Boss: hey Bob, our users are asking for an API to determine if a video can be played in the browser. Bob: yeah, I get it, but this is really complica -- Boss: go on now, git! You'll figure it out. Bob: [muttering to himself]

An Alabama man shot at a medical helicopter trying to land in a pasture at night. The kicker: "Court filings indicate that Ellison believed he was firing at a drone." There's a direct link from the NJ drone delusion to this. www.wvtm13.com/article/auta...

I'm intrigued by the Tron: Ares trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_bV...

N223LA, a Eurocopter AS.350-B3, is circling over Central Almeda, Los Angeles at 475 feet, speed 44 MPH, squawking 4201, 0.3 miles from Hooper Elementary School https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a1ed21&zoom=13&showTrace=2025-09-20

Box Springs Mtn 2, Riverside County, CA 🗺33.9599, -117.2796 🧭86° ⛰2989 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1848

Dutch late night TV has its take

The 4th annual Jammertest, the largest GNSS resilience test in the world, is underway in Andøya, Norway. Equipment is tested to see how it reacts to real-world jamming and spoofing. jammertest.no 1/

Anthony Peak Lookout 2, Mendocino County, CA 🗺39.8462, -122.9646 🧭300° ⛰6942 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2745

Controllers get stressed about a Spirit flight near AF1.

I have 2 videos in my production queue: One is just a dumb point-by-point debunking of a viral conspiracy tiktok video that most people have already forgotten, the other is a real demo of my PIMINTO aerial imagery semantic search app.

Someone tried to get ChatGPT in advanced voice mode to help them land a jet in a simulator. It demonstrates how dumb the voice mode model is–it's the only model I ever get angry with, yelling "JUST TELL ME WHAT I ASKED FOR" etc. It's so bad. via @airplaneian.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLMB...

Insane, but also inevitable. 130 TB of dashcam videos. "The CIA did not respond to a request for comment on its policies concerning staff or visitors’ use of personal dashcams." www.404media.co/this-company...

One of the most interesting presentations of OSM data I've seen.

how to use the subway: a minimalist chill subway system simulator https://quewon.github.io/subway/

Data from the Anti-Defamation League.

Started a daily writing exercise where I key one (1) 12-mile hex of Middle-earth. Here are seven from the last week.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

The fantasy of running your own independent radio station epitomizes the potent, naive optimism of the early internet in 90’s San Francisco. Rusty actually made it real - running the servers for 25 years! Thank you! somafm.com

It actually only took me 30 seconds to disprove a conspiracy theory that’s been reposted by The Daily Beast and The Daily Mail.

I'm seeing a lot of online publications reposting twitter rumors about a private jet that flew out of Utah after Charlie Kirk was shot, and they're easily disproven by 60 seconds on @flightradar24.com. N888KG didn't "illegally" turn off its transponder or drop off radar or do _anything_ suspicious.

nonsequitur timeline cleanse: i was trying to figure out the origins of the concept of "enterprise software" and this marketing campaign for enterprise software featuring Commander Riker from TNG is not it, but it is really something blog.trekcore.com/2013/10/excl...

I am skeptical that there was any GPS jamming in the Caribbean, but there are interesting differences between the different measures returned by ADS-B. I suspect using a NIC ≤ 7 threshold is too sensitive to be useful for picking up potential jamming.

Do hackers still listen to techno/metal while coding? Because that's what I do when I'm in hardcore hacker mode. Has to be all instrumental though. (Jeff Bridges talking about the grid and saying "and then, one day…I got in." on the Tron: Legacy soundtrack is allowed however.)

The Dusty Robotics FieldPrinter autonomously draws construction plans onto concrete.

A Starlink satellite photobombs a Maxar image. "We're operating in an interconnected orbital ecosystem where commercial broadband, Earth intelligence, and national security missions share the same highways 340 miles above our heads." www.linkedin.com/posts/susann...

18-20981 call sign KNIFE24 is circling over Los Angeles County at 4250 feet, speed 20 MPH, squawking 1206, 0.6 miles from Browns Flat https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=aedb53&zoom=13&showTrace=2025-09-09

Ludwig is the best thing on TV right now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMzO...

Someone made this very nice-looking device that displays information on the closest aircraft in realtime. www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/comme...

I've lost my patience with the accounts posting "BREAKING: Reports of heavy GPS interference in the Caribbean!"

late summer

"Animation of a lightning event from April 2019 as detected by the LOFAR radio telescope in the Netherlands. Includes three separate flashes in less than 2 seconds. The pulses are colored by age, with bright white pulses fading to shades of blue and purple over time." sketchfab.com/3d-models/li...

poor guy's butt cheek is 1000x background ☢️ ☢️ ☢️ you hate to see it

This followup article from the FT mentions the data discrepancies briefly. (Nice to see GPSJAM data show up in the Financial Times.) www.ft.com/content/44cb...

"It looks like you win. Doesn't it? Except you don't. Next person."

This anti-gambling U.S. Navy training film with John Scarne is awesome. "You Think it's Luck". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yXY...

Yes. There are so many situations where an AI that isn't 100% correct is still incredibly, revolutionarily useful.

AFAIK this was the first time that anyone saw that Russia was interfering with GPS in much of Europe. I looked in vain for news coverage. Now it's just a daily part of our world, and if you fly regularly in Europe there's a good chance Russian EW affected the safety systems of your aircraft.

The story about the President of the European Commission's plane being hit by GPS jamming while landing in Bulgaria is odd: No evidence of GPS issues via ADS-B; The flight did not circle for an hour as claimed; This region very rarely experiences GPS jamming. www.ft.com/content/3c33...

Beautiful. More in thread.

I recently learned that there was an active Model A club at Edwards AFB in the 1950s and the club photos 100% deliver Heads up @artofcoop.bsky.social and @highway62.bsky.social [1/2]

Even in 2019 we knew that Twitter was no longer a place of honor or joy.

The idea of getting textual advice that's complete bullshit premised on a misunderstanding written by something that sounds like a human and you can chat with forever and doesn't get smarter is not new to me. That's called a tech support forum. I grew up on those. Maybe that is my vaccine.

I used Delta flight 89 as an example in this demo of my geospatial query-by-geometry tool, MUNDUS. youtu.be/sQ_sEWodIrc?...

GPS/GNSS spoofing around the world for 2025-08-25. (I posted one yesterday and deleted it; I've tuned the algorithm and this one is better.)

Last night N5203H, a Cessna 172, crashed near Los Banos CA, killing the pilot. According to reddit the pilot fought a control failure for about an hour before finally crashing. It seems another pilot tried to assist during that time.

One of the best answers I've ever heard was "I'm obsessed with fast food." It wasn't a joke, and I ended up making him some maps showing the distributions of different fast food chains across the U.S.

Incredible 2004 speaker bio: "She is also an acclaimed software critic whose opinions are eagerly anticipated on several important mailing-lists."

One consequence of the lack of accountability, or really any followup, is that even today many people still think there was a weird drone incursion over New Jersey.

I think we all should have been a lot more worried about the NJ drone mass hysteria; especially the way the military, police, politicians, and journalists all got completely sucked into it, absolutely detached from the reality in front of their eyes. People shot at and lasered obvious planes!