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In today's heated televised meeting between Trump, Vance, and Zelenskyy, Trump repeated the claim that the US has contributed $350 B for the war effort. That is an oft-repeated lie according to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Bard: x.com/i/grok/share...

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"I support the idea to have Ukraine, first, being compensated. [...] Second, all those who paid should be compensated, but not by Ukraine, by Russia. They were the ones to aggress" - Emmanuel Macron during his meeting with Trump yesterday 📹Newsweek / Instagram

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Update an end of post on #Starlink in #Ukraine circleid.com/posts/202203... Ukraine has over 170,000 Starlink terminals - more than Europe. Three thousand are $30,000/month Starshield terminals in hardened enclosures with SIM-card slots, and custom quick-repair cables. They use AC or DC power.

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AT&T and AST SpaceMobile have successfully completed another video call by satellite to an everyday smartphone over AT&T spectrum. about.att.com/story/2025/a...

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Like Don Vito Corleone, Don Trump made him an offer he could not refuse. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Grok concludes "So, while a precise percentage (of Mike Johnson's constituents) isn’t confirmed, a range of roughly 25% to 35% aligns with state trends district’s characteristics"' x.com/i/grok/share...

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I asked Grok how much aid has the US given Ukraine in support of the war against Russia and what percent of that went to US firms? x.com/i/grok/share...

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Musk calls for deorbiting ISS “as soon as possible” spacenews.com/musk-calls-f... via @SpaceNews_Inc What's in it for him?

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Trump wants to halt the buildout of EV charging stations www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Grok says: China has roughly 12.8 million EV charging stations, and the US has 70,468. China produced 11 million EVs in 2024, the US 1.5 million. x.com/i/grok/share... Infrastructure builds industry.

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Elon Musk wields chainsaw at a conservative gathering, a gift from Argentina's Milei www.reuters.com/world/us/elo...

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www.advanced-television.com/2025/02/20/e... Eutelsat OneWeb pushing for South Asia approvals in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand

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I asked Grok 3 how many children have starved because USAID funds have stopped. This is what it said: x.com/i/grok/share...

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I asked Grok 3 how many children have starved because USAID funds have stopped. This is what it said: x.com/i/grok/share...

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Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them nbcnews.com/politics/nat... via @nbcnews Leap before you look, clowns.

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Elon Musk retweeted: "U.S. State Dept. Accidentally Gave $239 Million to Taliban": x.com/DefiyantlyFr... Musk's Grok fact-checked: x.com/i/grok/share... Question for Musk: x.com/larrypress/s...

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Fact-checking Donald Trump using Elon Musk's Grok AI service "I only wish they listened to me six years ago – There would have been no fire!" x.com/realDonaldTr... Grok fact-check: x.com/i/grok/share...

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Major USAID contractors sue the Administration over the suspension of USAID. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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The Spacesail.org domain name is for sale for $30,000: www.godaddy.com/forsale/spac...

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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

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Why? "A separate Bondi directive also disbanded efforts to seize the assets of Russian oligarchs, including Task Force Klepto Capture and the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative."

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Guess what company those charging stations would have competed with

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Excellent article on the destruction of USAID and the role played by Musk, social media, conspiracy theories and Russian propaganda. Musk basically never mentioned USAID, until he posted 160 times about it.

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DeepSeek and the Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For | NYT OpEd by @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

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In Somalia, with good connectivity and bad public institutions, WhatsApp is used for communications, crowdsourced capital, infrastructure projects, virtual courts, health insurance, and other services. www.economist.com/middle-east-...

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Update to post on civilian tech mobilization in Ukraine. circleid.com/posts/202402... @olegkutkov.bsky.social reports that there are now dozens of #Starlink service stations in #Ukraine the largest of which is doing up to 100 repairs and modifications per week.

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Send a Republican legislator a copy of "Profiles in Courage" by John F. Kennedy.

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This is gold.

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The joke is on us.

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Elon Musk and China: 5 things about the ties of Trump's 'first buddy' asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int... Conflict with Republican China hawks? asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...

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China launches fourth batch of Thousand Sails megaconstellation satellites spacenews.com/china-launch... via @SpaceNews_Inc They now have 72 satellites in orbit and plan for 600 by the end of 2025. For more on the Thousand Sails/Qianfan constellation, see: circleid.com/posts/202406...

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To Support Second-Gen Starlink, SpaceX Eyes More Ground Infrastructure pcmag.com/news/to-supp... #PCMag “Each earth station will utilize up to 40 identical 1.85-meter antennas...will simultaneously communicate with up to eight Gen1 satellites and up to thirty-two Gen2 satellites.”

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Chinese remote surgery via Geostationary satellite. "The team optimized communication links by implementing advanced data classification, Quality of Service control, and traffic management techniques." www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

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Presentation/forecast for #Starlink by @QuiltySpace e.g. + 600 V3 sats will be launched in 2025 + 450 Gateways by the end of 2025 + ARPU has declined as developing nations were added Webinar: quiltyanalytics-my.sharepoint.com/personal/jenna

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China explores using orbiting lasers to power spacecraft on the moon spacenews.com/china-explor... via @SpaceNews_Inc Using laser wireless power transmission from lunar orbiters to supply spacecraft left in the dark during the long, dark nighttimes on the surface of the moon?

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New Starlink ground station goes live in Kenya, should massively reduce latency for African users Some users are reporting consistently getting 30ms as opposed to the 120ms range users were used to www.techzim.co.zw/2025/01/new-...

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Update to post on Chinese space-ground optical communication circleid.com/posts/202311... Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co, said it achieved a 100 gigabit per second ultra-high-speed image data transmission rate in testing last weekend. (scroll to the end for the update).

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How Cheap Internet Transformed India The Internet data cost was slashed by 95% from 2013. India has a vibrant startup ecosystem, and as of January 2025, it boasts 117 unicorns. These are privately held startup companies valued at over $1 billion. x.com/WillarShoko/...

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