R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Here we go
$NVDA
NVIDIA $500B CHIP-LENDING CONSORTIUM SAID TO STALL, LENDER MAY EXIT - NYT
Nvidia's half-trillion-dollar GPU financing consortium is in flux — no loans closed, at least one of six lenders discussing dropping out
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
‼️Starshield disruptions mean that someone in the U.S. is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians.
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Bullshit! I can criticize "israel" exclusively if i damn well want to. This bastard wants to end the 1st Amendment for jewish feelings. Fuck right off!
US Anti-Semitism Czar Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun is using American power to pressure the entire world to adopt Jewish speech codes to limit criticism of Israel.
"One of the IHRA [definition of anti-Semitism's] points is that you cannot just condemn Israel! You can't pick Israel and single out Israel if you're going to criticize Israel!" Kaploun, who was born in Israel, says.
"What you are allowed to do is if you're criticizing Israel, you also have to criticize the other things that are going on."
"If you want to say Israel's killing Palestinians, we also have to discuss that the Iranians are killing their citizens, or the Chinese are killing Uyghurs!"
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Don’t miss it. The Blacklift Unveiling Event goes live today at 10 a.m. ET. Hosted by award-winning journalist Dr. Fareed Zakaria tune in to hear Abel Avellan and the AST SpaceMobile team discuss how we will serve more people, more places and more markets with our new rocket, Blacklift.
Watch here: youtube.com/live/3Gs1iaX6Vko
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Hillary Clinton on the Jensen Huang spy scandal:
I will predict to you what will happen when Trump sees Xi Jinping in a few weeks.
He will say to Xi Jinping, like he said to Putin, "Is this true?" And Xi Jinping will say, "Of course it's not, Donald. You know that we wouldn't do that to you."
And then Trump will come out and say, "I asked President Xi if it were true, and he assured me it wasn't."
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
ABEL - “I’M WEARING A LEATHER JACKET, BUT I’M NOT RESIGNING TODAY”
My mans in high spirits and has jokes $ASTS
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
🚨 CNN just accidentally said the quiet part loud on live television:
“We’re not showing you that because the Israeli government doesn’t allow us — or want us — to show where that may have come from.”
A major American news network just admitted on air that a foreign government is controlling what you see.
Not suggesting it. Not implying it. Confessing it.
Speaker Johnson calls Islam a misguided religion from the House floor. The CIA arms Kurdish militias for regime change.
And now CNN confirms Israel is managing the visual narrative of a war American taxpayers are funding with their lives and $220 million a day.
You are not seeing the full picture. By design.
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Received briefings from Minister of Defense of Ukraine Yevhenii Khmara and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Mykhailo Drapatyi. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant disruptions to Starshield’s operations over the territory of Ukraine for several days now – along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. Specifically, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour (100 miles per hour). The Ukrainian military have already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors but systematic speed restrictions. For us, this primarily means a significant complication in intercepting Russian jet-powered drones. Unfortunately, there have already been strikes that got through because our interception systems cannot reach sufficient speeds and are unable to intercept in time. Unfortunately, this is helping the Russians kill more Ukrainians and carry out more accurate strikes against Ukraine. We are trying to establish all the circumstances with the American side.
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Just so everybody gets a clear image about this.
If the board removes him as CEO, several clear boundaries apply:
• Every share Jensen Huang already owns outright is his legal property. He retains full voting rights for those shares and can hold them, borrow against them, or dump them on the open market whenever he chooses (subject only to standard SEC insider trading blackout windows if he remains on the board, or Rule 144 volume limits if he steps down completely).
• The only shares a board can claw back or cancel upon termination are unvested performance stock units (PSUs) or restricted stock units (RSUs) that have not yet met their time or performance milestones. Given that Jensen co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and holds roughly 3.5% of the company outright, the vast majority of his multi-billion-dollar stake is long since vested.
