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Oh I don’t mind it not being pre packaged… if anything the death of blogs and the rise of “a video on YouTube will be the only form ever used to present informa

Oh I don’t mind it not being pre packaged… if anything the death of blogs and the rise of “a video on YouTube will be the only form ever used to present information” has forced me to get used to watching or listening to entire chunks of stuff to get the information out of a primary source… My biggest complaint was that SpaceX are posting primary source material into a twitter space that other people have to archive. For instance the Reddit post earlier linked to a YouTube video posted by the account. “Elon Musk History” which feels pretty ephemeral given it has only been online since a bit over a week ago. It bugs me that official primary source information of relevance to the public, to the space industry, and to space nerds in general, has to be captured and archived away by passionate ransoms on the internet… people should not need to be doing OSINT style scrape and archive tactics on SpaceX public statements by the CEO regarding the first integrated test flight a rocket that will be part of the Artemis moon landing run by NASA … the tinfoil hat urge to label this as Elon forcing people to engage with Twitter features to make them more relevant … but it’s more likely he wanted to be able to do this briefing from his phone regardless of where he was at the time and decided to just do it in twitter “because that’s good enough” (the unsaid subconscious decision making being that obviously it’s good enough because he bought the whole company) If this was better managed, it would be archived and published by Elon or SpaceX to some other channel, but it’s not, it’s left on the floor of the internet as trash headed for the delete pile unless someone jumps in to make a copy for historical record.

s1artibartfast 3y ago
Again, I agree with the desire for more documentation, but what I disagree with is the idea of doing it more thoroughly or not at all. That simply results in less information. You can look at what other companies do as a comparison and you don't get nearly as much information. SpaceX seems to me to be far more disclosing. For example, you could find raw data from on board Starship sensors informally released to the public the day of the launch. I haven't seen anything like that from the SLS. I would rather have that information out there for willing individuals to sift through than not at all.
- techdragon 3y ago
  Ahh, here’s where I’ve definitely not been clear enough then. I’m not trying to imply they should do nothing if they won’t try and pass the bar I’m setting… and managing this information officially themselves… I’m lamenting the fact they aren’t trying to live up to the bar that used to be considered normal for official communication from a company, that the official communication will be available once they are done speaking… and hilariously enough I just realised what this is, we went from the modern YouTube era where companies wanted to be in more control of the content they posted and would this run the PR event then published the “official take” to a corporate controlled channel and hold copyright and all the power it gives them… back to the pre-YouTube era of the press conference where reporters brought their own voice recorders and shotgun mics and all hustled for optimal position, recorded their own copy of what the people speaking said, and then all either wrote it up themselves or passed it back to the news desk to have a writer do the article writing… and it feels very stupid to step back like this when all the bullshit can be replaced by a shell script the company runs.

s1artibartfast 3y ago

Again, I agree with the desire for more documentation, but what I disagree with is the idea of doing it more thoroughly or not at all. That simply results in less information. You can look at what other companies do as a comparison and you don't get nearly as much information. SpaceX seems to me to be far more disclosing. For example, you could find raw data from on board Starship sensors informally released to the public the day of the launch. I haven't seen anything like that from the SLS. I would rather have that information out there for willing individuals to sift through than not at all.

techdragon 3y ago
Ahh, here’s where I’ve definitely not been clear enough then. I’m not trying to imply they should do nothing if they won’t try and pass the bar I’m setting… and managing this information officially themselves… I’m lamenting the fact they aren’t trying to live up to the bar that used to be considered normal for official communication from a company, that the official communication will be available once they are done speaking… and hilariously enough I just realised what this is, we went from the modern YouTube era where companies wanted to be in more control of the content they posted and would this run the PR event then published the “official take” to a corporate controlled channel and hold copyright and all the power it gives them… back to the pre-YouTube era of the press conference where reporters brought their own voice recorders and shotgun mics and all hustled for optimal position, recorded their own copy of what the people speaking said, and then all either wrote it up themselves or passed it back to the news desk to have a writer do the article writing… and it feels very stupid to step back like this when all the bullshit can be replaced by a shell script the company runs.