The British state is handing contracts for increasingly sensitive elements of the Defence/Security apparatus to a man who has repeatedly tried to stoke open insurrection while aggressively backing British politicians who receive shady foreign funding and a guy who is currently in Moscow.
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Britain has begun using SpaceX's militarised satellite network Starshield, according to two people familiar with the matter, making it among the first countries outside the United States to adopt Elo...
That doesn't mean we shouldn't go for a ban - there's a real collective action problem and I think it's quite telling that the people who design this stuff don't let their kids use it. But I don't love '90% of parents support it" as a slam dunk even before you get to 'ok but what do the kids think'
The Defence Secretary resigned saying the PM couldn't keep the country safe and the entire govt is just sitting there as if nothing happened while they wait for a guy who's already tripping over his own feet to win a by-election. These are not serious people!
There's a high chance that the government are doing nothing about Musk because he and his companies run through the military-security apparatus (SpaceX, StarLink) in ways we aren't even aware of, which raises serious questions about allowing any private individual to amass that much wealth & power.
