Dit is dan de ESA. Die gaan dus de EU tegenhanger van Starlink lanceren dat intussen al meer dan 10.000 satellieten operationeel heeft met 12 miljoen abonnees voor snel en betaalbaar breedbandinternet zelfs in extreem afgelegen gebieden.

Tesla FSD (Supervised) has just officially been approved in Denmark! This is the fourth European country to get FSD (Supervised) approved, and counting.

As we’re in the last steps toward homologation and possible approval in Flanders (and Belgium), @teslaeurope dropped fresh data today. In the Netherlands, FSD Supervised has been over 3x safer than manual driving over the last 2 months. Safety data like this shows regulators and people who can make a change that it is beneficial to approve FSD as soon as possible. Let’s go @AnnickDeRidder!

Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil. This one quote sounded familiar.

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Sadly, it's true. Amazon has elected not to move forward with the new Stargate series. There's not much I can add beyond confirming what's happened. But I will say this... Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon. It was a series that avoided the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action, adventure, exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found family. And based on that creative vision, the new Stargate series was greenlit in November of 2025. As of today, officially, that original vision is no more. We'll never get the opportunity to introduce you to that world and those characters - or reintroduce you to, and check in with, some familiar faces from the past. My heart breaks. For the incredibly talented writers who worked tirelessly to bring this show to life. For Martin who maintained an unwavering positive outlook throughout despite the challenges, and who always strove to make a show that would honor the fans while welcoming a new audiences. And for the long-suffering Stargate fandom who waited so long and came so close to getting a show they truly would have loved.

Coen Verbraak in gesprek met Jolande Withuis over Woke 👇

🚨 PSYCHIATRIST SAYS "WOMEN ARE DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY" — AND THE INTERNET IS MELTING DOWN Psychiatrist Dr. Mark McDonald is going viral after appearing on The Edit Alaverdyan Podcast and making what many people are calling one of the most controversial statements of the year. His claim? “Women are disproportionately destroying this country.” But that's only the beginning. According to McDonald: • America has become afraid to criticize women • society constantly calls out male flaws but ignores female ones • weak men are enabling the problem • fathers are failing to step up • and what he calls “toxic femininity” is driving some of the most destructive cultural trends in the country McDonald argues that many of America's biggest problems aren't political at all... They're symptoms of a deeper imbalance between masculine and feminine influence. The comments immediately exploded: • “This man just said what millions are thinking.” • “This is one of the most controversial takes I've heard all year.” • “He's identifying a real problem nobody wants to discuss.” • “Blaming women for society's problems is insane.” Now the internet is completely divided over whether Dr. McDonald is: • exposing a real societal problem • wildly oversimplifying complex issues • or saying something most public figures are afraid to say Be honest... who do you think is doing more damage to society right now: toxic men or toxic women? 📹: TikTok/edit_alaverdyan

I loved the Project Hail Mary movie (and the book). Science, technology, competence, and openness – this is my culture.

Space launch was a clear case where there was a large difference in efficiency between what was possible and what was done in practice before SpaceX. A large part of that was due to everything being locked in to what (just barely) already worked, with huge risk aversion. WIth national prestige or a half billion dollar geosync satellite on the line, speculative engineering ideas that might result in a public debacle were not welcome. When failure is not an option, success can stay very expensive. You need to experiment to improve, and that fundamentally means being comfortable with failure. If you know it is going to work, it isn’t an experiment. I have long believed that nuclear power today is in precisely the same state as space launch two decades ago, but the even more pressing question now is if semiconductor fabrication might also be. On the one hand, Moore’s Law has been a sequence of heroic miracles of technology at the wafer fabrication level, grinding out hundreds of compounding small improvements. On the other hand, fabs are “too big to fail”, and there are elements of extreme conservatism at play. Intel’s “Copy exactly!” fab development exemplifies that mindset – instead of every new building being an opportunity to explore and optimize processes, it was deemed more valuable to just replicate. While each individual machine may be straining against physical limits of technology, it is possible that the systems orchestrating them all together could be far from optimal. The explore / exploit axis is fundamental to all decision making, but human risk avoidance probably biases away from optimal exploration.

