“Nobody Knows Anything Yet And It Rules“ This is an exciting time to be a programmer. fly.io/blog/everyon...

Art by Larry Elmore. Shadowrun RPG (1989), Gateways Magazine 13 DnD (1989), Dark Conspiracy RPG (1991), The Tank Lords by David Drake (1997)

What's the difference between Overpass Turbo and PIMINTO? Overpass Turbo is a Perl-flavored query language just for data in the OpenStreetMap database. PIMINTO knows what chillers, smoke stacks, and train cars look like from the air. It can also read, and you can show it example images.

Interestingly, for the first time in over a week, today's GPSJAM data shows no significant interference around Trinidad and Tobago. gpsjam.org?lat=10.33772...

I finally did what I should have done earlier and checked the NOTAMs, and the FAA at least has nothing related to GPS in this area. I'm curious to see what today's map looks like when it comes out in 15 minutes.

Rise of the "arm farms", where people are paid to strap GoPros to their heads and fold laundry, make tea, pack boxes, etc. for robot training data. Reading all that cyberpunk and Philip K. Dick did prepare me for the future after all. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

“We are in a weird and oddly-specific moment in time. The era of human beings writing code by hand ended earlier this year (2025).” The future is not evenly distributed, but he's right. It is a weird time to be a programmer.

Query: "Red buildings with 'Iran Air Cargo' painted on the roof". Results in 0.32 seconds. Semantic search of geospatial/aerial imagery data. piminto.obliscence.com

Very lucky man in this dash cam video that caught the UPS MD-11 flight 2976 crash. I don't know the original source, I got it from x.com/ShelbyWx_/st... [Deleted & re-posted because I meant to flag this as graphic media.]

Beckwourth Peak 1, Plumas County, CA 🗺39.7688, -120.4367 🧭196° ⛰7182 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1608

Thankfully there are more open flight tracking platforms available! You can track Kash's jet (DOJ Gulfstream N708JH) via... globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=A97316 adsb.lol?icao=A97316 globe.adsb.fi?icao=A97316 globe.airplanes.live?icao=A97316

I love when robots try so hard not to go down and fail.

GPS jamming has become a constant feature of modern conflicts, including the fierce electronic warfare on the front lines in Ukraine. But the US Space Force is hoping to create a new system that is harder to jam or fool

Chart (slightly tweaked) showing the total number of jobs posted to HN's "Who is hiring? posts. Data from hnhiring.com. After July of 2022 the numbers are *dismal*, about 1/3 what they were before COVID. January 2025 was the worst month ever since 2018.

Pine Mtn Kern 1, Kern County, CA 🗺35.5612, -118.7718 🧭305° ⛰3875 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2256

Chart of U.S. job postings over the past 8 years on Hacker News, from nnhiring.com.

ICE Agent Panics After Realizing There More Children Than He Has Flash-Bangs https://theonion.com/ice-agent-panics-after-realizing-there-more-children-than-he-has-flash-bangs/

I'm still seeing significant GPS interference near Venezuela. gpsjam.org?lat=10.60659...

There's less than one full month left in 2025, but I feel good if I can post at least one significant project per year and PIMINTO is a good one. "I think this hasn't got as much attention as it deserves." – someone on the @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social slack. heavymeta.org/projects/

Breckenridge Peak 1, Kern County, CA 🗺35.4529, -118.5914 🧭13° ⛰7520 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1853

I worked at Friendster when we had an n-dimensional graph, and mostly what we discovered at vast expense was... After 2 degrees, you are strangers.

“The FBI later replied with an 'updated statement' that said, 'Reports suggesting young children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets during the October 19 FBI-led operation in Wilder are completely false.'” www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

MASINT #492 from FalconSAT-8 (TS/SCI) 1. Unnameable Spacecraft Bunker 2. Antediluvian Snow

I can get to Jimi Hendrix in two, weirdly. I'm one hop away from a guy who went home with a girl, and woke up the next morning to find Jimi in the kitchen. Jimi had slept with the girl's roommate.

I first started mapping GPS jamming in case it was an early warning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I hope it's not a sign of some mad Trumpian attack on Venezuela.

About 45 minutes into its flight, JetBlue 1230 had a sudden, short descent according to ADS-B data.

ChatGPT 5 has been kind of an idiot today. Is it hungover? It kept giving me a bash script with syntax errors, which is very unusual.

Speaking of freaky AI things, each of the three experiments they did turned up some freaky results about what they call introspective awareness. Really interesting. www.anthropic.com/research/int...

Tomhead Lookout 1, Tehama County, CA 🗺40.1366, -122.8171 🧭37° ⛰6703 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16737

The Kimi CLI agent has a clever, mind-bending ability to rewrite its past context, essentially sending itself a message from the future (called D-Mail, from an anime where messages are sent to the past via black holes). "Future you tried that, it didn't work and it burned tokens. Try this instead."

The current homepage of USDA. This is deeply and profoundly fucked up. And illegal. People need to go to jail.

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating) The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

New on The New York Times : “Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks”

Chaos Computer Club found an oopsie: "Using the credentials test:test, it was possible to log in at the ARINC OpCenter Message Browser as U.S. Navy Fleet Logistics Support Wing." www.ccc.de/en/disclosur...

According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history. The leading cause of death? Covid-19. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

If you want to try your own queries in PIMINTO, my geospatial AI search tool, now you can: piminto.obliscence.com. There are some pretty neat features that I didn't include in the demo video, including a third way to query besides text and images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjH0...

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Last year I developed this geospatial AI (semantic) search system, but I never posted a good demo video until today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjH0...

I thought I knew about most of the tricks, between the GOES satellites, basically every airplane broadcasting outside temperature and pressure, and good old fashioned weather balloons. but this blew my mind, I had no idea

Interesting thread from the President os Signal. bsky.app/profile/mere...

Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa. Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.

2 years ago I randomly found someone who could only be Kenny G selling a flight simulator setup on craigslist -

The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency publishes open, real-time AIS data for Finland's waterways, which is amazing. For fun I made a map that uses it. fta-ais-live.obliscence.com

Video by stevefaeembra: "Flight down Glencoe, done in a 80s/90s Sci Fi movie style. Contours done in #QGIS , using data from Ordnance Survey Open ZoomStack" mapstodon.space/@stevefaeemb...

What started as a bit of a hobby on looking at why aircraft fly different paths from time to time, sure has grown. I had no idea that @CNN were looking at the site / data. Pretty interesting: www.cnn.com/2025/10/... ADSB is there where. ACARS is the why.

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

A nice recollection of the early social internet by @phil.gyford.com. I was on Club Wired, and Spacebar, and I'm still in touch with many of the people I met there. www.gyford.com/phil/writing...

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Since adsb.exposed is going around again, here's a custom GPT I made that you can use to translate natural language queries ("give me a query that only shows things above 55000 feet going slower than 100 knots", i.e. balloons) to Clickhouse's query language: chatgpt.com/g/g-GfJuwxZF...