This article is interesting about thoughts of using flying networks to support military operations.

It is a complex system - and my sense is that they will screw it up with application specific protocols and APIs that evolve and change over time as as military events (the kind that go boom or are intentional forms of in-band attacks - think everything from hyper-phishing to spoofing to zero-day attacks).

But even if it were put together with the precision of a Swiss watch, my old bugbear of keeping it running - noticing problems, diagnosing and isolating them, and deploying repairs - is likely to be under-considered, or not really considered at all.

For instance, consider what I wrote about how computer/network security harms our ability to keep things alive (2nd URL below)

https://www.twz.com/39882/how-the-rq-180-drone-will-emerge-from-the-shadows-as-the-centerpiece-of-a-warfighting-revolution

https://www.cavebear.com/cavebear-blog/netsecurity/

#Arctic climate rankings are now updated for February 2026: https://zacklabe.com/archive-2026/. Unusually cold compared to recent years, but sea ice remains very low

#SciComm #DataViz #OpenScience #OpenData

Excessive heat warnings, red flag warnings for wildfire conditions, and monthly temperature records being shattered yet again.

This historic heatwave continues, with temperatures made at least 5× more likely by human-caused climate change today.

See: https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index

Unless there's a sudden shift in weather conditions, preliminary estimates show that 2026 set another new record low maximum extent for #Arctic sea ice. This follows very closely with last year, which previously set the record. Not good!

Download graphic at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/

If there is one thing we have failed in, it's not moving away from fossil fuels fast enough. The geopolitical warnings alone were already there in 1953..
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:npmoerrzaqzrlpvu3yu6i4pi/post/3mhl2u73a322l
[email protected] - "Imagine being told, amid the Opec crises of the 1970s, that one region’s fossil fuels would still have this hold over humankind half a century in the future"
The new old world - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The new old world

Sea ice is a record low for this time of year in the #Arctic (see https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/).

One of the drivers of this is related to an extreme event ongoing in the Sea of Okhotsk, where current conditions are not even close to any other year in our satellite record (similar to May). Yikes!