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9 things we've somehow decided are normal.
Number 9 is the one we can do something about.
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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
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$229. One Spark AirNode. One EmberNode.
A new way into AirNodes. The Edge range is live.
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‼️ Hackers stole the passwords of everyone registered on a portal of Germany's Technical University of Munich, plus their names, home addresses and dates of birth.
One stolen login belonged to an administrator of TUMonline, the campus system that runs student records. The attackers turned it on that system too, and TUM has taken it offline.
The data also covers students' ID numbers and degree programmes, and staff work addresses and phone numbers. TUM believes grades were not touched.
TUM has not said how many people are hit. Accounts with multi-factor login were safe.
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Holy. Today, Elon Musk said @SpaceX’s next-gen V4 satellites will have:
• 10x the capability of current V3 Satellites (that were just launched via Starship)
• 100x the capability of V2 satellites (that fly on Falcon 9)
• 10 laser links totaling 100 Tbps (vs V3’s 6 links at ~2.4 Tbps)
V3 was already a huge jump. V4 is 100× better than the V2 satellites that make up most of the constellation today.
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BREAKING: Starlink rival Viasat has lost 83% of its U.S. satellite internet subscribers since 2020, dropping from 596,000 to about 100,000.
Meanwhile, Starlink added 6.4 million subscribers worldwide in a single year, reaching 13.6 million by September.
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~100 lasers per satellite, each operating above 10 Tb/s, with over 100k satellites should be able to outcompete undersea cables.
Speed of light in space is ~40% faster than cable and the path is direct, instead of following the outline of land masses.
Elon just teased SpaceX's next-gen V4 @Starlink satellites:
"Starlink version 4 will have 10x the capability of V3 (which itself is 10x better than V2), especially with the long-distance laser links. Our next-gen laser links will be 10-terabits per second. 100x better. And we'll put 10 of them on."
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THE DOT COM BUBBLE VERSUS THE “AI BUBBLE” VISUALIZED:
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The visualization relies on custom equal-weighted indexes of 10 hand-selected stocks per period, not broad indexes like Nasdaq. Dot-com constituents were chosen retrospectively as top performers (per original post); Nasdaq rose ~6.7x from early 1995 to March 2000 peak.
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‼️ BREAKING: One of the suspected hackers behind the leak of Germany's far-right AfD party is a machine-learning programmer living in the US, according to Der Spiegel and ZDF.
Online traces tie him to "Versistance", the X account that dumped 280GB of AfD data in October, including 421,000+ emails.
Nothing he posted before the leak shows any interest in German politics. He appears to belong to "Com".
The hacker earlier told ICD the break-in began with one unpatched AfD website. Asked by Der Spiegel, the programmer would not say if he did it.
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Hail, Alliance!
Join us tomorrow for an extra special X Space!
We are celebrating our 4th anniversary! We’ve confirmed that @MrTelecoms and @ChristianRees will be joining us on stage!
We hope to see you there!
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The first non Google phone that officialy supports GrapheneOS is officially out!
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At least 42 countries worldwide have stock markets in BEAR MARKET territory.
🇵🇹 Portugal, PSI: −37.9%
🇸🇰Slovakia, SAX: −37.3%
🇹🇭 Thailand, SET: −20.9%
🇺🇦 Ukraine, PFTS: −64.5%
🇷🇺 Russia, MOEX: −42.6%
🇻🇳 Vietnam, HNX: −48.0%
🇹🇼 Taiwan, TAIEX: −20.5%
🇰🇪 Kenya, NSE 20: −33.3%
🇴🇲Oman, MSX 30: −40.2%
🇱🇧 Lebanon, BLOM: −40.6%
🇧🇷 Brazil, Ibovespa: −20.8%
🇱🇻 Latvia, OMX Riga: −31.5%
🇰🇭 Cambodia, CSX: −30.2%
🇷🇸 Serbia, BELEX15: −58.0%
🇯🇵 Japan, Nikkei 225: −21.1%
🇹🇷 Turkey, BIST 100: −25.6%
🇵🇭 Philippines, PSEi: −36.5%
🇧🇭 Bahrain, All Share: −37.5%
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, TASI: −51.9%
🇯🇲 Jamaica, JSE Main: −27.3%
🇶🇦 Qatar, QE General: −32.6%
🇱🇺 Luxembourg, LuxX: −30.0%
🇧🇩 Bangladesh, DSEX: −26.5%
🇵🇸 Palestine, Al-Quds: −48.5%
🇰🇷 South Korea, KOSPI: −46.1%
🇯🇴 Jordan, ASE General: −23.6%
🇨🇾 Cyprus, CSE General: −94.4%
🇲🇲 Myanmar, MYANPIX: −34.8%
🇲🇪 Montenegro, MONEX: −60.1%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong, Hang Seng: −26.9%
🇦🇷 Argentina, MSCI Merval: −28.7%
🇻🇪 Venezuela, Caracas IBC: −20.5%
🇬🇷 Greece, Athens General: −60.4%
🇲🇹 Malta, MSE Equity Price: −35.3%
🇨🇳 China, Shanghai Composite: −40.4%
🇮🇩 Indonesia, Jakarta Composite: −45.2%
🇮🇸 Iceland, OMX Iceland All-Share: −76.3%
🇫🇮 Finland, OMX Helsinki All-Share: −29.8%
🇩🇰 Denmark, OMX Copenhagen 20: −44.7%
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina, SASX-10: −75.2%
🇧🇧 Barbados, BSE Composite: at least −34.5%
🇦🇪 UAE, Dubai Financial Market General: −28.8%
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago, TTSE Composite: −34.5%
Absolutely wild.
