Harrison Schmitt, speaking with a NASA interviewer in 2000, said his productivity in the Apollo suit “couldn’t have been much more than 10 percent of what you would do normally here on Earth.”

“You take the human brain, the human eyes, and the human hands into space. That’s the only justification you have for having human beings in space,” Schmitt said. “It’s a massive justification, but that’s what you want to use, and all three have distinct benefits in productivity and in gathering new information and infusing data over any automated system. Unfortunately, we have discarded one of those, and that is the hands.”

Schmitt singled out the gloves as the “biggest problem” with the Apollo suits. “The gloves are balloons, and they’re made to fit,” he said. Picking something up with a firm grip requires squeezing against the pressure inside the suit. The gloves can also damage astronauts’ fingernails.

“That squeezing against that pressure causes these forearm muscles to fatigue very rapidly,” Schmitt said. “Just imagine squeezing a tennis ball continuously for eight hours or 10 hours, and that’s what you’re talking about.”

Barratt recounted a conversation in which Schmitt, now 90, said he wouldn’t have wanted to do another spacewalk after his three excursions with commander Gene Cernan on Apollo 17.

“Physically, and from a suit-maintenance standpoint, he thought that that was probably the limit, what they did,” Barratt said. “They were embedded with dust. The visors were abraded. Every time they brushed the dust off the visors, they lost visibility.”

Getting the Artemis spacesuit right is vital to the program’s success. You don’t want to travel all the way to the Moon and stop exploring because of sore fingers or an injured knee.

“If you look at what we’re spending on suits versus what we’re spending on the rocket, this is a pretty small amount,” Rubins said. “Obviously, the rocket can kill you very quickly. That needs to be done right. But the continuous improvement in the suit will get us that much more efficiency. Saving 30 minutes or an hour on the Moon, that gives you that much more science.”

“Once you have safely landed on the lunar surface, this is where you’ve got to put your money,” Barratt said.

Labor wage is rarely the dominant cost in modern manufacturing. In semiconductor fabrication, labor contributes pennies to a few dollars per chip. Yet we continue to build trade narratives around wages.

When competition exists, innovation follows. When innovation stagnates, it is often a sign that competition has been suppressed—not that labor costs are too high.

We have structural problems within the US that often are prohibitive to manufacturing products efficiently. Prohibitive to innovation. Most of them come from these so called externalities. Now we face a choice. We can further protect this system that imposes very high costs or we can throw off the shackles.

This is the tragedy most families never see: a blessing delayed is often a blessing lost.

Money doesn’t carry the same power in every decade. Most families give it at the stage of life when it accomplishes the least. A dollar at 25 can change a destiny. A dollar at 55 barely moves the needle. //

Then there’s the confusion between “spoiling” and “equipping.” Spoiling is Cancun trips and Teslas for teenagers. Equipping is a down payment, cleared debt, or tools that create stability and responsibility. One creates softness; the other creates potential.

This fear sits beneath almost every hesitation. But money doesn’t create character; it exposes it. It amplifies what is already there. A grateful child grows with it. A disciplined child multiplies it. A foolish child reveals his foolishness, but at an age when the mistakes are still recoverable.

The danger isn’t giving. The danger is giving without guidance or waiting until bad habits have hardened. A young adult will waste less and learn far more with $10,000 at 23 than with $200,000 at 45. Early mistakes are small; late mistakes are catastrophic. What ruins a child isn’t generosity; it is handing real power to an undiscipled heart and walking away. //

Money needs structure, expectations, and accountability. Like fire, it warms the house when it is controlled, and it burns the whole thing down when it is not.

Because money is powerful, it must match the child you are actually raising, not some idea of fairness. Equal giving is not wisdom. Wise giving is. Some children can handle more. Some need guardrails. Some need coaching before capital. Some need smaller steps. Your job is not to divide everything evenly; it is to be a good steward of all that you have been blessed with.

And here is what most parents miss: by the time your child is 25, your authority is basically gone, but your influence is not. You cannot command an adult to avoid foolish debt, but you can position them to avoid it. You cannot force stability, but you can create the margin that makes stability possible.

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Ruth’s words to Naomi really do stand out as Hebrew poetry, in parallel couplets. It’s surprising that Bibles don’t format them this way:

Entreat me not to leave you
or to return from following you;

for where you go I will go,
and where you lodge I will lodge;

your people shall be my people,
and your God my God;

where you die I will die,
and there will I be buried.

After elegantly concluding her poem by varying the you-I progression with a solemn final statement, Ruth swears an oath that she asks God to enforce: “May the Lord do so to me and more also if even death parts me from you!”

