Lecturer in geocomputation @CASAUCL. PhD from @ODID_QEH. Big fan of satellites.

London, UK
Joined June 2011
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MT Anderson
@MT_AndersonApr 7
🛰️GEOINT: Mapping the Satellite Data Blackouts For a while now, we've tracked a deliberate day-delay of Sentinel-2 data over the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Northwestern Arabian Sea (specifically from Socotra Island up to Duqm). Expanding the map reveals how dynamic these boundaries are becoming. 🌍The New Gap: Massive, unnatural acquisition gaps have now appeared directly over the Eastern Mediterranean. 🌍The Persian Gulf: Fully illuminated and fine. This makes strategic sense—major coalition surface combatants have likely vacated this confined water space entirely. 🌍The Anomaly: The Gulf of Oman also remains unrestricted. This is highly curious, as any incoming amphibious force would likely need to transit or stage in those waters. When you stack these targeted medium-res Sentinel-2 gaps on top of recent commercial high-res imagery pauses (Planet/Vantor), the information environment is clearly being locked down. This localized "fencing" begs a massive question for the OSINT community: Are we looking at dynamic boundaries designed specifically to mask incoming naval assets? If so, when will the Gulf of Oman go dark?
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This access change includes Gaza and Lebanon, not just Iran and Gulf states with US bases. Planet has been absolutely amazing, and their imagery has led to dozens of stories/scoops, with Gaza/Lebanon in particular.
Planet appears to be ending all access to imagery in the Middle East indefinitely. This will make understanding what’s happening in this conflict far more difficult.
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Putting out a wish to the universe. I need more compute, if I can get more I will make sure every machine from a small phone to a bootstrapped RTX 3090 node can run frontier intelligence fast with minimal intelligence loss. I have hit page 2 of huggingface, released 3 model family compressions and got GLM-4.7 on a MacBook huggingface.co/0xsero My beast just isn’t enough and I already spent 2k usd on renting GPUs on top of credits provided by Prime intellect and Hotaisle. ——— If you believe in what I do help me get this to Nvidia, maybe they will bless me with the pewter to keep making local AI more accessible 🙏
Jensen Huang is loving the new Dell Pro Max with GB300 at NVIDIA GTC.💙 They asked me to sign it, but I already did 😉
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Various pizzerias nearby the Pentagon are already reporting high traffic. The Pentagon subway station also has high traffic. As of 11:50am ET
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🚨Breaking | Israeli occupation forces executed two young Palestinians in Jenin in cold blood, even after they had turned themselves in. An outright extrajudicial killing in blatant violation of international humanitarian law.
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Israeli forces fatally shot two Palestinian men at point-blank range moments after they appeared to surrender in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday in an incident captured on camera. wapo.st/4roPymr
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Joe@joedyke9 Oct 2024
Over the past year, our team reviewed hundreds of clips of airstrikes released on social media by the IDF - systematically geolocating them and matching them to the civilians who were actually killed. The result is our most powerful investigation to date. idf-tweets-gaza.airwars.org/
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Full arms embargo to Israel NOW.
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NEW -- the @UN's World Food Programme is pausing all aid movement within #Gaza, after one of its convoys was fired upon by @IDF forces near a checkpoint yesterday.
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Violent riots by groups associated with far-right networks have erupted in the UK. Social media videos of groups setting fire to hotels, police vans and breaking into shops are everywhere. It’s important to archive this material so it doesn’t disappear. Here's how to do that… 🧵
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Data from Amazon Mining watch shows that illegal miners continue to advance on indigenous lands in the Amazon using new methods of gold laundering. Our partners at @pulitzercenter & @reporterb highlight the complex reality on the ground.
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Not sure what U.S. State Department is looking at for their claim here, but if you're looking at @planet SkySat imagery you can see more parts of the city of Rafah are being destroyed or cleared every day. April 20 imagery vs. June 12 imagery.
Replying to @DanWilliams
U.S. State Department: Israel's current operations in Rafah are not at the size, scope or scale seen elsewhere in Gaza, it's been a more limited operation - @Reuters
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US-made munitions were used in a deadly Israeli airstrike on a United Nations-run school in central Gaza on Thursday where Palestinians were sheltering, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and review by an explosive weapons expert has found. cnn.com/middleeast/live-news…
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Propaganda Reality
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Christiaan Triebert
@trbrtc9 May 2024
Ahead of the arrival of U.S. troops at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, the Haitian police demolished dozens of houses near the airport's walls to establish a “buffer zone.” You can see it very clearly on these @planet satellite images from April 7 and April 30.
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In our latest guide Bellingcat researcher @questiionn01 explains how you can use free-to-access satellite data to track the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank… bellingcat.com/resources/202…
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New: Bellingcat and @scrippsnews followed one IDF battalion’s movements across Gaza, geolocating their social posts to highlight IDF involvement in systematic destruction of Palestinian land and livelihoods: bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/…
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Lowkey
@Lowkey0nline22 Apr 2024
"The killing, um the death, of a Palestinian man..." A BBC correspondent goes to great lengths to avoid correctly stating that Israel killed 78-year-old US citizen Omar As'ad.
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