Huw Chaffe

Interests sort of limited to what is verifiable. History, science, current events. Show me.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

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

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

Or……we could just leave the Middle East & do a Marshall plan-style reconstruction for OUR nation.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

It's a good time to remind everyone that FIFA is ass.

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

In Japan, a gorilla named Kiyomasa got into a fight with his mate. She kicked him out of their enclosure at the zoo, and he was later spotted sitting alone, seemingly rethinking his life choices

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.

[Kim "Katie" USA @KimKatieUSA]

@Shell Northlake Police warning about this scam.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

As the professional Beggar and thief Zelensky tours Europe in luxury, and his elites cash in on the meatgrinder

Two elderly Ukrainian conscripts record a final message- "Out of six, two left, what happens now? Who knows"

The video was found on the phone. They didn't make it

[Huw Chaffe @ChaffeHuw]

@forbiddenmerch Your timing appears to be off.

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.

Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.

Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.

In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

[Western Lensman @WesternLensman]

Pramila Jayapal runs the "Fine People” hoax trying to defend the SPLC.

Meanwhile, the SPLC was paying an organizer of the rally.

Just absolute clown world stuff.

[Benedict Spence @BenedictSpence]

What terrifies me about this attempted beheading is the potential backlash against peaceful beheaders.

[Mark Hemingway @Heminator]

So I didn't realize this -- so mail ballots can be accepted after election day WITHOUT A POSTMARK?!

Voters can "self-date." Can anyone defend that as anything other than an open invitation to corruption?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!

[🇬🇧British and Proud🇬🇧 @unionjackspirit]

Starmers world

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

In the West Bank Israeli soldiers will arrest 10 year old boys, put them in handcuffs and strap black plastic bags across their eyes… force them to sit like that in the sun for hours and even wet themselves… for the crime of “…appearing to have intended to throw stones…”

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1973, the greatest horse race in history was run.

Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths to become the Triple Crown winner and set a world record time that has never been beaten!

🎥: CBS Broadcast

[Huw Chaffe @ChaffeHuw]

@nationalpost Anti Zionism. That's the more precise word. And it's a healthy response to an Apartheid state committing war crimes.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am more than familiar with Palestine history during the British occupation -its crimes and legacy - and yet. Watching #Palestine36 was a gut-wrenching experience.

Gentle as it can be, Palestinian storytelling cannot hide the horror of the crimes Palestinians have endured.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

BLAZING SADDLES (1974) tells you exactly what kind of movie it is the moment Bart takes himself hostage. A joke so absurd, so perfectly executed, that nearly 50 years later people still quote the punchline from memory.

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

Zelensky wanted to trigger WW3 by simulating a Russian attack on Romania.

Four Ukrainian sea drones attacked Romania with the intention to blow up the Constanta oil storage terminal and the adjacent ammonium nitrate depot.

The Ukrainian attack would have triggered a massive explosion (like in Beirut) and destroyed large parts of the city. That would have caused a NATO reaction.

Unfortunately for Zelensky, one drone got caught in anti-pollution buoys and came to a halt.

Via their onboard cameras, the Ukrainian operator could see in real time that people were filming the drone from less than ten meters away and thus exposing it.

That’s when Zelensky decided to abort the false flag attack and remotely detonated the drone.

Had the drones reached their target and the incident later been attributed to Russia, it would have led to a severe escalation.

The probability that the official version is true and that the explosive drones somehow drifted randomly to this spot in the port of Constanta is close to zero!

The world has been spared a war because of pollution barriers. Let’s drink to those who put them up.

Let’s also repeat “f&ck Zelensky and his European backers”.