I don’t think this language is actually taken from an ancient Israelite marriage ceremony. (The opposite is true: people have taken Ruth’s words and turned them into marriage vows.) Rather, it’s characteristic of Hebrew narrative that when someone has something crucial to say, on which the story line turns, they say it in poetry. In the ancient oral culture, this would make the saying memorable and repeatable (kind of like an advertizing slogan today). //

Examples like these show that poetry was used for important pronouncements in Hebrew narrative, probably reflecting the actual customs of the culture. And we have to admit that among her many other qualities as a “woman of noble character,” Ruth was a fine poet.

If you're serious about encryption, keep control of your encryption keys //

If you think using Microsoft's BitLocker encryption will keep your data 100 percent safe, think again. Last year, Redmond reportedly provided the FBI with encryption keys to unlock the laptops of Windows users charged in a fraud indictment. //

BitLocker is a Windows security system that can encrypt data on storage devices. It supports two modes: Device Encryption, a mode designed to simplify security, and BitLocker Drive Encryption, an advanced mode.

For either mode, Microsoft "typically" backs up BitLocker keys to its servers when the service gets set up from an active Microsoft account. "If you use a Microsoft account, the BitLocker recovery key is typically attached to it, and you can access the recovery key online," the company explains in its documentation. //

Microsoft provides the option to store keys elsewhere. Instead of selecting "Save to your Microsoft Account," customers can "Save to a USB flash drive," "Save to a file," or "Print the recovery key." //

Apple offers a similar device encryption service called FileVault, complemented by its iCloud service. The iCloud service also offers an easy mode called "Standard data protection" and "Advanced Data Protection for iCloud."

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The GKG Twin Blessing course comprises 8 lectures, although the last is optional, and the first may not be needed for some audiences. It could be given in a single day seminar, or, in an academic environment, in 7 or 8 separate lectures.

“For all cellphones Activated on or after January 20, 2026, the cellphone will be unlocked upon request after 365 days of paid and active service,” the policy says. A customer who doesn’t maintain an active service plan for the whole 12 months will thus have their unlocking eligibility date delayed.

Besides TracFone, the change applies to prepaid brands Straight Talk, Net10 Wireless, Clearway, Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, SafeLink Wireless, and Walmart Family Mobile. Customers who bought phones before today are still eligible for unlocks after 60 days.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Adam Smith
Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.89, Courier Corporation

The more I study the history of intellectuals, the more they seem like a wrecking crew, dismantling civilization bit by bit — replacing what works with what sounds good.

Some people are wondering what takes so long for the negotiations about the "fiscal cliff." Maybe both sides are waiting for supplies. Democrats may be waiting for more cans to kick down the road. Republicans may be waiting for more white flags to hold up in surrender.

If I were rich, I would have a plaque made up, and sent to every judge in America, bearing a statement made by Adam Smith more than two and a half centuries ago: "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."

Homeschooling in the United States has transformed education for millions of families, offering tailored instruction and strong academic outcomes. Yet, despite this progress, homeschool graduates continue to face unnecessary barriers in accessing opportunities that their traditionally schooled peers take for granted. However, H.R. 6392, the Home School Graduation Recognition Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark Harris, R-N.C., looks to rectify this.

And yet these tools have opened a world of creative potential in software that was previously closed to me, and they feel personally empowering. Even with that impression, though, I know these are hobby projects, and the limitations of coding agents lead me to believe that veteran software developers probably shouldn’t fear losing their jobs to these tools any time soon. In fact, they may become busier than ever. //

Even with the best AI coding agents available today, humans remain essential to the software development process. Experienced human software developers bring judgment, creativity, and domain knowledge that AI models lack. They know how to architect systems for long-term maintainability, how to balance technical debt against feature velocity, and when to push back when requirements don’t make sense.

For hobby projects like mine, I can get away with a lot of sloppiness. But for production work, having someone who understands version control, incremental backups, testing one feature at a time, and debugging complex interactions between systems makes all the difference. //

The first 90 percent of an AI coding project comes in fast and amazes you. The last 10 percent involves tediously filling in the details through back-and-forth trial-and-error conversation with the agent. Tasks that require deeper insight or understanding than what the agent can provide still require humans to make the connections and guide it in the right direction. The limitations we discussed above can also cause your project to hit a brick wall.

From what I have observed over the years, larger LLMs can potentially make deeper contextual connections than smaller ones. They have more parameters (encoded data points), and those parameters are linked in more multidimensional ways, so they tend to have a deeper map of semantic relationships. As deep as those go, it seems that human brains still have an even deeper grasp of semantic connections and can make wild semantic jumps that LLMs tend not to.

