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Deadline @[email protected] · 2025-04-05 · 23:15 UTC

Val Kilmer Was “The Coolest Cat,” Remembers His ‘Top Gun’ Wingman Barry Tubb
#News #BarryTubb #TomCruise #TopGun #ValKilmer

https://deadline.com/2025/04/val-kilmer-the-coolest-cat-remembers-top-gun-barry-tubb-1236360912/

#news #barrytubb #tomcruise #topgun #valkilmer

Sim Barr @[email protected] · 2025-01-26 · 15:06 UTC

Two

Two Women at the Bar, 2000
Two Men Waiting, 1995

Malcolm T Liepke, American Artist

#malcolmtliepke #art #artist #artworld #worldofart #two #2men #2women #contemporaryart #conremporaryartist oil #oilpainting #huile #öl #kunst #künstler #peintre #peinture #barscene #barscenes #arte #wingman #wingwoman

#wingwoman #wingman #arte #barscenes #barscene #peinture

Air101 @[email protected] · 2024-06-03 · 20:36 UTC

Unmanned escort for manned fighter jets: Airbus presents new Wingman concept at ILA Berlin https://buff.ly/3Vr8hA5 #Air101 #avgeek #travel #aviation #fyp #aircraft #drones #wingman #airbus #fighter

#air101 #avgeek #travel #aviation #fyp #aircraft

Beko Pharm (deprecated) @[email protected] · 2023-12-30 · 23:51 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzw5SaDGH24 was released today. It's a #StarWars fan movie with 50 minutes length and plenty of pew pew.

#Wingman

#starwars #wingman

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-03-08 · 12:49 UTC

Oh no, the UK's nuclear arsenal might not have the US as its wingman anymore! 🤯 Now they might have to *gasp* maintain it themselves! 🎉 But fear not, The Guardian is on it, buried somewhere between the obituaries and rugby scores! 📰🏴‍☠️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france #UKNuclearArsenal #USWingman #GuardianNews #MilitaryMaintenance #NuclearSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

#uknucleararsenal #uswingman #guardiannews #militarymaintenance #nuclearsecurity #hackernews

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-03-08 · 12:49 UTC

Oh no, the UK's nuclear arsenal might not have the US as its wingman anymore! 🤯 Now they might have to *gasp* maintain it themselves! 🎉 But fear not, The Guardian is on it, buried somewhere between the obituaries and rugby scores! 📰🏴‍☠️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france #UKNuclearArsenal #USWingman #GuardianNews #MilitaryMaintenance #NuclearSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

#uknucleararsenal #uswingman #guardiannews #militarymaintenance #nuclearsecurity #hackernews

N-gated Hacker News @[email protected] · 2025-03-08 · 12:49 UTC

Oh no, the UK's nuclear arsenal might not have the US as its wingman anymore! 🤯 Now they might have to *gasp* maintain it themselves! 🎉 But fear not, The Guardian is on it, buried somewhere between the obituaries and rugby scores! 📰🏴‍☠️
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/08/us-support-uk-nuclear-arsenal-in-doubt-trident-france #UKNuclearArsenal #USWingman #GuardianNews #MilitaryMaintenance #NuclearSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

#uknucleararsenal #uswingman #guardiannews #militarymaintenance #nuclearsecurity #hackernews

Politics & Geopolitis @[email protected] · 2024-11-15 · 20:01 UTC

Anduril's Fury and General Atomics' Gambit are in the running for the first iteration of the Air Force's drone wingman program.#air-force #dn-dnr #collaborative-combat-aircraft #cca #anduril #general-atomics #drone-wingmen #andrew-hunter #circulated-defense-news #circulated-air-force-times
Air Force buying more drone wingmen to develop operational tactics

#cca #anduril #dndnr #circulatedairforcetimes #circulateddefensenews #airforce

DragonBox Shop @[email protected] · 2026-01-23 · 18:00 UTC

Use your favorite gaming controller (wired or wireless) on your PS5, PS4 or PC!

https://dragonbox.de/en-de/controller-adapters-receivers-for-classic-systems/wingman-p5

#brook #wingmanconverter #ps5 #rretrogaming #dragonboxshop

#ps5 #rretrogaming #dragonboxshop #brook #wingmanconverter

smxi @smxi · 2025-12-07 · 04:44 UTC

#Roy perched on his favorite high ledge taking a quick look back at me while staring out at the night on #Caturday evening after our walk. We went pretty far tonight, around a whole block.

How we started going for walks is a long story but suffice it to say he likes exploring and adventure with me as his wingman.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon

#roy #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

Panethos @[email protected] · 2026-03-30 · 09:00 UTC

America’s top drone development zones

The list provided identifies the top metropolitan areas across the United States where significant amounts of drone (civilian and military) research, development, and manufacturing are taking place. It also includes the headquarters locations for those entities. Despite often being associated with military use, drones can have many useful peacetime functions such as but not limited to: aerial inspections, aerial and thermal imagery, agricultural spray application, mapping/surveying, product delivery, site security, public safety, search & rescue (SAR), environmental monitoring, and disaster response/reconnaissance.

