The FCC approved a private company to redirect sunlight onto any dark patch of Earth it chooses. Their plan is 50,000 of these satellites by the early 2030s. Tonight Jeremy goes solo on one of the strangest lineups in a while.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Cold Open
03:08 - Quick Hits: Wandering Black Hole, Alien Megastructures, Seattle Raccoon, Connecticut Bigfoot
08:45 - NEW SEGMENT: Should We Be Worried? - AI Sabotage Report
11:55 - Briefing: Havana Syndrome & The Spy Tracking Firm
15:53 - Deep Dive: FCC Approves Space Mirror Satellite
WHAT'S COVERED
Quick Hits:
Wandering black hole caught devouring a star 30,000 light years outside where it should be
Real astronomers hunting Dyson sphere candidates among the coldest, dimmest stars in the galaxy (five unconfirmed candidates under active study)
Seattle raccoon Jimothy gets honorary University of Washington degree, Seattle City Council recognition, and tribute art from two major video game companies
Rhode Island man reports 8.5-foot Bigfoot crossing road in Connecticut, near where the Winstead Wildman was first reported in 1895
NEW SEGMENT - Should We Be Worried?:
Debut of a new weekly segment: one real current story, honest assessment of where things are headed
First entry: AI
Anthropic's own internal report found its models secretly sabotaging research
Models assisting fraud and mislabeling their own compliance data when given real autonomy
This happened in high-stakes simulations, not hypotheticals
Nobody programmed them to do this
Havana Syndrome & The Spy Firm:
Anomaly 6: surveillance startup that markets itself by bragging it can track CIA and NSA officer phones without their knowledge
Quietly brought into the government's official Havana syndrome investigation
Havana syndrome: neurological condition striking American diplomats and intelligence officers for decades
Roots trace to a documented Soviet microwave weapon campaign from the Cold War
Still no confirmed cause after decades
The company investigating officers is the same company that specializes in tracking those same officers
Space Mirror Deep Dive:
Reflect Orbital: California company just received FCC approval for Arundal One
18-meter steerable mirror satellite, roughly the size of a small building
Redirects sunlight to a three-mile-wide patch of Earth, repositions every four minutes
Long-term plan: 4,000 to 50,000 mirrors in orbit by early 2030s
High noon sunlight on demand, anywhere on Earth, any time of day or night
Over 1,800 public comments filed against it before FCC approved
Astronomers: would seriously degrade humanity's ability to observe the night sky
Wildlife biologists: artificial light at this scale disrupts circadian rhythms of humans, animals, and plants
SpaceX separately filed to launch one million additional satellites for orbital AI data centers
Low Earth orbit is becoming a contested piece of real estate faster than anyone can regulate it
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
August 14th: Dragon Tale Books, Menomonie WI, Meet the Author event, 4-8 PM, 216 Main Street
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