Ryan Pinks

God Bless the USA 🇺🇸

[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.

[Mike P @mikepat711]

How is this real life? Seriously wtf man.

[Tesla Semi @tesla_semi]

Semi is here

Today, we're launching high volume production

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[The Artist known as Jess @ElofsonJess]

The full context of the algebra controversy.
I've been pissing people off with simple logic my entire life, so I was not surprised at all by the reaction of the NPC's living in the matrix.
Shabbat Shalome to all the good goy slaves out there.

[X Martians @X_Martians]

Rocket thrusters from @SpaceX

The new Tesla Roadster will be out of this world 👀

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Professional racing driver Ollie Millroy thanks competitor Loek Hartog for saving his life after getting into a fiery crash over the weekend in China.

Millroy says he'd be dead if Hartog hadn't jumped out of his car to pull him out of his burning car.

"I am still alive tonight, entirely thanks to one man. Loek Hartog stopped instantly with no flag marshalls or fire crews in sight, and risked his own life to get me out of the car."

"I don’t remember anything between 30 seconds before the crash and 1 hour after it, but I will remember his incredible act of bravery for the rest of my life..."

"I’m laying here tonight with 5 broken ribs, broken collar bone, broken hand and finger and a bruised lung, but it could have been much worse."

"Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today."

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Tesla Robotaxi becomes the #1 travel app, surpassing Uber

[Ryan Pinks @RyanPinks]

This is absolutely horrifying

[Police Incidents @PoliceIncident]

NEWLY RELEASED BODY-CAM FOOTAGE: Police Find 18-Year-Old Soccer Player, Karoline Jordyn Heintz, Dead in Jeep

CALIFORNIA, Pa. — An 18-year-old Pennsylvania man is facing a homicide charge in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, 18-year-old Karoline Jordyn Heintz, whose body was found in the rear hatch of her Jeep Cherokee near the California Borough Public Library on Aug. 20.

Heintz, of Peters Township, had recently graduated from high school and was preparing to begin her freshman year at PennWest California, where she was a member of the women's soccer team. Her family became concerned after she left home the night of Aug. 19 and did not return to campus. An Apple AirTag helped investigators locate her Jeep shortly after midnight.

California Borough officers found blood on the vehicle and discovered Heintz's body inside. A preliminary examination identified stab wounds, according to testimony later presented in court. The Washington County coroner's office responded to the scene.

Pennsylvania State Police charged Royce Joel Moser, 18, of North Strabane Township, with criminal homicide and related offenses, including tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, conspiracy and obstruction.

Heintz went to Moser's home in North Strabane Township on Aug. 19. Moser became angry during a conversation with Heintz in her vehicle, retrieved a knife from his home and stabbed her. He placed her body in the Jeep's rear hatch and drove toward his mother's residence in Beallsville.

Moser's mother, Rachel E. Moser, 56, is accused of helping conceal evidence. She faces charges including hindering apprehension, tampering with evidence, abuse of a corpse, conspiracy, obstruction and criminal use of a communication facility. A knife recovered from a garbage bag at Rachel Moser's residence contained DNA matching Heintz.

Both defendants were held without bail in Washington County Jail. On Sept. 1, Judge Charles Tenny held both cases for court following a preliminary hearing. Their formal arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 13.

#police #cops #crime #policia #polizei #CrimeNews #KarolineJordynHeintz #BodyCamFootage

[Ryan Pinks @RyanPinks]

@NevrEnoughX @grok I have a 2026 Model Y AWD Premium with 24k and 91%

[Muskonomy @muskonomy]

NEWS: Elon Musk says SpaceX bought the $1 billion turbine company, not him personally.

Reports this summer said Elon Musk spent about $1 billion buying APR Energy, a firm with a fleet of trailer-mounted gas and diesel turbines that can make more than 1 gigawatt of power.

Elon Musk pushed back on the framing. "Since I'm the controlling shareholder of SpaceX, it weirdly gets reported as me buying it, which is not true," he said. The buyer is SpaceX.

AI data centers need power now. These turbines sit on trailers that can be trucked in and switched on fast. The same class of units already runs at the Colossus AI site.

Power is the bottleneck for AI. That is what SpaceX is buying.

[Rubizh @RubizhBrigade]

Ukrainian soldier barely even reacts to a Russian drone at #Pokrovsk direction.

Russian army tries to cut off our logistics by spamming drones. There are so many of those, it became a chore to shoot them all down.

We hope your chores are better than ours :D

[Tibetan Frontline @justice4_tibet]

China's helicopter reached the spot where the glacier had broken,

and the water released from it had caused massive destruction in Nepal. This event is called a GLOF.

Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (#GLOF) can occur when the dam of a lake held

back by a glacier suddenly bursts.
releasing millions of cubic meters of trapped water.

China | Tibet| Nepal

#NepalFlood

[Sprinter Press @Sprinter_Press]

Following the floods in Nepal yesterday.
A dam in India is holding back the floodwaters.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Picture eight identical robotaxis at the curb and you’re standing there like an idiot trying to guess which one is yours.

Tesla’s answer is a light bar across the front of the Cybercab: It turns purple. green, or orange.

Your phone says look for the orange one, and there it is.

No waving or walking up to the wrong car.

Writer: Val

[Crypto Mikey @CryptoCX1]

Since we all had a fuck you money week, I’ll reintroduce you to the three most life changing purchases I’ve ever made.

Thank me later. No ref links just straight alpha.

[Billy @billykyle]

Cybercab takes on Philly 👀

There was a fleet of 10 test vehicles at the Devon, PA service center. All of them had steering wheels, some had Florida plates.

I never really understood the hype of spotting these until I actually saw one for myself in person. This car is sexy 🤤

S/o to @mikepat711 for the tip

[Ryan Pinks @RyanPinks]

God has protected me in ways I’ll never fully understand.

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Terafab approximate size comparison between Giga Texas, the Pentagon, Apple Park, and the Mall of America.

There has never been a building this large. Elon Musk says it will be the most valuable building by far.

[Ryan Pinks @RyanPinks]

😂😂