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Associated PressWatch Duty, the fire tracking app used by millions, expands to help monitor dangerous floods
https://apnews.com/article/watch-duty-flood-alerts-fire-john-mills-63a6e581739c382463317803914d10a7?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Watch Duty, the free fire tracking app used by millions in the LA fires, now monitors floods
Watch Duty, a free cellphone app that tracks fires, became a vital tool for millions during the 2025 LA fires. The nonprofit app will now monitor flooding across all 50 states, expanding as climate change increases extreme weather events. The app collects data from various sources, including satellites and radio scanners, and uses AI to filter information. Users rely on its color-coded maps and live feeds for real-time updates. Founder John Mills created Watch Duty after failing to receive alerts during fires near his home. While Watch Duty is helpful, experts stress the importance of multiple alert systems and emergency preparedness.
Anna DorofeevaI'm teaching a class tomorrow on Arabic / Persian #HTR, and my example manuscript is absolutely amazing. It's a famous 16th-century work on mathematics by al-'Āmilī made in India and has an absolutely insane-looking layout - glosses going diagonally in several directions off the main text - that is nevertheless relatively clear to a human reader, and is not unusual in Arabic books. Will be interesting to see how an AI handles it!
Library of Congress link: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.wdl/wdl.9542 #palaeography
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DozerToday marks the 30th anniversary of Id Software's Quake.
It's hard to convey how revolutionary this game was in 1996. Running on a fast Pentium, it delivered baked lighting, true 3D levels, polygonal enemies, a NIN score and Lovecraftian worlds at around 30 FPS @320x240 😜
It helped pioneer Internet FPS gaming through client-side prediction over 28.8Kb/s modems and drove adoption of early 3D accelerators.
Happy 30th Quake, thanks for the gibs.
Radiosonde Recovery ReportsRadiosonde X4633862 recovered by Martin Renschler
A single prop airplane collided with the radiosonde at an unknown location. It got entangled with the airplane and was dragged along for an unknown timespan. When the airplane landed at Ramona airport, the sonde fell onto the runway where it was recovered.
https://sondehub.org/X4633862 #radiosonde #sondeHub
Wild New Yorker deep dive into Trump's Greenland obsession. Every so often, you may find yourself thinking "it can't possibly be that stupid" and good news, you're right! You'll soon discover it's even stupider than that
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/inside-the-ludicrous-deadly-serious-plan-to-take-over-greenland
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/22/inside-the-ludicrous-deadly-serious-plan-to-take-over-greenland
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Wild story about how Tulsi Gabbard's guru Chris Butler apparently gave her a lot of direction about her specific policies and statements, and also had his followers maintain a herd of social media sockpuppets
Chris SiebenmannThe joke is on this plague of Googlebot impersonators trying to pillage my techblog: I specifically restrict Googlebot's User-Agent to its published IP address ranges. Had you used another User-Agent, you might have flown under the radar.
(Not Bing's, though, I restrict it too.)