damn, its so strange that a rich guy was able to throw thousands of satellites into space, in a manner that completely changes humanity's relationship to the cosmos, without any meaningful form of public debate or discussion.
even more strange when you consider that the owner of the company is one of the most talked about people on the planet. i wonder how he's able to keep getting away with it.
fun fact: fiber optic wire doesn't have to dodge anything because it's buried in the ground
Lenovo has spent the last decade destroying the repairablity of ThinkPads. They've only 'rediscovered' the 'innovations' they stripped from their laptops, like a removable battery, because they are scared of framework.
Hopefully some skepticism can finally be focused on the concept of giving a single billionaire unfettered control over who is allowed to access the internet, and what they are allowed to do with it.
The whole endeavor to “arm” Ukraine with Starlink has always been a shameless attempt to dodge any future criticism of the company, by claiming to be a “military asset”
Probably doesn’t help that all fish are now chock full of PFAS
If only there was a way to access the Internet that didn't require constantly launching space junk into temporary orbit
Instant Kessler syndrome!
should go ahead and ban image uploading to lemmy.world, as there is likely a ton of illegal, copyright-violating content that hasn't been stress-tested for fair use.
I use Inoreader, it provides a great way to quickly get up to speed on the news, without relying on 'human curators' on reddit or twitter. I've been able to add lemmy and kbin community feeds no problem, and it currently serves as my 'front page', until lemmy itself becomes more stable.
Auto-de-duplication and word filters help me keep my sanity and avoid the constant musk-worship on tech sites.
Not beside the point. Good or bad, this feature will mean that some workers will see less trips and make less money. That’s a simple mathematical fact.
Alternatively, in a world where gig workers made a livable salary regardless of the number of jobs slung their way, these safety changes would be much more decoupled from affecting the take-home pay of one of the poorest sector of workers in this country.
I see a connection between elon's increasingly 'wacky' persona with the start of the cozy financial relationship he has with saudi arabia. imo, he's serving as a captured asset for oil giants to further their influence and interests in the west, in a similar vein to all the recent acquisitions of popular US/UK sports teams by the middle east.
The 'eccentric' behavior, to me, is 100% intentional. A layer of security is built when your rivals, regulators, and the general public are unable to predict your next move. A 'white noise' is created: for every midnight decision to change your company logo to dogecoin, intentional and sinister actions slip thru, such as the banning of twitter in turkey during their recent elections.
This strategy of wrapping yourself in layers of ambiguity was explored by Adam Curtis in his doc Hypernormalization, describing how this has been the central tactic Putin has used in Russia for decades.
it's almost like all these different regulatory bodies you mentioned don't serve the people, but instead the wealthy
I don’t believe that there are microwave-safe plastics
The adoption of starlink by the military is the last nail in the coffin for ground based astronomy.
that's a great vision, but we don't have to trade ground-based astronomy for space-based astronomy. that would put us in a 'dark age' of astronomy for the rest of my lifetime, until all these yet-to-be-launched telescopes get built.
The number of telescopes capable of doing astronomy will get smaller, the available hours on that scope will need to be shared among all academic astronomers, and therefore, the number of people able to do astronomy will get reduced.
Having a few telescopes floating in space is not a solution. Not when there is so much space unexplored. Mankind does not own the night sky, only a few billionaires do.
Everyone in the comments getting played like a fiddle, the real takeaway here is that all “gig economy” workers deserve a guaranteed hourly salary at a livible wage
Grab the crowbar at the bottom and attack the enemies on the page