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Green Bay Packers Owner 🧀 Suns Fan 🦍. I’m into Sports, STEM, and music

[Son @Ply8ez]

I’m officially a published artist!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

T-Mobile spent five years trying to get rid of the exact spectrum Elon just called "the last critical piece" of complete phone coverage in America.

This 800 MHz block is Sprint's old Nextel spectrum, the stuff that powered push-to-talk walkie-talkie phones in 2004. The DOJ forced T-Mobile to divest it as a condition of the $26 billion Sprint merger. Dish had first rights at $3.59 billion and walked away because it couldn't raise the money. T-Mobile finally offloaded it to an investment firm called Grain Management last year for $2.9 billion plus a spectrum swap.

Grain's original plan was selling it to utilities for private networks.

Fourteen months later, SpaceX buys the whole portfolio, and shares of the carriers who passed on it fall as much as 8% in a single afternoon.

Here's why it matters so much. Starlink's satellite signal at 2 GHz can reach your phone outdoors, but it dies at the first wall. 800 MHz penetrates buildings. Most phones already have the band built in. So satellites handle the open sky, this low-band layer handles indoors, and suddenly Starlink Mobile covers everywhere a normal carrier does without the tower network.

Stack the moves. $17 billion for EchoStar's 50 MHz of 2 GHz spectrum. FCC approval for 15,000 Gen2 satellites this week. Now the low-band coverage layer.

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile paid $81 billion in a single auction for C-band spectrum in 2021, then spent years and tens of billions more deploying it on towers. SpaceX assembled a nationwide carrier out of a distressed-asset sale, a forced divestiture castoff, and rockets it already owns.

The walkie-talkie spectrum from 2004 ended up being the piece that lets satellites replace cell towers. Nobody who touched it for twenty years saw that coming.

[Son @Ply8ez]

@prettycritical You can do anything in life. It’s all about time dedicated to the craft

[Radiant Optimizer @RadiantOpti]

PLAY ALL THESE GAMES IN YOUR BROWSER

Your PC does not need the game installed!

you can play Black Ops zombies, Skate 3, Halo and MW2 and more GAMES all run in a browser tab now. full list in the comments.

School gaming is boutta be fire

[✟ Lex @MrTLexify]

yeah so all of black ops 1 zombies is just in your browser now, you don't even need the game to play it.

lol here it is
https://t.co/8XCJaoTv6t

[Malik Burgers @macburgz]

Kids these days getting a version of limewire but like on crack. Shit like this is what dreams are made of

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Since yesterday, GTA V in the browser has been going viral.

But there are even more interesting games you can play directly in your browser.

No Steam. No huge downloads.

Here are 7 worth trying:

1/ Counter-Strike 1.6

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

“Adobe just got nuked. And closed source is dead, dead, dead”

[Manny Marotta @MannyMarotta]

Probably going to be completely overlooked by the media but today is the 200th birthday of photography as a medium and that’s pretty cool

[Roberto Rios @peruvian_bull]

there are more young men 24-35 living at home right now than there were in the great depression

[Son @Ply8ez]

México is a lost country. I would never go there again.

[Blog del Narco México @blogdelnarcomex]

Sicarios ejecutaron a Jesús Alvarado “El Chuy”, el elotero más querido y a Rosalba su esposa cuando iban en una moto en San Martín Mexicapam, Oaxaca, LEE MÁS AQUÍ 👇👉 https://t.co/RHi1UNRFAf

[フィルマニ @filmania123x]

はい 好き🐰

[Kendric Tonn @kendrictonn]

The last game of Dune I played we got to the end of a very messy conflict, couldn't figure out who won, but eventually discovered that the Spacing Guild, who no one was playing and which was not in the game, had beaten us all. 10/10 thematically appropriate Dune

[isaiah @tlop444]

you wouldn’t hear a transition like this at a jay z show

[VIKARE @vikare06]

Here is Peter Chung's (Aeon Flux) breakdown of the "Unreliable Narrator" mechanism used in "A Clockwork Orange".
This is not only a great insight on how to see this movie but how to approach artistic intention in general

[The Toku Society (COMMS OPEN!) @TheTokuSociety]

A colossal archive of Phil Tippet's work is up on Internet Archive. Extended vfx shots, never before seen bts photos, reels, previs, etc.
https://t.co/piMCMfD7Z0

[Joseph Alessio @alessio_joseph]

Sony was on a generational run in the 80s-90s

[say the line narratorjak @hekkiallmo]

played the absolute fuck out of this game. cannot emphasize enough that it genuinely is just a gamified FL Studio tutorial. if you have any desire to learn how to make music and you’re intimidated to start you should buy this game immediately

[crave @yzycrave]

16 years ago today, Ye performed "Runaway" with Pusha T live on SNL 🔥

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

Conspiracy seeing this after getting called crazy for years

[An0maly @LegendaryEnergy]

Ye called this accurately years ago by the way