GOOD NEWS 🚨 Tesla Semi Orders Are Pouring In 🔥 Heavy-duty fleets are seriously ramping up their transition to the Tesla Semi! Two major transport companies operating around California ports have just confirmed significant new orders, working alongside infrastructure provider Forum Mobility. Here’s the breakdown of the latest fleet expansions: 📦 Big F Transport – 40 Tesla Semis - The catalyst: After successfully running 9 eCascadias out of the Port of Long Beach, they brought in a Tesla Semi for a demo—and immediately put 40 more on order. - The feedback: Drivers are loving the smooth, quiet ride; shippers are hitting their Scope 3 emission reduction targets; and CFOs are locking in a much better Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) compared to diesel. 🚢 NICA Container Freight Line – 20 Tesla Semis - The investment: This long-standing, family-owned company, which services the Ports of Long Beach, LA, and Houston, is making a major push into advanced tech with a commitment to 20 new Semis. - The timeline: These trucks are slated to be fully operational by early 2027. 🔋 The charging ecosystem Both of these fleets will operate out of Forum Mobility’s upcoming depot under development in Rancho Dominguez. What is really moving the needle here is the economics: fleets are able to lock in Tesla Semi leases and ultra-fast Megawatt Charging System (MCS) access at a significant discount to diesel. ⚓️ The tipping point for electric commercial trucking is officially here 🔥

Hier mal eine klare Ansage an die Grünen, die SPD und die Linke: Mit eurem koordinierten Wegzug von X habt ihr gezeigt, dass ich euch nicht vertrauen kann, und vor allem, dass ich euch nicht damit beauftragen kann, Regierungsverantwortung zu übernehmen. Wenn ihr schon an X scheitert, dann werdet ihr mit Sicherheit auch an der Komplexität der Welt und der Politik scheitern. Wer Regierungsverantwortung beansprucht, der kann sich nicht in digitale Komfortzonen zurückziehen, sobald es ungemütlich wird. Politik lebt nicht davon, nur mit Gleichgesinnten in kontrollierten Räumen zu kommunizieren, sondern davon, sich dem gesamten Spektrum an Meinungen zu stellen, den konstruktiven, den kritischen und auch den unbequemen. Genau das ist im Kern Demokratie: Aushalten, widersprechen, argumentieren, überzeugen. Wer Verantwortung trägt, weiß das längst aus der realen Welt: In der Außenpolitik spricht man nicht nur mit Partnern, sondern auch mit Autokraten, mit Kriegsparteien, mit Regimen, deren Werte man zutiefst ablehnt. In der Innenpolitik stellt man sich einem pluralen Volk, das nicht homogen denkt, sondern widersprüchlich, emotional, manchmal radikal, und trotzdem repräsentiert werden will. Vor diesem Hintergrund wirkt die Begründung, man ziehe sich aus einem Medium zurück, weil dort „Desinformation“ und „Chaos“ herrsche, nicht wie ein Zeichen von Stärke, sondern eher von Überforderung mit der Unübersichtlichkeit demokratischer Öffentlichkeit. Wenn ihr schon daran scheitert, euch auf einer Plattform wie X der Debatte zu stellen, also dort, wo Meinungen ungefiltert aufeinanderprallen, dann stellt sich zwangsläufig die Frage, wie ihr mit deutlich komplexeren Realitäten umgehen wollt, etwa in Regierung, Krisen oder internationaler Diplomatie.

Greece to ban anonymity online, allegedly to tackle toxic speech. euractiv.com/news/greece-to-… It's the worst of both worlds: - The European #DSA forces platforms to censor online speech because that's allegedly the only way to regulate potentially anonymous speech online. - The prohibition of anonymity (which should render the #DSA obsolete). The right way forward is to *allow* (not *require*) citizens to self-identify, after which platforms should be required to 100% exempt them from DSA-style censorship.

