CNN Exclusive: 'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma | CNN Politics
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Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet, according to an excerpt adapted from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the eccentric billionaire titled “Elon Musk.”

might be too credible

of course he was afraid of russian nuukes. this only prompted Ukrainian engineers to bypass use of starlink entirely and current sea drones, like the one used in second Kerch bridge strike, or these used against SIG tanker and Olenegorsky Gornyak landing ship use domestic technology only

  • Tar_alcaran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you ask the US nicely if you can use their satellites to control your drones while blowing up Russians, a big crate with CIA/USAF labels turns up on your doorstep, full of control devices that use nothing but “domestic tech” that use no US satellites or flying control centres whatsoever.

    • verity_kindle@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      In a kinder world, there are also stacks of dough. Anyone remember “Bloom County”? There was a story arc from 1986/1987 when Oliver Wendell Jones and Milo have something similar happen. The kids claim to be developing a weapon for the “Star Wars” program. Giant boxes of untraceable cash start showing up on Milo’s front steps in hours. It goes to their heads. The story skewered Reagan, but it was the best kind of shitposting. I grew up reading the collections and I like to think it was my first introduction to liberal media that was actually funny. I also read “Utne Reader” and “Newsweek”. Did anyone else grow up thinking that being a defense contractor sounded pretty fun and glamorous?