GeroChula

Building tech solutions for Rusinga and other islands in Suba North | CBO in Rusinga Island | CONNECTIVITY * EDTECH * AGRITECH * E-MOBILITY |[email protected]

[GeroChula @gero_chula]

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[S.E. Robinson, Jr. @SERobinsonJr]

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19th of September, 2024

"Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology..." - Elon

■ TESLA $TSLA ($243.92, +7.36%):
- Tesla Lithium's Klarissa Garcia and Team were at the YOU! Choose Career Expo with Workforce Solutions. "A fantastic event for our community and students. It was a pleasure to connect with so many bright young individuals. Our table was bustling with activity, as was the Cybertruck! We’re already looking forward to our next youth workforce event!"

- Tesla's Chiara Bano and Team were at the Villa Reale di Monza, a historical landmark in Monza, Italy, for Fleet and Business Day. Cybertruck was also on site.

- Tesla's Chris Irwin and a Quicksilver Model Y were at the Northern Ireland Chamber's Festival of Business in Belfast yesterday. "Such a well planned morning with lots of action and buzz around business in Northern Ireland."

- Tesla was at the Fleet & Mobility Day in Meudon, France. Model 3s and Ys were on site available for Demo Drives.

- Tesla China insured 15,600 for the week of September 9th - 15th.

FLYOVERS:
> Fremont Factory: MetGod, 19th of September, '24.

■ SPACEX:
- Yesterday evening at Massey's Outpost, Starship 31 successfully performed a 6 engine static fire. Per Elon, "Flight 5 is built and ready to fly. Flight 6 will be ready to fly before Flight 5 even gets approved by FAA!" Pic by Mary (u/BocaChicaGal) for NSF. Screenshot from video by Anthony Gomez (u/AnthonyFGomez).

Starship 34's nose cone was spotted by u/StarshipGazer as it rolled into High Bay. It will soon stack onto the payload section that rolled in overnight. This is the 2nd V2 Starship!

- Today, SpaceX lawyer David Harris sent a letter to US Reps Chairman Frank Lucas and Zoe Lofgren of the Committee on Science, Space & Technology and Senators Maria Cantwell and Ted Cruz of the Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation about the FAA's $633,009 fines they imposed yesterday. Per SpaceX, "It is clear that the Agency lacks the resources to timely review licensing materials, but also focuses its limited resources on areas unrelated to public safety. These distractions continue to directly threaten national priorities and undercut American industry's ability to innovate."

- For two weeks earlier this year, NASA tested a 1.2% scale model of the Super Heavy rocket, or booster, in the transonic Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. This test was for Human Landing System (HLS). The Super Heavy model was placed against wind speeds ranging from Mach .7, or about 537 miles per hour, to Mach 1.4, or about 1,074 miles per hour. Engineers measured how Super Heavy responded to the simulated flight conditions, stability, aerodynamic performance, and more. Engineers used the data to update flight software and to refine the exterior design of future versions of the booster.

- If you have not seen it yet, I got my Limited Edition SpaceX RSF Resilience Eyewear (Sunglasses). I made an unboxing video. Check out my profile.

Countdown to 144 (90 - Falcon 9, 1 - Falcon Heavy, and 2 - Starship):

> Launch 94! Friday, 20th of September, at 6:50 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-17 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.

> Launch 95! Sunday, 22nd of September, at 4:51 p.m. PT, Falcon 9 Starlink 9-8 will launch from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The booster will land on drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.

> Launch 96! Wednesday, 25th of September, at 2:28 p.m. Falcon 9 Crew-9 Block 5 will launch Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be the ninth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. On board will be Commander Nick Hague and Mission Specialist Aleksandr Gorbunov. The booster will land at Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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■ THE BORING COMPANY:
- Yesterday, Glenn Nowak, Architect & Associate Professor at the UNLV, took his students of Master of Architecture to the Boring Company facility and Vegas LOOP. This was for a part of their studies on transit oriented development. "We got to experience one of the most innovative kinds (transit development) in the world today as we envision the expansion of this technology to transform other parts of this incredible city."

■ NEURALINK: N/A...