Autel Robotics thermal imaging search and rescue drone – Source: autelrobotics.com

The list does not distinguish between types or value of the drones produced, their raw numbers, nor the numbers employed by the industry. It only provides a list of organizations located there that are actively involved in drone research and development. To make the list as complete as possible, sources of counter/anti-drone product development are also included.

Northrup Grumman’s MQ-4C Triton Dron – Source: en.wikipedia.org

As can be seen by the list, there are a number of metropolitan areas that have become significant zones for drone development. Greater Washington, D.C. tends to be where many military drone manufacturers are headquartered in order to be close to the decision makers are located.

AeroVironmental Quantix drone – Source: thestreet.com

Separately, several long-standing military-focused cities have become drone nodes as well — San Diego, Hampton Roads, and Albuquerque-Santa Fe fall into this category. Then, there are the well-known high-technology hubs that have naturally morphed into drone development. These include Boston, Silicon Valley, the San Francisco Bay Area (which could easily be combined with Silicon Valley), Seattle, and Portland (OR).

Seattle, Los Angeles, and Wichita all fall into another category – aircraft manufacturing cities that have expanded into drone zones. Meanwhile the Houston, Huntsville, Orlando-Melbourne, Los Angeles, and El Paso-Las Cruces metropolitan areas fall into the outer space specialization grouping. Transitioning from either of these manufacturing ecosystems to drones would be a logical step.

And lastly, there are the unexpected notable drone zones — Reno, Detroit, and of all places, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Detroit is an historic hub for automation and engine technologies and its economy encompasses a surprising amount of defense industries, while the State of Nevada has been investing in ways to make the Reno-Sparks area a competitive player in the drone industry.

Source: Facebook.com

Grand Forks, North Dakota deserves significant accolades for its forward-thinking step of establishing the nation’s first drone research, development, and testing park (GrandSKY) at Grand Forks U.S. Air Force Base back in the mid-2010s. The extent of the drone zone in Grand Forks has led to the area being nicknamed “Silidrone Valley.”

More information on each of the drone zones is provided below. As always, any additions, suggestions, or corrections to the list are most welcome.

Peace!

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Definitions:

EMI – Electromagnetic Interference
SAR – Search and Rescue
UAS – Unmanned/Uncrewed Aerial Systems
UAV – Unmanned/Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles
VTOL – Vertical Takeoff and Landing

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Albuquerque-Santa Fe, New Mexico

THOR high-power microwave directed energy weapon – Source: twz.com

AeroVironmental (manufacturing) – Albuquerque
COSMIAC at University of New Mexico (UNM)
Kirtland U.S, Air Force Base/Air Force Research Laboratory and THOR counter-drone testing site – Albuquerque
UAS Research at Sandia National Laboratories – Albuquerque
Unmanned Systems of America – Albuquerque
Verus Research – Albuquerque

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Boston Region

Aerospec – Boston
American Robotics – Waltham
Ascent Aerosystems – Tewksbury/Wilmington
Aura Intelligent Systems – Boston
Autonodyne LLC – Boston
Cleo Robotics – Boston
Corvus Robotics – Boston
GreenSight Agronomic – Boston
Kostas Research Institute/Northeastern University Expeditionary Cyber and Unmanned Aerial System Research and Development Facility – Burlington
GreenSight – Boston
Parrot – Boston
Small UAS Initiative at MIT – Cambridge

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Detroit-Ann Arbor, Michigan

Advanced Aerial Innovation Region – Greater Detroit
RedWire/Edge Autonomy (manufacturing) – Ann Arbor
Skypersonic – Troy
University of Michigan M-Air Initiative
Vayu – Ann Arbor

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El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas/New Mexico

Defense Department Counter Drone Laser Testing
FAA New Mexico State University UAS Test Site – Las Cruces, NM
Spaceport America drone testing – Truth or Consequences, NM
UTEP Aerospace Research Center – El Paso, TX
UTEP Drone Testing Centers – Fabens, TX and Tortilla, TX
White Sands Missile Range, NM

Sources: faa.gov

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Grand Forks, North Dakota “Silidrone Valley”

Source: faa.gov

FAA Northern Plains UAS Test Site
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (manufacturing)
Grand Forks U.S. Air Force Base
GrandSKY UAS Research and Development Park (see image below)
Meadowlark Aircraft Company
Mission Network Operation Center
Raytheon (manufacturing)
Statewide beyond visual line of site network (Vantis)
The Hive UAS Tech Accelerator
UAS pilot undergraduate program at the University of North Dakota (UND)

GrandSKY UAS Research and Development Park – Source: grandforks.af.mil

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Hampton Roads, Virginia

Advanced Aircraft Company – Hampton
AVID Aerospace – Yorktown
DroneUp – Virginia Beach
Hush Aerospace – Virginia Beach
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport drone runway
NASA Langley Research Center – Hampton
Unmanned Systems Research and Technology Center – Hampton

