Urbanist. Socioloog. Humanist. Links. Verder IT consultant, maar neem me dat aub niet kwalijk.

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Joined January 2009
Pas moi désolé 🥰
Pour le bien de la cause j’ai décidé d’effacer de ma mémoire le photoshoot de macron et Lula où ils ont l’air d’être mariés et d’avoir bcp d’enfants
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SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see. On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior) Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable. The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran. SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon. $SPCX $TSLA Our full quantitative analysis below w/ @streetwiseprof
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Spacex reported yesterday night. The stock is indicated up 10% Let me recap coz i am laughing my ass 1) Elon anounced an ARR of 500bn to 1tn for 27 for AI. 3q26 ARR for AI is 30bn 2) elon announced 20GW build in 2027. Spacex uses Nvidia only. 1GW of Vera rubin is 40b 1/n
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What a lede from @TheEconomist
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Analyst #3 is historically a sicko
the lunch offerings at the citrini offices must be insane to get this kind of employee loyalty
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Baby Anhelina and her mom Inna were killed by Russia yesterday. Anhelina was just over a year old. Her mom, Inna Mariukhna, was a primary school teacher. They were in the park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region, when a Russian drone attacked. Little Anhelina was killed in her stroller. Her mom died of her injuries in hospital. Another girl killed in the strike was just 11 years old. Six people lost their lives from that Russian strike. All of them had simply been spending time in the park. At least 15 more were injured, including seven kids. Deepest condolences...
Russians killed an infant and two women in a park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region. At least 14 people were injured in the Russian drone attack, including 7 children. Many people, including families with children, were in the park at the time of the attack.
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Hi, sorry to call at such short notice but our sketch artist has fallen ill, was wondering if you could step in, it says on your profile that you do sketch work... Well I normally only draw Giraffes but I guess how hard can it be, sure I'll do it.
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IM CRYING THIS DUDE GOT A POKEMON TEAM
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Tim retweeted
I had to look up who this was by. It’s by one Charles Keegan, he painted it in 1998, it’s called …And Stay Down!, and here’s more of his work
Never been an art fan in my life. This painting makes me emotional
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Also a great way to tell first world countries apart
It's so funny how ambassadorships are basically just a way for Presidents to arbitrarily give their unemployed friends half a million dollars
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Here is a replication of the graph followed by a different version of it that, rather than plotting absolute levels, plots what share of the national wealth those levels represented at that time. Very different picture.
Very exciting to update this chart with the 2025 data! Millennials at age 40 have about 60% more real net worth than Boomers did at age 40, and almost 100 percent more than Gen X
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Imagine having 350+ days of comfortable weather every year.
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Very exciting to update this chart with the 2025 data! Millennials at age 40 have about 60% more real net worth than Boomers did at age 40, and almost 100 percent more than Gen X
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The haters said pivoting the grift to ai data centers from supersonic planes couldn’t be done. And the haters were right.
Three years ago when we started designing a nonexistent engine for a nonexistent plane made from nonexistent parts forged of a nonexistent alloy, the haters said we couldn’t do it, but we really showed them: we’ve pivoted to an entirely new nonexistent product now!
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I feel very lucky to have the job I have, I get to map out weird little corners of the world, and I cold called the guy who registered the patent for microwave popcorn sensors. We talked to the microwave industry and the popcorn industry. We have the definitive answer.
Why does every microwave have a “popcorn” button but every popcorn bag says “DONT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON?” We went deeper than I thought possible getting the answer. hyperfixedpod.com/listen/hyp…
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Its hilariously sad that idiots unironically do the "if vegans love plants so much why do they eat them" bit we used to do as kids. You know who eat a lot of plants and need a lot of farmland? Cows.
Replying to @anti_realism_
The dust bowl was literally caused from mass farming that ripped nutrients out of the ground ruining the soil. A metric ton of animals died due to the land being destroyed. Do some research into the history of mass agricultural farming and how its ruined the land
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2 days of this and I've yet to see any discussion about the fact that she literally works for this dude. Is she still a direct report to Musk. Is she still an executive at Neuralink. Does Neuralink still exist? Do Journalists still exist?
It’s hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that’s just how it is sometimes 🤷🏻‍♀️ I feel happy that I got to show Elon how it feels to be deeply understood, nurtured, and peacefully loved with stability and gentleness. Given the tumultuous nature of his early life, his often tortured soul, and how hard he fights for humanity I wanted him to feel the deepest and most stable form of love this world can provide. My heart is full knowing I got to do that, and I hope it leaves a lasting good effect. We were always his safe space. A place where all of us were overjoyed to see him and one that was always full of happiness and love, not war, in contrast to his otherwise militant existence (a needed break from the battlefield where he could recharge his heart and soul before heading back out) I loved being that counterbalancing place of safety, sense of calm, and love — and delighted in bringing a smile back to his face when he was down. I will miss him dearly. I’ve loved him more than life itself and he’s taught me 100 lifetimes of knowledge and made my cup overflow with life meaning, so there is a lot of loss, but luckily we created four beautiful little loves of my life ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I am so beyond grateful for our children and they make every single day the best day of my life! I do hope and pray he and I can be great friends and coparents. I’m hurting, but care deeply about E and will always be cheering for his happiness. God speed, Elon, the world is lucky to have you.
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"the Low Countries also lion sir"
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Nothing can infringe upon elderly people’s right to drive a two-ton metal box into a crowd. It’s easier to take guns away from people than it is to take away their licenses. No other demographic group possesses more inalienable rights than boomer car owners.
1 killed, 7 hurt on Jersey Shore after driver, 93, plows Buick into crowded restaurant trib.al/ZkdyM5i
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Meanwhile, this is what a typical organic farm looks like
Hard to communicate how bad this is. The micro-plastics essentially offer terrain for the worst pollutants in the soil to interact, cut capacity of other organisms to have relations and all these impacts get worse with warming. theguardian.com/environment/…
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