We’re covered. Zoom in to satellitemap.space. The vast majority of low Earth orbit satellites (all the white dots above) are Starlink’s. Play around with the tabs.
This, more than raw power, is what gives authoritarians their authority. Dana Blankenhorn has a good post on Authority. With respect to my own thoughts on the topic, there’s what’s said in Poynter about what I said on my old blog. Key point: “We are all authors of each other. What we call authority is the right we give others to author us, to make us who we are.” We no longer need old-fashioned media to do this. We have echo chambers, built and maintained by algorithms rigged to maximize “engagement.” And the U.S. President is maximally gifted toward taking advantage of that simple system.
Especially as they plan to close hundreds of stores. A Simple Plan to De-enshittify CVS may be the best free advice any retail chain has ever received.
It’s complicated. Coby Mendoza in Medium: The AI Bromance Is Over: Inside Microsoft and OpenAI’s $14.7B Meltdown.
Dig it. Nitin Badjatia, who has been with both ProjectVRM and Customer Commons from their beginnings, has a wise new newsletter.
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