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macleod · 8 months

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Elon Musk secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the coast of occupied Crimea in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to a report.

Source: The Daily Beast via CNN - September 7th 2023

Source: Brianna Wu @\briannawu@\mstdn.social

#elon musk #brianna wu #spacex #ukraine #russia #drones #news #mine

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itisiives · 2 months

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#Palestine #jews for palestine #jews for ceasefire #Talia Jane #Brianna Wu #Gaza

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gamer2002 · 28 days

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#brianna wu #daily wire #hamas #hamas israel #gaza #7th october #israel #anti semitism #antisemitism #massachusetts #university #us politics #politics

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odinsblog · 8 months

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They just put four more people up on the space station. We used to use Russia to supply the space station. Now we're using SpaceX.

And the problem is that the Ukrainian Army also uses SpaceX for their frontline battle communications. It costs, according to Ronan Farrow, $400 million a year. Initially, I remember when Elon said, I'll give it to you for free. But then Elon calls the Defense Department, and says, “Hey, this is killing me here. You got to pay up.”

The threat being that he would disconnect frontline forces from their comms and in effect, end the war.

And so the Department of Defense is handling Elon with kid gloves.

I think the issue that this raises is it's far more disturbing than just not having an invoice. During the Obama administration, Russia illegally annexed Crimea, which is a part of Ukraine. And now the current war going on is a continuation of that, where Vladimir Putin is trying to take over the rest of Ukraine, right?

So what happens is those telecommunications are geofenced. So as soon as they cross that border, Ukrainians cross the border into their own territory. Elon Musk has decided they are not going to have frontline communication, meaning battlefield commanders cannot order strikes or pass intelligence back and forth.

We've had network-centric warfare for the last 20 years, which really puts that kind of total intelligence environment, like our warfare is based around that.

Where are the targets?

Where do we send cruise missiles?

Where do we send drones to?

And Elon Musk is really in this position because we have chosen to basically defund NASA and to not play a role in putting this telecommunications equipment into space ourselves, and now this billionaire gets to decide who wins and loses this war.

He literally could throw the war to Russia just by turning off SpaceX for Ukrainian forces.

And what is even more troubling, and Ronan Farrow puts this out in the piece, is there are very valid concerns about Musk's relationship with Putin.

I personally found his talking points on Crimea really disturbing because they are word for word repeating Russian propaganda straight from the Kremlin.

In this article, they quote Musk talking to a Defense Department official. “Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,” says Musk.

Yeah, that doesn't seem like a good thing. There's a throughput through all of this, where America's government decides to underinvest in a certain industry, right? Whether it's electric cars, or telecommunications equipment, or space infrastructure, or all of these things. Musk moves into the space and creates a company that kind of creates a near monopoly.

This is exactly why we've had to move to electric car companies using the Tesla standard. Elon has built all the infrastructure nationwide for charging, Audi has tried with Electrify America and failed miserably.

So what happens?

Car companies say, yeah, we're going to start using the Tesla standard because that's the only charging network out there. So it's bad enough when a billionaire can decide, like, fine, “That's the free market,” or some version of the free market. Well, that’s a whole ‘nother discussion.

But if you're talking about national security concerns, I've got real big problem with Elon Musk being the veto over if Ukraine can take back their own country.

And remember, Musk has other incentives besides the good of the Ukrainian people, or of America.

For instance, half of all Teslas are made in China. In Shanghai, Farrow says when Musk went to China, he was treated like a visiting celebrity with flattery and feasts. He met with senior officials, including China's foreign minister, posed for photos, the awkwardly smiling, formal photos that are more typical of world leaders.

Now, partly this is because of a vacuum created by American politics, believing in the free market as opposed to government investment, but partly it's because of Elon's, I guess you could say, business acumen, moving into those arenas. I mean, you can’t blame him for building a very successful business in the absence of government investment, but at this point, at this point, he's got us over a barrel.

And his motives, again, may not just be what's best for America, or what's best even for Ukraine. It's what's best for Elon.