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Houston, Texas

Horizon Aerobotics – Houston
Hylio – Richmond
Paladin Drones – Houston
Trumbull Unmanned (HQ) – Houston
Windhover Labs – Texas City

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Huntsville, Alabama

FBI Drone Threat Training Center
Huntsville UAS Vertical Research Center
Microdrones (R & D and manufacturing)
Performance Drone Works (HQ and manufacturing)
Red Cat Holdings
Redstone Arsenal
SkyFire AI
University of Alabama/Huntsville research labs

PDW C100 advanced mission capable drone – Source: pdw.ai

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Los Angeles Region “Space Beach”

AeroVironment (manufacturing) – Simi Valley, Monrovia, and Moorpark
Anduril Industries – Costa Mesa (HQ) and Long Beach (R & D/manufacturing)
Anduril Industries (manufacturing) – San Juan Capistrano
AuterionGS – Moorpark
Dragonfly – Beverly Hills
Fullerton College Drone Lab – Fullerton
Lockheed Martin (manufacturing) – Palmdale
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Mojave Desert
Neros Technologies – El Segundo and Torrance
Northrup Grumman (manufacturing) – Palmdale
Rhoman Aerospace – Los Angeles
Rocket Lab – Long Beach

Auduril’s “Wingman” drone collaborative combat aircraft – Source: defensenews.com

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Orlando-Melbourne, Florida Region “Space Coast”

AguaDrone Innovations – Vero Beach
Censys Technologies – Daytona Beach
Critical Frequency Design (HQ)- Melbourne
Hoverfly Technologies – Sanford
L3Harris Aerial – Casselberry
L3Harris Technologies (HQ) – Melbourne
Unusual Machines (HQ and Manufacturing)

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Phoenix, Arizona

Airobotics – Scottsdale
AIRO Group Holdings (manufacturing) – Phoenix
Honeywell Aerospace – Phoenix
Rapid Drone – Gold Canyon
SpektreWorks – Phoenix
ZenaDrone – Phoenix

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Portland-Vancouver, Oregon-Washington

Composites Universal Group – Warren, OR
Insitu/Boeing – Bingen, WA
Sicdrone, Inc. – Scappoose, OR
Teledyne Flir – Wilsonville, OR

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Reno-Sparks, Nevada

Drone America – Reno
FAA State of Nevada UAS Test Site
Sierra Nevada Corporation – Sparks
UNR’s Nevada Advanced Autonomous Systems Innovation Center – Reno

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San Diego, California

Action Drone Inc. – San Diego
Digital Force Technologies – San Diego
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems – Poway
Hitec Commercial Solutions – San Diego
Inova Drone – San Diego
Kratos Defense & Security (HQ)
ModalAI – San Diego
Northrup Grumman (development) – Rancho Bernardo
Shield AI – San Diego
University of California/San Diego DroneLab and Good DroneLab
University of California/San Diego Aerodrome

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San Francisco Bay Area, California

Door Dash (R & D) – San Francisco
Drone Deploy – San Francisco
Kazien.Aero – San Francisco
Saildrone – Alameda
Skydio – San Mateo
Skyfront – Redwood City
University of California Unmanned Lab – Berkeley
UVify – San Francisco
Vantage Robotics – San Leandro
Zipline – San Francisco

Skydio EMI resistent inspection drone – Source: skydio.com

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Seattle-Tacoma, Washington

Amazon Prime (R & D) – Seattle and Bellevue
Autel Robotics
Boeing (R & D)- Seattle
BRINC Drones (HQ and manufacturing)- Seattle
DroneSeed – Seattle
Echodyne – Kirkland
Freefly Systems – Woodinville
LKD Aerospace – Snoqualmie
RoboDub – Seattle
Unearth – Seattle
University of Washington Autonomous Flight Systems Lab – Seattle
WiBotic – Seattle

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“Silicon Valley”, California

Aero Systems West, San Martin
Alphabet/Wing – Palo Alto
Collins Aerospace Drone Testing – Hoillister
Flyt Aerospace – San Jose
Matternet – Mountain View
NASA Ames Research Park/Labs – San Jose
Parallel Flight – La Selva Beach
Pyka – Palo Alto

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Washington, DC Region

AeroVironment HQ – Arlington, VA
Airgility – College Park, MD
AIRO Group Holdings (USA HQ) – McLean, VA
BAE Systems (HQ) – Falls Church, VA
Boeing – Arlington, VA
Centeye – Washington, D.C.
Equinox Innovation Systems – Columbia, MD
Lockheed Martin HQ – Bethesda, MD
Northrup Grumman (HQ) – Falls Church, VA
Robotic Research – Clarksburg, MD
RTX (Raytheon) HQ – Arlington, VA

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Wichita, Kansas

AgEagle Drone – Source: Directindustry.com

AgEagle – Wichita
Quickstep Holdings – Wichita
Saxon Unmanned, Inc. – McPherson
Shocker Fly Lab at Wichita State University – Wichita – under development

SOURCES:

#agriculture #aviation #cities #civilian #design #drones #economicDevelopment #entrepreneurship #environment #geography #landUse #planning #rescue #research #spying #surveying #transportation #UAS #UAV #uncrewed #unmanned #war

#agriculture #aviation #cities #civilian #design #drones

Guillotine Jones, Flâneur @[email protected] · 2025-10-21 · 16:40 UTC

☕ What’s the Tea?
How is it that Trump -- who during the campaign for his second stint in the White House -- kept insisting that he knew nothing about Project 2025, is now trying to get his ‘Project 2025’ architect laid?

