Now through November 15, when customers activate an eligible Starlink kit bought at any Tractor Supply store or their website, @Starlink will donate the value of the customer’s first month of subscription service to the National 4-H Council, generating funding for local 4-H programs that help equip young people with the skills, experiences and opportunities needed to be Beyond Ready for work and life. SpaceX is also providing 100 Starlink kits and fast, reliable internet service to 4-H clubs serving rural youth, generating opportunities for students to participate in hands on experiences that prepare them for life, including STEM, educational and workforce development. “Connecting the unconnected has always been at the core of Starlink’s mission. We’re excited to work with Tractor Supply and 4-H to help bring reliable, high-speed internet to rural communities across America. By expanding access, we can support 4-H’s efforts to deliver STEM education and create new opportunities for youth.” - David Goldman, VP of Satellite Policy at SpaceX

Fed odds flipped in four days. The gap is still only 4 points. Eight days out from the Sept 16 decision, @Polymarket has a 25bp hike at 51.5% and no change at 47.5%. Four days ago that was reversed — no change led by 18 points. @Kalshi has the same two outcomes at 52% and 48%. Two unconnected order books landing half a point apart means 51.5% isn't one thin market's quirk — it's the real consensus. What turned it was Friday's jobs report: 162,000 against 56,000 expected. A labour market that strong tells the Fed the economy can take higher rates, so hike bets rose. What kept the hike from pulling further ahead was Waller — his inflation comments left the market unconvinced it has to be this month. Nina flags: the hike-versus-hold split gets the attention, but the cut is already closed — 0.6% for September, 92.65% for zero cuts all year. So the fight isn't direction, it's which meeting. "Hiked by October" prices 62.5%, above September's 51.5% — if September passes, the market expects October to pick it up. The last CPI before the decision lands this week; the next isn't until mid-October, too late to matter for Sept 16. Polymarket's consensus is 3.4%. Below that, and the 51.5% goes back. NFA.

MrBeast just issued an ultimatum to the entire airline industry. He will only fly on planes with Starlink. MrBeast: “Oh, this has an extra one hour layover, I don’t give a fuck. They’re Starlink.” Not a preference. A hard filter. Longer flights. Worse routes. None of it matters. MrBeast: “Bro, I’ll sit in the back of the plane if it gives me Starlink. Like I really don’t care.” Most people hear that and think it’s about a content creator who can’t unplug. They are completely missing what is actually happening. MrBeast runs the largest media operation on Earth from a phone screen. He measures friction in frames and milliseconds. In his world, connectivity isn’t a feature. It is the operating layer beneath every decision he makes. And he will accept the worst seat on the aircraft to stay plugged into infrastructure that didn’t exist five years ago. But the airline cabin is the smallest part of this story. The real shift happens where the asphalt ends. MrBeast: “You can put a Starlink on the top of your car.” They mounted a dish on a roof in rural Africa. Four hours down dirt tracks and grass roads. No cell towers. No grid. No infrastructure of any kind. Perfect signal the entire ride. MrBeast: “Starlink is like literally magic. It makes no sense.” It makes perfect sense once you see what Musk is actually building. Not a utility company. Not an ISP. He is collapsing the distance between a human thought and the full width of human knowledge to zero. Everywhere on Earth. Simultaneously. For ten thousand years, intelligence was local. A brilliant mind born in an unconnected village had no way to reach the collective. No way to build on what came before. No way to be found. The potential didn’t die. It simply never ignited. Starlink changes that at the level of the species. MrBeast: “What will definitely, guaranteed happen is no matter where you are on the planet, you’ll be able to have high-speed internet thanks to Starlink.” That is not a convenience upgrade. It is a phase shift in what a human born anywhere on Earth can become. Every child with a connection inherits the full intellectual output of civilization the day they open a screen. We are not upgrading a network. We are converting a planet of isolated minds into a single thinking surface. MrBeast: “There’s no doubt that it’s going to fundamentally progress humanity in unfathomable ways.” And the loop closes with the real objective. The revenue from a billionaire rerouting his flights feeds the exact same engine that funds the frontier. MrBeast: “Someone’s going to go to Mars thanks to SpaceX. Like I really do believe that.” Starlink is not a side project. It is the funding mechanism for the most expensive physical objective in human history. A constellation of satellites harvesting the economic attention of an entire connected planet and converting it into the propellant required to push consciousness beyond Earth. The species is funding its own escape velocity. We spent ten thousand years separated by geography and copper wire. Musk didn’t fix the wires. He made them irrelevant. And in doing so, he didn’t just connect a species. He built one that no longer fits on a single planet.

2.2 BILLION people on Earth still don’t have internet access today… that’s roughly 26% of the world’s population living offline. Meanwhile, Starlink just crossed ~12.5-13 million subscribers and is growing fast across 160+ countries. Starlink connecting the unconnected is going to prove to be one of the biggest economic tailwinds of our lifetime for humanity. Just think about what the internet did for you… Starlink and the entire SpaceX ecosystem is positioned like no other to capture this. Many are sleeping on this massive opportunity…

T-Minus: BlueBirds 8, 9, and 10 are Go for Launch aboard Falcon 9. Launch window opens June 17 at 2:39 a.m. EDT. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 Getting closer to connecting the unconnected and under-connected worldwide. 🌎📶📱 #ASTSpaceMobile# #Broadband# #ConnectingtheUnconnected# #BlueBirds# Watch live:

Starlink has now reached 12 million subscribers worldwide SpaceX’s latest official connectivity numbers: • 12.0 million subscribers • 10,200 satellites in orbit • Coverage across 167 countries Starlink is no longer simply connecting remote homes. It is becoming a global communications layer for people, businesses, airlines, ships, governments and increasingly ordinary phones through Direct to Cell SpaceX is building internet infrastructure from orbit at a scale no satellite network has ever reached before What started as a way to connect the unconnected is becoming a communications backbone for the entire planet