Locator: 49965CHATBOTS.
Locator: 49965LDCS.
Entry fee --
Google Gemini, first party models:
LDCs:
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Southaven
Locator: 49972APPLE.
Tag: AAPL
For those with a 30-year horizon, this is awesome.
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Apple's AI
From February 11, 2026: how are NASA's Artemis and Apple's AI alike? Neither launch.
Locator: 49966ARTEMIS.
A couple of weeks ago my x feed was filled with non-stop tweets about NASA's Artemis getting ready to launch .... back to the moon --- disingenuous --- not "back to (on) the moon," but rather simply "back to (a loop around" around the moon. The US first did that back in December, 1968 -- almost 58 years ago.
But for the past week or so, I haven't been able to find a note about the Artemis launch. I've checked frequently. Zip. Nada. Zilch. So I got serious and checked again today.
Link here. Pushed back. Delayed. Scrubbed.
From February 3, 2026:
NASA is now targeting March, 2026, for the earliest possible launch of its historic Artemis II lunar moon mission, which will send four astronauts into deep space (to the moon) for the first time since the Apollo program ended more than five decades ago.
The decision came in the early hours of Tuesday, February 3, 2026, after NASA said it had completed a wet dress rehearsal, a crucial test of the towering rocket system that will launch the astronauts on an unprecedented path around the moon. The mission had been expected to lift off as soon as February 8, 2026.
NASA said it encountered several problems during the test after cold weather caused a late start, including running into issues with hydrogen leaks while filling up Artemis II’s Space Launch System rocket with propellant. The delay would allow teams to review data and conduct a second launch rehearsal, the agency said in a blog post.
Locator: 49969MICRON.
I think it was less than a week ago Micron dropped on concerns it would not have its new memory chips available until 2H26.
Today, link here:
Ticker, 5 days:
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A Musical Interlude
Locator: 49971COVID.
I really have no interest in discussing Covid-19 with anyone who has not read one or two books on the disease -- "my Covid library" at this post.
And now I've added another book to that library: Pale rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World, Laura Spinney, c. 2017.
Wow, talk about a great author -- she can really tell a story -- I would have enjoyed a bit more science but it was incredible -- how much stuff she covered. Her narrative, again, reminds me what Dr Fauci and his counterparts around the world were facing. Anyone disparaging Dr Fauci has no clue.
Locator: 49967COAL.
US military coal: President Trump orders US military to buy power from coal plants, for security. Link here.
We're the ideologues! LOL.
The Sierra Club headline:
The correct headline:
