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Elon Musk just spent seventeen billion dollars to make every cell tower on Earth a relic. Musk: “It will allow SpaceX to deliver high bandwidth connectivity directly from the satellites to the phones.” Not through towers. Not through cables. Not through any infrastructure on the ground. Directly from orbit to the phone in your pocket. For over a century, connectivity followed the same blueprint. Build a tower. Run a cable. Expand the network one piece of ground at a time. Coverage went where the money was. Where the population density justified the investment. Everywhere else got silence. Four billion people still don’t have reliable internet. Not because the technology doesn’t exist. Because no one could justify building a tower where they live. Connectivity was never a technology problem. It was a geography problem disguised as one. Musk: “The phones that are able to use the spectrum that was acquired probably start shipping in around two years.” Two years. Then the phone in your hand connects straight to space. No tower required. No carrier infrastructure between you and the signal. The entire telecom industry was built on one assumption. That connectivity requires ground infrastructure. Every carrier. Every contract. Every coverage map. All products of that assumption. Starlink just bypassed it from orbit. From orbit, every point on Earth is equidistant. The word “remote” only exists because connectivity was built from the ground up. From space, there is no remote. There is no coverage gap. There is no place on Earth harder to reach than any other. The ground decides who gets connected based on where they are. The sky doesn’t know the difference. Human potential was always distributed evenly across the planet. Access to information never was. The gap between those two facts is the greatest waste in human history. We spent a century deciding who deserved access to information based on where they happened to be born. Musk just made that question obsolete from 550 kilometers above the answer.

Nanjing, Jiangsu takes the spotlight at @metmuseum in City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century, an exhibition tracing the city’s former-capital legacy, Ming-Qing transition and literati painting culture. Runs through January 3, 2027 at Galleries 210–216.

She was the highest ranking Vietnamese American woman ever to command an operational brigade in the U.S. Army. Her name is Danielle Ngo. It was April 29, 1975. The day before Saigon fell. Her mother, Thai-An, just 24 years old, carried Danielle and her baby sister Lan-Dinh up the ramp of a U.S. military cargo plane as North Vietnamese rockets rained down on Tan Son Nhat airport. Soldiers were pushing equipment off the back of the aircraft to make room for refugees. They were among the last people to make it out of that airport. Her father was not on that plane. He was a captain in the South Vietnamese army and he stayed behind to keep fighting as his wife and two small daughters fled. It would be years before he made it to America and saw his family again. A week earlier, the South Vietnamese government had restricted travel. Danielle was in the seaside town of Vung Tau, away from her mother. Her grandfather refused to let the family be separated with the country collapsing around them. So he took eight buses and scooters across a war zone to bring the three-year-old back to her mother's arms. And when the moment came to say goodbye, knowing he could not go with them, her grandfather knelt down, folded a U.S. one-dollar bill, and tucked it into her little shirt pocket. It is the only thing she remembers from the day she became a refugee. The plane landed on Wake Island, a speck in the Pacific 2,300 miles from Hawaii. They spent three months there in a refugee camp, waiting to learn if any country would take them. America did. After camps in Hawaii and Arkansas, an uncle sponsored them, and the family finally settled in Massachusetts. They lived in subsidized housing for eight years. Danielle and Lan-Dinh were the only Vietnamese girls in their school. Their mother worked her way through an associate's, a bachelor's, and a master's degree, and insisted the children speak only English at home so she could learn it through them. When Danielle was seventeen, she asked her mother to sign her enlistment papers so she could join the Army Reserve. Her mother resisted with a sentence only a refugee mother could say: "I didn't pull you out of a war for you to go back into a war." But Danielle had already decided. As she put it: "I signed up for the Army because my mother said it was the Army that rescued us." The Army had carried her out of Saigon. She was going to give it her life in return. She enlisted in 1990 and earned her degree from UMass and her commission from Boston University in 1994, choosing one of the hardest, most male-dominated paths in the force: combat engineering. She didn't want the safer assignments. She wanted airborne. She wanted combat units. In 2001, she became the first female company commander in a combat engineer battalion attached directly to a combat brigade. She deployed to Bosnia. To Iraq, where her brigade was part of the 4th Infantry Division during the operations that captured Saddam Hussein. To Afghanistan to help plan the surge. She commanded the 52nd Engineer Battalion at Fort Carson, whose soldiers cut fire lines through the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest wildfires, two of the most destructive in Colorado history. "I guess you could call us the natural disaster battalion," she said. In 2016, she took command of the 130th Engineer Brigade in Hawaii, becoming the highest-ranking woman of Vietnamese descent ever to command an operational brigade in the U.S. Army. By 2021, the Army described her as the highest-ranking active-duty woman of Vietnamese descent in the entire force, second only to Major General Viet Xuan Luong. She retired in April 2023, after 33 years. She went back to Vietnam years later and found her grandfather, the man who took eight buses and gave her a dollar. They could barely speak, her Vietnamese had faded, his English was thin, so they sat in his little art shop and passed handwritten notes back and forth.

