Philip Greenspun’s Weblog

Defend a house against woodpeckers using robot drones?

Do we all need the new iPhone 17 Pro Max?

What was our rationale for wanting to continue to host immigrants after they were convicted of crimes?

Send humanoid robots to do crazy stunts?

Building an AMD-based PC

Where are rich people from Massachusetts moving?

Wall Street Journal warns New Yorkers not to move to Florida

Righteous contempt as Florida follows Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland into non-coerced vaccination of children

The terms “safety net” and “dignity” as propaganda

NFL teams are free to choose a social justice message for this season

Harvard’s latest win in court and the New York Times

Is it legal for the U.S. to destroy a Tren de Aragua boat in international waters?

New York needed millionaires and it got migrants instead

20th anniversary of my bad idea for using a mobile phone as a home computer

Years until NVIDIA’s revenue exceeds U.S. GDP

Could we shade the Earth or at least some cities now that Starship is working?

An importer’s view of the tariff situation

Should Tesla offer an Osborne effect lease?

How does the Gaza Health Ministry operate with no food, building, electricity, or Internet?

Requiem for a 20-year-old Netgear switch

Who has experienced a USB-C jack failure due to dirt/lint?

Amtrak Acela ride from New York to Boston

Credentialed expert consensus: SpaceX Starship will never work

Our AI overlords will need more power than the Sun generates within 43 years

Democrat economists hate Black women (NYT)