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   Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 02:22:25 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

   What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

   Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

   https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 04:47:01 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     "Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step toward becoming a Kardashev II-level situation"

     THIS IS IN AN FCC FILING NOT A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK I'M DEAD

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     Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Feb-2026 04:47:49 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     I feel like this is a good time for everyone to go read "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social because that completely unrealistic and awful techbro mentality/religion the only way to explain this FCC filing (and that book explains this very clearly!)

     Time to go outside and listen to NZ birds as the sun comes up, because fuck SpaceX.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 02:42:55 JST Rich Felker

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     @sundogplanets Whole Kardashev scale is fucking technofascist clownery.

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     Legit_Spaghetti (legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 02:43:09 JST Legit_Spaghetti

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     • Tio Kiloku

     @Kiloku @sundogplanets The Kardashev scale is meaningless drivel. It's just some dude making shit up in the 1960s to get government funding from the Soviets. Anyone who references the scale like it's meaningful, ESPECIALLY in an official filing, is not a serious person.

     All of these tech idiots need to be bullied aggressively until they go away. We need to locate that idiot from Pretoria's childhood bullies and get some historical data to kick things off.

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     Tio Kiloku (kiloku@burnthis.town)'s status on Monday, 02-Feb-2026 02:43:10 JST Tio Kiloku

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     @sundogplanets not that it matters, but it also wouldn't budge a thing in the kardashev scale, as it's supposed to measure how much power civilization can harness, and they certainly would pale in comparison to the total amount of earth based computing power, not to mention all the power used in non-computing usage

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