has anyone besides Robert Del Naja and Starship name-dropped Guglielmo Marconi in a track? my playlist needs more than two songs

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

Meta’s algorithmically targeted ads are dialed in

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

Pro-tip: you can get a FT Digital Edition subscription for 1/4 the normal price. You have to read everything in the stupid app that makes it look like a real broadsheet newspaper, and you don't get liveblogs, but other than that it's the same.

Munition remnants from a strike that killed 17 people in Tiné, Chad, on Wednesday, appear to match a model previously used by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war with Sudanese government forces – despite RSF denials of involvement in the incident.

Is that good?

📍 Tsuru, Japan 🇯🇵 — Local Time 12:00:11 PM

The visible prompt from Agent Donahue is "Long format like yesterdays", evidence that he repeatedly used ChatGPT to generate incident reports. ChatGPT's response says that it will "incorporate all the identifiers from the documents you provided," showing that he also uploaded DHS material to ChatGPT

Does it surprise anyone that body cam footage caught an agent using ChatGPT to compile an incident report?

> Do most of your friends participate in use of the gasoline engine, for fun and as a means of survival?

"Understanding exactly who has enforced the immigration surges of the past year has been difficult. [...] Nonetheless, we observed over 25 agents who appeared in more than one city, [and] a steady escalation of violence and confrontational incidents as 2025 progressed."

the average travel speed in new york is 12.5 miles per hour lol, speeding past kids isn't going to get you anywhere faster, it's just going to kill kids. (data from 1000 randomly generated borough-population weighted origin-destination pairs, travel times and routes calculated with Mapbox API)

The evacuation area appears to explicitly include the ancient Phoenician and Roman ruins on the Tyre peninsula.

A few Google reviews for the Angola Prison Rodeo in Louisiana.

The sign seen in videos last night, which translates to "Narcotics Support and Treatment Center, «Omid»", can also be found in an aerial image of the attack aftermath. (I'd like to credit the photographer/agency, but I haven't found attribution circulating with this image. Please tell if you know!)

Mainstream Pakistani media have repeated the claims that “Omid Hospital” is far from the targeted site. But the ‘Modern Omid Hospital’ appears to be different to the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital hit in the attack. www.pakistantv.com/article/paki...

Bellingcat geolocated the buildings seen in the video shared by Pakistan’s Minister of Information and Broadcasting. They are all within 400m or closer to the rehabilitation centre at 34.547419, 69.257773.

A few Google reviews for the Angola Prison Rodeo in Louisiana.

The L may have completely fallen apart during the evening commute today, but I was serene.

Whenever a train is being held momentarily by the dispatcher, the MTA should start playing Japanese city pop over the intercom. I think it would help everyone chill out and accept the delay.

PSA: Werner Herzog, in his keynote address at the Brooklyn Public Library last night, speaking on the topic of Mathematics and the Sublime, referenced the 1972 hit novelty single by Loudon Wainwright III, "Dead Skunk" (in the middle of the road.) Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The medical centre Israel targeted yesterday in South Lebanon's Borj Qalaouye killing 12 doctors, nurses and paramedics. Footage: t.me/messa054/374... Geolocation: 33.26819787763075, 35.42339408814595

definitely the most observers I've ever had on a checklist 🪶

tbh, I don't care about or want to prioritize a single new piece of cycling infrastructure in New York until we figure out how to make the existing roads safe at all. Motorists drive with aggressive impunity, bike lanes are unusable, and the city has given up. I'm not sure how to shift this culture.

687 is the death toll in Lebanon so far, and a huge oversight from most prominent media outlets as the majority are comforted by the IDF claims that this is exclusively directed at non-state armed groups and not a war of attrition that is meant to terrorise & incapacitate Leb's civilian population

“"We are going to do what we did in Gaza," a senior Israeli official said, referring to the flattening of buildings Israel says Hezbollah uses to store weapons and launch attacks.” — www.axios.com/2026/03/14/i...

i wondered what The Tyre Extinguishers were up to now, and I have to admit, Singaporean Degrowther is a good bit

the north american obsession with light rail transit has gone too far

Bellingcat has geolocated eight videos showing US Tomahawks cruise missiles in Iraq heading towards Iran. The missiles appear to be flying low across valleys and were most likely fired from the Mediterranean sea, an expert told us. www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

Repeal the gas tax. Make car registration free. Close the DMV. Close the DOT. Stop fixing potholes. Let the girders rust and the asphalt frost heave and the bridges collapse. May it all be washed away in the rain.

Satellite company @planet.com has announced a *14 day delay* to the release of imagery in the MidEast. This will be a huge setback for those trying to verify events in the region.

NYC urgently needs your help: Tues night is the annual HOPE count, when 1000+ NYers fan out across the city to identify the # of people experiencing homelessness This year's count was rescheduled due to snow storm. And now the # of vols signed up is only 50% of last year Join here: nyc.gov/hope

Bellingcat researcher and weapons expert Trevor Ball ( @easybakeovensz.bsky.social ) will be talking to our Discord Server on Thursday about identifying key munitions being used in the Iran-US-Israel war. Join us live at 11am EDT: discord.gg/bellingcat?e...

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

Escape is not allowed at this point.

the Trumpeter Swan has only been around a few days but they're already cleaning up the place

I know there have been a lot of strong feelings about the new NYC subway diagram. I think I have found a new map layout that should make everyone happy.

Trying to make sense of an aircraft’s movements during a conflict? Context is everything. That’s why we built Turnstone, an open source tool that searches historical flight data to allow researchers to explore flight patterns over time and in specific locations. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

Quick piece mapping this police station strike as well as 14 other police stations visibly damaged or destroyed in PlanetScope imagery from @planet.com with a few geolocated by @geoconfirmed.org. Check out the March 1-3 map made by @obtusatum.bsky.social. Link: www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...

if you're into experimental casiotone jazz you should watch my friend's amazing live performance and donate to ME/CFS research

Join us on Sunday 22 March 2026 for an evening of games and talks about hopeful optimism in the service of bottomless longing.  [untitled games event] #3 "secret handshake" Sunday 22 March 2026 1700-1900 Tussen de Bogen 46 Amsterdam 1013JB buttondown.com/untitledgame...

I do have to question whether it is the best use of municipal resources to have NYC DOT apply salt today. (38/34 degrees, raining)

They’re the engine of the city’s budget, but unequal and outdated. Here’s your guide on how property taxes work — and how they affect everyone, not just owners. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/25/p...

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

blurry snapshots of brooklyn park creatures

transit-pilled kia boyz

historic bridges, post offices, warehouses for schools, for spaceflight, on Pacific islands, buoys, gunranges, laboratories for nuclear research and for tree fruit, schools, childcare centers, airport control towers, barracks, datacenters, ranger stations, radar systems, greenhouses, hospitals