Ben (DrTruffleMaps) Tuttle

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

This is totally fucked

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AI bias FTW, be careful how you use your new robot best friend.

China appears to pull off satellite feat that NASA has never achieved Reports that China may have docked two satellites in geostationary orbit developed on Sunday.

The US needs to be paying attention or we are going to cede a decades long advantage in Space.

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Opinion | Jeff Flake: The Republican Fever Must Break

"But the deeper concern isn’t about any single congressional race or even the balance of power in the Senate — it’s about the long-term health of our political institutions."

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Have you read it yet?

Track CLARITY-1 (NORAD ID: 63227) live with Satcat CLARITY-1, 63227 is a payload satellite in SSO that was launched on Sat, 15 Mar 2025 UTC via an FALCON 9 launch vehicle from the Air Force Western Test Range (AFWTR). Payload-class satellites includ...

Very cool dashboard offered by Kayhan Space that allows you to watch Albedo's Clarity-1 sat as it navigates its way down to VLEO.

www.satcat.com/sats/63227

Lots of challenges ahead, how we address them is key. This statement will be at the core of my approach.

Looking forward to the discussion at #EOSummit next week. Going to be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and make some new ones!

This seems to be a growing challenge in many professions based on conversations I've had. How are you deciding what AI tools are up to the demands of your work?

Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports. A drop in maritime traffic suggests that the worst is yet to come.

“The tariffs themselves are a shock to the system, and the shock is echoed and amplified across the entire chain. Even if there is resolution, it will take nine to 12 months to work out these bumps.”
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NASA Needs Rational Reforms, Not Reckless Cuts We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget by up to 50 percent. Certainly, the space agency needs to modernize an

This topic has been coming up a lot lately, we can do better, but drastic, arbitrary cuts are not the way. Doing this right won't be fast and it won't be easy...but it will deliver crucial results to further our exploration and understanding of space

www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...

One Simple Hack to Ruin Your Easter The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong.

"The price of eggs has some online creators suggesting that potatoes are a suitable alternative. Please believe me, they are wrong."

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Scary times

Dachau concentration camp - Wikipedia

Dachau was one of the first concentration camps built by Nazi Germany, opening on 22 March 1933. The camp was initially intended to intern Hitler's political opponents, which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents.

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Jake Tapper asks agricultural secretary about tariffs on islands populated by penguins | CNN Politics CNN’s Jake Tapper pressed Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins about tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, questioning why Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an uninhabited Australian territ...

This is
a) hard to watch
b) hilarious
c) all of the above

Jake Tapper asks agricultural secretary about tariffs on islands populated by penguins

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Amazon targets April 9 launch of first Kuiper internet satellites Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network next week, pinning down a long-awaited start to the company's plan to deploy a massive constellation that will rival Elon Musk's Starlink system.

Excited to see if this succeeds in creating some competition for StarLink. Also interested in hearing everyone’s thoughts on this upcoming launch.

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Space Force budget squeeze: Saltzman worries about keeping pace with China amid cuts “We are literally shrinking in resources as a Space Force,” Gen. Chance Saltzman said.

Should we spend less, probably
Could we spend less, probably
Are we falling behind, most definitely
We need to bring this topic to the forefront and figure it out
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One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

I hope one day to professionally write a sentence this amazing (but less depressing): “I think we are going to see an absolutely staggering orgy of corruption and crony capitalism in the next four years unlike anything we’ve seen since the late 19th century, the Gilded Age.”
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Let's go Rapids!

Firm wins Space Force funding to provide an “aircraft carrier” in orbit Taking tactically responsive space to the next level. Literally.

Please discuss..."Such a vehicle would, in theory, be large enough to deploy TIE Fighters."

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Does this hurt your feelings? Does it make you angry? Do you feel all worked up and want to tell someone how this is an afront to your very being? Congratulations you have big boy toddler feelings and need to go back to preschool.

Elon Musk’s dad touts billionaire’s friendships with his ‘Black servants’ as a kid Errol Musk, Elon’s father, previously told a biographer he imported his emeralds from an unregistered mine because otherwise the “Blacks would take everything from you”

If you think this is how it works please go fuck off...far away from me.

"The father of the world's richest man Elon Musk has insisted that his son isn't racist, claiming that his son had Black friends growing up: his family’s servants."

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WTFO?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sounds advice for stairs at a bar and life these days

Let's do it

Banksy experience

This does not look like hospital grade to me, looks like someone spit Spaghetti Os all over my tray table

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LinkedIn co-founder says Americans don't understand this about Elon Musk Elon Musk takes a hammer-and-nail approach to everything, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says.

These are the worst kind of people to work with:

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