John Wiseman
@lemonodor.bsky.social
Persistent sousveiller. Walt Disney R&D Imagineer. DM for Signal. https://heavymeta.org
"With a diameter of 900 meters, it is the largest known impact crater from this era—far exceeding Russia's 300-meter Macha crater, previously the largest known Holocene impact structure." phys.org/news/2025-11...
Earth's largest modern crater discovered in Southern China
A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide with Earth.
phys.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"With a diameter of 900 meters, it is the largest known impact crater from this era—far exceeding Russia's 300-meter Macha crater, previously the largest known Holocene impact structure." phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Patton Hill 1, Humboldt County, CA
🗺40.2568, -123.6558 🧭136° ⛰1742 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2241
🗺40.2568, -123.6558 🧭136° ⛰1742 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2241
November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Patton Hill 1, Humboldt County, CA
🗺40.2568, -123.6558 🧭136° ⛰1742 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2241
🗺40.2568, -123.6558 🧭136° ⛰1742 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2241
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Live coding Drum and Bass.
This absolutely melts my brain. What kind of wizardry is this.
This absolutely melts my brain. What kind of wizardry is this.
Livecoding melodic DNB music in Strudel
YouTube video by Switch Angel
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Live coding Drum and Bass.
This absolutely melts my brain. What kind of wizardry is this.
This absolutely melts my brain. What kind of wizardry is this.
I accidentally hit my ChatGPT Codex usage limit for the week. Come on, November 16. (I was mostly experimenting with fancy radar tracking and association algorithms like MHT and JPDA for fta-ais-live.obliscence.com.)
fta-ais-live.obliscence.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I accidentally hit my ChatGPT Codex usage limit for the week. Come on, November 16. (I was mostly experimenting with fancy radar tracking and association algorithms like MHT and JPDA for fta-ais-live.obliscence.com.)
A new use of the AIS name field I haven't seen before, apparently warning ships about a LIVE FIRING EXERCISE.
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A new use of the AIS name field I haven't seen before, apparently warning ships about a LIVE FIRING EXERCISE.
I've been adding more features to my experimental ship tracking site. Now it shows ships with MMSI 999999999 which are not shown on almost any tracker, but is often used by warships.
fta-ais-live.obliscence.com
fta-ais-live.obliscence.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I've been adding more features to my experimental ship tracking site. Now it shows ships with MMSI 999999999 which are not shown on almost any tracker, but is often used by warships.
fta-ais-live.obliscence.com
fta-ais-live.obliscence.com
I'm not seeing any aurora in LA right now, so I'm watching it on this livestream from Minnesota. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwGv...
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
I'm not seeing any aurora in LA right now, so I'm watching it on this livestream from Minnesota. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwGv...
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Whoa - picking up aurora on the @mtwilsonobs.bsky.social towercam!
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Whoa - picking up aurora on the @mtwilsonobs.bsky.social towercam!
Fascinating look inside the Disney Imagineering Sound Archive, including a bunch of the engineering: From mag tapes, custom playback hardware, mastering to EPROM, to modern tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUIa...
Inside Disney’s Secret Sound Vault
YouTube video by Dallas Taylor
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Fascinating look inside the Disney Imagineering Sound Archive, including a bunch of the engineering: From mag tapes, custom playback hardware, mastering to EPROM, to modern tools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUIa...
Map of radio frequency interference mapped from space (via SMAP) overlaid with GPSJAM data.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Map of radio frequency interference mapped from space (via SMAP) overlaid with GPSJAM data.
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Every American needs to know what is being done in the name of our safety and prosperity. I don't personally feel safer or more prosperous by torturing people, but Stephen Miller does.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Every American needs to know what is being done in the name of our safety and prosperity. I don't personally feel safer or more prosperous by torturing people, but Stephen Miller does.
Border Patrol is the worst of a bad bunch.
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
@reuters.com #Chicago
www.reuters.com/world/us/bor...
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Border Patrol is the worst of a bad bunch.
There’s a lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions at the Broadview ICE facility, but it’s not enough. People doing this under government authority need to be charged.
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There’s a lawsuit alleging inhumane conditions at the Broadview ICE facility, but it’s not enough. People doing this under government authority need to be charged.
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this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
this should be one of defining images of his second term, because its impossible to tell from looking at it whether he is too indifferent to care or too senile to notice
“Nobody Knows Anything Yet And It Rules“ This is an exciting time to be a programmer. fly.io/blog/everyon...
