Alarm Grows over Proposed Giant Mirrors in Orbit and Other Commercial Space Plans

November 6, 2025

Seeking Profits, Private Companies Look to Light up the Night Sky

Reflect Orbital’s plan to deliver “sunlight on demand” using thousands of giant orbital mirrors is just the latest in a growing list of disruptive commercial activities in space

(paywall)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alarm-grows-over-proposed-giant-mirrors-in-orbit-and-other-commercial-space/

#space #billionaires #satellites #spacejunk

Alarm Grows over Proposed Giant Mirrors in Orbit and Other Commercial Space Plans

November 6, 2025

Seeking Profits, Private Companies Look to Light up the Night Sky

Reflect Orbital’s plan to deliver “sunlight on demand” using thousands of giant orbital mirrors is just the latest in a growing list of disruptive commercial activities in space

(paywall)

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alarm-grows-over-proposed-giant-mirrors-in-orbit-and-other-commercial-space/

#space #billionaires #satellites #spacejunk

This was.. a brand new sentence. Also the most exciting thing to happen in Palo Alto

#Billionaires

This was.. a brand new sentence. Also the most exciting thing to happen in Palo Alto

#Billionaires

The Authoritarian Stack.

This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇

#AuthoritarianStack #tech #democracy #humanRights #capitalism #billionaires #corporatocracy https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115502174645684718

@leibnizopenscience

Yes!

Incentivize #opensource as the bulwark against #censorship that it is!

Incentivize trickle-UP education and economic knock-on effects over #regulatorycapture by #billionaires

#makeeveryonesmarteragain!

And… so it begins⚠️ Is your #tech job on the chopping block - just to fund new #AI investments? That seems to be happening a lot. Corps gotta get that $$ for #ArtificialIntelligence buildouts from somewhere, no? So the #billionaires are betting the farm, while the working class suffers. Nothing to see here, carry on. #jobs #labor #Layoffs

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…allies to generate scarcity, fear, and division. They have the power to end this today.

We’ve all seen how #billionaires, large corporations, and foreign governments can receive immediate aid with a single post. Meanwhile, millions of Americans—those relying on SNAP, WIC, and #food programs—are left waiting. These programs are not luxuries. They are lifelines.

Nonprofits have been stretched thin for months due to funding cuts tied to Project 2025. Food insecurity was already rising because

And… so it begins⚠️ Is your #tech job on the chopping block - just to fund new #AI investments? That seems to be happening a lot. Corps gotta get that $$ for #ArtificialIntelligence buildouts from somewhere, no? So the #billionaires are betting the farm, while the working class suffers. Nothing to see here, carry on. #jobs #labor #Layoffs

Oscar and Grammy winner Billie Eilish puts her money where her mouth is — and she's telling other affluent people to do the same. The 23-year-old singer is donating $11.5M of ticket sales from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to charitable organizations that support food equity and climate justice. And on accepting the Wall Street Journal Magazine's Music Innovator of the Year award earlier this week in New York, she called out other wealthy people who don't use their cash to help others. "There’s a few people in here who have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away,” she told an audience that included Mark Zuckerberg. Here's more from @RollingStone.

https://flip.it/kXHXZU

#BillieEilish #Celebrity #Entertainment #Music #Billionaires #MarkZuckerberg

Oscar and Grammy winner Billie Eilish puts her money where her mouth is — and she's telling other affluent people to do the same. The 23-year-old singer is donating $11.5M of ticket sales from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to charitable organizations that support food equity and climate justice. And on accepting the Wall Street Journal Magazine's Music Innovator of the Year award earlier this week in New York, she called out other wealthy people who don't use their cash to help others. "There’s a few people in here who have a lot more money than me. If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away,” she told an audience that included Mark Zuckerberg. Here's more from @RollingStone.

https://flip.it/kXHXZU

#BillieEilish #Celebrity #Entertainment #Music #Billionaires #MarkZuckerberg

Doorbell cameras by Amaz0n Ring are being illegally shared w/ Flock surveillance software.
1) Turn Off & 2) Cover your Ring cameras this Halloween.
ICE wants to deport families trick-or-treating, & is stealing biometric data from you, to do so.
#do #not #comply in #advance #protest #fight #fascist #USA #crush #ICE #melts #under #pressure #Halloween #surveillance #Flock #welcome #dystopian #present #eat the #rich #Tax #Bezos #end #billionaires #new #privacy #data #laws https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-10-29-safety-advisory-no-ring-for-ice-this-halloween

Doorbell cameras by Amaz0n Ring are being illegally shared w/ Flock surveillance software.
1) Turn Off & 2) Cover your Ring cameras this Halloween.
ICE wants to deport families trick-or-treating, & is stealing biometric data from you, to do so.
#do #not #comply in #advance #protest #fight #fascist #USA #crush #ICE #melts #under #pressure #Halloween #surveillance #Flock #welcome #dystopian #present #eat the #rich #Tax #Bezos #end #billionaires #new #privacy #data #laws https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-10-29-safety-advisory-no-ring-for-ice-this-halloween

"The study, which was released on Wednesday, found that 308 of the world’s #billionaires had a combined CO2 tally that, if they were a country, would make them the 15th most polluting country in the world"

What the world *really* can't afford is billionaires.

#ClimateEmergency
#EatTheRich

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam

Step 1: Recognize that it is impossible to become a billionaire without a failure of morality and an abrogation of one's responsibility towards basic human rights.
Step 2: Realize that when a person has once declared that money is more important than morals, they are likely to do so again.
Step 3: Be unsurprised when Bill Gates abandons any commitment to ensuring the continued health of the planet and declares that the climate change crisis is overblown.

There are no good billionaires, people. There are only the ones who are aligned with humanity for as long as it suits their immediate interests, and that never, ever lasts long.

#capitalism #billionaires #eattherich #climate