"By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn’t about policy. Trump – when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency – appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me. Trump spoke to Vought, a self-described Christian nationalist who’s now one of the president’s most hardline enforcers, about the 'gorgeous' and 'beautiful ladies' who roam Trump’s club, Mar-a-Lago, so often that it 'weirded out' some of his advisers, in one source’s words. Trump offered to be Vought’s wingman. And Trump spoke crudely of all the 'pussy' that Vought would surely get as the president’s favorite 'bachelor.' "
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-shits-on-america-a12
#USPolitics #Project2025 #RussellVought #Trump #Pussy #MarALago #GettingLaid

#uspolitics #project2025 #russellvought #trump #pussy #maralago

Sky Dancing @[email protected] · 2024-04-26 · 19:00 UTC

The Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s immunity claim, John Buss, @repeat1968.

Good Day, Sky Dancers!

I got the cutest picture of the granddaughters today. The girls were smiling and looking at each other with adoration. Both were pretty in pink. All I can think of is what kind of country they may inherit.

I watched and listened to trials and hearings that were so surreal that I was pretty sure we’d entered the Evil Spock Timeline. I remember when the Supreme Court protected everyone’s rights. Now, rights are confined to those who brought the men there and paid for their holidays. It was like watching a Skeleton Dance. Not one TV Lawyer could find anything constitutional about the show they put on yesterday. We all laughed at him when he said,‘ I Could … Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn’t Lose Any Voters’ Evidently, he can do worse than that, and the Supreme Court would make up something to cover his farty, diapered ass.

This is a must-read from Slate: “The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do to Shock Us There will be no more self-soothing after this.” This is written by Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern.

For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road, even the ultraconservative Federalist Society justices of the Roberts court would put democracy before party whenever they were finally confronted with the legal effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6. There were promising signs: They had, after all, refused to wade into the Trumpian efforts to set aside the election results in 2020. They had, after all, hewed to a kind of sanity in batting away Trumpist claims about presidential records (with the lone exception of Clarence Thomas, too long marinated in the Ginni-scented Kool-Aid to be capable of surprising us, but he was just one vote). We promised ourselves that there would be cool heads and grand bargains and that even though the court might sometimes help Trump in small ways, it would privilege the country in the end. We kept thinking that at least for Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts, the voice of reasoned never-Trumpers might still penetrate the Fox News fog. We told ourselves that at least six justices, and maybe even seven, of the most MAGA-friendly court in history would still want to ensure that this November’s elections would not be the last in history. Political hacks they may be, but they were not lawless ones.
For three long years, Supreme Court watchers mollified themselves (and others) with vague promises that when the rubber hit the road, even the ultraconservative Federalist Society justices of the Roberts court would put democracy before party whenever they were finally confronted with the legal effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6. There were promising signs: They had, after all, refused to wade into the Trumpian efforts to set aside the election results in 2020. They had, after all, hewed to a kind of sanity in batting away Trumpist claims about presidential records (with the lone exception of Clarence Thomas, too long marinated in the Ginni-scented Kool-Aid to be capable of surprising us, but he was just one vote). We promised ourselves that there would be cool heads and grand bargains and that even though the court might sometimes help Trump in small ways, it would privilege the country in the end. We kept thinking that at least for Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and Chief Justice John Roberts, the voice of reasoned never-Trumpers might still penetrate the Fox News fog. We told ourselves that at least six justices, and maybe even seven, of the most MAGA-friendly court in history would still want to ensure that this November’s elections would not be the last in history. Political hacks they may be, but they were not lawless ones.
On Thursday, during oral arguments in Trump v. United States, the Republican-appointed justices shattered those illusions. This was the case we had been waiting for, and all was made clear—brutally so. These justices donned the attitude of cynical partisans, repeatedly lending legitimacy to the former president’s outrageous claims of immunity from criminal prosecution. To at least five of the conservatives, the real threat to democracy wasn’t Trump’s attempt to overturn the election—but the Justice Department’s efforts to prosecute him for the act. These justices fear that it is Trump’s prosecution for election subversion that will “destabilize” democracy, requiring them to read a brand-new principle of presidential immunity into a Constitution that guarantees nothing of the sort. They evinced virtually no concern for our ability to continue holding free and fair elections that culminate in a peaceful transfer of power. They instead offered endless solicitude for the former president who fought that transfer of power.
However the court disposes of Trump v. U.S., the result will almost certainly be precisely what the former president craves: more delays, more hearings, more appeals—more of everything but justice. This was not a legitimate claim from the start, but a wild attempt by Trump’s attorneys to use his former role as chief executive of the United States to shield himself from the consequences of trying to turn the presidency into a dictatorship. After so much speculation that these reasonable, rational jurists would surely dispose of this ridiculous case quickly and easily, Thursday delivered a morass of bad-faith hand-wringing on the right about the apparently unbearable possibility that a president might no longer be allowed to wield his powers of office in pursuit of illegal ends. Just as bad, we heard a constant minimization of Jan. 6, for the second week in a row, as if the insurrection were ancient history, and history that has since been dramatically overblown, presumably for Democrats’ partisan aims.

