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...
- 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
- 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/
Is that actually a functional VLF antenna?- Yes, and there’s a loudspeaker right there so you can aim and listen. I think all I heard was the power lines a few miles away, but supposedly you can hear lightning realllly far away.
- Is this center open to the public? Would love to visit
- I think the best bet is to call or email CLUI and see if they have anything scheduled at the DRS. (The CLUI HQ in Culver City also has exhibits, and a bookstore, and is right next to the Museum of Jurassic Technology.) clui.org
- The place is like an outsider museum of Edwards AFB ephemera. Covid almost killed it, but like an endangered Desert Tortoise it survived an extended period of deprivation. (But go see it, just in case.) 11/
- The Spring 2025 issue of the CLUI's newsletter, The Lay of the Land, has an article on the Remote Sensing exhibit and the presentation that day by the artists involved. 12/ clui.org/newsletter/r...
- Chris took some photos. 9/ bsky.app/profile/quar...
- Scott took some photos but I don't think they're public. After leaving the DRS we raced to the Boron Aerospace Museum and made it a few minutes before it closed. Luckily the awesome person working there was ecstatic to have visitors and kept it open another hour while giving us a personal tour. 10/
