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See my post from Jun 10. See what's happening now.
All of a sudden so many India based accounts (some that joined X in Oct 2026) are preaching Indians to get Starlink in India citing "bad internet."
Indians must see more & more posts on SM that talk about "bad internet in India" and "why India needs Starlink."
There is also a possibility of actual disruptions of net services to try push the discomfort levels and public pressure for Starlink.
Since my attached post in 2024, India started considering allowing Starlink so everything was good.
But now that this consideration has been suspended, the psyops and disillusionment through disruption ops will restart.
Who’s gonna tell him.
Maybe start with experiencing internet outside India to know what bad internet really is 😅
Those who don’t want @Starlink services, forget rural India for a moment. Even in Electronic City Phase 1 in Banglore, @airtelindia and @reliancejio don’t provide broadband coverage, while mobile internet speeds are absolutely pathetic.
Stop defending poor services out of blind loyalty. Do that at home, not at the cost of the country’s progress. India needs faster, reliable internet, and real competition.
Plus Indian telecom networks are far superior in quality, coverage and cost than the other parts of the world including US 😅
Maybe its better to focus on the home market itself to drive some adoption. 😂
You are being too clever by half, dear @elonmusk, and you know it.
Saying "11,256" villages sounds a lot. But it is a way of lying with numbers.
What if the handle had said, "1.7% of India's villages have no 4G coverage"?
That wouldn't fit the narrative, right?
And it only gets worse.
The post deliberately chooses "4G".
Why?
Do those villages not have access to 2G and 3G internet? Perhaps you know. The world's richest man who wants so desperately to enter the Indian market with satellite internet coverage should know, right?
You, who have talked about the 'Deep State' would know the perils that satellite can pose to national security. The terrorist attacks on Mumbai, better known as the "26/11 attacks", were facilitated, in part, by the use of satellite phones. The terrorists' handlers, sitting in Karachi, communicated with the terrorists using satellite phones and ordered them to kill as many people as they could, including Jews.
As for "oligarchs", well, you mean Mukesh Ambani (his mobile and internet company, Jio), yet hesitate to even taking his name. You, who didn't think twice before posting Trump's alleged links with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein!
I think that will go down well with most Indians, to see the world's richest man in fear of an Indian🙂
Which brings us to the elephant in the room - racism.
It would take a blind man on Pluto to not have seen the explosion of racist screeds and shitposting and ragebait content against Indians over the last year-and-a half on your platform, X.
Perhaps it got your platform more engagement. Perhaps this is what the MAGA gang wanted and you obliged to get back in Trump's good books.
Perhaps you didn't care about racism against Indians.
Perhaps you saw it as a bargaining chip in your negotiations with the Indian govt.
In either case, you don't have a lot of sympathy in India because of racism on your platform, Elon.
Please stop pretending that there isn't racism on X against Indians, or that you don't know about it.
Coming back to broadband coverage.
The areas that do not have adequate 4G and 5G coverage are Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, parts of Rajasthan that border Pakistan and which are sparsely populated, the Kutch region (also sparsely populated, what with the world's largest salt pans), Arunachal Pradesh, tracts that are either heavily forested or till recently had suffered from Naxal terrorism.
So, what exactly is your target market?
Offer satellite coverage in Arunachal Pradesh and China will cut off your businesses at the scrotum before you can say Tesla.
Or did you plan to make a killing selling satellite coverage at $50/month in Bihar and Jharkhand, where 4G and 5G plans cost $3/month?
Get honest. Get real.
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So nicely put Rajeev! This is such a pointless pitch from spacex.
You are looking at the wrong end of the pipe, watch out for @AgnikulCosmos @SkyrootA @Digantarahq @VyomIC_Space @GalaxEye @QOSMIC__Space @inspecity @astrobase_space and many more @INSPACeIND @isro
Thanks in a small way to the US too, for closing the immigration pathway and pushing back so much talent to India!
Unfortunately the way SpaceX capabilities have been weaponized makes it a suspect company. India and the business landscape here has many problems with the so-called oligarchs and conglomerates, but SpaceX cribbing about being blocked from India because of them is the least of our concerns!
We remember the nefarious and infamous “Free Basics” pushed by Facebook and other patronizing, new colonization efforts by US Big Tech. India is not falling for it!
You won’t be able to turn Indians against Indians like the British did. But surely it is a great thing for Indian citizens and consumers if some Indian conglomerates are pushing back against SpaceX with the Indian government’s blessings.
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Your city’s infrastructure is inversely proportional to the number of times you need to use quick commerce apps per day.
