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[saywhat-politics]

'Extremely bad': Tech expert issues major warning about new Elon Musk scheme

Technologist Waldo Jaquith, who has a lengthy history working in information technology for the federal government across multiple presidential administrations, is warning about a new scheme being hatched by billionaire Elon Musk.

Specifically, Jaquith responded to a report in the New York Times that Musk has been integrating his Starlink satellite system into the White House.

According to the Times, "the Starlink system is now said to be routed through a White House data center, with existing fiber cables, miles from the complex."

[socialjusticeinamerica]

Felonious Musk cancelled USAID programs in South Africa, and the whole world, to punish his fatherland over a trade dispute. They won’t let Starlink into the country which has Muskrat pissed so he offered to build a battery factory there. They have access to rare earth metals for tech products and the payroll would be dirt cheap. His family already has a history of working poor South Africans (mainly black) to death in their gemstone mines.

Two problems 1. Elon fled the fatherland to Canada as a refugee to dodge the South African draft and 2. South Africa requires all foreign businesses operating there to allow 30% local ownership. Elon’s not willing to share ownership so the whole world lost USAID programs as part of Elon’s petty revenge against his homeland. Democratic Congress members have been telling this to every reporter they can all week.

Some people have said they won’t condemn him for dodging the South African Army. Well it’s a matter of character, honesty, integrity, and civic responsibility. Being drafted and serving in any military on earth royally sucks but it’s part of the social contract we must abide by. Most countries have options for conscientious objectors, pacifists, and religious reasons. One can serve as a medic, do non-combat duty, or even other government service depending on the nation. But none of those apply to Elon because he’s just a soft, spoiled, rich brat who didn’t want to mingle with the commoners, the blacks, and the poors. F—K him!

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[democracyunderground]

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said her Republican colleagues are afraid of challenging President Donald Trump or Elon Musk, warning that she could face an expensive primary challenge for her criticism of the administration.

“They’re looking at how many things are being thrown at me, and it’s like, ‘maybe I just better duck and cover,’” Murkowski told reporters on Tuesday. “That’s why you’ve got everybody just like, zip lip, not saying a word because they’re afraid they’re going to be taken down. They’re going to be primaried. They’re going to be given names in the media.”

In a press conference, the Alaska senator repeated her criticism of DOGE for causing widespread panic among federal workers, who are unsure if they will keep their jobs. While she supports government oversight, DOGE’s move-fast-and-break-things approach is causing unnecessary anxiety, she argued.

“They’re traumatizing people,” she said.

And Murkowski said she is not afraid of Musk coming for her for disagreeing.

“I’m not going to compromise my own integrity by hiding from my words when I feel they need to be spoken,” Murkowski said. “And it may be that Elon Musk has decided he’s going to take the next billion dollars that he makes off of Starlink and put it directly against Lisa Murkowski.”

[yokowan]

hi! your writing on aerospace and venture capital was very interesting, thank you for putting it out there! i'm curious how spacex plays into the dichotomy of private firms rejecting integration testing and subsequently wasting more money than if one followed the proper procedures, since i've heard that the company has a substantial market share / is developing unique and relevant technology while leaning into the same "move fast and break things" approach. is it just... subsidized / popular enough to absorb the losses?

tldr: spacex has a combination of factors working for it, but the only reason they can tank the losses is because they're very good at operating a hype machine

they weren't always this insane. in 2009 spacex was moving at a pretty fast pace for aerospace relative to other companies, but it was quite measured compared to their current state. falcon 1 was an incredibly simple rocket, basically just a technology demonstrator. even then, they were 1 failure away from bankruptcy before they finally got a success. this is commonly told as an underdog success story but somehow it does not inspire as much confidence in me as you'd think :p

when they started making falcon 9 it was, once again, an extremely simple rocket. sure, they had big plans for it, but falcon 9 v1.0 was built on extremely dependable, well known technology. they hired good engineers, took their time with development, and used reliable, existing tech. from then on, they just built on it very slowly. they changed one thing at a time.

the real thing that lead to their success at the time is that none of the things they were developing interfered with the core capability of the rocket. like, none of their customers were relying on the fact that they wanted to land the rocket on a boat. it's going to crash in the ocean anyways. might as well do landing attempts. the cost for failure there was basically nothing. falcon 9 succeeded so incredibly because they built a decent regular rocket, added features onto it, and got their testing for free-ish from launches they were doing anyways.

the current era of spacex dawned when elon musk realized that he could run a business on hype alone. slowly but surely, he started promising more. way more than his company could deliver. they could sell absolutely insane amounts of total horseshit based on spacex's reputation alone. they built falcon 9, after all. that means they can build anything!

