Nick Dowson
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Co-Editor @ New Internationalist magazine | Investigations, public services, the climate crisis, the politics of technology Bylines at publications including the Guardian, the Ferret, the Moscow Times, Bristol Cable. Likes a good book.
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This essay traces how US policy lets private firms profit from publicly funded space development, how legal loopholes and token lunar contracts normalize property claims, and how satellite expansion strains orbital environments. By @nickmdowson.bsky.social in @newint.bsky.social
Show PostThe AI hype is even making its way into space. Earlier this year the world’s ‘favourite’ billionaire – trillionaire? – Elon Musk announced proposals for his SpaceX to put a million data centres in orbit. #space #musk #AI #politics #inequality
Show PostThat sentence carried a lot of zeroes – as did SpaceX’s Initial Public Offering in June, a spectacle of financial engineering, that saw it join stock markets for the first time.
Show PostShares confer not just a sliver of ownership of SpaceX’s profitable launch and satellite internet business – sectors where it dominates – but also its heavily-loss making social media and AI subsidiary, xAI.
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