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If it was not clear before TMobile spent $8M to raise awareness of satellite connectivity it should be now. What matters most to end consumers (and MNO's) is the actual system capacity. SpaceX can sorta/barely do text messaging and $ASTS has done video calls. Night/Day.

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is AMAZING news!
Fuck Amazon

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

3d model of a character named Droma. Concept by Lin Chill @artstation, model by @icn3d

First pass texturing. Much to do still. Some additional gradients, AO, and a bunch of painting.

#wip #3dmodeling

Loving this momentum, very excited!

404 Media has obtained audio of Elon Musk's AI ally and the manager of government coders, in which an employee refers to one of his plans as "illegal."

🔗 www.404media.co/things-are-g...

There is still beauty in this world

Just saw that he’s also potentially threatening to prosecute Redditors as violent criminals for, at minimum, speaking the names of doge goons. A sympathizer sold them out.

The gap between J19 and gulag seems to be closing fast

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

Make no mistake,GenAi companies will try and dismantle all protections that creatives have over their work in the US too. They KNOW they cant win lawsuits because they broke the law. But they can try and change the laws.

Folks, prepare yourselves to fight this tooth and nail.

Droma lighting render. Concept by Lin Chill @artstation. Model by @icn3d

Droma wireframe render. Concept by Lin Chill @artstation. Model by @icn3d

Test bakes and some lighting setup done. A couple of pesky errors aside, I’m feeling ok about this. Definitely regret the two edges I left out

Wishlist: a built-in gradient generator in the backdrop’s color mode 🙏🏾

Gov JB Pritzker (R-IL) signs order prohibiting Jan 6 rioters from state employment in Illinois:

“I hereby direct CMS to apply the State Personnel Code and consider
any participation in the January 6 insurrection as infamous and disgraceful conduct that is antithetical to the mission of the State”

iirc, even Cramer tried to politely warn T-mobile w/ a question about this likely outcome?

Musk, himself is a trojan and grifter. Not sure how this was missed or ignored. Power of shiny objects, I guess. Now, the rest of us are stuck with a network of his spy cams driving around every city 🫠

Vodafone makes "the world's first" satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025 (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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Thanks, and good luck on the project, looks awesome!

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

Looking forward to watching this “foreigner’s” “meme” dog walk tf out of the …“competition”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVNt...

Thanks for the update 🫡

Suck it, Musk.

$ASTS post showing proof of a video call from the remote areas of the UK.

SpaceX can have their SMS text messages all day long. CEO of Vodafone says "How you like them apples?" with this new video call proof. $ASTS - the real deal!

www.vodafone.com/news/technol...

Ah ok. Yea me either. Was curious if this was looking negative for AST itself, which I don’t think it is

May I ask why?

Bookshop.org challenges Amazon with new e-book platform Indie bookstore backer Bookshop.org launched an e-book platform on Tuesday, making it easier for readers to buy e-books without padding Jeff Bezos’s pockets. For years, Amazon’s chokehold and sway in the publishing industry have been so strong that…

Bookshop.org challenges Amazon with new e-book platform

Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

It’s reasonable to worry that tech companies’ backbone for protecting users from government data requests "might soften when they get too politically involved with any one administration," EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept.com.

Reelo stands out among the apps building a ‘TikTok for Bluesky’ There are a number of projects now underway that are focused on developing a video-first app for the open source social network Bluesky. However, one stands out from the rest: An upcoming app called Reelo isn’t building on top of the Bluesky social…

Reelo stands out among the apps building a ‘TikTok for Bluesky’

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

Thank you!