and sell it did! remember when starship was called the Big Fucking Rocket, and was supposed to be a 100m tall composite hulled structure capable of putting 300 tons into orbit? remember how it was supposed to be bringing people to mars in 2022? remember how none of that happened and everyone just forgot? that shit! that's how spacex has operated post 2017

that whole strategy is to drum up hype with obviously impossible promises and get all the redditor temporarily embarrassed billionaire types on board by being super memey about it. and it worked! by 2020 their valuation was exploding (much like starship teehee) and it has not slowed down since

^^^ this is what selling piles of hot bullshit did for spacex. and if anyone says starlink fuck you starlink just barely broke even last year and only thanks to the US military.

and when i say it's bullshit i mean it's bullshit. if you trust elon musk's twitter as a primary source (most spacex fans and investors do), starship's planned payload capacity fluctuates by like. 3x depending on how many times he's texted his ex wives that morning. they miss scheduled deadlines for test flights and static fires so often that people joke about them being scheduled on "elon time" and somehow don't realize that this is a bad thing. every time a starship explodes it's lauded as some great achievement because if they ever admit failure, the hype will die out.

they're not just doing agile to rockets! this isn't changing requirements as new information becomes available. this is changing requirements whenever the billionaire dipshit feels like it! the poor engineers working for spacex are working insane crunch schedules just to keep the hype train moving. they need to constantly crank out impressive looking results to keep investors excited, even if they're not actually moving towards a goal. i've heard so many stories from spacex employees that they find out about changes to starship design requirements or test times from elon's twitter. it's fucking insane.

and spacex never stopped improving falcon 9! it kept being a pretty good rocket. they made incremental improvements to payload capacity and reusability. dragon became the workhorse of the US's transportation to the international space station. but that's not what they make the news for. that's not what they got their TWO HUNDRED AND TEN BILLION DOLLAR VALUATION for. no. they got that for making promises they can't keep.

this rant doesn't even touch on COTS/commercial crew. if i did it would end up being about five times longer. god help us all.

[cediweb]

Apple and SpaceX Forge Groundbreaking Partnership to Enable iPhone Connectivity via Starlink Satellites

CUPERTINO, CA — In a surprise move, Apple and SpaceX have unveiled a secretive joint venture to integrate Starlink’s satellite technology into iPhones, promising users the ability to stay connected even in the most remote corners of the globe. The partnership, reportedly orchestrated behind closed doors by Apple CEO Tim Cook and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, marks a significant leap in…

[misfitwashere]

ROBERT REICH

MAR 21

Friends,

There are two huge national security questions at the heart of the Trump regime. 

The first is whether Elon Musk is working, at least in part, for China’s Xi Jinping. Consider:

(1) China is the location of Musk’s largest Tesla factory in the world in which China invested $2.8 billion. The state-of-the-art facility was built in Shanghai with special permission from the Chinese government, and now accounts for more than half of Tesla’s global deliveries. 

(2) China is the world’s biggest market for Teslas and is the only electronic vehicle market where Tesla sales are continuing to grow.

(3) Chinese investors have been funneling money into Musk’s other businesses.

(4) China is a hotbed of other technologies that Musk would like to get his hands on. 

(5) In 2022, Musk told The Financial Times that China should be given some control over Taiwan by making a “special administrative zone for Taiwan that is reasonably palatable.” 

(6) In 2023, at a tech conference, he called Taiwan “an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China,” and compared the Taiwan-China situation to Hawaii and the United States.

(7) On X, the social platform he owns, Musk has long used his account to praise China, encouraging more people to visit the country.

(8) One of the Pentagon’s biggest worries is that China has developed a suite of weapons capable of attacking U.S. military and non-military satellites.

(9) The Pentagon now relies heavily on Musk’s SpaceX Starlink satellite communications network for military personnel to transmit data worldwide.

(10) SpaceX launches most of the Pentagon’s military satellites on its Falcon 9 rockets, which take off from launchpads SpaceX has set up at military bases in Florida and California.

(11) SpaceX has become so valuable to the Pentagon that the Chinese government has said it considers SpaceX to be an extension of the U.S. military.

(12) The Pentagon has hired Musk’s Space X to build it a new constellation of low-earth orbit satellites to spy on China, Russia and other threats.

(13) Perceived missile threats from China — nuclear weapons or hypersonic missiles or cruise missiles — have led Trump to sign an executive order instructing the Pentagon to start work on “Golden Dome,” a space-based missile defense system, in which Musk’s Space X would almost surely be involved for rocket launches, satellite structures, and space-based data communications systems.

(14) Musk and his SpaceX have repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting U.S. secrets, including by not providing some details of his meetings with foreign leaders — leading to at least three federal reviews, including one by the Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General and another by the Air Force and the Pentagon’s Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. 

So … is Musk working for Trump, for the United States, for China, or for himself — or for all of the above?

The question of Musk’s allegiance becomes more weighty by the day. 

This morning, for example, he met with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Pentagon brass. According to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, the meeting had been arranged at Musk’s request to give Musk details about America’s preparations for war with China — the most sensitive and secret information anyone can receive. 