All this with the husband of an insurrectionist sitting on the bench. I heard Nicole Wallace give the best explanation of anything I’ve heard on why these men act out their grievances in court decisions last night. Two of the guys that sit on the bench are sex pests and were publicly shown to be so. Alito is just perpetually mad at everything but mostly at being branded a bigot because he has issues with women and gay people. His hateful take on religion basically focuses on controlling the objects of his hatred. Protecting his religious practice means he should get away with whatever. Nicole Wallace argued that they love Trump because they are all angry and aggrieved. They identify with Trump because they feel they’re in a similar situation. Civil rights are all about not letting white boys be white boys. They all want absolute immunity. we have to rely on Amy and John to be reasonable. Amy’s line of questions actually gave me a bit of hope.

It’s a weird timeline for me to quote Bill Kristol and Andrew Egger. This is from the Bulwark. “ rump Melts Institutions, SCOTUS Edition. The Supreme Court’s no-win situation and the healthy liberalism we need.”

… reading the tea leaves of oral arguments is always an exercise in guesswork. Hopefully SCOTUS won’t be long in unveiling their opinion on the matter.
But one other thing is worth saying: It’s completely understandable that so many people’s first instinct was to roll their eyes at the Court’s apparent interest in using this case to trace out the complex contours of any newly explicit presidential right to official-act immunity—given the remarkable hubris of Trump’s bringing those arguments in the first place.
After all, here’s a guy who, during his second impeachment, explicitly arguedthat prosecuting an ex-president was the role of the criminal courts: “a president who left office is not in any way above the law,” his lawyers argued, “as the Constitution states he or she is like any other citizen and can be tried in a court of law.”
Now Trump articulates just the opposite position: No act that is “official” in form—which, his lawyers have had to admit during arguments, would include such acts as ordering the military to carry out a coup—can be criminally prosecuted after he leaves office unless he was first convicted in an impeachment trial for that conduct. How any president enjoying such expansive power could ever be impeached by a Congress he could apparently order murdered without consequence remains unclear.
It’s a ridiculous exercise, a transparent stalling tactic. For Team Trump, just getting the argument in front of SCOTUS was a victory in and of itself, further diminishing the odds of a jury getting to rule on Trump’s stolen-election charges before the November election. “Literally popping champagne right now,” one lawyer close to Trump told Rolling Stonewhen the court announced it would consider the immunity claim in February. This week, RS quoted another Trump source that it hardly matters what the court does now: “We already pulled off the heist.”
At the same time, no matter how transparent Trump’s run-out-the-clock motivations in bringing the petition to the Court, it’s true that the claims of presidential immunity at hand have never been litigated. The justices are highly unlikely to endorse Trump’s theory that every presidential act that is official “in form” is exempt from prosecution—but are some presidential acts immune? What is the line between a president acting in his capacity as president and acting in his capacity as a candidate or private citizen? And could it be true—as Trump’s lawyers have argued—that opening up too broad a swath of presidential actions to post-presidency prosecution could hamper a president’s ability to run the country effectively?

Evidently, Kavanaugh’s love of beer causes him to be delusional and totally out of it.

Kavanaugh: President Ford's pardon of Nixon, very controversial in the moment…. Now looked upon as one of the better decisions in presidential history I think by most people. pic.twitter.com/YaB0Px4v25
— Acyn (@Acyn) April 25, 2024

One last SCOTUS send-up and I’m changing the topic. This is from Adam Sewer writing for The New Republic. ” The Trumpification of the Supreme Court. The conservative justices have shown they are ready to sacrifice any law or principle to save the former president.”

The notion that Donald Trump’s supporters believe that he should be able to overthrow the government and get away with it sounds like hyperbole, an absurd and uncharitable caricature of conservative thought. Except that is exactly what Trump’s attorney D. John Sauer argued before the Supreme Court yesterday, taking the position that former presidents have “absolute immunity” for so-called official acts they take in office.
“How about if a president orders the military to stage a coup?” Justice Elena Kagan asked Sauer. “I think it would depend on the circumstances whether it was an official act,” Sauer said after a brief exchange. “If it were an official act … he would have to be impeached and convicted.”
“That sure sounds bad, doesn’t it?” Kagan replied later.
The Democratic appointees on the bench sought to illustrate the inherent absurdity of this argument with other scenarios as well—Kagan got Sauer to admit that the president could share nuclear secrets, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor presented a scenario in which a president orders the military to assassinate a political rival. Sauer said that might qualify as an official act too. It was the only way to maintain the logic of his argument, which is that Trump is above the law

This Mike Luchovich cartoon is brutal and true. shift to the other SCOTUS shit show this week. N has “Takeaways from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments over emergency abortions.” Again, thank goodness my youngest daughter is in Denver, or who knows what her outcome may have been. Dr Daughter is getting more colleagues in Washington State because of Idaho. P gnant women are gestational containers there. Th s analysis is provided by Tierney Sneed and John Fritze.

