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I occasionally tweet out cool ADSB stuff, mostly about military aviation; so, just in case... ... I'm on post.news - post.news/marcambinder and on Mastodon - masthead.social/@MarcAmbinder. ... Follow me and I'll try to make it worth your while.

Tim Fernholz

@TimFernholz

JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology

Incredible that JWST's data is already challenging the consensus understanding of how the universe was formed

scientificamerican.com

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of the distant universe shocked astronomers. Is the discovery of unimaginably distant galaxies a mirage or a revolution?

Also a reference to the bespoke "Joint Intelligence Brigade," and its "screeners." JIB = JSOC J2's main intelligence analysis and exploitation directorate. JSOC _and_ and the GFC were involved here. But the military would rather not concede the JSOC part.

"JSOC" is redacted more than 50 times in this report about the Kabul civilian death strike, but not everywhere. int.nyt.com/data/documentt

Mario: Sandbaggers

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Terry Matalas

@TerryMatalas

Call of Duty: Shark Tank

Broke: Shor Woke: Schnorr Bespoke: PIC Blade

Dec 31, 2022

One of the first things I had the privilege of doing when I was an intern for ABC News was to brief Barbara Walters about some breaking news event. (The Concorde explosion, I think.). It was cool. She was grand. Took no shit from anyone and lived a marvelous life.

Dec 30, 2022

Awesome seeing Michael

@carbonaro

perform, with

@MrTeller

@pennjillette

. Come for the magic, stay for the shaving cream.

Welcome back,

Seeing

for the first time since the pandemic. (And

@Jonesjazz

!). Get well soon,

@MrTeller

Aaron Bateman

@aaronbateman22

Dec 27, 2022

1964 classification policy concerning Talent Keyhole information.

Sir Humphrey Appleby

@YesSirHumphrey

Dec 25, 2022

A cover up? Certainly not! It is responsible discretion exercised in the national interest to prevent unnecessary disclosure of eminently justifiable procedures in which untimely revelation could severely impair public confidence.

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The Onion

@TheOnion

Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan bit.ly/3hvaKIC

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Jefferson Morley

@jeffersonmorley

Dec 19, 2022

As for #Twitterfiles and

@ElonMusk

, the Internet's leading authorities on JFK assassination--namely

@maryferrellorg

and jfkfacts.substack.com--want to note: We are unaffected by the current controversies. We are not cancelled. We're credible to Left, Right, and Center. #JFKFacts

Dec 19, 2022

Well, I certainly picked the right year to go INTO trust and safety ....

The Radio Research Group

@radio_research

Dec 18, 2022

Here’s something new: domestically developed Ukrainian squad radio - LPI/LPD - encrypted spread spectrum frequency hopping - 0.1 watt transmission - 200-500 meter range - usb C!!! - designed just to fuck with Russian EW

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Dec 18, 2022

Lots of gems for historians and historical hobbyists in here.

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Lady J

@CHARLOTTESUH7

Dec 18, 2022

Wow! Amazing thread of recently released files related to the JFK assasination. twitter.com/marcambinder/s…

Matt Duss

@mattduss

Andor and the materiel of Empire

Tarkin, Revisited, by

@AthertonKD

open.substack.com/pub/athertonkd One of the best things I've read on one of the best shows of 2022.

athertonkd.substack.com

Tarkin, Revisited

The proboscidean who must not be named ....

Max Fisher

@Max_Fisher

People really need to understand how mainstream it has become in some tech VC circles to argue that journalism itself is dangerous as an idea and should be abolished, and that it will be up to the tech world to carry this out.

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I asked ChatGPT to assume the posture of a Dzogchen master and provide me with a pointing out instruction.

Filip Kovacevic

@ChekistMonitor

There are 16 documents mentioning #KGB in the new set of JFK assassination records released today by

@USNatArchives

. One of them dated Feb. 1990 refers to the debriefing of a source codenamed IJDECANTER. This is likely Sergei Papushin, an ex-KGB SCD (counterintel) officer.

The story of journalists cooperating with the government in various and sundry manners... old as the hills. And the tenor really didn't change until after Vietnam, Pentagon Papers and Watergate.

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SPIES&VESPERS

@SpiesVespers

TOO OBSCURE TO MATTER Back in the day, CBS allowed CIA operatives into its booth overlooking the UN Security Council chamber. From that vantage point an expert lipreader would scrutinize the Soviet delegation’s whispered consultations.

He knows this stuff. Worth a watch.

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Jefferson Morley

@jeffersonmorley

I'm going on @thereidout to talk about #JFKFIles shortly. @MSNBC

Inside the NSA SIGINT Command Center on 11/22/63

My overall assessment so far - lots of fascinating insight into how intelligence and national security worked in the 60s ... not much new about Oswald and the assassination. Read through my tweets for the highlights.

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The new Kennedy assassination documents: archives.gov/press/press-re

Stratcom...err...the Strategic Air Command...really never agreed with CIA about anything related to Russian missiles. From 1963.

𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘑. 𝘋𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥

@StevenJDuffield

Pauling. Pasternak.

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A list of Americans whose mail the CIA was poking through in 1960-1962 archives.gov/files/research

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FBI counterintelligence operations against Russian facilities and agents inside the US, circa 1962-1963 archives.gov/files/research

The CIA assesses flap potential after Watergate archives.gov/files/research

This is the second-to-last intelligence briefing from the CIA that President Kennedy ever saw. archives.gov/files/research

How the CIA recorded the occasions when its officers had to identify themselves to foreign intelligence services archives.gov/files/research

Person doesn't wanna work for the CIA anymore

Fascinating: meeting minutes from the White House / NSC committee overseeing intelligence and covert ops in 1963, the Special Group (5412)... archives.gov/files/research

History of the Special Investigations Group of the CIA counterintelligence staff archives.gov/files/research