One of the favours you can do to yourself is avoid falling in the temptation of being enlightened one day. Instead keep moving & keep doing. It’s not easy but doable.
Quite a story.
I’m about to give a lecture to the Columbia Math Dept, but honestly I just wanna ask THE STUDENTS how they feel about AI frontrunning their life’s work & each other. 😂 Here’s what happened in plain English:
2 groups of mathematicians made a lifetime breakthrough one of the most famous problems that had gone unsolved for almost 100 years.
But they only solved a much easier version of the problem w/lots of AI assistance, & then a false rumor went around that Anthropic had solved the problem because one of the authors was working at Anthropic lmao.
So then OpenAI decided to frontrun them & spend $20 million of compute to solve the problem. 😏
And since it’s a famous problem there’s a $1M prize for it like the Nobel.
Then the OpenAI dude told the group leader you can share the prize with us & we’ll even let you claim first authorship but you need to drop the name of your Anthropic coauthor from the paper.
Then the group leader got mad because that’s super unethical & felt like they secretly used his ChatGPT data to figure out what he was working on to frontrun him. At least that’s the Anthropic perspective.
The problem is so hard that the original two authors would’ve gotten a top math prize & generational prestige for just solving the easier version.
But OpenAI just brute forced it while seemingly stealing their idea and being unethical and everything.
If not for the drama the scientific achievement would’ve been comparable to curing a form of cancer in their field‼️
But instead no one’s questioning that it got solved, & instead it devolved into this shitshow. 😌
Now a lot of mathematicians are saying the hardest problems that they spend a lifetime working on are gonna get solved in a year or two. 🙃
And some mathematicians are now saying it’s like doping and they should ban using AI on some types of problems to “maintain the challenge.”
True, only thing is that it wasn't because of running out ideas. The inability to adapt to the change in industry around touchscreen, 3g, new SoC & open source OS made them obsolete.
Within 5 years from 2007 they went from 47% market share to 3% market share.
Increasing energy output is definitely required but also making existing electronic devices radically more efficient. And that is fairly a overlooked domain.
The Chinese strategy is simple. Generate more energy to out compete every other nation. Meanwhile, we have @elonmusk desperately trying to explain to people that energy production is critical.
This is very interesting and realistic find from WSJ. Something most people have gone through in the recent past but are not necessarily able to put it out there cause well it's against the trend.
"founders working from 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., monitoring their agents from the Apple Watch (which buzzes every 10 minutes), and literally comparing it to a drug. The mechanism is perverse: the more the agent works, the more human work it generates to supervise it, correct it, manage the clients it’s enabled to onboard faster. We’re not delegating to the robot - we’re hiring it as an employee who never sleeps and who keeps you from sleeping too."
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So true. Rome was just a hyped concept and to some extent still is. Very nicely put.
The reason Rome fell is because it was never too great as some hype it to be. It is clearly seen by the Roman empire's minuscule GDP 2000 years ago compared to India or China. Sad truth is it went from being minuscule to nobody while it also lost trade with India. Which shifted east helping create many Indianized empires in South East Asia.
You’re right they are getting good. But the challenge is still on power and compute efficiency side. They are good demos as of now, needs a lot of improvements to be real battle ready.
No laughing matter. Indian army, whose men until now had no match in the Himalayas, will be the first defense force in the world to face a robotic army during an active conflict. As soon as the summer of 2027.
A robotic army that can perform extremely well at low temperatures, low oxygen, has no fear, and precisely and ruthlessly shoot.
India needs to start strategizing and preparing for this. India needs to fund DRDO immediately to create electronic warfare devices that can fry their circuits dozens at a time.
They are being built in tens of thousands. And the battery life is getting good enough to sustain an hour of any work, including running around shooting.
Whatever age/background you come from or work you do, every 15th August, ask yourself a simple question - what have I done or contributed to this country? - and you’ll do just fine.
Everyone can cook food but very few can cook good food and out of them few can start a restaurant and out of them very few manage to successfully run a restaurant.
Awesome! Now just do even 10% of the same inspection street food vendors or smaller food outlets who don’t have any oversight and incentives to maintain standards. Likely they won’t because this will make them look bad in public.
This is fantastic! Is there a detailed study on this topic from tata motors and mahindra on how they did it?
Indian Automakers just topped the world in EV efficiency. Not Tesla. Not BYD. Tata and Mahindra.
Among the world's 22 largest automakers, Tata Motors and Mahindra posted the lowest energy consumption per km in 2025, beating Tesla and BYD on efficiency.
Indian engineering, built for Indian roads, is now setting the global benchmark.
Study and Chart credit: @TheICCT & @restofworld
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