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Petraeus: Ukraine will manufacture 7 million drones this year, doubled from last year. They use 10,000 per day.
Software changes every week or two, hardware every three to four weeks. About 60% of battlefield drones now use fiber optic cable extending 30 to 35 kilometers. 1/
The German consensus is still thinking of World War II as “our war against Russia.” One in five people in Ukraine and one in four people in Belarus were killed in 1941-1945. The historical debt of Nazi Germany is far greater to the peoples of Belarus and Ukraine.
But somehow a strong current in German political thought holds that Germany must atone by accommodating Russia.
This attack tonight on the Monastery by the Russians in Kyiv makes no sense. It has a parallel with the bombing of London’s St. Paul’s in 1940 by the Germans. It won’t work. Someone tell me the military necessity of the Russian attack. There is none.
@richarddeitsch The only SI cover that made the bar walls. One of @whitesox best giveaways - the smoke. I have always appreciated your work in SI & beyond. I have a few left, so DM if you want to add one to your collection.
The most exciting, interesting, young MLB team resides at 35th & Shields. @whitesox MLB HR leader: 1st, Murakami; SS, Montgomery #12 (reference needed tonight); 3B Vergas...you might think this team is bombs and good pitching. Nope, watch team: They are small ball team.
Okay this is genuinely insane.
SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.
It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.
AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.
They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.
So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.
In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.
And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."
One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.
AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.
And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.
The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.
@SpaceX
Our preseason No. 3 prospect Braden Montgomery has officially been called up by the #WhiteSox
With Montgomery joining the roster, all four pieces acquired in the Garrett Crochet trade have now reached the majors.
The Oklahoma Panhandle exists because Texas chose to preserve its status as a slave state.
Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery was banned in territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. When Texas joined the United States as a slave state in 1845, its northern border was set at that line. Although Texas claimed land farther north based on earlier Spanish and Mexican boundaries, keeping that territory would have created a conflict over slavery restrictions. As part of the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered the strip of land north of 36°30′—the area that would eventually become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
The cession left the region outside the borders of any organized state or territory. Since it belonged to neither Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, nor Colorado, it remained a patch of unorganized federal land.
For roughly four decades, from 1850 to 1890, the area was widely known as “No Man’s Land,” a place with no formal territorial government, limited law enforcement, and an uncertain legal status. It was eventually attached to Oklahoma Territory and became part of the state of Oklahoma when Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907.
@EsotericCD@EWErickson Have no worry, the spinless BS of my party will give Maine to Collins. He is a bad homerae in the words of Trump, but team blue, so who cares. I do. My daughter does.
Democrats got the candidate they wanted in Iowa Senate, and I wonder if Republicans understand just how capable they are of getting rocked there in November.