You Should Write An Agent
They're like riding a bike: easy, and you don't get it until you try.
fly.io
November 6, 2025 at 11:16 PM
“Nobody Knows Anything Yet And It Rules“ This is an exciting time to be a programmer. fly.io/blog/everyon...
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Art by Larry Elmore. Shadowrun RPG (1989), Gateways Magazine 13 DnD (1989), Dark Conspiracy RPG (1991), The Tank Lords by David Drake (1997)
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Art by Larry Elmore. Shadowrun RPG (1989), Gateways Magazine 13 DnD (1989), Dark Conspiracy RPG (1991), The Tank Lords by David Drake (1997)
What's the difference between Overpass Turbo and PIMINTO? Overpass Turbo is a Perl-flavored query language just for data in the OpenStreetMap database. PIMINTO knows what chillers, smoke stacks, and train cars look like from the air. It can also read, and you can show it example images.
Query: "Red buildings with 'Iran Air Cargo' painted on the roof". Results in 0.32 seconds. Semantic search of geospatial/aerial imagery data. piminto.obliscence.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
What's the difference between Overpass Turbo and PIMINTO? Overpass Turbo is a Perl-flavored query language just for data in the OpenStreetMap database. PIMINTO knows what chillers, smoke stacks, and train cars look like from the air. It can also read, and you can show it example images.
Interestingly, for the first time in over a week, today's GPSJAM data shows no significant interference around Trinidad and Tobago. gpsjam.org?lat=10.33772...
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Interestingly, for the first time in over a week, today's GPSJAM data shows no significant interference around Trinidad and Tobago. gpsjam.org?lat=10.33772...
I finally did what I should have done earlier and checked the NOTAMs, and the FAA at least has nothing related to GPS in this area. I'm curious to see what today's map looks like when it comes out in 15 minutes.
I'm still seeing significant GPS interference near Venezuela. gpsjam.org?lat=10.60659...
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I finally did what I should have done earlier and checked the NOTAMs, and the FAA at least has nothing related to GPS in this area. I'm curious to see what today's map looks like when it comes out in 15 minutes.
Rise of the "arm farms", where people are paid to strap GoPros to their heads and fold laundry, make tea, pack boxes, etc. for robot training data. Reading all that cyberpunk and Philip K. Dick did prepare me for the future after all.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Inside the race to train AI robots how to act human in the real world
Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.
www.latimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Rise of the "arm farms", where people are paid to strap GoPros to their heads and fold laundry, make tea, pack boxes, etc. for robot training data. Reading all that cyberpunk and Philip K. Dick did prepare me for the future after all.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
Federal agents pulling a woman out of Rayito Del Sol, a daycare by Lane Tech high school
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children.
But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
“We are in a weird and oddly-specific moment in time. The era of human beings writing code by hand ended earlier this year (2025).” The future is not evenly distributed, but he's right. It is a weird time to be a programmer.
November 5, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“We are in a weird and oddly-specific moment in time. The era of human beings writing code by hand ended earlier this year (2025).” The future is not evenly distributed, but he's right. It is a weird time to be a programmer.
Query: "Red buildings with 'Iran Air Cargo' painted on the roof". Results in 0.32 seconds. Semantic search of geospatial/aerial imagery data. piminto.obliscence.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Query: "Red buildings with 'Iran Air Cargo' painted on the roof". Results in 0.32 seconds. Semantic search of geospatial/aerial imagery data. piminto.obliscence.com
Very lucky man in this dash cam video that caught the UPS MD-11 flight 2976 crash. I don't know the original source, I got it from x.com/ShelbyWx_/st... [Deleted & re-posted because I meant to flag this as graphic media.]
November 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Very lucky man in this dash cam video that caught the UPS MD-11 flight 2976 crash. I don't know the original source, I got it from x.com/ShelbyWx_/st... [Deleted & re-posted because I meant to flag this as graphic media.]
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Beckwourth Peak 1, Plumas County, CA
🗺39.7688, -120.4367 🧭196° ⛰7182 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1608
🗺39.7688, -120.4367 🧭196° ⛰7182 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1608
November 5, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Beckwourth Peak 1, Plumas County, CA
🗺39.7688, -120.4367 🧭196° ⛰7182 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1608
🗺39.7688, -120.4367 🧭196° ⛰7182 ft
https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1608