Mastodawn

An incredible report from my colleague @willguisbond laying out the myriad factors that contributed to January's fatal mid-air collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport — you'll be amazed at what he turned up. It's a long read but well worth your time, and like all of The Air Current's #safety reporting, it's free for everyone to read. #aviation #aviationsafety #dca https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/dca-crash-jan-29-special-report/

Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong

Data-driven reporting and analysis on the strategy and technology of flying.

The Air Current

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)5h ago

Paris Marx 9h ago

🚨 THE RESULTS ARE IN 🚨

After a week of voting on 32 of the worst people in the tech industry, we have a winner!

The Worst Person in Tech for 2025 is…

🚀 ELON MUSK 🎉

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)5h ago

Chuck Darwin 8h ago

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI.

After finding the document in the trove, I called her.
She broke down in tears.

“I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it.

They can’t call me a liar anymore.”

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:r4htmaum3mel37tvqtidnfo4/post/3maevwksjqc2i

Page by Mike Baker | @mikebaker.bsky.social

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)5h ago

gwendolenau Nov 9

Interesting interview with a Melbourne psychiatrist looking at the 'cultural script' mass killers in the West follow and how it's facilitated by modern media:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/08/paul-mullen-interview-psychiatrist-career-with-lone-actor-mass-killers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘They’re not wolves – they’re sheep’: the psychiatrist who spent decades meeting and studying lone-actor mass killers

Paul E Mullen has had a front-row seat to the men behind some of the worst public massacres. He says it’s possible to ‘disrupt the script’ for future violence

The Guardian

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)8h ago

Zack Labe 8h ago

Good news - GIOMAS data is back. And I just updated my graphics through November 2025 for both Antarctic sea-ice thickness/volume (https://zacklabe.com/antarctic-sea-ice-extentconcentration/) and global sea-ice volume (https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/). Global sea-ice volume has been near a record low almost all year.

Antarctic: Sea-Ice Concentration/Extent/Thickness

Near real-time visualizations [Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability] [Arctic Sea-Ice Extent and Concentration] [Arctic Sea-Ice Volume and Thickness] [Arctic Temperatures] [Antarctic Sea-Ice E…

Zachary Labe

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)8h ago

FreeCAD 9h ago

Dec 2025 bug bounty update
We are currently at 17 release blockers for FreeCAD 1.1, so the FPA members have raised the price per fixed release blocker from $50 to $100.

Meanwhile, two more people have collected bugfix rewards:

Werner Meyer, who is a co-founder of FreeCAD.

Chris "ipatch" Jones, who previously contributed numerous improvements benefiting Mac users.

For more information
https://blog.freecad.org/2025/12/19/dec-2025-bug-bounty-update/
#DevelopmentUpdates #FPA

Dec 2025 bug bounty update

We are currently at 17 release blockers for FreeCAD 1.1, so the FPA members have raised the price per fixed release blocker from $50 to $100. Meanwhile, two more people have collected bugfix reward…

FreeCAD News

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)10h ago

Chuck Darwin 10h ago

Reminder that Dan Bongino doesn’t know who Stephen King is

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)10h ago

Chris Geidner 11h ago

NEW: A brief Q&A with the guy slapping Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center.

“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“

Today, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-defacing-kennedy-center

A brief Q&A with the guy slapping Trump’s name on the Kennedy Center

“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“

Law Dork

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)10h ago

Steve Troughton-Smith 11h ago

Related: Apple broke something in Tahoe 26.1? (I think?) re folder actions which has screwed up my bulk screenshot format conversion. I have a folder which auto converts everything dropped into it to JPEG — now it's only converting about half of any drop, and periodically breaking until the next reboot. I've used this folder action for many, many years

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm)11h ago

Eric A. Meyer 17h ago

🏖️⌨️ You know how Shadow DOM can break accessibility? There’s a new proposal with experimental implementations (some by @igalia) to help fix that! I blogged about it: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/12/19/targeting-by-reference-in-the-shadow-dom/

Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM

A new way to allow elements inside a Shadow DOM to be targeted for accessibility or other reasons.

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