Starlink is connecting 100,000 students and 1,500 teachers in Malawi across 30 rural schools to online learning resources. For many, this is the first time students, teachers and families have access to reliable internet ๐ฐ๏ธโค๏ธ
@SenWarren I donโt think he minds paying tax, as long as its spent efficiently. Thats probably why SpaceX shares is structured A and B class, for him to keep voting power when selling shares.
Musk added ~$520 billion in 7 days - more than Page + Brin + Bezos combined.
Data: Forbes Real-Time Billionaires & Bloomberg Billionaires Index โข June 2026
I had Fable build several projects for me. I'm disturbed by what I saw.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Game 1: Token Mania
2:03 - Game 2: Geodrift
6:22 - Game 3: Aetherbound
7:30 - Open world exploration concept
10:18 - App 1: Piano Book
14:14 - "The Window Has Closed" article commentary
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.
400 of them are now worth over $100 million.
These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.
Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.
Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."
The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.
Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
@nicbstme@trq212 Do you load that HTML on Sharepoint for example? Would be great if Copilot can also have that context via Sharepoint. But Sharepoint not very โopenโ to hosting HTML filesโฆ probably security related.
We do export some goods to China, 97% of SA Pecan harvest goed there for example. They dropped import tarrifs to 0% for Pecan nuts from may this year. Personally I hope to feel that difference this year. Prop not as big as USA, but for nuts SA and USA competes to export to China.
https://t.co/PxjGjdB2sK
๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฐโ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
Last Sunday, I was on duty on the farm to check that our cows were okay. Itโs calf season, and sometimes things can go wrong.
Two of my cousins and I farm Angus cattle close to a small town called Hartbeesfontein in the North West province of South Africa. Right in the middle of South Africa, some would say in the middle of nowhere.
Driving through the cows, I noticed that one of the cows was still in labor. Oom (Uncle) Janna, who usually looks after the cows, warned me that he saw the previous day that one of the cows might be going into labor.
I realized that she couldn't calve on her own, and the calf was most probably dead already. So, the clock was against us if we wanted to save the cow's life.
We were at the far end of the farm, 15km away from the squeeze chute where we could help her. So, we had to first go fetch the trailer and use our neighbors' loading bay to get her onto it.
Finally arriving at the squeeze chute, my cousin, Corneels, came to assist and brought medicine to help, her cervix failed to unlock.
Please remember that this was an intense, adrenaline-filled situation, and English isn't my first language. The medication instructions said it had to be injected โsubcutaneously,โ and neither my cousin nor I could remember what that meant.
Problem: In the area where the squeeze chute is located, thereโs no cell phone service, like in many places in the middle of nowhere in South Africa. So, we couldnโt "Google" what it meant.
BUT, I remembered that I installed the Edge Gallery App the previous day and downloaded a Gemma 4 model on my phone to play around with!
So, I "Gemma'd" what subcutaneously means. Gemma immediately responded and explained that medically, it means โunder the skinโ (instead of in a vein or muscle), see screenshots. We then administered the medication by injecting it under her skin.
Long story short, and skipping the gory details of what it takes to help a cow with laborโฆ we got the calf out!
At some point, she lay down in the chute after being so tired of being in labor for two days. The danger when this happens is that they sometimes are never able to get back up again.
BUT, with the meds administered, Oom Janna later that day, when he returned from his trip, sent us a photo of our cow who stood up again! (See screenshot)
And thatโs how Gemma 4 saved our cow's life!
Thank you to the amazing team at Google who built this incredible technology and provided it to us for free ๐ฑ. Me, my cousins, and our happily grazing cow are super grateful.
(Written by Denho Geldenhuys, edited by Gemma 4)
๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฐโ๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง
Last Sunday, I was on duty on the farm to check that our cows were okay. Itโs calf season, and sometimes things can go wrong.
Two of my cousins and I farm Angus cattle close to a small town called Hartbeesfontein in the North West province of South Africa. Right in the middle of South Africa, some would say in the middle of nowhere.
Driving through the cows, I noticed that one of the cows was still in labor. Oom (Uncle) Janna, who usually looks after the cows, warned me that he saw the previous day that one of the cows might be going into labor.
I realized that she couldn't calve on her own, and the calf was most probably dead already. So, the clock was against us if we wanted to save the cow's life.
We were at the far end of the farm, 15km away from the squeeze chute where we could help her. So, we had to first go fetch the trailer and use our neighbors' loading bay to get her onto it.
Finally arriving at the squeeze chute, my cousin, Corneels, came to assist and brought medicine to help, her cervix failed to unlock.
Please remember that this was an intense, adrenaline-filled situation, and English isn't my first language. The medication instructions said it had to be injected โsubcutaneously,โ and neither my cousin nor I could remember what that meant.
Problem: In the area where the squeeze chute is located, thereโs no cell phone service, like in many places in the middle of nowhere in South Africa. So, we couldnโt "Google" what it meant.
BUT, I remembered that I installed the Edge Gallery App the previous day and downloaded a Gemma 4 model on my phone to play around with!
So, I "Gemma'd" what subcutaneously means. Gemma immediately responded and explained that medically, it means โunder the skinโ (instead of in a vein or muscle), see screenshots. We then administered the medication by injecting it under her skin.
Long story short, and skipping the gory details of what it takes to help a cow with laborโฆ we got the calf out!
At some point, she lay down in the chute after being so tired of being in labor for two days. The danger when this happens is that they sometimes are never able to get back up again.
BUT, with the meds administered, Oom Janna later that day, when he returned from his trip, sent us a photo of our cow who stood up again! (See screenshot)
And thatโs how Gemma 4 saved our cow's life!
Thank you to the amazing team at Google who built this incredible technology and provided it to us for free ๐ฑ. Me, my cousins, and our happily grazing cow are super grateful.
(Written by Denho Geldenhuys, edited by Gemma 4)
Iโm also commercially farming Pecan nuts. Trying to do as regerative as possible. Pumping water with Solar, using sheep for weeding instead of chemical. With sheep dung and urine cut fertilizer costs by 85% this season. Definately the way to go. Sheep is in this case is a lot more profitable. But theft bites you again ๐คช
Assuming you have free access to land and you do your own labour.
Cattle farming for R5,000/month net income in SA:
Need ~22-25 breeding cows + 1 bull.
Initial livestock cost: ยฑR350,000โR395,000 (cows @R15k, bull @R20k).
Why more than 12 cows?
โข Realistic weaning rate: ~75% (not 100%)
โข Cows get old/die โ 15-18% replaced yearly (keep some heifers, sell fewer calves)
โข Sell weaners + cull cows for extra income
โข Bull replaced every 10 years
Running costs ~R2,000/cow/year (feed, medicine, fences). Assumes good grazing land (not included).
Optimistic 100% calving is rare โ national averages are 62-65%, good management hits 75-80%. Risks: drought, disease, higher costs.
Do you think the USA does not already have access to EVERYthing via Android phones (Google, US company). And China through Hauwei technology in all our cellphone towers? Starlink is optional, mostly only usefull in rural areas. Where is the additional security risk? I would love to understand
@Xolani859243340 In eSwatini the Starlink mini lands already imported for R3800. Then R500 per month, uncapped (300mbps, 25ms latency). For a rural community with no cellular receiption its a game changer. It can be shared via Wifi. For R500 you buy 20Gb of cellular data on one phone, ripoff.