So, we have made something truly awesome. For 18 months, we've followed the rise of robot fights in SF and beyond. The result is an 8-part docuseries. Part drama. Part tragedy. Part comedy. A very human story with robots in between.

Well, well, well. A new rocket player has entered the arena. Lots about the rocket and engine looks fairly standard. But then it's rockets. The physics gives what it gives. What is quite novel is a second stage that turns into . . . a data center with all sorts of dual use parts. I like this idea. Looks like lots of Blue Origin and Ursa folks. Launching in 2028 is, in the parlance of our times, 🙈 Here for the aesthetic

That thing where you're trying to mate a Honda Accord with a Tesla and end up creating a $2 billion company by accident. Our feature story on how @sendcutsend came to be.

This is why Texas will do better than your state. There is a center of gravity forming around all the stuff @elonmusk is building between Austin and San Antonio and beyond. It's going to be the closest thing the US has to Shenzhen. Our hourlong exploration of the tech scene in Texas in full here on X.

He gave birth to the Xbox. Was a game making legend. Became an agent and then went full mad scientist making the world's best bread and chocolate. More than all that Seamus Blackley is a deep, eccentric thinker on tech and has lived a most unusual life. One of the best pods we've ever done. Mega thanks to @brexHQ and @sendcutsend for making the Core Memory podcast possible. Timestamps 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:37 Why Tech Hype Sucks 00:08:33 Why Talking About Your Work Kills It 00:11:36 Early Life, Physics, and Jazz 00:22:53 Fermilab & Academic Politics 00:31:43 Building the First 3D Video Game Engines 00:35:14 Early Game Development Culture 00:39:33 DreamWorks & Spielberg 00:45:28 Pitching the Xbox 00:55:04 Fighting to Save Xbox 01:04:44 Abducting Jimmy Fallon 01:08:16 Baking Bread with 4,500-Year-Old Yeast 01:11:36 Growing Cacao Trees in a Lab 01:18:05 Accidentally Launching a Chocolate Empire

Don't know if this is one of the best interviews I've ever done. You'll have to be the judge of that. But it's one of my favorite chats ever. Father of the Xbox Seamus Blackley on his most odd and adventurous life Grab the Core Memory podcast wherever you pod. And here

Core Memory went to a former cattle field in Rockwood, Texas, and found a data center for the night sky. Starfront Observatories. Roofs roll open. Hundreds of telescopes wake up under Bortle 1 dark. People ship their scopes from around the world. Bray Falls lives on site, duct tapes water bottles for counterweight, and still runs the coolest triple RASA in the shed. They walk the piers. PlaneWaves. Takahashi banana tubes. A 24 inch Italian Newtonian that barely clears the roof, built as a community scope. SeaStar bar for beginners who want in for a couple hundred bucks. Then it gets dark. Bray slews to a once in a lifetime comet, autofocuses three monochrome cameras, and the ion tail is already different from last night. Milky Way overhead. Andromeda as a smudge. Sophie the duck on patrol. They even jokingly name a nebula Bray discovered the Core Memory Nebula. A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is for. Same for a telescope rotting in a light polluted backyard. This place makes space accessible. Watch it. @ashleevance @astrofalls