#Iran has seven satellites in #space launched by its own rockets: Noor-2 (02022-03-08); Noor-3 (Najm, 02023-09-27); Soraya (02024-01-20); the triplet Mehda, Kayhan 2, and Hatef 1 (02024-01-28); and Chamran-1 (02024-09-14).
Rheinmetall Skyshield is CIWS-like anti-drone and anti-missile #weaponry.
discussion of #ICE and #censorship in #USA #politics through restrictions on #drones: “[D]rone operators can’t know whether they are within 3000 horizontal feet of unmarked DHS vehicles. Yet the TFR allows the government to capture or even shoot down a drone if it flies within the TFR radius, and to impose criminal and civil penalties on the operator. (...) We don’t believe it’s a coincidence that the TFR was put in place in January 2026, at the height of the Minneapolis anti-ICE protests, shortly after the killing of Renée Good and shortly before the shooting of Alex Pretti. After both of those tragedies, civilian recordings played a vital role in contradicting the government’s false account of the events.”
as of C23 they’ve standardized the GCC behavior where unsigned-to-signed casting in #C does the obviously intended twos-complement bit pattern reinterpretation instead of being implementation-defined
in 02013 some dumbfuck shot a PG&E substation full of holes with sniper rifles, damaging 17 #transformers.
archive of https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-bottlenecks-transformers/ #news about how #manufacturing of #transformers is a bottleneck for electrifying... the world? Somehow I doubt that; it seems like the kind of problem China is good at solving. The article mentions the UK, the #USA, Europe, India, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Russia, and Ukraine, before getting to China, where the vast majority of electrification is happening, and then says, “China, on the other hand, has been growing transformer manufacturing for years that feeds both its growing domestic electricity demand and rising export needs.” Also microgrids don’t need the kind of giant transformers that require a lead time of a year. And Bloomberg’s reporting here is plagued with false statements of fact, claiming that all transformers are at least as big as a household trash can, and that “a quirk of history” made the grid dependent on them, namely that Edison lost the War of the Currents. #politics #energy
72 sigils for summoning demons with Goetia. #magick
Goetia article lacking those sigils. #magick
#Artemis II image gallery page from #NASA, including “Hello, World”.
#history of how #Daesh took #Mosul in June 02014, from the 4th to the 10th, capturing a city of 2 million with maybe 3000 fighters.
the 2.25-gigawatt coal-powered Navajo Generating Station provided the majority of the income of the #Hopi tribe and a fair chunk of that of the #Navajo tribe until it was shut down in 02019 and demolished in 02020. #energy #history
Ibrahim Traoré renounces democracy: “The truth is, politics in Africa – or at least what we've experienced in Burkina - is that a real politician is someone who embodies every vice: a liar, a sycophant, a smooth-talker.” #Burkina-Faso #ASS #history
#history: claims that #Margaret-Mead was a friend of both #Technocracy founder Howard Scott and John #von-Neumann.
Russia is still occupying #Transnistria, even though it is ostensibly the territory of #Moldova.
#dating surveys suggest that most women under 40 wish men approached them more. “Most men who approached in person received contact information or went on a date. A little less than half had sex. However, only about 13% ended up forming a long term relationship.”
Leaked post from Garry Tan on Bookface following the DeepDelver accusations of “fake compliance as a service”: “We have asked Delve to leave YC.
YC is a community, not just an accelerator. The founders in our community have to trust each other, and we have to trust them. When that trust breaks down, there's really only one thing to do.
We're not going to get into the details publicly. We wish them well.” #YC #Delve
As of January 9: “The total value of #gold held by foreign official institutions is now approaching $4 trillion, exceeding roughly $3.9 trillion in U.S. Treasury holdings for the first time since 1996.” but mostly because gold is now US$4500 per “ounce”. No mention of cryptocurrencies. #finance #news
another #Technocracy #history article
#news on the #Iran war: “Iranian strikes conducted over the weekend and on Monday damaged structures that are part of or near communication and radar systems on at least seven U.S. military sites across the Middle East, according to a New York Times analysis of satellite imagery and verified videos.
Visuals show damage on or close to mechanisms used to track incoming ballistic missiles, satellite dishes and radomes, which are weatherproof covers that protect sensitive equipment used by forces to communicate over long distances.”
#news: #Israel just blew up two #steel mills in #Iran, a shift to extremely civilian targets
the battle where the Germanians under Arminius defeated Augustus and kept the Empire from incorporating lands north of the Rhine. #history
AWACS production started in 01977 and ended with the 68th unit in 01992. The planned replacement was the E-7, which has been sold to other countries (starting in 02009) but not the USAF, but instead plans to depend on a future space-based system. #Iran blew up one of the #USA’s 16 active-service AWACS planes this week.
#news on #Iran blowing up one of the #USA’s AWACS planes, saying, “The Air Force’s E-3 fleet has dwindled down to 16 as the service retires less-capable planes. In fiscal 2024, E-3s had a mission-capable rate of about 56 percent, meaning a little more than half were able to fly and carry out their missions at any given time.”
A Minesweeper version that can be hexagonal or triangular. #videogames
#Iran war planes downed this month.
#news about how #Israel’s air defense systems seem to be defending less effectively against #Iran, apparently not just because stockpiles are running low but because radars are destroyed, mentioning the #USA’s loss of its E-3 AWACS plane.
#Hegseth declared “no quarter”, which is a war crime.
“Lenore Burnley, the mother of Chad Joseph (26), and Sallycar Korasingh, the sister of Rishi Samaroo (41), are the plaintiffs in the case.
Their court papers allege violations of the Death on the High Seas Act, a 1920 law that makes the U.S. government liable if its agents engage in negligence that results in wrongful death more than 3 miles off American shores. A second claim alleges violations of the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreign citizens to sue over human rights violations such as deaths that occurred outside an armed conflict, with no judicial process.” Two fishermen doing farm work in #Venezuela with no ties to the drug trade. #human-rights #USA
#video by ultra-right-wing streamer #Asmongold showing a video by a viewer of his in Tehran, #Iran, who is suffering disabling vertigo after his neighborhood was bombed, temporarily disabling his leg. He reports power outages after each strike, even though supposedly attacks on electrical infrastructure aren’t supposed to begin for a few more days. Banks have started limiting physical cash withdrawals (a corralito). All rumor.