In a Supreme Court hearing on the Biden administration’s challenge to aspects of Idaho’s strict abortion ban, US Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar sought to appeal to conservative justices who just two years ago ruled that states should have the ability to prohibit the procedure.
The dispute, stemming from the Justice Department’s marquee response to the high court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, turns on whether federal mandates for hospital emergency room care override abortion bans that do not exempt situations where a woman’s health is in danger but her life is not yet threatened.
To prevail, the Biden administration will need the votes of two members of the court’s conservative bloc, and with Justice Brett Kavanaugh signaling sympathies toward Idaho, the case will likely come down to the votes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett. The two justices had tough questions for both sides of the case.
The court’s far-right wing, perhaps in an attempt to keep those two justices on their side, framed the case as a federal overreach into state power. The court’s liberals, meanwhile, focused on the grisly details of medical emergencies faced by pregnant woman that were not covered by the limited life-of-the-woman exemption in Idaho’s ban.

Follow the link to the list of take-aways. While that craziness was going on in the District, we continued to be treated to the life and times of Tabloid targets and publishers. Every time I tune into anything dealing with Trump, I feel like someone slipped me the brown acid. H can one malevolent man be so universally dangerous and disruptive? Especially one so incredibly stupid! C we have a debate on who is more genuinely evil? A to or Trump? Thomas is a stooge. Kavanaugh is a wingman. Gorsuch certainly is in the running for evil, but not the way Alito does it. Robarts is out of his league and likely to go down in shame as history judges him the least effective Chief Justice ever

So, back to Pecker and the man who has to pay for sex coming and going. There’s been a whole of objecting accompanied by “sustained.”

recross: Trump cares about his family and so was worried about these types of stories, right?
objection
sustained
End of Pecker testimony
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 26, 2024

JUST NOW: During his cross of Pecker, Trump's defense attorney, Emil Bove, has been repeatedly referring to Trump as "President Trump" when referencing periods of time when Trump was not in office.
The DA's office keeps objecting and Judge Merchan keeps sustaining those…
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) April 26, 2024

The prosecution needs to build a bridge for the jury into Trump's mind that establishes his intent
Pecker was a great witness for just that

I discussed that & what to expect when the next witness takes the stand @CNN @questCNN @OmarJimenez pic.twitter.com/ozKxHydNHS
— Norm Eisen (#TryingTrump out now!) (@NormEisen) April 26, 2024

More will be coming once the print journalists get their stories in. I wish I could be Pollyanna and play the glad game, but I can only come up with the bad news. We get to see this continually, which is also the thing I’m glad about. I m feel like a total masochist every time I turn the TV on or read a magazine article, but just think how awful it would be if we didn’t know about this. I’m not sure what will become of Donald, but I’m certain that we still have time to make certain he doesn’t get back into the White House. We have time to stop the MAGAdons that want to clone that agenda into every state and the U.S. Congress. We’ll see and read nothing else but propaganda if we don’t stop them now.

What’s on your reading and blogging list today?

Guess who John Prine wrote this about?

https://skydancingblog.com/2024/04/26/funereal-friday-reads-life-as-a-dank-meme/

#PresidentialImmunity_ #Repeat1968 #EmergencyPregnancyHealthCare #JohnBuss #SCOTUS #TheCaravanOfFools #TheEvilTwinsDonaldAndAlito

#presidentialimmunity_ #repeat1968 #emergencypregnancyhealthcare #johnbuss #scotus #thecaravanoffools

Really Lazy Bear :debian_logo: @[email protected] · 2026-03-17 · 19:31 UTC

Of course, all of the awesome Project Wingman stuff is on peertube as well. It's all in just one video though so if the youtube copy of the vids go away for some reason, there's still peertube.

I wish I could upload these on Odysee as well but it costs some blockchain thing there...

#peertube: https://video.hardlimit.com/w/uddoJouNbo1iujaHN5cyJK

#projectwingman #linuxgaming #flightsim #action #archlinux #freesoftware #opensource #opentrack #aitrack #amd #nvidia #steam #valve #proton #odysee

#peertube #projectwingman #linuxgaming #flightsim #action #archlinux

Beko Pharm @[email protected] · 2022-03-02 · 19:33 UTC

The last update has been a while. I focused my attention to the MFDs (Multi-function display). This part didn’t get much attention yet and I was caught between the difficult choice to learn yet another fancy framework, like Raylib, that would do OpenGL ES 2.0 without X11 on the Raspberry – or just throw the might of my CoffeeLake at it and go with ReactJS since most of the data was already available via NodeRED anyway. Also… ARWES is just so cool 🤩

I went with ReactJS and ARWES again, simply because I have some experience in this by know thanks to my Streaming Overlay I wrote with it. Hobbling it up to NodeRED was just a matter of installing SocketIO to transport the messages. It’s all a very hacky mess but it gets the job done.

Video demonstration of my simulated cockpit made from cardboard on a budget mainly used to play Elite Dangerous in early 2022. This is work in progress.

While seeking through the available data I noticed that I don’t get velocity values from Elite. That’s not so important in space but _kinda_ interesting for me in planetary flight to satisfy the flight sim gamer in me as well. I noticed tho that I do get timestamped latitude, longitude and altitude values so shouldn’t it be possible to “simply” calculate this, right? Right?

This was when I dived into the rabbit hole of calculating velocity and heading on planetary objects using a spherical coordinate system and while I didn’t nail it exactly how Elite does it the result is close enough. The game provides the required data to go crazy here – most important the radius of the current object. In _theory_ I could start writing some primitive AFS (Auto Flight System) routines now, which I’m totally going to explore at some point in the future just because 🤓

Checking my maths – yes, altitude is added to the mix so velocity is mostly correct as long as no rapid course changes are made

After spending way too much time with this and the Pythagorean theorem (Yes mum, a game made me do maths. MATHS! 🤯) I settled with some calculations and data for my current ship to the right and targeted ship data on the left. This is sort of tricky because many game events update different parts of the data so timestamps have to be kept in mind and a game specific parsing strategy is required. See the last part of the demonstration video to get an idea how this looks.

Improving situational awareness by putting the video feed of wingman / gunner on the central MFD.

Another point to tick off my list was getting the head tracking to work in Elite (again). Now this is very Linux PC specific so you may tune out on this paragraph. On Linux PC I’d usually compile Opentrack with the Wine Glue, patch in my appdata dir for Proton and hope that it’s still ABI compliant to Just work™. Alas recent Proton is sandboxed within pressure vessel and the usual approach of memory mapping is simply no longer working, if I got the gist of this right.

So my _current_ strategy is to download and drop the Windows build of Opentrack into the game folder and chain-load the EXE with the game where the Opentrack EXE would listen on UDP while my native Opentrack BIN would send via UDP. A task not made easy with Proton but it is possible. The following snippet may give you some pointers:

#!/bin/bashexport STEAM_COMPAT_DATA_PATH=/games/steam/steamapps/compatdata/359320export STEAM_COMPAT_CLIENT_INSTALL_PATH="$HOME/.steam/steam"python3 /games/steam/steamapps/common/Proton\ -\ Experimental/proton run opentrack.exe

Why running Opentrack twice? The native build performs a lot better with my webcam and every frame really count here. Reading data via UDP is not much of a burden for Proton. This also saves me the trouble of fiddling with Wine Glue, a painful compile process nobody should endure involving installation of many many additional 32bit libraries. Hilarious but it works.

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#arwes #diy #elitedangerous #elitedangerousodyssey #gamingonlinux #headtracker #linuxgaming #nodered #opentrack #raspberrypi #simpit

https://beko.famkos.net/2022/03/02/primary-buffer-panel-march-update/

#arwes #diy #elitedangerous #elitedangerousodyssey #gamingonlinux #headtracker

NFL News @[email protected] · 2026-04-18 · 13:44 UTC

Detroit Lions Trade Up, Land Wingman for Penei Sewell in 2026 NFL Mock Draft https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/869182/ #AtlantaFalcons #BradHolmes #DetroitLions #Football #LatestMockDraft #LosAngelesRams #NFL #OffensiveLine #OffensiveLineman #PeneiSewell #TaylorDecker

#atlantafalcons #bradholmes #detroitlions #football #latestmockdraft #losangelesrams

Yonhap Infomax News @[email protected] · 2025-12-16 · 00:40 UTC

Korean Air has signed a technology agreement with South Korea's Agency for Defense Development to develop an open-architecture UAV platform, aiming to enhance unmanned wingman capabilities by 2029 with a 19.3 billion won ($14.8 million) R&D budget.
#YonhapInfomax #KoreanAir #AgencyForDefenseDevelopment #UAVPlatform #OpenArchitecture #193BillionWon #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=95641

#yonhapinfomax #koreanair #agencyfordefensedevelopment #uavplatform #openarchitecture #193billionwon

Yonhap Infomax News @[email protected] · 2025-12-16 · 00:40 UTC

Korean Air has signed a technology agreement with South Korea's Agency for Defense Development to develop an open-architecture UAV platform, aiming to enhance unmanned wingman capabilities by 2029 with a 19.3 billion won ($14.8 million) R&D budget.
#YonhapInfomax #KoreanAir #AgencyForDefenseDevelopment #UAVPlatform #OpenArchitecture #193BillionWon #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=95641

#yonhapinfomax #koreanair #agencyfordefensedevelopment #uavplatform #openarchitecture #193billionwon

Yonhap Infomax News @[email protected] · 2025-12-16 · 00:40 UTC

Korean Air has signed a technology agreement with South Korea's Agency for Defense Development to develop an open-architecture UAV platform, aiming to enhance unmanned wingman capabilities by 2029 with a 19.3 billion won ($14.8 million) R&D budget.
#YonhapInfomax #KoreanAir #AgencyForDefenseDevelopment #UAVPlatform #OpenArchitecture #193BillionWon #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=95641

#stockmarket #bonds #securities #banking #financialmarkets #economics

Yonhap Infomax News @[email protected] · 2025-12-16 · 00:40 UTC

Korean Air has signed a technology agreement with South Korea's Agency for Defense Development to develop an open-architecture UAV platform, aiming to enhance unmanned wingman capabilities by 2029 with a 19.3 billion won ($14.8 million) R&D budget.
#YonhapInfomax #KoreanAir #AgencyForDefenseDevelopment #UAVPlatform #OpenArchitecture #193BillionWon #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=95641

#yonhapinfomax #koreanair #agencyfordefensedevelopment #uavplatform #openarchitecture #193billionwon

Play Comics @[email protected] · 2024-02-26 · 07:15 UTC

Attention all Gundam fanatics and mech maniacs! Today we’re blasting off into the cosmos with Mobile Suit Gundam Zeonic Front for the PlayStation 2!

Joining us is none other than Scott Wachter from the wildly popular podcast The Recap From Mercury. Scott’s expertise lies in overanalyzing obtuse science fiction plots, so he’s the perfect wingman to navigate the tangled narrative threads of the One Year War.

Will the valiant Federation pilots emerge victorious against the dastardly Zeon forces? Can any of us mere mortals comprehend the sheer scale of these titanic mech battles? And is Scott prepared to have his mind blown by the sheer excess of beam spam?

Strap in tight and get ready for rocket-powered robot rampage as we go full psyco gundam on Zeonic Front! The battlefield drama awaits…just try not to get caught in the crossfire. Over and out, soldiers!

Learn such things as:

Is everyone in the wrong uniform really a bad guy?
How can a simple TV programming snafu change the course of a generation?
Do we need more games where you play as the villains?
And so much more!

You can find Scott on Twitter @fs_wachter, Bluesky @fs-scott.bsky.social, and on his own Gundam specific podcast The Recap From Mercury.

If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.

If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.

Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.

You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.

A big thanks to Film Rage and Bring Your Own Mech for the promos today.

Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who controls his Mechs with an Atari Jaguar controller.

https://playcomics.com/mobile-suit-gundam-zeonic-front-with-scott-wachter-recap-from-mercury/

#ASCIIMediaWorks #BClub #Bandai #ComicBomBom #ComicWalker #CPOManning #DelRayBooks #DengekiComics #Egmont #EnsCharlotteHepner #EnsNikkiRoberto #Gakken #JitsugyoNoNihonSha #KadokawaShoten #Kodansha #LCDRGarretSchmitzer #LtLouRoher #LtRenchef #LtSandra #LtSophieFran #MCPOMattAustin #MEDIACOMIX #MediaWorks #Migaki #MixxEntertainment #PlayStation2 #POLeeSwaggard #ScottWachter #Shogakukan #Tokyopop #VerticalInc #Viz

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demi7en 🎗🇪🇺 @[email protected] · 2025-03-07 · 19:04 UTC

@Lazarou A few considerations: 1) The F-35 is currently a "force multiplier" with various electronic capabilities Europe can't replace or reproduce in the next few years even with the best effort, on top of current cutting-edge low-observable design. Having F-35s in the mix together with European air superiority fighters (Eurofighter Typhoon, Rafale etc.) is really, really helpful.

The latest F-35 Block 4 / TR-3 (still awaiting clearance, essentially software certification) will enhance those electronic capabilities further.

2) Customers can buy localized "server/mainframe" capability essentially removing the need to depend on the USA for that service. If the USA cut off access to e.g. the constantly updated "threat libraries", Europe could do their best to manage their own sharing.

3) Europe simply can't depend on the USA acting in Europe's best interests for the foreseeable future. Building more Typhoons and Rafales and perhaps increasing investment in their further development is a rational option and IMO should be done in any case (esp. the latter; see #5b below).

4) Invest in European manufacturing (i.e. orders) of locally designed missiles (consumables) such as the Meteor and Mica.

New options:

5a) Invest in European twin-seaters and speed up the development of the "unmanned wingman" type aircraft to take responsibility of the frontline stealth/low-observability (LO) missions (South Koreans are also developing these).

5b) Join forces with South Korean (ROK) KAI and licence/collaborate/fast-track the fully 'LO' next versions of the already flight-cerfified KF-21, except replacing its GE F414 engines with roughly similar European engines used in the Typhoon and Rafale (both of which are slightly slimmer and longer, requiring tweaks to the airframe). ROK ought to be interested in a dependable alternative source for engines too.

Europe could be churning out Korean-European 5th gen fighters with no dependency on the USA within two years. Some argue that stealth/LO designs will become moot with advancements in radar and AI tech, but they will always have advantage over non-stealth designs.

#EuropeanDefence #SouthKorea #KF21 #F35 #Typhoon #Rafale #Gripen