Mark X
@markmx.bsky.social
CTO @germnetwork.com Veteran, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow
I’m disappointed that the source of this viral but incorrect story about a tragic medevac crash is John Wiseman, whose aviation tracking I’ve long respected. And that this tragedy is being used to further a narrative about GPS jamming that I am sympathetic to, but draws the wrong conclusions. 🧵
John Wiseman@lemonodor.bsky.social · yesterdayThe 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...
Dodgers are 0-4 since the internet said they’d never lose again lol
Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 2d agoDodgers 0-3 since acquiring Tarik Skubal.
Proficiency in flying precision approaches, of which ILS is the most common, is a requirement for an instrument rating. That approach was not legal to fly on that night given the NOTAM’d out of service AWOS.
Since Jeff Wise is publishing some fresh nonsense, retapping my rebuttal of his prior nonsense:
Mark X@markmx.bsky.social · 6mo agoThis is an irresponsible piece that blames the crash on a purportedly inexperienced Army crew, and briefly in a few sentences, the Army itself. These claims contravene the very safety hearing that Wise draws his material from. 1/9
It’s pretty clear that’s not what happened at all and this is like the 3rd different outlet I’ve seen saying as much
Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · yesterdaySo the US military killed everyone on a medevac plane by testing a GPS weapon. futurism.com/science-ener...
It fucking says a lot that CPS took Pete Buttigieg’s kids away on the basis of an anonymous complaint, while Max Miller still has joint custody of his child.
Teams with higher payrolls stink. Teams with lower payrolls are right in it. The fact that the Dodgers are VERY good and have a VERY high payroll is going to be used deceptively, in bad faith, to try to pit fans against the union.
I didn't know who Zyhir Hope was until today but I hope he has a baller career.
There’s no reason for them to trade Hope unless it’s for another young player of his caliber, or some kind of huge trade that’s gonna 🤯 us all. That’s an overpay for any rental, including Skubal.
Passanthallich@passanthalbot.bsky.social · 4d ago@JonHeyman tweeted Dodgers scratched big-time OF prospect Zyhir Hope. Word is he’s on standby in case of a trade. No trade known done yet but Hope (No. 25 MLB prospect) would only be part of a huge trade. He’s that good.
Newsom appointed this guy to the UC board of regents
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 4d agoi'm gonna be honest i'm a little confused by this whole freakout over the pied-a-terre tax because property titles have literally always been public? "who owns this house" is a thing you have been able to look up since before America existed, ownership records have always been public
LA should cut ties with Flock Safety. Cities across the country are canceling their Flock contracts over the risks its license plate readers pose to privacy, civil liberties, and immigrant communities. LAPD is doing the opposite: renegotiating a surveillance network that Angelenos never agreed to.
Great news! Germ DM is now quantum secure! We’re deploying post-quantum cryptography (PQC) in 3.0.9, available today. 1/7
Germ Network@germnetwork.com · 6d agoWith 3.0.9, Germ DM is now quantum secure.
I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
Why websites?
Personal websites as an atproto onboarding strategy
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"Writers have been using me long before AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here. I am not novel. I’m the cigarette you keep saying you’ll quit."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actua...
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For subscribers: Dodgers go out of their way to visit White House, stab fanbase in back. open.substack.com/pub/mollykni...
No coincidence at all that days later he's handing a world series ring to Trump.
Sam Amico@amicohoops.bsky.social · 2w agoLakers owner Mark Walter under federal investigation hoopswire.com/lakers-owner...
The kind of person that shits on people as "terrible at numbers" for taking guaranteed $50k over 50% chance at 1M probably also looks down on people who buy lotto tickets. What deserves shame is the house stealing from people with mathematical certainly, not the gambler.
And from all accounts, it looks like Taylor Farms just...... kept selling tainted lettuce, while there was an active outbreak going on. After the first week or two, they HAD to have known it could have been them. And we have no idea what, if anything, they did to try & fix it.
Every war incurs a debt, one whose true cost can never be fully measured. Everyone who serves pays something. Birthdays and wedding anniversaries are missed. A child’s first steps pass unseen. Time is surrendered. Yet war is an unforgiving creditor. These are the soldiers who paid the full measure.
It is interesting because the US systems around immigration, foreign aid, scientific research, education, healthcare, as well as trade and diplomacy have also stopped working, but food poisoning is deeply personal and visceral in a way that spares no one.
This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.
Taylor Farms Posted Its Own Recall. It Went to 27 States, Not 5 — and the List Includes Bags Sold in Grocery Stores.
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA's recalls page, which means the only
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Both events, it must be stressed, are a direct result of exactly the kind of stupid-and-cruel warfighting that Pete Hegseth promised to bring to the US military and has delivered. Our army will become, by inches, more and more like the Russian one: cruel, incompetent, impotent, incapable, wicked.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
It's also telling that it's always people who have aged out and are essentially saying that if we steal a couple of years of other people's lives it will somehow fix some undefined problems that we, as older people, have created.
On Pensacola and what came before in SC, DC, TN and TX. For the record, I am no longer certain the FAA has full control of the NAS. There is some history here, from 1958, especially on the crashes that year of UAL flight 736 & Capital Airlines flight 300. colleenmondor.substack.com/p/52-the-nat...
#52: The National Airspace System has a new flight safety problem
The Pensacola low level flyover is another example of the military & government agencies defying federal aviation regulations
colleenmondor.substack.com
Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Sitting Judge Just Delivered the Most Scathing Critique of This Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the damage wrought by its most recent term.
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For no particular reason, remembering the squadron commander who ran out of gas on short final to Bastion because, it turns out, he liked to play chicken with the fuel gauge. He's at NORTHCOM now.
