John Wiseman
Persistent sousveiller. Walt Disney R&D Imagineer. DM for Signal. https://heavymeta.org
- This is shocking. (And now I wonder what other companies have used hacked/leaked data for profit.)
- New from 404 Media: Flock, the license plate reader company that has cameras all across the U.S., is now building a massive people lookup tool using hacked data. The plan is to "jump from LPR to person." Won't require a warrant. This is according to leak we obtained. www.404media.co/license-plat...
- Reposted by John Wisemanapparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"
- NTSB's final report on N611VG. It's not mentioned specifically in the report, but the heading from its last waypoint to its destination of KISP aims you directly into the DC FRZ 240 miles away. Coincidence, nothing mysterious like some people suggested at the time. data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen...
- Planet posted a webinar on their "Aircraft Detection at Planetary Scale" system, which also does some analysis including anomaly detection and an attempt at LLM-based anomaly explanation. It has a few more details than their blog post. content.planet.com/c/planet-vid...
- I wonder if there are airlines doing ICE Air flights that we don't know about yet.
- ✈️👀 The first Avelo Airlines plane operating an ICE Air flight just lifted off in Phoenix for Alexandria. Amid the intense controversy over this retail passenger airline operating ICE flights. t.co/XJlnPFhIXs
- Reposted by John Wiseman“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”
- In Feb. @quartzcity.bsky.social, @tropicostation.bsky.social, @airplaneian.com and I went to the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Desert Research Station to see their Remote Sensing exhibit. This is a steerable VLF antenna made with 9+ miles of copper wire. 1/
- Reposted by John WisemanI am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
- If you haven't tried GPT o3, it is next level.
- Reposted by John WisemanTrue story: When I was a contractor at a NASA facility I kept M&Ms on my desk. A civil servant I worked with ate a few one day. The next day I came in to find a pound bag on my desk. He wanted to "reimburse" me because he didn't want the few he ate to be seen as a gift. Anyway
- Reposted by John Wiseman"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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- Update on phantom TCAS alerts in DC: "…a reliable government source told me the Secret Service had been testing equipment at the Naval Observatory, which is the vice-president’s official residence. 'They didn’t tell anyone or coordinate with anyone,' the source said." nymag.com/intelligence...
- Hacking for good. www.404media.co/man-disappea...
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- Reposted by John WisemanThis Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.
- I wrote code that detects takeoffs and landings via ADS-B data. According to the code, on April 10, ZK-KEO in New Zealand was the hardest working plane in the world with about 150 takeoffs and landings: 1 every 5 minutes, for HOURS. What was it doing!? 1/
- Fun thread where multiple people who created and sold 8-bit knockoffs of hit arcade games when they were kids show up. Every computer nerd kid had this dream in the 80s.
- Some interesting stuff in this SOCOM request for information related to "Human Machine Teaming". Drone navigation, high altitude sensor payloads, and more. They're interested in innovative, cutting edge experimental ideas. sam.gov/opp/6ecbdf07...
- I have a few critiques, but I think this gives helpful context on energy use by LLMs: andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh...
- I created a simple simulation of how GPS spoofing affects drone navigation as a tool to help develop an intuition on the effects of spoofing, and to help determine why spoofing is done the way it is. You can simulate static spoofing or dynamic (circles). spoofing-sim.obliscence.com
- Fascinating article about the impact of the development of LLMs on academic NLP. (cc/ @willwhim.com) www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt...
- Last year 49 U.S.C. § 44114(b) was passed, which allows aircraft owners to request their personal information be kept hidden. This is the first time I've seen a redacted record on the FAA site. (via @jacks.grndcntrl.net).
