Logan Williams
obtusatum.bsky.social
Logan Williams
@obtusatum.bsky.social
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Mountains and websites; maps and birds; context collapse. Projects: https://subject.space/. Work: Data, research and technology for investigations @bellingcat.com. Personal account, posts/opinions are my own. NYC/Amsterdam via Oregon.
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It is LAPD issue.

Did this tactical situation require "the element of surprise"? Do the actions of the LAPD show "reverence for human life"?

bsky.app/profile/phil...
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At some point, the reliance on these euphemisms becomes a kind of propaganda or acquiescence.
Is that a wooden katana? Is that LAPD standard issue? Why are they beating people waiting in line to get into a bar?
LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
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LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
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I first started mapping GPS jamming in case it was an early warning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I hope it's not a sign of some mad Trumpian attack on Venezuela.
Recent GPS interference near Venezuela and Trinidad, per GPSJAM, as noticed by a Bellingcat workshop participant. I believe this is a recent development for the area. CC @lemonodor.bsky.social
The data clearly shows Brooklyn voters are the most motivated by Halloween I Voted! stickers.
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If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.

Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org
Recent GPS interference near Venezuela and Trinidad, per GPSJAM, as noticed by a Bellingcat workshop participant. I believe this is a recent development for the area. CC @lemonodor.bsky.social
It's not just overall turnout. It's about who turns out.
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#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING.

supportjamaica.gov.jm
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If you want to try your own queries in PIMINTO, my geospatial AI search tool, now you can: piminto.obliscence.com. There are some pretty neat features that I didn't include in the demo video, including a third way to query besides text and images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjH0...
PIMINTO Demo 01
YouTube video by John Wiseman
www.youtube.com
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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From an article about the man in the SS uniform arrested for attacking the woman in Georgia. Just wild that we've accepted that there's a huge social media platform where an account called "@GasChambers" is allowed to openly do Nazi fundraising and that's fine, in fact all the reporters post there.
He's still got it, folks.
At a Gracie Mansion event tonight honoring Uzbek heritage, Mayor Adams said "New York is the Tashkent of America, but Brooklyn is the capital of that."

(Tashkent is the capital of Uzbekistan)
This is a little more subtle at least.
A ship with no AIS captured by Sentinel-2 yesterday, 150 miles west of Acapulco. browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=16&lat=...
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What percentage of politicians in your country are still relying on this site as a primary means of public communication?

It feels slightly maddening that this isn't being treated as an extremely urgent problem.
This is a "recommended" tweet pushed to a (very much not-Nazi) contact's iPhone lockscreen last week.

Who knows how many millions it was pushed to by Musk's platform, including in this case, in the UK?

It's now been deleted, but only after getting thousands of RTs.
Good luck Tristan! Excited to see what you produce.
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I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.
Welcome to Decoherence Media, an independent nonprofit founded by @jennefer.bsky.social and @tristanl.ee that investigates authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
Welcome to Decoherence Media!
We're an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods.
decoherence.media
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" That whole ordeal - being in a prison, no phone call, no lawyer, no shower - that entire situation threw me for a loop. It wasn't just the arrest itself. ... I mean, before all this happened, I didn't know that federal officials were basically untouchable." www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
A U.S. citizen detained by ICE is pushing to hold agents accountable
NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with George Retes, a U.S. citizen who was detained by federal immigration officers in July while attempting to enter his workplace.
www.npr.org