A very good discussion around Elon and Twitter. A lot of discussion about how it appears that Elon was basically radicalized like a teenage boy on the internet with no friends and too much time on his hands. Some speculation about how that probably means he doesnât really run his businesses
I thought weâd already established that he has entire teams at each of his companies devoted to distracting him with shiny things precisely so that he doesnât try to run his businesses, and one of the reasons Twitter is falling out of the sky like a 747 with one wing is because they didnât have time to create one before he started fucking around and finding out.
Oh absolutely. I do think that it is interesting in that it extends the radicalized like a bored teenage boy on the internet metaphor. That if he had been doing anything productive or intellectually satisfying he wouldnât be spending all of his time on the internet reading memes.
But the companyâs suggestion that the rule was âlongstandingâ doesnât line up with its history. Twitter clients have long been a part of Twitter. Twitterrific, one of the most prominent apps affected by the API shut-off last week, was created before Twitter had a native iOS app of its own, and is credited with coining the word âtweet,â as well as other features now commonly associated with Twitterâs app.
Iconfactory also claimed they had the blue bird first in a blog post where they have to end with a plea that iOS clients donât request a refund.
Hope Twitter employees try some variation of this:
Another report claiming that the debt belongs to Twitter rather than the person who took the loan to buy it. At least the comments had something interesting.
I am British. Tea-making faculties are an absolute minimum here at any employment.
That means a kettle, a sink with drinking water and to wash up in, tea bags, electric sockets, mugs, sugar, milk, a fridge to keep it in, tea spoons, and storage for all this to keep it clean and dry. Thatâs a kitchen.
Stalls at street markets will have shared access to a kitchen for their tea. Builders will always be offered free tea wherever they work. Ditto at other jobs.
Iâm serious. British army tanks are the only tanks in the world that come with built-in tea-making faculties as standard.
Thereâs really interesting point about that in the end of this podcast episode.
Heâs so full of shit, it is hard for me to imagine that thereâs room in his body for anything else.
Is it worth it?
Probably.
Starlink also just used an orbital altitude granted for its second generation satellites for⌠not second generation satellites. From Jonathanâs Space Report:
Group 5-1 (54 satellites) was launched from Cape Canaveral on Dec 28 to a new shell
at 43 degrees inclination, under the limited Gen2 Starlink licence but apparently
using the V1.5 model satellites.
But, there is a film applied.
Dark paint just causes the satellites to radiate energy in a different part of the EM spectrum, namely IR. Less of an impact to astronomy overall. Still not zero impact.
Our atmosphere is pretty opaque to a lot of infrared anyway, so I would have to imagine it would have been a lot less, though. And while simple appearance might usually be a secondary concern, when we start talking about overwhelming the dark night sky for every culture on earth I think it matters a lot too.
The impact to other countries is the most shameful part of this Starlink system.
I took my daughter and her boyfriend camping in a dark-sky campground in Missouri. You could see down to magnitude 6 fairly readily. The sky just seemed to be in constant motion with all the starlink constellation swarming around. A few long duration pictures we attempted of the milky way were ruined by parallel streaks of reflected light.
Thatâs annoying⌠Weâre not only junked up our planet, but weâre doing the same to our LEO⌠
Which reminds me⌠Iâm current watching the last season of Discovery and there is a scene where they show up at a planet where LEO is full of satellites⌠and I realized how they rarely show that Star Trek when the Federation shows up at a new place⌠You generally only ever see the artificial satellites when itâs part of story line⌠but wouldnât almost all planets in an age of space travel be full of satellites? I mean, if the Enterprise or Discovery or Voyagers randomly showed up in our LEO, it would be full of satellites!
Sorry⌠just a random thought there!
