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@smartereveryday Hi Destin, having watched this video which I found insightful, I am curious about your thoughts, if any, on this recent NASA Ignition event and the presentations, if you've seen it (youtube.com/live/yIlTwwJv1…)

New Video: I Was SCARED To Say This To NASA... (But I said it anyway) - Smarter Every Day 293 youtu.be/OoJsPvmFixU

Ghana is positioning itself to secure a larger share of the global animation market through a strategic partnership with Japan aimed at strengthening skills development, expanding production capacity and improving international market access for local creatives. Read more: graphic.com.gh/entertainment/…

The is the largest Ghana language dataset ever published online. @GhanaNLP initiative has developed and curated 41,513 parallel sentence pairs for the Twi, Fante, Ewe, Ga, and Kusaal languages widely spoken across Ghana. arxiv.org/abs/2603.13793 @KhayaAI @pazunre

Hey Starship Addicts, Part 2 is going to be delayed by about a week. The episode is completely finished and ready to release… but YouTube ad revenue has taken a major hit recently as advertiser focus shifts heavily toward global conflict coverage. Originally I planned to release this episode without a sponsor because they weren’t able to keep up with the pace we were moving. Unfortunately that’s no longer realistic given the level of time investment involved from multiple people behind the scenes. Despite viewership performing almost exactly the same as the previous episode, ad revenue has dropped by nearly 60%. A year ago I probably wouldn’t have said anything about this. But it’s becoming increasingly clear that YouTube’s ecosystem is rapidly shifting toward high-volume AI-generated content. If that trend continues, genuinely human-made content will become harder and harder to sustain. Many of your favorite creators — especially those producing deeply researched, time-intensive work — may simply disappear because the economics stop making sense. And I’m pretty sure I’m speaking for a majority of the Team Space community when I say that. For now, we’re going to keep doing what we do for as long as we possibly can. Because as long as there are people who still care about real research, real engineering, and real storytelling… this channel will keep pushing forward. Thanks for sticking with us.

MTN Zambia Achieves First in Africa by Completing Starlink Direct to Cell Testing FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lusaka, 6th March 2026 – MTN Zambia and Starlink have entered a strategic partnership and are proud to announce that MTN Zambia is the first African operator to successfully complete field testing of Starlink’s Direct to Cell service. This involved the transmission of the first-ever data session and fintech transaction in the country through the use of MTN Zambia’s spectrum and Starlink’s satellite constellation. These milestones pave a path forward to commercial service in the coming weeks subject to regulatory approval. This service will enable customers to gain access to data, voice and video through supported applications, even in the remotest of areas where currently terrestrial service is unavailable. This service will include WhatsApp voice and video calls, along with access to the MoMo App, MyMTN App, navigation and weather applications with more launching in the future. Starlink Direct to Cell works with existing LTE/4G-compatible devices wherever there is a clear view of the sky, enabling seamless connectivity in some of the most remote locations. Starlink Direct to Cell satellites act like a cellphone tower in space with the most advanced phased array antennas in the world connecting seamlessly across the Starlink network over lasers to any point in the globe, enabling network integration similar to a standard roaming partner. Starlink Direct to Cell satellite connectivity means MTN Zambia will expand coverage to the most remote areas, such as the game parks and rural areas surrounded by water bodies and rivers will be covered. We would like to acknowledge the unwavering support from the Ministry of Technology and Science and our regulator Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority (ZICTA) for the guidance throughout this process. //Ends//

For the crew of Artemis II, their mission will soon be reality. Learn about the challenges they face and the teamwork required to fly around the Moon. Episode 2 of Moonbound is live—and free to watch on NASA+: go.nasa.gov/4rg0To1

SpaceX is now providing precise positional awareness of objects in Earth orbit to all satellite operators for free. This will greatly reduce the probability of collisions that create orbital debris (space junk) hazards.

All my new code will be closed-source from now on. I've contributed millions of lines of carefully written OSS code over the past decade, spent thousands of hours helping other people. If you want to use my libraries (1M+ downloads/month) in the future, you have to pay. I made good money funneling people through my OSS and being recognized as expert in several fields. This was entirely based on HUMANS knowing and seeing me by USING and INTERACTING with my code. No humans will ever read my docs again when coding agents do it in seconds. Nobody will even know it's me who built it. Look at Tailwind: 75 million downloads/month, more popular than ever, revenue down 80%, docs traffic down 40%, 75% of engineering team laid off. Someone submitted a PR to add LLM-optimized docs and Wathan had to decline - optimizing for agents accelerates his business's death. He's being asked to build the infrastructure for his own obsolescence. Two of the most common OSS business models: - Open Core: Give away the library, sell premium once you reach critical mass (Tailwind UI, Prisma Accelerate, Supabase Cloud...) - Expertise Moat: Be THE expert in your library - consulting gigs, speaking, higher salary Tailwind just proved the first one is dying. Agents bypass the documentation funnel. They don't see your premium tier. Every project relying on docs-to-premium conversion will face the same pressure: Prisma, Drizzle, MikroORM, Strapi, and many more. The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention. Human eyeballs on your docs, brand, expertise. That attention has literally moved into attention layers. Your docs trained the models that now make visiting you unnecessary. Human attention paid. Artificial attention doesn't. Some OSS will keep going - wealthy devs doing it for fun or education. That's not a system, that's charity. Most popular OSS runs on economic incentives. Destroy them, they stop playing. Why go closed-source? When the monetization funnel is broken, you move payment to the only point that still exists: access. OSS gave away access hoping to monetize attention downstream. Agents broke downstream. Closed-source gates access directly. The final irony: OSS trained the models now killing it. We built our own replacement. My prediction: a new marketplace emerges, built for agents. Want your agent to use Tailwind? Prisma? Pay per access. Libraries become APIs with meters. The old model: free code -> human attention -> monetization. The new model: pay at the gate or your agent doesn't get in.

SpaceX rules 1. Make Requirements Less Dumb 2. Delete the Part or Process Step 3. Optimize 4. Accelerate 5. Automate

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@deltaIV9250 the scene on Mars when the starships start landing 📸 💯

Based on SpaceX’s Mars plans *which may not happen as shown, SpaceX plans 10 starship launches a day for 9 years to send 1 million tons of cargo With Falcon 9 marginal cost for Starship ($15 million), they need $55 billion a year, $493 billion in total for the pure launch effort

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1Password is owned by WHO??

@pronounced_kyle aren't the dishes sensitive to RF that household electronics/appliances would produce, so influence how close the dish can be to the house?

this is my dream. quaint 2 bedroom house, plenty of space for the kids to run around, 20 meter radio astronomy dish

@atmanirbhar_kid whether the marriage proposal is rejected or accepted the 100% strike rate is truly guaranteed 🙌🏾

Just in - ISRO announces that the space agency is targeting early 2027 for the first crewed flight of Gaganyaan, making India the fourth nation to independently launch humans into orbit. This historic mission will host a 2 or 3 crew for a 7 day mission in orbit. #SERASpace

The Internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.