Verizon signs a commercial agreement with AST SpaceMobile to offer satellite-to-phone connectivity in cellular dead zones starting in 2026; ASTS closes up 8.6% (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/forget-starlink-verizon-is-all-in…
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Sufjan Stevens:
🎵 Should Have Known Better
#SufjanStevens
https://thehallsproject.bandcamp.com/track/sufjan-stevens-should-have-known-better-h-lls-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3AyuigFWbuirWHvidbMz8O
In a world of sufficing be someone who is deliberate.
The #AgaveSpike that started last April is getting a bit sad at the base now. However it has a cousin that has just started to shoot up its own spike. #Photography #FlowersOfMastodon
Stephen Miller suggested Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard,
before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment
While plenary authority suggests absolute power,
the U.S. system of separation of powers uses checks and balances to ensure that no branch, including the president, can exercise complete control.
Just before Miller turned silent,
he referred to “Title 10 of the U.S. code”,
which sets out the co…
I am catching up on #AlienEarth … It is definitely a Noah Hawley thing. I definitely can see rhymes with both Legion and Fargo.
The whole conceptual milieu of the Alien franchise is creepy to begin with but adding the premise of a half dozen dying tweens being used as transhuman guinea pigs by a childish/like techbro who has also had a xenomorph specimen dropped on him is just bonkers we…
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This has allowed me to make clear something that's been at the back of my mind. Something that is at the heart of so much blind stupidity in big tech.
It's the assumption that we will change one thing and all else will be the same.
In this case, we will fire lots and lots of employees all over the world and we will make lots of profit. We're smart enough to make the AI, and we're dumb enough to think that there will only be one consequence. 1/n
a world you can fully understand and hold in your head and hand. being the snowman in his globe rather than on yours. where's the water come from? the rain, these tanks. where's the power generated? those solar panels and batteries. you know the limits and work with them. self-sufficient. a fantasy irl, but one of the most universal magic cores you can imbue a fantasy with. no man is an island, no man isn't offputtingly hard to grasp.
Sources: Beijing is set to limit access to Nvidia's H200 chips despite President Trump allowing their export to China, in its push for chip self-sufficiency (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c4e81a67-cd5b-48b4-9749-92ecf116313d