It appears that after the scheduled meeting and its subject matter were reported yesterday, the meeting mysteriously morphed into something more innocent. Apparently, Trump decided Musk shouldn’t be briefed on war preparations with China. 

Musk arrived shortly before 9 a.m. and left about 90 minutes later. When a reporter asked what Hegseth and Musk discussed, Musk shot back: “Why should I tell you?” Trump and Hegseth deny China was even mentioned. 

The underlying question is whether Musk can be trusted. 

Not even his position in the Trump regime is clear. Congress has not confirmed him for any role. He hasn’t been “vetted” by the FBI, as are all senior appointments. His finances haven’t been reviewed by anyone; they certainly haven’t been made public. He hasn’t even taken the oath of office, pledging his allegiance to the United States and the Constitution. 

I would be remiss if I didn’t also mention Musk’s connection to Putin. According to the Wall Street Journal, Musk has been in regular contact with the Russian President —a close partner of China, which has supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. 

Which raises the second huge national security concern at the heart of the Trump regime: Is Trump working for Putin? I don’t have to list all the evidence that prompts the question. That evidence also keeps mounting by the day. 

Trump and Musk: Manchurian heads of the United States?

[affairsmastery]

Elon Musk’s potential role as head of a hypothetical “Department of Government Efficiency” under a Trump administration could redefine US foreign policy by integrating technological innovation into governance.

Musk’s ventures like SpaceX’s Starlink demonstrate the strategic use of cutting-edge technology, offering unique tools for diplomacy and global connectivity.

By eliminating bureaucratic inefficiencies and leveraging tech-driven solutions, this approach could position the United States as a leader in innovative foreign engagement, particularly in critical regions like the Indo-Pacific.

[meret118]

Specifically, Jaquith responded to a report in the New York Times that Musk has been integrating his Starlink satellite system into the White House. According to the Times, "the Starlink system is now said to be routed through a White House data center, with existing fiber cables, miles from the complex."

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"In recent weeks, Starlink was also set up at the General Services Administration, which has served as a hub for Mr. Musk’s government-shrinking efforts, according to documents and people familiar with the service," writes the Times.

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Musk can just order service to these places shut down anytime he wants. He also knows the banking and I'm tax info of everyone in the country now too if he ever feels threatened by anyone.

More and more we won't be able to trust any data from the government.

[welcometoqueer]

A new working conspiracy theory regarding election integrity is spreading among Democratic voters after it was revealed that Starlink, a satellite owned by Elon Musk through SpaceX, was used for connectivity on voting tabulators.

A few counties, notably a few in swing states, across the U.S. have come forward about connectivity and functional issues with the voting tabulators that were used on Election Day. On top of that, some of these polling places received bomb threats and had to be evacuated.

This alongside Musk’s comments about knowing the election results 4 hours before the race was called by the Associated Press seem suspicious at the very least to many voters.

Many are taking this as more fuel to demand an investigation into both Trump and Musk’s involvement in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

Starlink “connectivity” issue:

Cochise County, AZ:

Centre County, PA:

Battle Creek, MI:

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Five screenshots.

The first is a screenshot of search results that shows two separate articles from KOLD and KGUN 9 about bomb threats that shut down the elections office in Cochise County, AZ.

The second is a Facebook update by the Cochise County, AZ government. It reads:

"Cochise County Election Update: The tabulation machines are not working properly and the vendor, Election Systems & Software (ESS) has been notified of the situation. Their technicians will arrive this afternoon to address the issue. The Secretary of State has been made aware of our tabulators. Once the tabulators are working, we will send another notification to the public and continue tabulating ballots. Thank you for your continued patience."

The third is a headline of an article by Geoff Ruston that reads "Centre County Elections Office Temporarily Evacuated After Bomb Threat."

The fourth is a screenshot of an article by NewsWeek showing as a search result. The headline reads "Centre County Rescans 13,000 Ballots After Software Issue Delayed Election ..."

The final screenshot is of an article by the Detroit Free Press as a search result. The headline reads "Battle Creek election glitch undercounted thousands of absentee..."

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[moontyger]

Technologist Waldo Jaquith, who has a lengthy history working in information technology for the federal government across multiple presidential administrations, is warning about a new scheme being hatched by billionaire Elon Musk.

Specifically, Jaquith responded to a report in the New York Times that Musk has been integrating his Starlink satellite system into the White House.

According to the Times, "the Starlink system is now said to be routed through a White House data center, with existing fiber cables, miles from the complex."

Jaquith immediately raised security concerns about Musk integrating his own satellite-based internet service into the federal government.

"Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts," he wrote on BlueSky. "This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure."

The Times report notes that Starlink has been spreading throughout the federal government.

"In recent weeks, Starlink was also set up at the General Services Administration, which has served as a hub for Mr. Musk’s government-shrinking efforts, according to documents and people familiar with the service," writes the Times.