Starting just after Christmas the amount and range of GPS jamming around Kaliningrad has exploded. It hasn't been this bad in months.

from a few hours ago: "Key take aways from [a call with the FAA]: •The FAA expressed continued concerns about the potential for retaliation, Venezuelan capabilities, and drones. •As of now, the plan is to let the San Juan NOTAM expire. •There’s a 6:00 PM ET call with FAA / DOW to assess ..

it’s possible then that the performance of a compression algorithm decreases over time because culture changes.

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

Today I learned that the Brotli compression algorithm has a large hardcoded dictionary that includes "Holy Roman Emperor", "Clinton", " New York", "in New York", and "New York City". gist.github.com/duskwuff/8a7...

Today I had gpt-5.2-codex do a refactor and API design I've been putting off for years. Its design (in Rust) was far better than what I would have done. The other day I used Claude Code/Opus 4.5 to create an app I've been wanting for a year. It wrote 73 files in 25 minutes, and it just worked. 1/

Big Valley 2, Lassen County, CA 🗺41.0721, -121.2230 🧭16° ⛰5085 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16184

I believe the answer is simply expanding beyond a home system is too expensive energetically, Kardashev II-scale civilizations are not attainable within the bounds of chemistry & physics, and the speed of light & inverse square laws make communication past a few light years basically impossible.

I saw Stranger Things at the Americana AMC with my son (11) & his friend. I thought season 5 was going pretty badly, but I loved the final episode–it saved the season for me. Seeing it on a big screen with a lot of fans laughing and clapping helped, I'm sure, but it was a great ending to the series.

B-2 Spirit orbiting over Griffith Park a few minutes ago as seen from Glendale. No morning B-2 flyover due to rain, but it managed a halftime flyover of the Rose Bowl, and a second Rose Bowl flyover just after this video -

Bear Creek Ridge 2, Shasta County, CA 🗺40.5576, -121.9442 🧭264° ⛰2900 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/16603

This was me this year. Claude Code w/ Opus 4.5 is pretty impressive. So is Codex w/ gpt-5.2-codex.

Gypsum Canyon South 1, Orange County, CA 🗺33.8564, -117.7200 🧭56° ⛰719 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11091

Initial conditions: m1=103.1 m2=39.5 m3=79.5 (solar masses) v1x=-5.032 v1y=-2.502 v2x=-3.888 v2y=-4.83 v3x=-0.875 v3y=-1.018 (km/s) x1=21.0 y1=32.0 x2=19.0 y2=-4.0 x3=-23.0 y3=-8.0 (AU from center) Music: First Step (Interstellar) – Zimmer

I missed that there was a tornado warning near my neighborhood this morning!

On Dec. 20, for the first time ever an aircraft landed itself, autonomously, after an in-flight emergency! A King Air 200 lost cabin pressurization, which triggered Garmin's Emergency Autoland. The pilots put oxygen masks on and let the plane land itself. aviation-safety.net/wikibase/564... 1/

The U.S. and Venezuela appear to be jamming GPS in the Caribbean, "putting air and sea traffic in the region at greater risk of a collision or accident." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w... 1/

My quick and dirty thoughts on Trump's short-sighted, stupid, and self-defeating ban on foreign made drones. Banning foreign drones won't make us safer. Instead, it'll encourage people to build their own drones - which are way harder to track and to control.

Jack Sweeney's TheAirTraffic tracker has been around for a while, but it sounds like he's planning some changes.

I’ve been using an agent that can write its own new skills and it feels like unlocking a superpower. Whatever idea I have—FAA database search, summarizing YouTube videos, editing its own conversational history—it implements, I can use it immediately, and it persists forever.

www.chatgpt.com?q=YourYearWi... I'm not sure what "First 0.1% of Users" means–in 2025? Ever?

New super-clean, high quality corpus for the next music generating foundation model just dropped. annas-archive.org/blog/backing... (I joke, I'm sure they can get all they need from YouTube.)

This is a great video about the growth of Flock's persistent AI-powered video surveillance system even as they demonstrate a fundamental incompetence at software engineering and little concern for security. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

Remembering the F-111F WSO who spent years deciphering images on the plane's crappy radar display. During his wife's ultrasound, the OB-GYN said "Sorry, I don't see anything." WSO: "It's right there," and twiddled the contrast and other knobs until the embryo was visible. Saved his daughter's life.

Messing around with some GPSJAM logo ideas.

Cloudflare's internet year in review for 2025 is really neat. They have amazing data. radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...

I love this thread of more-or-less vibe coded passion/"solve my own problem" projects . x.com/gbrl_dick/st...

I don't see a TCAS alert from this incident, but if the USAF aircraft didn't have its transponder on then there wouldn't be one. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...

I asked ChatGPT what kind of bro I am: tech bro, AI bro, etc. It said I'm a "tacti-stack bro" because I work "in tactical domains (GNSS jamming, AIS spoofing, [redacted], etc."

A new circle for the field guide, by N66GE. globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a8b27b&...

Via @xgavin.bsky.social, a 1972 film from the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) showing John McCarthy (father of Lisp and AI) and others playing volleyball. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaoB...

TV/HOWDY.GIF

IMINT #4930 from NROL-82 (TS/SCI) 1. Bulletproof Boombox Cartel 2. Shattered Stronghold of Milkshakes 3. Pataphysical Hyperloop

Guess why this Avelo ICE plane had to return to the gate, according to a source at Avelo. Ready? Because a smoke alarm went off as they were taxiing to the runway, and it was an ICE flight guard smoking in the lav.

I like this story that GPT's sycophancy was a side effect of people not wanting to hear the unvarnished truth of its observations of them. I tried the suggested prompt in o3, it gave pretty good results.

Demo by Kyle Walker of using Meta's SAM3 in the geospatial domain, to segment aerial imagery. "Shown here: detecting putting greens, pools, and cars in Scottsdale from simple text prompts via @Mapbox imagery R, Shiny, mapgl for the UI; Python backend" x.com/kyle_e_walke...

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

There are so many debunked cases showing that the lights are clearly aircraft, and there's not a single video showing something that is clearly a drone.

Did you see the full moon last night? Our Whitney Portal 1 camera captured this time-lapse of the moonset and beautiful sunrise over Mt. Whitney this morning.

My aircraft-tracking PTZ camera has been broken for years, and I was envious of all the fun @airplaneian.com was having so I made an aircraft tracking PTZ camera sim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eca9...

I want Google Antigravity but with Opus 4.5.

I use bsky.app/profile/stec... and I find their labels useful. When I see someone post something that seems kinda wrong and the account is labeled "Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday" I know exactly how much weight to give it.

This is an odd story. The drones were "large, hugely expensive, of military specification…" but also "the drones are believed to have been quadcopters"? And the only observation mentioned is that they were "lit up against the night sky" which is…not reliable. www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

AeroMap, by Ryan Hemenway, displays georeferenced historical aviation charts. map.aeromap.io

Great comments by Nick. "I'd like to know if the first responders here… are training for runway excursions where flight attendants have been advised to abandon their passengers, who are shackled at their ankles…"

My remarks to the Metropolitan Airport Commission on Monday: ICE’s actions must be resisted peacefully, safely, legally, and creatively by everyone - we need to step up because this isn’t someone else’s problem.

The Zizian cult trial is going to be interesting. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

If self-driving cars reduced serious injuries & fatalities by 10% they'd be worthwhile, but Waymo is seeing a 90% reduction. Today in "computers can do everything we can do, but better." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Poster power.