—BRIANNA WU and friends discussing “Elon Musk's Shadow Rule” by Ronan Farrow

#politics #elon musk #brianna wu #ukraine #russia #spacex #deregulation #monopolies #oligarchy #shadow rule

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mysharona1987 · 13 days

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#Iran #israel #politics #brianna wu

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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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#mr beast #brianna wu #she deleted the tweet #but she still got shredded over it

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hypocrisyofandrewdobson · 4 months

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I don't normally take joy in the suffering of others...

But Dobson being heartbroken that his Feminist Waifu disagreed with him is seriously some of the funniest shit I've seen in a while.

It was very funny that the one time he got her to actually “notice me Sempai”, it was when he dared to disagree with her, yeah.

#andrew dobson #tom preston #brianna wu #adobsonartworks #adobsonart #ask #anonymous

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partisan-by-default · 8 months

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There’s a huge schism growing on the left I’ve struggled to understand.

And, I think I’ve figured out how to put words to it, please tell me if this rings true to you.

There are Policy Leftists and Infinite Leftists.

I am a Policy Leftist. There are specific policies I want with a beginning and end. I can argue them from a rational basis without calling you names if you disagree. Single payer healthcare. Lowering housing costs. Civil rights for LGBT people.

It brings me into conflict with Infinite Leftists. They see all these issues in terms of a purity test that spirals into infinity.

You start with one issue, and you ride it leftwards. If you ever stop, you are a moral monster.

♾️ Single payer healthcare should be universal health care. Actually, that’s capitalism so nationalize it. Actually, medical establishment discriminates against trans people so informed consent for all medication. Actually, why take hormones at all, gender itself… ♾️

It’s not that those policy goals the problem. It’s that all these arguments are so moralistic, Policy Leftists like myself can’t ever have a moment to go, “Hold on, how are we going to do that?” If you do, you get screamed at by your own side.

Infinite Leftism works well online. I myself was caught up in it for much of the Gamergate era. But when it comes to actually getting policy passed, it’s cancer.

It trains people to expect Utopia with none of the compromises needed in a democracy.

Infinite Leftism does incredible damage, particularly to the marginalized people it’s supposedly trying to speak for. Because the people most hurt by the system are held to the highest infinite standards of purity.

This shitshow with Infinite Leftism is like coronavirus. Everyone catches it eventually. And I think a lot of people like have had it often enough to be immune to it. It’s why Infinite Leftism is so much weaker than it used to be.

If there’s any future for progressives taking over the party from corporate Democrats - it’s going to come from Policy Leftists who have a narrowly defined set of objectives. That’s a base requirement to build the coalitions needed in a Democracy.

The Infinite Leftists will scream. They’ll call us names. They’ll puff their chests and insist their way is the only way to win.

I think most people are frankly tired of their bullshit. Our reasoning and strategy are better than theirs.

Some people treat democracy like it's a customer service desk ("I don't care how you fix this just make it happen") and not something that requires active participation.

We used to call people who spent their energies complaining online "slacktivists". Imagine if a quarter of the collective energy spent "debating" on Twittter was spent on, oh idk, the homeless.

#brianna wu #leftism #evangelical communism

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so-what-then · 12 days

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I know GamerGate is considered a watershed moment in internet misogyny, but the more I hear from Brianna Wu the more I think the dudes who harassed her are based🔥

If you ever sent d*ath threats to Brianna Wu back in the day, Thank You For Your Service.

#brianna wu #gamergate #iran #imperialist bed wenches #white feminism in its most basic form #palestine #liberal zionism

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fipindustries · 5 months

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there is a whole section in this video from 18 minutes to 35 minutes where destiny and brianna wu reminisce together about gamer gate and how much they've changed since then and its so fascinating to see

#destiny #brianna wu #Youtube

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troythecatfish · 3 months

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jmcdra · 7 months

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Brianna Wu has some explaining because this is not someone I can trust as an inclusive trans rights advocate. For context, this is a big deal is due to Brianna Wu being a US state senator. While not a huge amount of political influence, it's a significant amount. While she is an advocate for trans rights and claims to have a progressive stances however recently leaked tweets seem to indicate she only has binary trans people in mind for her activism.