Five years ago this month, Tampa Bay Ventures was founded on a structural thesis: that Florida, now the seventeenth-largest economy in the world, was producing venture-scale companies at a rate the existing capital base could not absorb, and that a disciplined, locally embedded fund operating full-time inside the Tampa Bay ecosystem would compound an information advantage that out-of-state investors could not replicate. Fund I closed shortly after at $27M, with a mandate to be the first institutional check into founders building from the region. Over the five years since, we have invested in 19 portfolio companies, often pre-revenue, and frequently before any other institutional capital had committed.

Five layers. Seventeen minutes. One structure built to last for decades. This is Stage 4: Lamination. Heat, vacuum pressure, and precision engineering transform glass, EVA, and solar cells into a fully sealed solar module ready for the next phase of production. This is where individual components become energy infrastructure.

정연 & 지효 & 부승관의 비비디바비디부 월드★스타 트와이스 누나들이랑 알콜프리 근데 취해 🍹ㅣ 세븐틴(SEVENTEEN) 승관 ㅣ 트와이스(TWICE) 지효 & 정연 ㅣ 부승관의 비비디바비디부 Who would win if TWICE and SEVENTEEN fought? 💥 | SEVENTEEN’s Seungkwan | TWICE’s Jihyo and Jeongyeon 🎬 #TWICE# #트와이스# #JEONGYEON# #정연# #JIHYO# #지효#

[📢YENA] Catch my heart with #SEVENTEEN# (@pledis_17) 🔗 🔗 🔗 #최예나# #예나# #YENA# #세븐틴# #THE8# #디에잇# #SEUNGKWAN# #승관# #LOVE_CATCHER# #캐치캐치# #YENA_CatchCatch#

I often observe people making decisions if their odds of being right are greater than 50 percent. What they fail to see is how much better off they'd be if they raised their chances even more (you can almost always improve your odds of being right by doing things that will give you more information). The expected value gain from raising the probability of being right from 51 percent to 85 percent (i.e., by 34 percentage points) is seventeen times more than raising the odds of being right from 49 percent (which is probably wrong) to 51 percent (which is only a little more likely to be right). Think of the probability as a measure of how often you're likely to be wrong. Raising the probability of being right by 34 percentage points means that a third of your bets will switch from losses to wins. That's why it pays to stress-test your thinking, even when you're pretty sure you're right. #principleoftheday#

SEVENTEEN 2026 SPRING FES ありがとうございました！！✨ BOCCHI。の個性伝わってたら嬉しいなぁ💗 ツアー情報も解禁で！セブ島に決まったよ✨✨ オフ会も沢山するから楽しみだね❕❕

Happy 17th Birthday, @Levi_JKT48 ! ⚡️ Welcome to your "born new" era. We’ve watched you turn every performance into your own personal runway, but this year is about levitating past every limit! 🙌🏻 The milestones are already sweating—it's time to break them all and chase every dream. The spotlight belongs to the girls who dare to be themselves. Go get ‘em! 🌟😎🫵🏻 #SeventeenthStep# #LEV17ATE#