Comment by WalterBright 5 days ago
> Today the innovation in that area seems driven by militaristic states and by people who seem ideologically adjacent.
Today it's Musk driving space technology forward, and I don't see him acting militaristic.
None of those suggest "heavily intertwined". More like the US military has decided that it's a smart move to take advantage of Musk's technology.
As for the Ukraine thing, I read that Musk was trying to comply with US law in avoiding making foreign policy.
It's no surprise that the military uses Starlink, just like they use cars.
As for grok, of course the military is going to buy what they want.
Of course it does. And I should have said not just the military, but the government in general. From day 1 he was working to infiltrate government databases and networking. He was having his DOGE lackeys installing Starlink at the White House [0] and buildings of federal agencies he was raiding to exfiltrate PII and sensitive, if not classified, data from to his own servers for likely use to influence American sentiment and target groups or individuals. So says a whistleblower Dan Berulis [1] and a DOGE goon was caught by Secret Service trying to install a Starlink device on the roof of the Eisenhower Federal Building across from the White House [2]. There is absolutely no valid need for a private network operating in parallel with the US government's system. Unless the intent was to avoid detection when exfiltrating data to private systems.
0. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/musk-starlin...
1. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...
2. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/doge-roof-elon-musk-st...
> Musk driving space technology forward, and I don't see him acting militaristic.
Surely, you jest. He's heavily entwined his companies with the US military. StarLink is used heavily in battlefield communications [1]. He sought to deny the courtesy to one of our allies when Russia disrupted Ukraine's satellite communications, but eventually reversed course over the optics of it [2].
Musk's Grok is going to be used by the Pentagon for the usual pursuits of police states everywhere [3].
1. https://spacenews.com/spacexs-expanding-role-in-u-s-defense/
2. https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/when-a-ceo-plays-presi...
3. https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-gains-favor-as-pentagon-emb...