An overwhelming majority of MEPs have approved a motion to make the EU’s next seven-year budget 10 percent higher than a proposal from the European Commission, which would already almost double EU spending to more than €2 trillion (!) This despite the EU Court of Auditors issuing “negative” opinions on EU spending for 6 consecutive years, apart from all the other evidence EU spending is rife with fraude, waste and abuse. politico.eu/article/european… brusselsreport.eu/2026/04/13… Find out here how MEPs voted. Incredible that supposedly centre-right politicians from Germany's @CDU voted in favour: europarl.europa.eu/doceo/doc… #MFF #EUbudget

There are a few new pieces of info from @Tesla in the last 24 hours that I think are worth highlighting: 1) Tesla ended last quarter with the highest Q1 order backlog in over two years. 2) Tesla now has 456,000 active monthly FSD subscribers, generating over $45M/month in revenue. 3) Tesla's fleet is now driving an average of 28.8 million miles per day on FSD, up 100% from just 3 months ago. 4) Tesla is increasing Model Y production at Giga Berlin by 20% starting in July, and hiring 1,000 new employees. 5) Tesla has entered into an agreement to acquire an AI hardware company for up to $2B, of which ~$1.8B is subject to certain service conditions and/or performance milestones dependent on the successful deployment of the company's tech. Tesla didn't say in its 10-Q filing which company this is. 6) Tesla is going to nearly double its GPU training capacity in Q2 2026. 7) The Cybercab will not be subject to the annual 2,500 autonomous vehicle cap. 8) FSD V15 will work on AI4

Well, that was a (unexpectedly) great @Tesla Q1 earnings report! Beat on revenue, EPS, gross margins, free cash flow, net income, etc. Record new FSD subscriptions, Cortex 2 is already training, Optimus factory construction at Giga Texas has started, Cybercab production has started, Tesla Semi and Megapack 3 production is starting soon, LFP battery factory in Nevada is ramping, research chip fab construction has started construction, etc. The company is entering a new chapter.

Le FSD de Tesla est 7 fois moins accidentogène qu’un conducteur humain. Des millions de kilomètres testés. En Europe. Sur nos routes, nos ronds-points, nos priorités à droite impossibles. Et pourtant ? Toujours pas autorisé. La raison : il fait des manœuvres seul en ville. Apparemment c’est ‘dangereux’. Tu sais ce qui est pas considéré comme dangereux par contre ? Jean-Michel qui envoie des vocaux à 130 sur l’A10 en mangeant un Croque Monsieur. Mamie Jeanine qui a pas refait un seul examen de vue depuis Chirac. Kévin 19 ans, permis depuis 3 mois, qui fait des stories Snap en doublant sur nationale. Le mec en Audi qui te colle à 2 mètres en appels de phares parce que tu roules ‘qu’à’ 90. Eux ? Tous autorisés. Aucun problème. Circulez. Mais une IA qui voit à 360°, qui dort jamais, qui boit pas, qui s’énerve pas, avec 7 fois moins d’accidents et des millions de km de données pour le prouver ? ‘On n’est pas encore prêts.’ L’Europe protège personne. Elle retarde juste tout le monde. 🇪🇺🤡 #Tesla #FSD #FSDinEU

When Elon Musk announced Giga Berlin, legacy media ran endless hit pieces to convince half of Germany the factory would drain the region dry....just like they always do It became one of the biggest propaganda campaigns against a factory that was actually meant to bring some of the greatest progress the EU has ever seen They completely ignored Elon's bigger plan: bringing the unmatched sustainability, thousands of local jobs, and pushing the EU’s progress forward Now, Tesla Giga Berlin Sets a New Standard for Sustainable Manufacturing the world had ever seen For over a year straight - ZERO process wastewater discharged into public sewers. Not a reduction. Complete elimination Tesla achieved this by building a massive, 100% closed-loop recycling system where every drop of industrial water is captured, treated, and reused on-site Tesla water consumption stayed under 500,000 cubic meters annually - so far below their allocated limits that they returned 377,000 cubic meters of unused water rights back to the local Brandenburg government As of today, Tesla's wastewater facility is recognized as one of the largest and most efficient industrial wastewater treatment plants in Germany, second only to a nuclear power plant Tesla did not just meet the environmental standard They set a new one and then gave the leftover quota back to the community Sustainability has always been Tesla’s mission

This is already dead before it began. Mass Effect already appeals to millions of fans, because its a successful game. Trying to change the story for non-gamers might as well say you don't respect the source material. Usually when this happens, the script writer just wants to be a parasite and use a pre-existing property to write their own story, because they aren't talented enough without using someone else's work to get noticed