Holy shit sayyadina neuberger

How dare you

Huge improvement over how I used to get the homies to their Newark United connection

Getting ready to take my new couch from Hoboken to Brooklyn

6/ You might not normally notice satellites streaking by, star link microsats trailing in a line, or starlight twinkling through an inversion layer - but you definitely will when all your neighbors think the Iranians are invading with help from ET. And it wouldn’t be the first time:

5/ people notice things more when they’re pointed out. You might live your whole life in NJ without appreciating just how much helicopter, airplane, and other air traffic exists.

4.5/ The position of the lights can create confusing visual illusions when the aircraft passes or turns, and can look like they’re moving erratically or impossibly.

4/ people (even pilots) are pretty bad at identifying lights in the sky at night. Airplanes that would be 20-30 miles away and invisible during the day are easy to see at night, especially below 10k ft where their landing lights are on.

3.5/ It’s a mass hysteria self-licking ice cream cone. I wouldn’t be surprised if some people with hobby drones are flying around at night in NJ just to mess with people at this point

3/ maybe something weird was going on in NJ when this kicked off. But at this point you’ve WSJ and NYPost reporters posting videos of MD-80s and C17s flying over as if they’re alien spacecraft and hobbyists launching drones in NJ to try to take pics, causing more people to see real drones and panic

2.5/ and they are often flown by some guy that just bought a DJIPhantom at Walmart and has no idea what he’s doing. IG is full of videos by drone owners flagrantly violating these rules

2/ The vast majority of American airspace from the ground up to between 700-1200 feet is uncontrolled entirely. Hobby drones and larger agricultural drones generally don’t have transponders, don’t show up on radar (radar needs line of sight and stuff really close to the ground won’t often show up

1/ basically anybody can buy a range of drones at Walmart or online from companies like DJI. They can be pretty big, including some agricultural models. There are regulations around where you can fly them and when you need a license, but there aren’t great ways to enforce them

Unfortunately @aaron.bsky.team seems to be doing a good job otherwise we could have some fun with the crypto wallet scam bots like over on X

yes right away mr zuckerbok sir

And check out @racheltobac.bsky.social's video outlining how to spot scams in the wild /end

Read more about common holiday-themed scams here: graphika.com/reports/holi...
/8

Finally, we constantly work to disrupt phishing domains impersonating our brands across the internet. This year, we got over 24K URLs hosting phishing content in Vietnam and Singapore removed from the internet.
/7

We’ve also continued to expand our pilot program to share information about scams directly with banks and financial services partners to disrupt scammers across the internet /6