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Many of the listed declines are from all-time highs years/decades prior (e.g. Cyprus -94% from 2007), not recent peaks. No evidence supports at least 42 countries' main stock markets recently entering bear territory amid the tech selloff.
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‼️ Hackers are racing to hijack WordPress sites in the seconds they spend updating. A full update puts the installer in a public folder.
Whoever calls it first can become admin. Installing the fix can open that window too.
Security firm Wordfence has blocked 240,000+ attempts.
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And not just that Elon!
The @WorldMobileTeam is also connecting children with a @Starlink backhaul, offering education & opportunities.
Here's an example of our AirNodes + @giggleacademy in Mombasa.
To date, over 300K children have been connected by World Mobile.
@WorldMobileTeam $WMTx
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Let me tell you a story about how unethical Anthropic is.
In April, the Anthropic team began heavily courting our engineering team to tell them corporate secrets, technical details, and future plans for @cfosilvia.
They pretended their interest was due to our exploding popularity and accelerating compute usage, but it quickly became apparent that Anthropic was fishing for details on how we built our product and why it was so popular.
This included the Anthropic team trying to wine-and-dine our engineers, including a infamous steak dinner where someone told our team "don't worry about it, this is on Dario."
Our team was not born yesterday, so we quickly realized what was happening and refused to share sensitive information and technical details with the Anthropic team.
As we suspected, Anthropic was trying to get information from us, so they could build a competing product. Some people on their team must have a guilty conscious because they messaged us a few days ago to give us "a heads-up" that they were launching a competing product.
Thankfully, the Silvia engineering team has been aggressively working to get off the frontier models for the last ~ 6 months. That effort has been highly successful, because our compute costs are ~ 97% lower when we use our own model & hardware, the latency is lower, and the accuracy of answers materially increases as well.
The sad thing for Anthropic is they have now released an inferior product and they had to sell their soul to do it.
The only thing worse than being a trillion-dollar company that can't beat a 10-person team is being a trillion-dollar company that no one trusts and everyone knows is unethical.
Serious investors continue to choose @cfosilvia over ChatGPT, Claude, and other frontier companies because these products are not optimized to solve the actual user problem.
Today, Anthropic launched a Claude wrapper that is masquerading as a personal finance product. Best of luck to them.
But I will take the Silvia misfits vs the Anthropic losers any day of the week.
if you want to support people trying to do things the right way, and help investors be more informed, then consider signing up for Silvia today: silvia.com
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JUST IN: SpaceX needs at least $200 billion to enter wireless once you add up spectrum, towers, and antennas, according to Deutsche Telekom CEO, who says "welcome to the party"
Tim Höttges (CEO): “And by the way, I take his attempt serious. He has now bought 76 megahertz of spectrum. By the way, we have 400 megahertz. So if you now say, okay, he can buy the spectrum prospectively, do your math. These are kind of triple digit billions, which are needed to gain the spectrum position. Okay, if he has the money, go for it."
"Then he has to build a network. I can tell you, we have 85,000 towers. No, he can rent towers, no question. But this is another 20 billion to 30 billion, which are required. Put antennas on it. Okay, you can buy antennas and you can get maybe even in a cheaper way or you construct it in a new way, but you need money for that."
"So therefore, my assessment is that SpaceX at least if they want to play in that industry needs at least minimum 200 billion, but even beyond that to play in an industry, which we have, let’s say, professionalized over the last twenty years. Okay, welcome to the party.”
JUST IN: T-Mobile CEO says SpaceX’s strategy is shape-shifting and calls satellite an inferior version of fixed wireless
Srini Gopalan: “I saw your note as well in terms of the shape-shifting nature of SpaceX’s strategy. So it’s hard to refer to them now as a satellite provider or a satellite provider that is going to build terrestrial. So hard to think about whether this is SpaceX alone or all of satellites.”
“So let me answer that question in its broadest terms, right? Here’s the way we think about broadband. We’ve got a great product in FWA and really in many ways, except for some deep rural parts, satellite is an inferior version of FWA with even more constraints in terms of things like what is the size of the beam, right? So I don’t see the synergy there between FWA and satellite.”
“In many ways, two-thirds of our FWA customers come from dense urban areas. We see huge growth opportunities in those areas still, all under the fallow capacity model. So we don’t really see a synergistic opportunity with satellite providers, and that’s a broader piece.”
“We see it as a complementary product, very much in the nature of T-Satellite. But if you’re thinking of that in broader MVNO terms, I think it comes back to the philosophy with which we operate MVNOs, which is what is the incremental TAM that something opens out? And am I willing to get into a deal for the incremental TAM?”
“If it’s a complementary product, I’m very happy to look at a resale arrangement, which is exactly what T-Satellite was, which gets built into it. But an MVNO is a wholly different thing. So I hope that clarifies where our head’s at on MVNOs and more broadly satellite.”