JPhttps://web.archive.org/web/20240628092727/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/08/the-brazilian-special-forces-unit-fighting-to-save-the-amazon Starlink ceasing service in Brazil will make it harder for illegal rainforest mining to continue operating
hm, it looks like they're still providing service there: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/30/top-brazilian-judge-orders-suspension-of-x-00176920
letting billionaires launch whatever shit they want into space so they can project geopolitical power everywhere on the planet with no accountability seems bad
Sofia ☭🇧🇷☭@jplebreton I wish I could boost this like ten more times
S★m V★rm★@jplebreton @neverbeaten Didn't Roger Moore do something about this in the 70s
OOTS@jplebreton
To be honest, I think services like StarLink have a huge amount of potential for democracy. Imagine bringing free/uncensored internet access to China/Russia or other dictatorships.
It's just that certain people don't really *use* that potential...
2xfo@oots @jplebreton
Star Link is primarily a gambit to occupy all of the orbits so future launchers will have to negotiate with Elon.
Star Link is primarily a gambit to occupy all of the orbits so future launchers will have to negotiate with Elon.
Michael Busch@oots @jplebreton Starlink is not designed to and cannot provide internet to many people - it is designed to sell slightly lower latency links to a small number of users at a steep premium (not free).
Nor does Starlink provide uncensored internet access. It provides internet access at the whims of Elon Musk / SpaceX management.
@michael_w_busch @jplebreton
That's exactly what I meant. It has the potential to provide uncensored internet access, but that potential is not harnessed.
That's exactly what I meant. It has the potential to provide uncensored internet access, but that potential is not harnessed.
@oots @jplebreton It does not have that potential. It does not have the bandwidth.
And I repeat myself. So I am done.
Kevin Granade has moved@jplebreton Randal Munroe gave a talk at Amazon a few years ago that boiled down to "any sufficiently rapid shipping system is indistinguishable from a WMD".
I'm concerned that the wrong conclusion was reached based on this premise.
I'm concerned that the wrong conclusion was reached based on this premise.
David Edgar 🥖🌹 
@jplebreton “combat-trained environmentalists”. Probably too late to email my high school guidance councillor and let her know I’ve changed my mind what I want to do when I graduate.
I mean, she has to be dead by now anyway.