Some other videos I've enjoyed this week:
Other interesting links and articles I've found this week:
- The Gravity Mine is a Hugo-nominated short story by Steven Baxter from 2000, and I have no idea how I've never read it until now: it's ultimate-big-picture fiction in the vein of Asimov's Last Question.
- Australian telco Telstra has made public payphone calls free. They're legally required to maintain the network, and while they're saying it's "not a big deal", I have a suspicion that it'll have cost them almost as much to run the payment system than they got in
revenue, but either way, it's a good thing.
- And finally, the CIA once kidnapped a Soviet spacecraft, photographed it, and returned it without the Russians noticing. This feels like it should be a heist movie. (This article's by Amy from The Vintage Space; I'd recommend that YouTube channel if this is your sort of thing!)
This newsletter feels like it's settling down into a format now, which I'm quite happy with: hopefully you are too. It's nice to have a reason to bookmark interesting things that I find, and a place to talk about them that isn't the endless void of big-public-social-media!
All the best,
— Tom