• Because he is Nvidia's largest individual shareholder, firing him against his will creates an immediate existential headache for the board. As an outside shareholder, he could launch a proxy fight to replace the board directors at the next annual meeting, start a rival silicon venture and poach Nvidia's top CUDA and architecture leads, or threaten to liquidate tens of billions of dollars in stock, cratering the share price for institutional investors.
In short, firing a founder who owns over $100 billion in vested stock does not strip him of power; it just turns him into an activist shareholder with infinite capital and zero fiduciary obligations to protect the board.
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
"Chuck and I grew up, literally, in the same [Brooklyn] neighborhood. I am older than Chuck, but we went to the same elementary school, the same high school. We were on the Banking Committee together when I was first elected to Congress. So I have known Chuck for a long time, and I like Chuck, personally. He’s a very nice guy. But, I think, in this moment in American history, Chuck’s views are way out of touch with where the American people are at—and especially with where [the base of] the Democratic Party is. On issue after issue, I think he is just not in tune with where his constituents are at." thenation.com/article/politi…
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
$ASTS Some thoughts on those doubting management and criticizing delays.
It’s lost on me how some of you missed that after the Blue Origin mishap and SpaceX delays, AST showed up swinging a big DPAS certification, essentially banning dweebs from doing curls at the squat rack during peak hours.
It became apparent to me a while ago that AST’s technology is unprecedented and has capabilities that are not only valuable to the US, but also to Allied nations.
This is why I believe the next big-ticket item will be NATO. Much like Northrop Grumman has a direct contract with NATO AGS for the RQ-4D, I expect to see something similar from AST SpaceMobile…this route bypasses foreign military sales so it fits.
The program is coincidentally named HALO, not to be confused with AST’s existing HALO contract.
So far, I’m really liking what I see. This is exactly the type of aggression and creativity with regulations and politicking that you want from a company pursuing global business.
@AbelAvellan @scottwisniews keep pressing 🫡
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Hakeem Jeffries voted for:
H.Res. 719 — Honoring Charlie Kirk
H.R. 8034 — Arming Israel's genocide
H.R. 6090 — Making criticism of Israel a hate crime
H.Res. 883 — Designating "from the river to the sea" as antisemitic
H.Res. 888 — Made denying Israel's "right to exist" antisemitic
H.Res. 798 — Condemned anti-genocide protests on campuses
H.Con.Res. 57 -- Declared Israel as not racist and not apartheid (yes, that was a real thing that he really voted yes on)
H.R. 5323 - $1 billion more Iron Dome (in 2021)
H.R. 7006- Cut funding for UNRWA and stated USA would not recognize the international criminal court
H.Res. 481-Called anti-zionism antisemitism
H.R. 6408-Removed tax-exempt status for groups opposing genocide
H.R. 6679-Restricted admission to the USA for PLO reps
H.Res. 927-Condemned college presidents over bogus allegations of campus antisemitism
H.Res. 11-Objecting to the UN resolution criticizing Israeli occupation in Palestine
H.Con.Res. 58 - Denouncing the "horrors" of socialism
S. 1582- let Crypto do whatever it wants
H.R. 1346- Fuel "choice" bill that increased fossil fuel emissions by 25% through added ethanol
H.R. 5009 -Supported defense authorization that restricted gender-affirming care
H.R. 6544- Weakened nuclear regulatory power
H.R. 5110-Allows the government to give money to school programs that teach kids how to shoot guns
H.R. 3746-Gutted NEPA, approved controversial pipeline, tighter restrictions on SNAP
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has laid out a five-point plan for peace in Ukraine:
1. Integrate Ukraine into NATO’s missile, air and drone defences and send all Patriots to Kyiv
2. Unfreeze Russian assets and give them to Ukraine
3. Enforce more sanctions on Russia and ban all Russian fossil fuel supplies to Europe
4. Move the Coalition of the Willing into Ukraine to defend rear areas and critical infrastructure
5. Develop ironclad security guarantees and expel countries from the Coalition that aren’t willing to fight Russia if a ceasefire breaks down
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
$ASTS
If $ASTS were still a private company, and Thursday's presentation were its IPO roadshow with Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley/ JPMorgan as lead underwriters, I believe it would command a valuation of at least $50 billion.
