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Daniel Munro@dkmunro.bsky.social |
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Senior Fellow in the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Co-Director, Shift Insights.
Innovation. Ethics. Skills. Space. JAWS. Midday napping.
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Daniel Munro
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DYK Caesar salad was invented 100 years ago today by Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini at his restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico in an effort to feed a bunch of Californians fleeing south to skirt prohibition?
Happy July 4!
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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto
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I’m somewhat tired of America.
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Jo Wolff
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Think you’re gonna need a bigger court.
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Daniel Munro
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My Mississauga-Toronto commute: 31 km Go Train + TTC… 1 hour, 5 minutes. My Ottawa commute: 9 km OCTranspo 1 hour
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Daniel Munro
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OC Chancepo.
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City of Ottawa: “Come downtown. Work downtown. The downtown core needs you!” Me: “okay” OCTranspo: “lol. Not on our watch.”
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Daniel Munro
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Amazing, Hisham! Well deserved.
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*waves tiny Canada flag while quietly saying “sorry” in peculiar sing-songy voice*
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In other news…
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Before I quit the other site, I developed a mega-thread (over 3 years!) on semiconductors. It was being cited in PhD theses. 🤦🏻♂️
The team at CSA Public Policy asked me to write something more conventionally citable, so I wrote a semiconductor strategy for Canada.
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“The U.S. Space Force will work to catalog the debris from Resurs P1, though it could take a few months. Until then, “it’s literally Russian roulette,” Dr. McDowell said.”
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MDA wins $1-billion contract to build Canadarm3 for NASA-led moon missions.
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Daniel Munro
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We’re all going to pretend this isn’t the first scene of the alien reveal in War of the Worlds and just carry on?
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If debris from a busted Russian or other satellite brings the ISS down before SpaceX can execute a controlled se-orbit, does Musk still get paid $843 million?
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Daniel Munro
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The different word choices in headlines about the SpaceX contract to deorbit the ISS are amusing. “intentionally destroy” “drag” “deorbit” “carry to watery graveyard” “discard” “bring out of orbit”
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“A Russian satellite broke up into more than 100 pieces of debris in orbit overnight, forcing astronauts on the International Space Station to take shelter, U.S. space agencies said.”
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Hinton will give $1M if the province keeps the OSC in its current building.
It bothers me when the rich use wealth to bend public policy in their preferred direction, so I guess it should also bother me when they try to bend it in my preferred direction.
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Swapna Krishna
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NASA announced today that SpaceX was selected to develop the vehicle that will de-orbit the ISS in 2030. 🛰️
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Are we going to mess up outer space too?
My appeal to take the risks of spacefaring more seriously to ensure that space can be used to benefit everyone now and in the future.
Currently, the third most read piece this week at The Walrus.
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China Becomes First Country to Retrieve Rocks From the Moon’s Far Side.
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This will be interesting to watch.
“Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA.”
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Oh geez. Hope they recover quickly. And, yeah, child safety is a low priority in this province.
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On its current trajectory, the new space age could be its own worst enemy.
In a few weeks, CIGI will publish my paper that lays out a framework for responsible space innovation. In the meantime, here’s my shorter diagnosis and argument for action.
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It starts approximately 48 hours after the last day of school, at the exact moment any random 10 year old says “I’m bored.”
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We usually say that objects “burn up” on atmospheric re-entry. But they don’t disappear. It’s not magic.
Instead they “break up”, leaving particles and chemicals hanging in high atmosphere, with potentially harmful consequences.
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On its current trajectory, the new space age could be its own worst enemy.
In a few weeks, CIGI will publish my paper that lays out a framework for responsible space innovation. In the meantime, here’s my shorter diagnosis and argument for action.
www.cigionline.org/articles/are...
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Red Sox doing their best to make me forgive them for trading Mookie Betts. They underestimate my ability to hold a grudge. 4 years, 4 months, 10 days and counting.
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In 1968, fewer than 200 satellites were launched into space, yet NASA worried about the pace of spacefaring.
Last year, 2,900 satellites were launched, joining 30,000 other large objects in orbit.
Are we moving too quickly?
My latest for CIGI.
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Hisham Zerriffi
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“On its current trajectory, the new space age could be its own worst enemy. Existing treaties and agreements are simply not up to the task of governing space in ways that minimize the existential risks to humanity.” The current governance of space needs an overhaul. 👇🏽
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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴
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Good thing we’re talking about this tomorrow on the Space Humanities panel for #BlackSpaceWeek. Shoutout to @blackinastro.bsky.social.
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Daniel Munro
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In 1968, fewer than 200 satellites were launched into space, yet NASA worried about the pace of spacefaring.
Last year, 2,900 satellites were launched, joining 30,000 other large objects in orbit.
Are we moving too quickly?
My latest for CIGI.
www.cigionline.org/articles/are...
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Daniel Munro
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Spent 60 minutes at an archery range in Quebec this afternoon. My reward was not dying. Mostly.
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What was once a contest primarily between two superpowers angling for military advantage has become a crowded ecosystem of countries and commercial actors.
Do we have the right mechanisms in place to govern the new space age responsibly?
My latest for The Walrus.
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“The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed”
- William Gibson
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Catelli
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I truly believe we already have messed it up, we're just waiting for the inevitable fallout to happen.
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Daniel Munro
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What was once a contest primarily between two superpowers angling for military advantage has become a crowded ecosystem of countries and commercial actors.
Do we have the right mechanisms in place to govern the new space age responsibly?
My latest for The Walrus.
thewalrus.ca/mess-up-oute...
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Confirming that, like Noam Chomsky, I am also not dead yet. As far as I can tell.
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It’s rare to see a piece on crewed space exploration that actually acknowledges the biggest obstacle standing in the way: astronauts’ radiation exposure (and to a lesser extent, the medical effects of microgravity)
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Oh, that’s a good idea. My D&D crew has been playing Blades in the Dark for a while and it requires a lot of creativity on the part of players. Which means, as a player, I’m usually unprepared every week.
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Sometimes I have useless and/or unruly thoughts on my runs. This might have been one of them. Thanks for indulging!
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Raising expectations for two days about “a surprise act we couldn’t pass up” for Bluesfest and then announcing Jelly Roll is the most Ottawa thing ever.
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Yeah, but I’m trying to figure out what the intuition is here and whether the conditions have changed. Does a Houdini or Henson emerge and achieve the same recognition today? And what’s a good short-hand label for the phenomenon?
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Maybe this is just 1970s/80s North America suburban nostalgia.
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Two questions: 1. What would you call a category of people who were pervasively (“world”?) famous for unconventional or genre-creating reasons (e.g., Houdini, Evil Knievil, maybe Elvira, Jim Henson). 2. Do any such people exist anymore? (Or is pop culture too fragmented for this phenomenon now?)
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Kid 2 went to track practice in 31C heat. I set down a bunch of rules about dizziness, breathing, no trying to break records. Her teammates added one: “If someone goes down, we all agree to run over and IMMEDIATELY STOP THEIR WATCH. No one wants an extra shitty time tonight.” 🙄
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Well my afternoon took a turn for the better.
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Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders, photographed by Yousuf Karsh.
February 1969.
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Neighbour’s 8 year old kid likes record shopping, but doesn’t know any bands. So he picks albums “with skulls on them” because “they’re cool.” That kid will have an excellent metal collection. I need a similar heuristic.
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“This is your weekend, Dad!” “But also, could you pick me up from the mall at 9?” “And me from the airport at 9:30? “And me from the dance at 11?” “And can you drive me to the archery range tomorrow? No, the far one. And, uh, again Sunday?”
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