Creativity, in this sense, may be when you jump from, say, basketball to how bubbles form in soap film and somehow make a useful connection that leads to a breakthrough. Instead, LLMs tend to follow conventional semantic paths that are more conservative and entirely guided by mapped-out relationships from the training data. //

Fixing bugs can also create bugs elsewhere. This is not new to coding agents—it’s a time-honored problem in software development. But agents supercharge this phenomenon because they can barrel through your code and make sweeping changes in pursuit of narrow-minded goals that affect lots of working systems. We’ve already talked about the importance of having a good architecture guided by the human mind behind the wheel above, and that comes into play here. //

you could teach a true AGI system how to do something by explanation or let it learn by doing, noting successes, and having those lessons permanently stick, no matter what is in the context window. Today’s coding agents can’t do that—they forget lessons from earlier in a long session or between sessions unless you manually document everything for them. My favorite trick is instructing them to write a long, detailed report on what happened when a bug is fixed. That way, you can point to the hard-earned solution the next time the amnestic AI model makes the same mistake. //

After guiding way too many hobby projects through Claude Code over the past two months, I’m starting to think that most people won’t become unemployed due to AI—they will become busier than ever. Power tools allow more work to be done in less time, and the economy will demand more productivity to match.

It’s almost too easy to make new software, in fact, and that can be exhausting.

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Claude Cowork is vulnerable to file exfiltration attacks via indirect prompt injection as a result of known-but-unresolved isolation flaws in Claude's code execution environment. //

Anthropic shipped Claude Cowork as an "agentic" research preview, complete with a warning label that quietly punts core security risks onto users. The problem is that Cowork inherits a known, previously disclosed isolation flaw in Claude's code execution environment—one that was acknowledged and left unfixed. The result: indirect prompt injection can coerce Cowork into exfiltrating local files, without user approval, by abusing trusted access to Anthropic's own API.

The attack chain is depressingly straightforward. A user connects Cowork to a local folder, uploads a seemingly benign document (or "Skill") containing a concealed prompt injection, and asks Cowork to analyze their files. The injected instructions tell Claude to run a curl command that uploads the largest available file to an attacker-controlled Anthropic account, using an API key embedded in the hidden text. Network egress is "restricted," except for Anthropic's API—which conveniently flies under the allowlist radar and completes the data theft.

Once uploaded, the attacker can chat with the victim's documents, including financial records and PII. This works not just on lightweight models, but also on more "resilient" ones like Opus 4.5. Layer in Cowork's broader mandate—browser control, MCP servers, desktop automation—and the blast radius only grows. Telling non-technical users to watch for "suspicious actions" while encouraging full desktop access isn't risk management; it's abdication.

Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific is trying to boost its dwindling population with a free land and housing offer to anyone looking to ditch city life for white-sand beaches, crystal-blue waters, killer sunsets and year-round sunshine.

But only true swashbucklers need apply — surviving on the volcanic, 2-mile-by-1-mile rock takes a person with big breeches.

You can only get to the tiny British territory by boat. Travelers must first fly to Tahiti, then to Mangareva (Gambler Islands). From there, it’s a 30-hour sail on the MV Silver Supporter, the island’s supply freighter.

The homes are ramshackle, overgrown with vegetation and door-free, according to Brandon Presser, who visited the island in 2022 to write a book called, “The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania and Mutiny in the South Pacific.” //

Residents — roughly 50 of them, and mostly elderly — consist of two feuding families and are clannish. They subsist on home-grown fruits and vegetables along with cans of food delivered by the freighter four times a year. They avoid visitors. //

Nearly 240 years later, fewer than 50 descendants of the original mutineers remain, and they need some new — and much younger — souls to join them.

A 2014 report showed a grand total of seven people between the ages of 18 and 40 living on the island. It is projected that by 2045, only three working-age residents will remain.

Applicants must prove they can support themselves and have sufficient funds to pay contractors to build a home on their land — about $90,000 — and they must have medical evacuation insurance.

he New York Post is counting down to America’s 250th birthday with a look back at the nation’s — and the paper’s — history. We’re revisiting 250 notable covers and articles from our archives, starting with the very first paper Alexander Hamilton published on Nov. 16, 1801, when it was known as the New-York Evening Post.

Re: for all those who say "it shouldn't be this difficult". apparently it is.
A previous vehicle I owned would tell me to take the turn for "Go Dall Ming". (Godalming ["goddlming"])

Of course, English pronunciation of names is often obtuse (apocryphally, to confuse foreign spies into giving themselves away), for example:

• Mainwaring ("mannering")

• Cholmondeley ("chumley")

• Featheringstonehaugh ("fanshaw")

• Mousehole ("mowzle" [ow as in cow, not as in tow])

• Worcester ("wooster")

• Towcester ("toaster")

• Leicester ("lester" [not lie-cester])

• Loughborough ("luffburraw" [roughly])

among many others.

Re: for all those who say "it shouldn't be this difficult". apparently it is.
Having grown up in East Anglia with regular family holidays on the coast, the journey often passed by such fantastic places as:

Happisburgh ("Hayesborough")

Postwick ("Pozzick")

and Wymondham ("Windam").

My better half has english as a second language, but is very much fluent. As far as they're concerned, brits seem to just make up the words and how they're said as we go along. Probably not untrue.

Also further away is Bicester ("Bisster").

Of course, there's the somewhat old joke about the american tourist calling Loughborough "Loogabarooga"

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