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Ricardo Montalvo's avatar

everywhere on the planet is under persistent 24/7 surveillance by the SIBRS system right now. every spot on the planet can be viewed at any time by SIBRS, a network of Lockheed satellites. It’s truly sickening. Uncle Ted.

Boltzmann Booty's avatar

SBIRS is a serious system but it only has 12 satellites, it's of a completely different scale than a constellation of hundreds of spy satellites that are hooked up to thousands of communications satellites, i think this is a completely and utterly new level of shit compared to anything else, though I'm sure there's plenty of classified stuff that would scare me. But I think the sheer number of satellites devoted to Starshield is going to open up capabilities that were previously just not accessible.

Ricardo Montalvo's avatar

i think they're both awful and this post was awesome

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Feb 26, 2025
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Ricardo Montalvo's avatar

i haven't used a library to check out a book since 1998

Dodo B Bird's avatar

All this money but I can freeze to death in the street as far as they are concerned. But a satellite that can see a dime from outer space....they got that just fine. For the things they care about like greed and world domination they got all the money in the world. Dodobbird.pixels.com (My art site if interested) GoFundMe.... https;//www.gofundme.com/f/my-puppy-wants-a-cheeseburger

My Friend Lizzie's avatar

Love your work. That one about the friend not coming in and the mask.....wowza

Bob's avatar

After reading this, I was reminded of the new feature on ios18 iPhone that allows iMessage via satellite whenever I’m outside cellular range.

Another way of saying, the satellite knows my location, once my phone pings it

Marius Koelink's avatar

The satellite always knows your location if you ever use GPS

Bob's avatar

Yes, iMessage via satellite also knows your msg

Or so I've read...'s avatar

As above, so below.

Under this blanket of satellites will be a ubiquitous network of "smart dust", the "Internet of Bio-nano Things" and mRNA nano-transistors all feeding Quantum AI. Terrifying.

Jane's avatar

good to know. I shall go out every evening and shoot him the bird on our dog walk. Hope he can do closeups.

Jim S's avatar

Hey where is Bigfoot??

Grace's avatar

He's manning the spaceship 😉

Jessica Burnes's avatar

Billionaire Elon Musk, who famously offered and then turned down an offer to single-handedly end world hunger, could be working on a way to realize a Dyson sphere to reduce or end the world’s energy needs, but is instead building a war and surveillance sphere so he can take over the world. Sad.

Lillian Holsworth's avatar

This is really bad.. it is even more major crapola by Musk..

Seismic7's avatar

Fabulous finessed article...the human interest element that could be highlighted also is...all this money for schizoid control freaks..so little for Americans who voted for none of this....that suffer abuse.. indignity..no justice.....no future ..no real autonomy ..no rights ..and..wait for it..adulteration of all the organic analogue sources of life sustaining elements...all while trump superpowers Bill Gates who should Hang..and El-On muskrat ..who ..ad far as we know...no one voted for...""

Susan Mercurio's avatar

Please, please read From Dictatorship to Democracy by Dr Gene Sharp.

Seismic7's avatar

Thanks Susan..hope our comments correctly touch your heart...

pipesmorgs's avatar

The article lists all the years that Musk secured these contracts as falling under the Biden administration years so "so little for Americans who voted for none of this" is factually incorrect because the person they voted for gave Musk the contracts.

Seismic7's avatar

This comment… appears to be a fractious non deductive non sequitor…Biden was essentially imposed..selected....as is the unelected technocrat Isreal firster non free speech absolutist Pentagon contractor Muskrat.” But hey…thanks anyway for..sharing your opinion.”All the best..and..don't do anything we wouldn't do”…

pipesmorgs's avatar

Sorry, I only speak/read English.

Louis Charles's avatar

What could possibly go wrong with that plan. Think Skynet!!

Utejack's avatar

Thanks 🙏 for the research. As I’m watching those satellite strings pass through the night sky;

I’m wondering when these folks are going to,

Bite the bullet and look within, to find dignity.

✌🏼❤️🙏🕉

Hummingbird's avatar

If only the blind could see 😣 What will it take?

Or so I've read...'s avatar

First, more people have to step out of the left, right paradigm. People should understand that the political entertainment industry is just theater.

The current destruction of all of these government tentacles is not to free the world from their grip. It is to transplant them with bio-nano tentacles which will penetrate our bodies and be controlled by "AI". Trump fans are cheering us into the 4th industrial turning. And Trump haters are defending the old tentacles.

https://substack.com/@orsoiveread/note/c-94376382?r=hihlu

CTEBEN's avatar

mush is the greatest threat to world stability

Mike Moschos's avatar

Disturbing! Thanks for calling attention to it.

EntropyWave's avatar

You know how the Native Americans used to perform rain dances? Yeah, I'm thinking it might be time to bring that back for the modern age - EMP dances!

Robert's avatar

Very shamanic. So, even though the not-consensual and potentially enslaving tech has been placed where only mega-billionaires and governments can access it; access it anyhow by other means.

One of the possibilities for DOGE is to create some spectacular numbers with regard to money "saved" in order to set a framework in place for funding the "Golden Dome" space-based weapon (defense) system. "Look how much we saved,... now we can afford $3T to put factories, labs, and weapons in space -- in fact, how can we not afford to do this?"

If the "Mars" mission is real, I expect it will benefit from industrial manufacturing capability and shipbuilding in high orbit. It's going to take alot of resources and right now Musk has a about a 4-year political / economic runway to create enough pie-frontier to satisfy the various players.

Sharna Fitzgerald's avatar

I hate Elon and I fucking hate Trump and Vance. Selfish cowards.