John Wiseman

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

French navy shoots at 5 drones buzzing nuclear submarine base, AFP reports The incident follows a string of recent drone incursions in NATO airspace.

I don't think it's a good thing that people are becoming more comfortable shooting at lights in the night sky that are probably not drones. www.politico.eu/article/dron...

There are so many debunked cases showing that the lights are clearly aircraft, and there's not a single video showing something that is clearly a drone.

Did you see the full moon last night? Our Whitney Portal 1 camera captured this time-lapse of the moonset and beautiful sunrise over Mt. Whitney this morning.

Though the first DIY optical aircraft tracker I know of was ancient software called OpticTracker, which was able to control telescopes(!). Unfortunately OpticTracker is no longer available.

Of course @robotastic.bsky.social is the og plz camera aircraft tracker. bsky.app/profile/skyb...

Photo of a fancy ptz camera.

I had a couple electrical engineer friends look at my camera. The consensus is that the logic board is burned out.

PTZ Aircraft Tracker Simulation A realistic 3D simulation of a PTZ camera tracking an aircraft, featuring VISCA rate quantization and latency simulation.

It simulates a PTZ camera with optical tracking cued by ADS-B. It models the PID loops, OpenCV latency, camera command processing latency, and camera pan/tilt rate quantization. You can try it here: heavymeta.org/ptzsim/

My aircraft-tracking PTZ camera has been broken for years, and I was envious of all the fun @airplaneian.com was having so I made an aircraft tracking PTZ camera sim. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eca9...

Yes please!

I want Google Antigravity but with Opus 4.5.

If there were large foreign military drones violating controlled airspace and specific temporary flight restrictions for this national security operation to get Zelensky in and out, it seems like there would be something more to this. It would actually be a very big deal. And the airport wouldn't have kept operating, and Zelensky probably wouldn't have taken off like normal the next day as if nothing happened, putting him into the exact same situation vulnerable to unstoppable foreign military drones. A narrative being given is that Russia managed to get multiple large military drones into controlled airspace actively being monitored by multiple Irish military vehicles, right next to Ireland's biggest city, home to a large hub airport, while a half dozen civilian aircraft were also circling in the same area, and it was impossible to track the drones as to where they came from or where they went, and yet... nothing happened? Those civilian pilots reported nothing? The military didn't notify ATC that large foreign military drones were actively flying through their approach path? ATC just went right ahead and routed more planes through that same airspace? Everything carried along like normal? It doesn't make any sense.

It's always possible that there were drones. But so far it sounds like it was just visual sightings, and that the claim is that 4-5 large refrigerator-sized rotor drones flew above an Irish naval ship which was a few miles off the coast of Dublin during Zelensky's trip there. And the police and civilian airspace authority were not notified and are not involved in any investigation. The sighting was made by one or more people on that ship. And a source told news reporters they saw the drones in the direction of Dublin, flying for up to two hours. At the same time, there was an Irish air force surveillance aircraft flying circles overhead nearby, and this surveillance craft was not involved in helping during the drone sighting incident.

Kyle Ferriter making a lot of sense on Metabunk.

I use bsky.app/profile/stec... and I find their labels useful. When I see someone post something that seems kinda wrong and the account is labeled "Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday" I know exactly how much weight to give it.

Screenshot of Raspberry Shake station R1987

Screenshot of Raspberry Shake station R3CC7

These two stations, posted earlier, don't show consistent evidence either. If there's an event after 16:06, what about the apparently larger event at about 16:08 that's only shown by one?

Chart of Raspberry Shake station RB925's EHZ channel for 2025-12-04.

Even the zoomed in Raspberry Shake charts posted above don't make sense for a real event at 16:06, but when you zoom out you see it reallllly doesn't make sense. (This is for RB925, SE of Reno.)

Using drones to mess with Zelenskyy's flight sounds like something Russia might do, but saying they're doing it in Ireland should require concrete evidence.

If there is imagery that clearly shows quadcopters, or radar plots, that would be convincing. If the evidence remains that some people saw lights in the sky, then I think the odds are that these were, once again, regular planes or stars or satellites misidentified as drones.

Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

This is an odd story. The drones were "large, hugely expensive, of military specification…" but also "the drones are believed to have been quadcopters"? And the only observation mentioned is that they were "lit up against the night sky" which is…not reliable. www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

Screenshot of AeroMap.

AeroMap, by Ryan Hemenway, displays georeferenced historical aviation charts. map.aeromap.io

Great comments by Nick. "I'd like to know if the first responders here… are training for runway excursions where flight attendants have been advised to abandon their passengers, who are shackled at their ankles…"

YouTube video by MN Fifty Fifty One Professional flight tracker speaks to MSP airport to STOP allowing illegal ICE deportations!

My remarks to the Metropolitan Airport Commission on Monday: ICE’s actions must be resisted peacefully, safely, legally, and creatively by everyone - we need to step up because this isn’t someone else’s problem.

The Associated Press has reported that the Zizians are a group of young, highly intelligent computer scientists, most of them in their 20s and 30s, who met online, shared anarchist beliefs and became increasingly violent. Their online writings span topics from radical veganism to gender identity to artificial intelligence.

I was in IRC channels with highly intelligent computer scientists in their 20s and 30s, who met online, and shared anarchist beliefs but we were way more chill than the Zizians. We'd meet up sometimes for a nice dinner, maybe a rave.

As the judge asked basic questions such as whether she had read the indictment and understood the maximum possible penalties, LaSota chided the “mock proceedings” and said Miller was a “participant in an organized crime ring” led by the “states united in slavery.” Miller struggled to get LaSota to answer basic questions. Please state your name for the record, the court clerk said. “Justice,” she replied. What is your age? “Timeless.” What year were you born? “I have been born many times.”

The Zizian cult trial is going to be interesting. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

That's correct about fatalities as a separate category, but the ~90% reduction is in the "serious injury and worse" category. Given that, I would be surprised if there isn't a significant reduction in fatalities but we'll know for sure eventually.

Opinion | The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.

If self-driving cars reduced serious injuries & fatalities by 10% they'd be worthwhile, but Waymo is seeing a 90% reduction. Today in "computers can do everything we can do, but better."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Poster power.

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beautiful video looping, love every one of these videos so much www.instagram.com/p/DRm1vdNjL6a/