These posts from this and other servers in the decentralized network are gaining traction on this server right now.
Any journalists want to write an article about all the environmental costs of the more than 10,000 Starlinks that are now in orbit? All I'm seeing are breathless articles mindlessly worshiping That Awful Billionaire for crossing the 10,000 satellite mark.
Every single one of those will come down in an uncontrolled reentry. That's a lot of metal in the atmosphere, and a lot of dice-rolling to see if any more pieces will make it to the ground.
SpaceX is truly awful.
The US is no longer our closest ally, said Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark in tonight's tv debate in the Danish general elections.
Only two years ago this would have been an unthinkable remark from a member of the Danish administration.
But tonight Frederiksen said it and elaborated, The Nordics, Canada, Germany, France, and the UK were our closest allies.
Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.
They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.
500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.
The game was the harvest.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/
MIT Technology Review
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the worldNiantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.