She has claimed these are taken out of context, but what does she mean by "didn’t speak up during the BLM riots"? What way are we supposed to take it when you are openly ragging on a femboy in a transphobic manor?

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Brianna makes a half ass apology here in response: https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1707372523745108139?fbclid=IwAR2Rw40ovkQ2zcYCgNeehZ4-s4kVhw634qjkD4Dxs3v67JN7Qrd-B-mKEXI

After trying to address the criticism, she doubles down and referring to enby people as "politically inconvenient"

Source of this for full context so I can't be accused of misrepresenting her. https://twitter.com/BriannaWu/status/1704494482362626373?fbclid=IwAR3vGemzizvuwbxDEoS4t6cB0GTC_e24Uw6FKaxE6yqiMZ3aeNguKzTk4XA

Yeah this is my response to this. Full disclosure I'm a binary trans woman who doesn't want surgery. I am on HRT.

#trans #transgender #brianna wu #us politics #transphobia #enbyphobia #racisim

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evilroachindustrial · 7 months

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I see Brianna Wu's taken the bold path of apologising for being more than a bit of a shithead to trans and enby folks by doing an apology tweet thread then immediately retweeting a transmedicalist making a meme out of it.

#Brianna Wu

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wakewithgiggli · 2 years

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That thread is worth a read, but my takeaway:

For all we complain about social media (with justification!), it has changed the landscape in a huge way to punish groups like kiwifarms and gamergate.

Back in the gamergate day, their victims could be separated and isolated, and attacked individually.

But keffals has used twitch and other social media to build a community focussed on taking no shit, so when their leader was attacked, they were able to organise and fight back.

And a group like kiwifarms relies on fear, relies on people not saying anything about their abuses. But as soon as anyone is able to ignore their harassment and push them into the light, they cannot withstand that scrutiny.

They are objectively horrific, and anyone who looks at them can see that. They are poison for any company who would otherwise want to support them.

They might use this message as a deflection, and might try to create alternative forums, but their days of being the powerhouse they once were are over. They will now slide into irrelevance.

#kiwifarms #dropkiwifarms #giggli speaks #gamergate #brianna wu

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mitchfynde · 1 year

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Has anyone else been following Brianna Wu's recent arc? It's kinda wild after the GamerGate stuff in the past. She seems like the average moderate liberal now. She's even made implications that her actions during the GamerGate era were harmful to discourse.

I know a lot of people have become radicalized and will probably be very distrustful towards her change, but keep in mind that I'm a liberal. Her becoming a moderate liberal is also what I did, just from the other side of things.

#brianna wu #literally who #gamergate #liberal

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beardedmrbean · 7 months

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Not too long after Feminist Frequency shuts down Brianna Wu has her DMs leaked revealing her to be a two-faced hypocrite. What's Zoe Quinn been up to lately? And anyone else vocally opposed to GamerGate for that matter. By the way, since not everyone knows this, Brianna Wu is trans, so anyone claiming she's a transphobic cis woman are wrong.

Alec Holowka's death is on her, that's from 2019 though so no clue what might be next on the menu for her.

The Wu thing is news to me, gonna look real quick.

These guys are a subsidy of Reuters based in India, going with trustworthy enough.

Went over to her twitter to see, just googled it since I don't want the algorithm to think I want anything to do with her, this it what it gave me.

It starts out great and I thought is was gonna be her making excuses for herself because the preview just gave me the first sentence.

So we can see how it's totally different when it happens to someone else. I have no clue what happened with jonah hill and I really don't care context is for losers at this point.

ohh and the other person is a transmedicalist, had issues with blm, and all kinds of other stuff.

Chris here is gonna be all kinds of popular now too I bet.

how thrilling it all is.

#anonymous #brianna wu #transphobia #is anyone surprised at this point #but how will she blame #gamergate #for her own words

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