■ STARLINK:
- Wendy Frezah of Gero Chula (@gero_chula) is building tech solutions for the Rusinga Islands in Suba North of Kenya. Today they tested Starlink at the Wasaria Primary School. "Today marks the first day of our feasibility study in the schools. Just making sure that they have tablets, printers, electricity, security, and connectivity... They were very receptive of our self sustainable approach to internet connectivity that will see homes and businesses around the schools get connected as well."

- Reiterating what he posted yesterday, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr spoke to House members stating VP Kamala Harris has made no progress on her $42 billion broadband infrastructure initiative despite having 3 years to work on it. He spoke on Starlink and how they were revoked due to political actions against Elon. SpaceX could connect 1 million rural households for roughly $1.5 billion in roughly one year.

- Alaska Airlines has acquired Hawaiian Airlines. Hawaiian Airlines is in the process of installing Starlink Aviation across its fleet, which begs the questions, will Alaskan Airlines follow suit and adopt Starlink.

■ X:
- X's new Global Head of Marketing Angela Zepeda (u/angelamzepeda) at the X Client Council in New York yesterday. "An exciting day at X yesterday presenting at my first Client Council to a room full of partners and friends who came to hear about all of the exciting news and rapid innovation happening at X! A big thank you to the entire team who pulled together a fantastic event!"

- Since yesterday, X users in Brazil are reporting that the platform is accessible. X and the country's trade group for Internet Service Providers (ISP) ABRINT moved X's servers host to Cloudflare. Cloudflare appears to be using dynamic internet protocol (IP) addresses that change constantly. X stated that "While we expect the platform to be inaccessible again in Brazil soon, we continue efforts to work with the Brazilian government to return very soon for the people of Brazil." Per Basílio Rodriguez Pérez, advisor to ABRINT, "Everything that happened during the day led us to believe that it was on purpose."

Today, Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes mandated that the X must adhere to an earlier suspension order or incur a daily fine of 5 million reais ($921,726.95).

■ xAI:
- Per xAI's Greg Yang (u/TheGregYang), "A single model should have real world + real time understanding, universal search, and user understanding all at the same time."

■ ELON NEWS:
- Today's leading quote by Elon, "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology," is an inversion of Arthur C. Clarke's third law; "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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[S.E. Robinson, Jr. @SERobinsonJr]

@frezawendy @gero_chula Keep up the great work!

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

While working on @gero_chula , I made enough noise we made it to @starlink news on our first day with the schools …

With ⁦@spairally⁩ , made enough noise in 2 months , I got an invite to present my research paper in Washington DC.

Now Im in SF …

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

Highlights
@gero_chula 🌸

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

🇰🇪 Starlink helping schools in Kenya 🇰🇪

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

.@gero_chula community based organization.

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

Hello Washington DC !
See you soon 🇺🇸

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

Worked well , for 4 years , while studying telecommunications at Machakos University .
Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in 2024 .

Then there was retrenchment in the whole innovation department .
I then started @gero_chula with the pension and pay out money .
And I did so well . It got featured in multiple articles after only 3 weeks !

[GeroChula @gero_chula]

Our founder has been featured in @Connects_Africa .

Read about it here : https://t.co/tSFWo2oGRd

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

A Kenyan🇰🇪 pioneer emerges !

Read more here : https://t.co/lJ689dyDGf

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

A Kenyan🇰🇪 pioneer emerges !

Read more here : https://t.co/lJ689dyDGf

[ALEX @ajtourville]

NEWS: @Starlink installed at Wasaria Primary School on Rusinga Island (Lake Victoria), Kenya 🇰🇪 ❤️

via @gero_chula

[GeroChula @gero_chula]

Thank you @SeannnCarroll .

[GeroChula @gero_chula]

1 year ago …

[Wendy🌸 @akinyi__wendy]

A time like this last year , I made a conscious decision to connect the island of Rusinga to the internet .

Happy anniversary to @gero_chula

[GeroChula @gero_chula]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

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@wanjiruhnjuguna Hugs 🫂

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@WILLANNO77 Thank you

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@Onyegeakungu @akinyi__wendy We are working round the clock to deliver . Say hi to your mom 🤗

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[GeroChula @gero_chula]

@Nyaminge Yes we are 🤗