Is he trying to sink the deal again? He’s certainly going to spook the investors.
Now he has moved up to 5-dimensional chess…which has come to mean acting on whatever stupid impulses happen to seize you at the moment, but having people pretend it’s brilliant strategy because how else could you be rich or powerful in what is surely a meritocracy.
Starlink decoded for use as GPS alternative – without Elon Musk’s help
Researchers rebuffed by SpaceX have taken matters into their own hands and reverse-engineered Starlink’s satellite signal for potential use as a GPS alternative.
University of Texas Austin professor Todd Humphreys and his team claim in a non-peer reviewed paper that they’ve managed to decode Starlink downlink signals in the 10.7 to 12.7 GHz band detailed enough that they were able to locate a Starlink receiver to within 30 metres.
That’s not as accurate as traditional GPS, but it’s noteworthy since Humphreys’ team managed to do it without any SpaceX help. If Musk and company decided to play ball, Humphreys told us, Starlink positioning could become more accurate than GPS with little work.
Humphreys’s team has been working on the technique since 2020, when talks between the US Army, his team at UT and and SpaceX ended with a decree from His Muskiness: “every other [low Earth orbit] communications network has gone into bankruptcy, and so we [SpaceX] have to focus completely on staying out of bankruptcy. We cannot afford any distractions,” Humphreys said Musk had decided.
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Starlink terminals reportedly smuggled into Iran amid internet shutdowns
Iranians are reportedly smuggling SpaceX Starlink broadband satellite terminals into their country as Tehran restricts internet access amid an ongoing uprising.
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Translation, he sucked at it…
When you play chess you have to touch the icky pawns. The horror…
I hear he offers to sacrifice a knight for that
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Also re buying Twitter:
The transaction puts the banks in a shaky position, even if they are primed to handle the shock. Under normal conditions, they would pass debt commitments to money managers through junk bonds and leveraged loans ahead of a deal’s closure, but with days left and poor global credit conditions, the banks face losses of around $500 million.
Musk promised on the call to help market the debt, and his original commitment letter said his team would assist for up to 30 days after the deal’s closure, with Musk participating in any investor meetings for up to two hours.
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Ironically, back in April, Musk himself pointed out that the majority of Twitter’s most followed accounts “tweet rarely and post very little content. Is Twitter dying?” he asked.
Five days later, he offered to buy the business.
He’s sinking twitter.
Mission already accomplished.
The deal is expected to close Friday, and the scuttlebutt is that there will be immediate changes the following Monday but we’ll see.
ETA: Also, the “download an archive of my data” feature has an automatic 24 hour hold on it so if you want to get that started , you should do it now.
Just reading the replies to his tweet makes it clear it’s far too late for that.