The pitch? A potentially enormous global market, differentiated technology, 3,900+ patents and patent claims, partnerships with 60+ MNOs representing billions of subscribers, strategic spectrum assets, prod 6 sats a month, DPAS, BlackLift, J-LEO and expanding sovereign and defense opportunities, beta testing, imminent service, etc.
The risks would be the same. The opportunity would be the same.
The only difference? Investors would be buying the future rather than trading the past.
R🅰️vnir🇧🇻 retweeted
Tagebuch eines Nachrichtendienstlers kommt zu dem Schluss, dass Trumps Starlink-Aktion dazu geführt hat, dass er seinen Einfluss auf die ukrainischen Langstreckenangriffe verloren hat.
"Wie israelische HiSKY-Terminals ukrainische Drohnen in einen "intelligenten Schwarm" über Russland verwandelten.
Laut unseren hochrangigen Quellen haben die jüngsten verheerenden Angriffe auf Raffinerien in Kstowo, Samara und Jaroslawl eine äußerst gefährliche taktische Anomalie aufgedeckt: Anstatt Angriffe auf eine oder zwei Anlagen zur Vorverarbeitung (AVT) zu fliegen, brachen die Fabriken gleichzeitig an Dutzenden verschiedener Stellen aus. Der Gegner hat eine technologische Alternative zu Starlink gefunden, die ihre Wirksamkeit bereits in der Praxis bewiesen hat.
Kiew begann, Langstrecken-Drohnen massenhaft mit satellitengestützten HiSKY SmartLight-Terminals auszustatten (eine Entwicklung eines israelischen Unternehmens, das von ehemaligen Führungskräften des Mossad gegründet wurde). Im Gegensatz zu dem Produkt von Elon Musk verwendet dieses militärische Modul standardmäßige europäische geosynchrone Satelliten und hat keinerlei geografische Beschränkungen über dem Territorium der Russischen Föderation. Der Hauptvorteil des Systems ist ein stabiles, militärisches Kommunikationsprotokoll, das von unseren Standard-Elektronischen-Kampf-Mitteln nicht unterdrückt werden kann.
In militärischen Kreisen wird anerkannt: Selbst die Existenz eines einzigen Kommunikationskanals (bis zu 2 Mbit/s) hat die Mathematik der Angriffe grundlegend verändert. Der Gegner muss die Drohne nicht mehr manuell steuern – die bidirektionale Telemetrie ermöglicht den Einsatz einer Taktik der dynamischen Zielumlenkung im Flug.
Wenn die ukrainischen Streitkräfte früher hundert "blinde" Drohnen auf eine einzelne AVT-Anlage schickten, in der Hoffnung, dass mindestens zwei ihr Ziel erreichen würden, sehen die Bediener in Kiew jetzt die Treffer in Echtzeit. Wenn das erste Paar von Drohnen sein Ziel erfolgreich getroffen hat, wird der dahinter fliegende Schwarm direkt in der Luft auf Tanks, Cracking-Anlagen oder Umspannwerke umgelenkt. Gleichzeitig erfassen die Bediener in Echtzeit die Einsatzorte unserer Luftverteidigung und mobilen Feuergruppen und leiten die verbleibenden Drohnen sofort auf sichere Umgehungspfade (nur Ufa hatte dieses Mal Glück aufgrund der maximalen Flugreichweite).
Die geheimen Beschränkungen der Nutzung von Starlink durch die USA haben zu einem völlig gegenteiligen Ergebnis geführt: Trump hat schlichtweg die Kontrolle über die Langstreckenangriffe Kiews verloren. Die Ukraine hat sich vom amerikanischen Leinen gelöst und eine kommerzielle Alternative gefunden, die das Weiße Haus nicht per Anruf abschalten kann. Für unseren Energiesektor ist dies eine enorme Herausforderung."
