'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

The crew of N249CP made several bad decisions that night. If pilots were perfect we wouldn't need GPS, ADS-B, GPWS, TCAS… www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

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John Wiseman@lemonodor.bsky.social · last mo.

My analysis of White Sands Missile Range GPS jamming activity suggests the possibility that after N249CP crashed they stood down GPS jamming for the rest of the exercise.

Here comes a new situation monitoring challenger @lemonodor.bsky.social

CHP fixed wing surveillance aircraft operating over Oakland with ADS-B disabled now working over the colosseum, live TIS-B track: adsb.lol?icao=~2b307a

See Baarle-Hertog, a Belgian town inside the town of Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands), consisting of 22 Belgian enclaves, which in turn contain 7 Netherlandish counter-enclaves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-...

Baarle-Nassau - Wikipedia

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My new least favorite conspiracy theory: That OpenAI and Anthropic (and Hugging Face, Modal, etc.) are lying about agents hacking into other systems. There is nothing implausible about this; Mythos Preview is 2-3 generations old and it was better-than-human at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

What are the "weirdest" city borders in the world? Hayden, AL is 212 separate pieces; Columbus, OH has 235 holes. Alvin, TX is mostly 30-meter-wide strips running along county roads. claude.ai/code/artifac...

I made all of these maps with QGIS. 100% prompting Claude Code (with my MCP), no pointing and clicking.

"We can just unplug the machine." That may not always work. Here are some scenarios in which it's not trivial to stop an agentic "loss of control" scenario, like the recent one where OpenAI's model escaped its sandbox and hacked multiple other companies' servers. 1/

This is an excellent and all-too-plausible description of how an AI- and data-driven kill chain can make tragic mistakes. ai-killchain.airwars.org Via @aeroscout.bsky.social

Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain

Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

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Apparently the LLM-generated proof of the Collatz Conjecture, written in Lean, took advantage of multiple bugs in Lean to pass verification!? infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/...

DeepSDR: An SDR listens to public safety radio, Whisper transcribes it, an LLM summarizes and geolocates incidents and then they're plotted on a map. www.rtl-sdr.com/deepsdr-upda...

DIY active(!) weather radar. "…it is not meant to be used in the real world at the moment and is currently in violation of several FCC laws." Air search radar can't be far behind. github.com/Koakno/Small...

GitHub - Koakno/Small-portable-weather-radar-Dome: A small portable weather radar Dome that uses a Winegard carryout and a hack RF

A small portable weather radar Dome that uses a Winegard carryout and a hack RF - Koakno/Small-portable-weather-radar-Dome

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Me: Add the ability to include external links [in my CMS-like thing]. Opus 5: [Gives me two pages of output with various design tradeoffs but it's hard to follow and the model refuses to commit to a path and I can't tell what it's asking me or what it wants.] GPT-5.6-Sol: [Just does it.]

There is something mildly interesting and unusual about this flight by a Gulfstream G800 a couple days ago. Hint: It's more apparent if you look at it on a VFR sectional chart basemap. globe.airplanes.live?icao=ab67cd&...

Planet has released a great new geospatial/satellite imagery AI agent that has access to 3 m imagery of the entire planet, updated daily. It's currently free! ai.planet.com.

Today in small circular displays showing ADS-B data, ESP32-Plane-Radar: blog.ktz.me/esp32-plane-...

An ESP32 based plane radar

Plane radar is a neat little project that pulls nearby ADS-B traffic, plots each aircraft by distance and bearing, and shows the details directly on a cute little screen.

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This is what it looks like when there are actually Russian drones flying in European airspace, vs. the phantom drone scare in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Germany, etc. in which planes and helicopters were misidentified.

Tomas Ström@hapsis.bsky.social · last wk.

Romania downs a third Russian drone in just three days defence-blog.com/romania-down... #MilitaryTech #Defense #SituationalAwareness

"7H3 M0N170r" by T1TU5 4NDr0N1CU5

Samuel Bendett@sambendett.bsky.social · last wk.

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Yesterday morning: Bought some "instant snow" (super-absorbent sodium polyacrylate powder) with my daughter. Yesterday afternoon: bought a wet-dry vac to suck pounds and pounds of expanded instant snow out of the sink and drain (I didn't supervise closely enough when I asked her to clean up).

I think the user experience of software is going to get a lot squishier.

Modern battlefields resemble nothing so much as speculative fiction from a decade ago www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

I'm working on an aviation AI tool. One thing it can do is write daily global and regional aviation briefings. I wrote up a comparison of how well Opus 4.8, Fable 5, GPT-5.6-Sol, and Kimi K3 did at that task (and how much it costs for each). heavymeta.org/2026/07/18/b...

The dude is still unhinged, but now it's hurting business. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’

As a movement against $8.3 billion Flock Safety’s license plate readers gathers momentum, company CEO Garrett Langley tells Forbes he shouldn’t have called non-violent activists “terroristic” organiza...

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John Wiseman@lemonodor.bsky.social · 8mo ago

In an interview, Garrett Langley, the CEO of Flock, called DeFlock a "terroristic organization". DeFlock publishes a map of Flock cameras. They don't do anything illegal, let alone "terroristic". (Wait until he finds out what OpenStreetMap does.)

I asked Fable 5 and GPT-5.6-Sol to make maps, any kind of map they wanted. The first image is Fable's, the second is GPT's.

I'm a model snob. I almost always want, and need, the best models. There are things I still use Fable 5 for, but GPT-5.6-Sol is my new standard–It's generally smarter, faster, and cheaper. But they're both too expensive if you're paying API token prices. For that I tried Kimi K2.6 but it was awful.

Interesting. LA County has new "advanced aircraft discovery software that analyzes multiple data sources to identify aircraft activity at local airports" in order to find previously untaxed aircraft. lacounty.gov/2026/03/16/n...

Holy shit. Buried in that DHS document about its desired “deportation airline” is a request for contractors to procure and maintain 1,000-bed “detention facilities” in foreign countries. Huge scoop from @charliearchy.bsky.social. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up "international staging areas" abroad.

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of course there’s an amateur tree-felling subreddit - reddit.com/r/FellingGoneWild (also insane auto-captioning of chainsaw sounds)

NEW FROM ME: "As Bloomberg says, DHS *wants* to create its own deportation airline. But we’ve known that since last year. What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant." gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...

What’s missing from Bloomberg’s story about the DHS ‘deportation’ fleet

In the ongoing saga of DHS’s “deportation fleet,” Bloomberg gets the facts vaguely right and story all wrong.

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