How can a city keep middle-class families amid a national affordability crisis and an A.I. boom? San Francisco is trying a creative approach: childcare subsidies even for fairly high earners. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

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The 2026 UNEP Emissions Gap Report is out: The Point of Return. 🌍🌡️🔥 It's sobering but actionable. Decades of inadequate climate action have closed off opportunities to limit warming, but ambitious action today can still prevent much greater harm. A thread of some of the highlights 🧵

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IT'S ALIVE! 🛰️⚒️ The initial critical operations phase (done just after launch) is complete for the Martian Moons eXploration mission, including steps like unfolding the solar panels, ensuring attitude control on 3-axis is good, and releasing the catch on medium-gain antenna so it can look around 👀.

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I’ve handed in my blue work clothes and Tanegashima ID… which feels sad, even though I still have my usual JAXA ID 😂 Time for lunch in our beautiful canteen, where I met a young girl who wants to be a space engineer 💪🏻

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Set it up in like 2011 when there were all of 2 geocaches in Laos! (I visited in 2009.)

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