Author Archive: Stephen Green

July 29, 2026

FAUCI MADE FAUCI MORE MOCKABLE THAN EVER:

I’ll have much more on Fauci’s mockability in tomorrow’s Thursday Essay.

Posted at 4:36 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

HEH:

Alternate headline: Leftism as a Cult, Exhibit #1,000,006.

Posted at 4:05 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

SPACE: NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch. Here’s why it’s so cool.

After more than a decade in development, the Roman Space Telescope will launch at 7:20 a.m. on Aug. 30 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida — eight months ahead of schedule. Its mission? To study how the universe began, what it’s made of and how it has evolved over time — while (hopefully) helping scientists solve some of modern astronomy’s biggest mysteries in the process.

NASA will preview that mission at a virtual news conference today at 2 p.m. ET.

“We’re going to find one-in-a-million things over and over and over again,” Jeremy Perkins, a Roman Telescope scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, recently predicted.

What kinds of things? Habitable planets in our own galaxy, perhaps. And dark energy. And primordial black holes.

Bring ’em on.

Posted at 3:50 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

JUST THINK OF IT AS A SPECIES OF REPARATIONS:

Posted at 3:03 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

THIS IS ONE OF THOSE “NEVER AGAIN” MOMENTS:

Posted at 2:33 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

CAN SCIENCE DO THAT?

As always, America’s Newspaper of Record™ nails it.

And something a little more serious on the subject from John Nolte:

I suppose nobody understands the risks to Fauci better than Fauci, and he decided accordingly.

Posted at 2:01 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

LOL, CHRIS CILLIZZA:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): To be fair, that’s what they pay him for.

UPDATE (FROM STEVE VIA GLENN):

And he’s been a willing (and well-paid) servant for a long time.

Posted at 1:57 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

SOCIALISM IN ONE SENTENCE: Austin’s Secret Amazon Land Grab. “All Austin City Council members are lefty Democrats these days, and nothing says ‘service to the downtrodden’ like bulldozing some peon’s house to satisfy an international megacorporation.”

Posted at 1:46 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

SORRY, BUT “INFAMOUS” IS THE BEST WE CAN DO:

Posted at 1:29 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

YES, BUT…: China’s reported chip breakthrough comes with some big caveats.

“Any machine built by an unknown state-backed company are starting from a much worse spot. Reliability takes years of iteration in the field, which ASML has [and] China still has yet to achieve,” Patience added.

Another challenge for China is scaling these machines. The Information reported that the Chinese firm developing the DUV tool is aiming to produce five units this year and around 20 in 2027.

In comparison, ASML said it plans for a capacity of around 130 DUV immersion machines in 2026, and is planning to add 30% in 2027.

“Tool performance, scaling production of the machine itself, fleet performance, surrounding ecosystem and poor economics against fully depreciated ASML machines all stack up against China DUV,” a team of analysts at SemiAnalysis told CNBC.

“Scaling production of the machine itself [is] the most underestimated part.”

Yes, but if there’s one thing China does well, it’s scale up.

Posted at 12:44 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

WAIT, IT’S STILL AFLOAT?

It’s a spaceship and a ship-ship.

But you haven’t really seen the soft splashdown until you’ve seen this just-released drone footage of the soft splashdown:

Impressive. Most impressive.

Posted at 12:28 pm by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

IT’S A FAR CRY FROM JAIL TIME, BUT AT LEAST HE HATED EVERY MOMENT OF IT:

Posted at 11:57 am by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

ALIENS? JWST Just Examined Two Stars Suspected of Harboring Dyson Spheres. Here’s What It Found.

“A civilization can hide its star behind a shell of solar collectors, but thermodynamics always collects its tax, and all that captured starlight has to come back out as a warm mid-infrared glow.”

That glow would be unavoidable. Just as a laptop or lightbulb gives off waste heat, so too would any machine that harvests a star’s energy. The larger the hypothetical megastructure, the brighter that excess infrared radiation should become.

That excess is exactly what Project Hephaistos, led by astrophysicist Erik Zackrisson of Uppsala University in Sweden, set out to find. Even false positives could teach us how to better search for alien tech – by revealing the many ways the Universe can mimic it.

The search sifted through roughly five million Milky Way stars looking for exactly this kind of infrared excess – more mid-infrared light than an ordinary star should produce.

Seven stars survived the team’s increasingly stringent tests, with the two studied here emerging as the search’s most compelling candidates.

JWST quickly exposed the two candidates as Dyson sphere impostors – and the explanation was brilliantly simple. The light from both stars was being boosted by a distant galaxy almost perfectly lined up behind them.

So not aliens then.

Posted at 11:42 am by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

SPACE:

Faster? Please!

Posted at 11:26 am by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

JONATHAN TURLEY: Mamdani’s grocery stores will be the most expensive markets in NYC — paid for by you, the taxpayer.

Rather than deliver discount groceries, Mamdani is selling New Yorkers a bill of goods that will cost them millions.

It is not a description of a competitive grocery but a public charity. It is a quasi-food bank where taxpayers subsidize the cost.

As usual, Mamdani turns this into a class war, demonizing business owners. He suggests that real grocery stores are simply price gougers hoarding windfall profits from consumers. He ignores that they must pay rent, upkeep and fees — all things the city-run stores may simply write off.

He proclaimed, “May the most affordable grocery store win.”

Of course, the test is not which grocery is the most affordable, but which is the most sustainable. If you are willing to take a bath on sales, you can always offer the most affordable prices for as long as your excess cash holds out.

The first city-run grocery, in East Harlem, will cost $30 million to build — and perhaps more. It will never need to pay this money back nor factor it into its prices. The “warmth of socialism” will cover it; that is, you.

In reality, Mamdani will be selling apples at a far greater cost than any competitor, but those true costs will be buried in the city budget and paid for by the taxpayers.

There’s a new word for net taxpayers who stay in New York: Suckers.

Previously: Begun, the Class War Has.

Posted at 10:40 am by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

“THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT FACES OF THE SAME MANIA”:

Posted at 10:24 am by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026

CHANGE: AI tokens could become the kilowatt-hour of the AI age.

Earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.”

Many other AI companies seem to be betting on a similar future. If that vision actually comes to be, then “AI tokens” may break out of the world of nerdy tech and econ conversations and become a much more familiar part of our lives. The number of AI tokens businesses and consumers use could even become one of the defining measures of a new industrial age — the AI equivalent of the kilowatt-hour for electricity: the standard way we measure and pay for AI usage.

Think of tokens as the meter running in the background every time you use AI. Every time an AI model reads your prompt, writes an answer, or does a task, that work is measured in tokens. They are the tiny chunks of text and other data that AI models read and generate. In general, the more work a model does, the more tokens it typically processes.

While AI companies still tend to offer flat-rate subscriptions to average consumers, they’re increasingly charging businesses and developers based on the number of tokens they use. At the same time, companies, particularly in the tech sector, have been using AI in more and more of their work. As their AI usage has soared, many businesses have discovered just how expensive token-based pricing can become.

AI upends the old software business model of basically zero marginal cost per additional unit sold. Tokens are much cheaper than they used to be, but each one still requires compute to generate. Not sure how that shakes out, but it’s difficult to imagine demand for chips and energy slacking off any time soon.

Posted at 9:38 am by Stephen Green on Jul 29th, 2026
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