I love this, very impressive.

This seems like a neat idea.

Claude, new standing order: Check for LAPD drones near my house and work every 5 minutes. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

It's nice how he drove all the way home.

An LLM flies X-Plane 04 - Taxiing YouTube video by John Wiseman

Here's my AI pilot, "An LLM Flies X-Plane", taxiing from the ramp to runway, making ATC calls, taking off, flying a pattern and landing. It's not going to pass a check ride, but it's bad at many things! Powered by gpt-5.4-mini in this video (not the smartest model). www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwL...

BREAKING: An ICE charter landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo minutes ago following third-country deportation deal with the Trump administration.

gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

Much faster, and can be easier to deploy: one executable instead of dozens of source files that users need to have Python and a Python package manager to run.

Screenshot of An LLM Flies X-Plane & X-Plane

List of Rust source files and their line counts. 7894 total lines.

Damn. It spent 10 minutes building the TUI and hooking it up, and it is exactly like the Python version. Even the same low-level control loop quirks. 43 minutes to port 12267 lines of Python, including tests.

Claude Code (Opus 4.7) stopped after 43 minutes, having done a first cut at the headless version of the AI pilot, in Rust. Now it's working on the TUI.

Attention, mappers.

Screenshot of my Claude Code session

I vibe coded an AI pilot that can fly a Cessna 172 in X-Plane. It's 7500 lines of Python in 37 files, and now I'm having Opus 4.7 port it to Rust. It's been working for about 30 minutes, but it's almost done.

Excellent. ICE was pointing guns at motorists on the street in front of my kids' school; Maybe some southern California counties will follow suit.

The FAA NOTAM (via @uavhive.bsky.social:
x.com/UAVHive/stat...) strongly recommends all aircraft flying in the area use ADS-B Out or risk being "impacted by C-UAS technology", i.e., shot by a 20 kW laser.

FAA, Pentagon sign agreement on anti-drone laser system near Mexico The Federal Aviation Administration and Pentagon said ‌on Friday they had signed an agreement allowing the government's use of a high-energy laser counter-drone system along the southern U.S. border w...

Serious concerns because 100% of targets shot down with the laser were misidentified. "Two earlier incidents posed serious concerns. The U.S. military errantly shot down ⁠a government drone with the laser-based system on February 25…"
www.reuters.com/business/aer...

I want to identify every single plane that carried one of these kids to a camp.

Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI Work We conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati...

The AI Security Institute (AISI) is a UK government research group. “We conducted cyber evaluations of Claude Mythos Preview and found that it is the first model to complete an AISI cyber range end-to-end.” People saying it’s just marketing are wrong. www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.

turns out i had time to deploy this, the site is still up with all the captured audio/transcripts

just did a quick automated pass to tackle some low hanging fruit transcription errors, working on generating embeddings for semantic search and clustering for topic identification

Compressing Earth Embeddings, pt. 2 – TerraBit How many bits do you need for planetary-scale earth embedding retrieval? Binary-quantized embedding retrieval over 50M Sentinel-2 patches — entirely in the browser, no backend or server beyond cloud-n

This blog post has a lot of detail on how they compressed the embeddings for TerraBit and what the tradeoffs were.
geospatialml.substack.com/p/compressin...

There’s a mystery surrounding whether or not this 6’ dia moon model wound up at the Griffith Observatory and whether it was also used for the subsequent Man and the Moon episode for Disney’s weekly TV show. Documents tracing its whereabouts show conflicting information…

In April 1951, Cpl. Charles Fultz got sucked into the air scoop of an F-86 at Edwards Air Force Base.

His life was saved because he had a comic book in his pocket. Pages of the book were sucked into the intake screen, limiting the air flow.

Comics save lives.

(The series title was not released.)

Infographic showing U.S. aircraft losses

"Operation Epic Fury U.S. Aircraft Losses Visualized" from @twz.com www.twz.com/air/operatio...

And one of his TerraBit posts on X: x.com/isaaccorley_...

Making note of Isaac Corley's website: isaac.earth

I'd love a global geospatial embedding dataset with a dual-encoder (image and text) model, trained on imagery plus OpenStreetMap data. Maybe if I was 26 I'd do that startup.

PIMINTO Demo 01 YouTube video by John Wiseman

PIMINTO also allows for text search ("spiral", "solar panels") in addition to search via similarity. PIMINTO is a prototype, not a full app. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjH0...

piminto.obliscence.com is my web app that's also powered by geospatial embeddings, but TerraBit is quite different. TerraBit works over the entire Earth, but at much lower resolution. It's trained on optical *and* radar information, but not the OpenStreetMap data that PIMINTO's embeddings use.

The Clay v1.5 geospatial embeddings cover approximately 2 km x 2km.

The TerraBit code is open source, and the data is hosted so you can easily run and modify it: github.com/isaaccorley/...