Starlink is objectively a fucking terrible thing, possibly worse than data centers.
Rural connectivity is a good thing, but why do we all pretend it’s cheaper to invent a private space company to launch disposable satellites that burn up into toxic byproducts and need to be refilled every few months so that the sky internet can be controlled and monitored by the same people that want machines to automate all the labor so they can let us die because they hate having to deal with us?
I wasn’t thinking of rural connectivity here (I’m not informed enough on that to have an opinion) but more on its uses by Ukraine, in disaster relief and for avoiding censorship in authoritarian states. For example it’s the only way anybody inside Iran not associated with the government can actually get internet.
Starlink is objectively a fucking terrible thing, possibly worse than data centers.
Rural connectivity is a good thing, but why do we all pretend it’s cheaper to invent a private space company to launch disposable satellites that burn up into toxic byproducts and need to be refilled every few months so that the sky internet can be controlled and monitored by the same people that want machines to automate all the labor so they can let us die because they hate having to deal with us?
We should run fiber to every home and business.
I wasn’t thinking of rural connectivity here (I’m not informed enough on that to have an opinion) but more on its uses by Ukraine, in disaster relief and for avoiding censorship in authoritarian states. For example it’s the only way anybody inside Iran not associated with the government can actually get internet.