showed up to an East Bay elementary school Friday seeking more information about a former student, according to a district official.
DHS officers enter East Bay elementary school, serve subpoena seeking info about a former student
Two Department of Homeland Security officers showed up to an East Bay elementary school Friday seeking more information about a former student, according to a district official.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Two Department of Homeland Security officers showed up to an East Bay elementary school Friday seeking more information about a former student, according to a district official.
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like, any time Graeber's work touches on something I know about (Chinese or Cold War history), it's wrong about two-thirds of the time, either mildly wrong or grossly wrong, and this seems to be the case across a variety of fields.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
like, any time Graeber's work touches on something I know about (Chinese or Cold War history), it's wrong about two-thirds of the time, either mildly wrong or grossly wrong, and this seems to be the case across a variety of fields.
i feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content.
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
i feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content.
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Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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The Ten Year Affair is NPR’s Book of the Day. Thank you, NPR!!!
'The Ten Year Affair,' 'Sex of the Midwest' look at the role of sex in domestic life : NPR's Book of the Day
Two new books examine how sex fits into suburban and small-town life, respectively. First, Erin Somers explores marriage and desire in her novel The Ten Year Affair. In today’s episode, she speaks wit...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Ten Year Affair is NPR’s Book of the Day. Thank you, NPR!!!
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%.
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Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Which reminds me of one of my favorite New Yorker corrections
not great news for America's lunar aspirations. I'm going to have to write about Starship again, huh?
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
not great news for America's lunar aspirations. I'm going to have to write about Starship again, huh?
its ability to consider a potential bit stresses me out
Petty fun: I fed gpt the Elon v Lebron hypo, and when it said Lebron, I told it I didn’t believe it because of Grok, and got this.
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 PM
its ability to consider a potential bit stresses me out
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“As 2026 nears, NASA continues moving forward to launching and flying Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign, no later than April next year.”
NASA Progresses Toward Artemis II Moon Mission - NASA
As 2026 nears, NASA continues moving forward to launching and flying Artemis II, the first crewed mission under the Artemis campaign, no later than April next
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November 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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