Ocean Infinity's state-of-the-art ship Armada 86 05 is on track to restart a search of the Indian Ocean seabed for the missing plane, MH370, sometime next month. But where exactly will it look? I break it down in the new episode of my Finding MH370 podcast. www.deepdivemh370.com/p/where-they...

Thousands of LLM users claim their chatbots have achieved sentience. Mainstream computer scientists says that's impossible. But a growing number of some of the field's most respected voices say it's time to look deeper. My latest for @nymag.com @intelligencer.com nymag.com/intelligence...

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Armada 86 05 voyage to Philippines San Bernardino Strait continues. Illustrating with Marine Traffic's simple route forecast tool, the indicated distance to go suggests 600NM to run, arrival Friday morning local time. 14 days in the SBS area then expected southbound to renew #MH370 search. ⬇️

The government shutdown might end soon, but air travelers will most likely face cancellations and delays into next week at least. My latest for @nymag.com @intelligencer.com nymag.com/intelligence...

It’s such a bad idea, when one of his crimes was calling forth an insurrection, that he’s actually forbidden from holding the office by a constitutional provision, which a unanimous Supreme Court invented a way to turn off.

@jeffwise.bsky.social Excellent conversation. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

The San Bernardino Strait historical wreck survey has been publicised to run 5th thru 18th Nov. At this time, it's expected that the survey's 14 day window will simply 'slide to the right' on the calendar.

If you're thinking about making air travel plans, be advised that delays & cancellations will mount in the days ahead. Staying flexible will be key, experts say. My latest for @nymag.com @intelligencer.com

The vessel arrived at Singapore equipped with & ready to operate three AUVs.

This series will be open to everyone so please share!

If anyone has been told their flight has been cancelled because of the FAA reduction in capacity, please let me know! And please repost if you can, would love to get some visibility on this. No one seems to know exactly how this reduction is going to play out for travellers right now

Interesting! In my most recent episode, I describe how Armada 86 05 is the Ocean Infinity ship best positioned to carry out the wreck survey, but I didn't know it was actually expected to do so. If true, this is prob the ship that'll restart the MH370 search www.deepdivemh370.com/p/seabed-sea...

When Ocean Infinity paused the seabed search for #MH370 back in March, it was widely expected that they would return & restart to the project in November. But now that November's come, that prospect's looking unlikely, for reasons I explain in today's episode. www.deepdivemh370.com/p/seabed-sea...

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

We're maintaining a watch on the assets that will likely be deployed. In the meantime, OI is contributing to a survey with Carl Allen's AllenX/Allen Exploration organisation. AllenX has teamed up with Philippines Nat'l Museum to look for wrecks in the San Bernadino Strait south of Luzon Island.

Trump tell SF mayor that he can "remove criminals that the law doesn't permit him to remove"? Is there any way to interpret that other than that he doesn't consider himself constrained by law?

Happy 250th, America!

Nice tag from a short but very illuminating piece by John Ganz on Trump's dependency on the deplorables -- not a layer of society, but the dregs of every layer www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-scum-m...

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

When the first piece of debris washed ashore 15 months after MH370 disappeared, investigators knew the barnacles growing on it could be used as a timing device to show how long it had been in the water. Only now do we know how long that was. The answer is a shock. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC-I...

you cannot build coalition with corrupt fascists they are an irredeemable cancer you MAY be able to appeal to the MAGA voters conned by fake populism, but that is a different discussion entirely

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The Mark Zuckerberg image makeover continues … Zuck’s Wikipedia article now features a fresh, Meta-produced photo (left), replacing a 2020 shot (right).

TL;DNR: Josh Marshall makes a compelling case that Trump long knew of Epstein's child-sex trafficking (his own participation aside) but dropped a dime to prevent Epstein ratting out his money laundering for Russians. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-th...

Cognitive warfare is the key to understanding why the world seems so insane right now. Consensual reality has been under a decades-long attack and the incumbent elites don’t have the conceptual tools to deal with it

Trump needs to go to the Hague for murdering civilians. Putin and Netanyahu can go with him.

"A plane carrying the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was targeted by GPS navigation jamming while trying to land in Bulgaria on Sunday, a spokesperson for the commission told CNN." www.cnn.com/2025/09/01/w...

The president of the United States is a traitor.

It's beyond tragic that US media is unable to grasp the context here: that a Kremlin intelligence asset has taken control of its enemy's intelligence apparatus & is destroying it.

One of the biggest cultural issues we have is that no major media or journalistic institutions have been reinforcing norms of what things *should* look like. That corruption isn’t normal, that cronyism isn’t normal, that lies and scandals should be punished, that incompetence is disqualifying.

IMHO this is the main rot that's informing politics since 2007-2008. People watched a fuckton of white collar crime happen that crashed the economy and basically no one faced any consequences. So now culturally we're leaned into "fuck it, do it if you can get away with it" as a country and it's bad.

This too

Interesting candidate alert. In Maine, a Political Novice Makes a Long-Shot Bid to Oust Collins www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...

It's chilling to contemplate that the captain of Air India 171 might have deliberately destroyed his own plane, killing all but one of the passengers and crew. What's worse is that he seem to have innovated a new way to commit mass-murder suicide that will be harder to prevent youtu.be/kegMW8ZlMT0

100% Robert O Paxton in “The Anatomy of Fascism” “…the ideas that underlie fascist actions are best deduced from those actions…Many of them belong more to the realm of visceral feelings than to the realm of reasoned propositions. In chapter 2 I called them ‘mobilizing passions’…”

Didn't think getting an education in the classics would ever turn out to be useful, but... What's happening with Trump and his promise to get to the bottom of the Epstein files is pretty much exactly the plot of Oedipus Rex.

I actually really like the idea of investigating former presidents for treasonous conspiracy. This is something I'd like to see more of going forward.

Pushed away from the bot-filled hellscape of Twitter, the blind contrarians have made their way here. Combined with the feverish descent into authoritarian fascism, people want to feel right more than ever. It doesn't matter if they are actually right, as long as they can feel like they are.

So simple. Might add: "and going forward we will be enforcing the laws even when the perp is rich or powerful."

Earthquake in the NY/NJ area? Felt like a short, sharp shock about 10.20pm

Re-upping this for anyone who missed it: Julie Roginsky and I launched a new series showing how Russia attacked the 2016 election to elect Trump. We won’t let Republicans rewrite history. In the meantime, catch up on our first post New posts drop every Monday! Subscribe, share, and follow along!

Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and the future of SpaceX. But it keeps blowing up, and no one knows if Elon Musk can fix it, Jeff Wise reports.

“The question is not, ‘Can you build an upper stage that is reusable with high-performance rocket engines?’ The question is, ‘Can you do it cost-effectively, and can you do it with quick reusability turnaround?’” No one is saying Starship is doomed. Yet. via @jeffwise.bsky.social

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This is very good.

The deadly crash of an Air India flight last month was caused by fuel switches being turned off. Jeff Wise reports that it has led to a furious debate about whether that was intentional.

Turns out that having a ton of guns didn't do much to stop the imposition of tyranny on these good citizens.

New MH370 Evidence from the Sea 10 years ago the first physical evidence of the missing plane was found on La Réunion. Today, unprecedented new evidence about the sea life on it puts the find in a new context, overturning assumptions about the debris' meaning. www.deepdivemh370.com/p/new-mh370-...