John Wiseman
@lemonodor.bsky.social
Persistent sousveiller. Walt Disney R&D Imagineer. DM for Signal. https://heavymeta.org
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Gypsum Canyon South 1, Orange County, CA
🗺33.8564, -117.7200 🧭56° ⛰719 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11091
🗺33.8564, -117.7200 🧭56° ⛰719 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11091
December 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Gypsum Canyon South 1, Orange County, CA
🗺33.8564, -117.7200 🧭56° ⛰719 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11091
🗺33.8564, -117.7200 🧭56° ⛰719 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/11091
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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
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
December 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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
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!
December 25, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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/
aviation-safety.net
December 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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/
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w... 1/
U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard
www.nytimes.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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/
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/w... 1/
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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.
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.
The USA Bans Foreign-Made Drones, in Trump's Grand Idiot Tradition
It's December 23rd, and the USA has officially banned the import of all foreign made drones and "critical components."
Here's a very quick and dirty run-down of my thoughts.
Although if you'd like t...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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.
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 never planned to build an ADSBExchange alternative, but after it was sold in 2023, I was effectively forced to.
It’s been on the back burner, but TheAirTraffic now has a new main page, and I’ll be launching a user friendly replacement for the tar1090 tracking page soon.
theairtraffic.com
It’s been on the back burner, but TheAirTraffic now has a new main page, and I’ll be launching a user friendly replacement for the tar1090 tracking page soon.
theairtraffic.com
TheAirTraffic - Global Flight Tracking
Global Flight Data Aggregator & Real-Time Tracking. Join the community-driven network.
theairtraffic.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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.
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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?
December 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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.)
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
annas-archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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-...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...
This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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-...
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.
December 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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.
December 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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...
radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...
December 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Cloudflare's internet year in review for 2025 is really neat. They have amazing data.
radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...
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...
x.com/gbrl_dick/st...
December 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I love this thread of more-or-less vibe coded passion/"solve my own problem" projects .
x.com/gbrl_dick/st...
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...
U.S. Military Plane and JetBlue Flight Nearly Collided Over Caribbean, Radio Traffic Shows
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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."
December 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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.
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December 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A new circle for the field guide, by N66GE.
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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...
SAIL VolleyballGame ChuckRiegerSuper8 May1972 2
YouTube video by Bruce Baumgart
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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...
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IMINT #4930 from NROL-82 (TS/SCI)
1. Bulletproof Boombox Cartel
2. Shattered Stronghold of Milkshakes
3. Pataphysical Hyperloop
1. Bulletproof Boombox Cartel
2. Shattered Stronghold of Milkshakes
3. Pataphysical Hyperloop
December 10, 2025 at 5:51 AM
IMINT #4930 from NROL-82 (TS/SCI)
1. Bulletproof Boombox Cartel
2. Shattered Stronghold of Milkshakes
3. Pataphysical Hyperloop
1. Bulletproof Boombox Cartel
2. Shattered Stronghold of Milkshakes
3. Pataphysical Hyperloop
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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.
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.
December 10, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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.
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.
December 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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...
December 8, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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...
