SELF-DEFENSE: Keep An Eye On Their Hands.

GOT ME A SATELLITE, IT’S AS BIG AS A WHALE AND IT’S ABOUT TO SET SAIL: SpaceX Starlink V3 Satellites.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: K2 Space Corp, SpaceX ink Falcon 9 rocket deal for 2027 mission.

FASTER, PLEASE: Glycation-lowering compounds curb hunger, lower insulin resistance and extend lifespan in mice.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Study links excessive social media use with lowered academic aptitude.

SOMETHING NEFARIOUS GOING ON:

Obama is in London again.

Last time Obama made a trip to 10 Downing Street to meet with UK officials was when…

They all got caught in the spying operation on Trump.

Wonder who he’s meeting with now?

The snake.pic.twitter.com/PTfEd8tNeA

— C3 (@C_3C_3) October 14, 2025

FLOP SWEAT: New Jersey Governor’s Race About All Tied Up, Jersey Mikie’s Panic Attacks Getting Fugly.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Hundreds of colleges could lose federal student loans due to default rates, economist says.

RULE OF LAW: Columbia tells students and staff how to respond to ICE agents, instructs them to ‘lock doors.’

MAX WHO?

I forgot that guy existed

— Sweet Willy Rollbar, excitable boy (@vorozab) October 15, 2025

STANDING UP AGAINST ENTRENCHED INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Tenured Professor Sues College for Anti-White Discrimination.

WELL, IT’S TRUE: Mike Johnson Unloads On Schumer, Says Senate Dem Is ‘Inflicting Pain For His Own Selfish Reasons.’

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Blue city ‘breaking point’: San Francisco wants Trump’s help on crime.

WHY ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS SUCH CESSPITS OF HATE? Top Philadelphia Public School Official Posts Tributes to Fugitive Cop-Killer Assata Shakur.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Insurrection Act: Officials In Blue States and Cities Are “Running with Scissors” Expecting Nothing Bad Will Happen From Opposing DHS/ICE. “The factual preconditions for invoking the Insurrection Act have already been met — only President Trump’s forbearance in asserting his lawful authority has prevented it from happening.”

YES.

It's less important whether Hamas has really agreed to disarm and give up power than whether Egypt, Turkey, and Qatar have agreed that Hamas must disarm and give up power. Terrorist movements like Hamas facing much stronger enemies like Israel can't survive without outside…

— David Bernstein (@ProfDBernstein) October 15, 2025

Trump strangles his enemies by cutting off their money.

OPEN THREAD: Be here now.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Blue city ‘breaking point’: San Francisco wants Trump’s help on crime.

RECAP: SpaceX launches giant Starship rocket for moon and Mars on 11th test flight (video).

KURT VONNEGUT, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Ice That Freezes at Room Temperature Discovered in X-Ray Laser Experiment.

THIS:

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— The Lunduke Journal (@LundukeJournal) October 14, 2025

Courtesy of Bigfire in last night’s open thread.

I learned COBOL in high school, after Fortran and Basic. Hated it.

UPDATE: Damn, I opened up a can of geeks in the comments with this post. Fun reading!

INDIA IS HAVING A BAD YEAR: WHO warns of contaminated India cough syrups.

I GOT A NON-HYBRID LEXUS TX AS A LOANER AND WAS UNIMPRESSED: I Drove The 2025 Lexus TX 500h, Here’s My Honest Review.

To me, it felt like a minivan with (semi)plausible deniability.

SHUT IT DOWN, IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL: ASA, NRA, SAF, FPC File Lawsuit Challenging the Constitutionality of the National Firearms Act.

I DON’T WANT MY CAR BRICKED BY AN UPDATE: Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend.