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   Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 14:04:34 JST Mariya Delano

   Oh boy. Strapping in for quite a read here https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

   #Musk #Ukraine #Russia #News

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     Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 14:04:30 JST Mariya Delano

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     “Typically, such a negotiation would be handled by the Pentagon’s acquisitions department. But Musk had become more than just a vender like Boeing, Lockheed, or other defense-industry behemoths. “

     Why are we letting rich people have this much power? Just because they are rich?? Not elected to any office, not bound by any responsibilities of a government official….

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     Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 14:04:31 JST Mariya Delano

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     “The Financial Times reported that outages affected units in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Luhansk. American and Ukrainian officials told me they believed that SpaceX had cut the connectivity via geofencing, cordoning off areas of access.”

     😒

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 14:04:32 JST Mariya Delano

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     “Three people involved in bringing Starlink to Ukraine, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity because they worried that Musk, if upset, could withdraw his services, told me that they originally overlooked the significance of his personal control. “Nobody thought about it back then,” one of them, a Ukrainian tech executive, told me. “It was all about ‘Let’s fucking go, people are dying.’ ””

     Abusing the desperation of my people for his own gain.

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     Mariya Delano (mariyadelano@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 14:04:33 JST Mariya Delano

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     “Even though Musk is not technically a diplomat or statesman, I felt it was important to treat him as such, given the influence he had on this issue,”

     Ugh.