Useful guide for identifying small #drones and their footage when monitoring #conflict zones, created by @faineg and @konraditurbe - via @Bellingcat

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/01/18/identifying-small-drones-from-screenshots-and-displays/

Analysts often rely on drone software user interfaces or on-screen displays (OSDs) for more precise information. In this footage the interface includes some key identification clues. The combination of the ability to zoom, the bottom auxiliary light and the user interface of the recording, only appears in the DJI Mavic 2 Zoom.

With practice, drone footage can be analysed to reveal certain models. Ultra-crisp, stabilised footage combined with the ability to zoom and levitate in one place for extended periods of time reveals that it was likely captured with a consumer quadcopter, such as the DJI Mavic 3.

This guide focuses on commercial and small drones, touching on major manufacturers including DJI and Autel. Most open-source material that is found online originates from these drone types.

The guide outlines characteristics that can help you to determine the source of drone footage. These characteristics can provide crucial insights: for example, auxiliary light warnings indicate an extreme likelihood that a drone is used for bombing attacks.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated the central role of drone footage in monitoring conflict zones. Faine Greenwood and Konrad Iturbe have created a guide to help researchers identify drone types based on footage.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/01/18/identifying-small-drones-from-screenshots-and-displays/?utm_source=mastodon

My new Bellingcat piece with @konraditurbe.dev on identifying small drones from open source data is out!

Read to learn about how you can often tell what drone someone is flying just by looking at the on screen display:

https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/01/18/identifying-small-drones-from-screenshots-and-displays/

Here’s the story of how a 37-follower Twitter account seeded a propaganda narrative about Hawaii that made headlines around the world, thanks to a network of right-wing influencers — and amplification by both Russian and Chinese state media.

My latest — a very deep dive into a coordinated campaign:
#socialmedia #disinformation #propaganda
https://open.substack.com/pub/weaponizedspaces/p/russia-amplifies-right-wing-influence?r=1aupz&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that this almost completely unoccupied 4-floor building located in the S’Park neighborhood of central Boulder, which had no rent paid on it for a year before the occupant was finally evicted, is over 65,000 square feet - nearly double the 36,000 square feet of the Walnut office and the equivalent of 80 apartments.

Presently, Boulder, Colorado is rated #7 for most expensive home prices in the country.

A Judge ordered Twitter's eviction from the new office one year after the grand opening, to the day.

All of this sat unused, and un-paid-for, for a full calendar year.

An office space that thousands of people could have said, at any point during the 2 years of its construction, would sit abandoned after its opening.

All built to entice people to return to the office at a company that had announced WFH forever, and most of whom got fired before ever seeing the inside.

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/14/boulder-twitter-eviction-unpaid-rent/

I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of #Twitter from their Boulder, Colorado office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is bizarre and hilarious, so here goes...

A thread 🧵

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

hearing about deleted DMs and deleted tweets coming back from the dead #TwitterDown #TwitterDead #DeadTwitter #Deadbirdsite #deadbird

Really good life-affirming article by @faineg about how social media should be, and can be fun. And how it's the people and the posts that matter. https://open.substack.com/pub/faineg/p/how-i-accidentally-ruined-bluesky?r=9evnh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Still here but spending more time messing around on BlueSky these days, in this era of social media experimentation.

On the @stamen blog you can read the transcript of my interview with Tanya Ruka, Māori indigenous artist and Executive Director of #NativeLandDigital. The native-land.net map is (in my opinion) one of the most interesting and important mapping projects of the past 10 years, and I was very lucky to talk w/ Tanya about the map as well as her many art and design projects related to traditional Māori navigation and indigenous understandings of ecosystems. Read or listen here: https://stamen.com/tanya-ruka-mapping-native-lands/

Truth Hounds is a human rights organization documenting war crimes in Ukraine since 2014. Today they are investigating the atrocities in Kyiv and Mykolaiv Oblasts, and assisting Ukrainian investigators in collecting the evidence for hundreds of cases.
This summer the team reconstructed the March shelling of Mykolaiv State Regional Administration and investigated the missile launch at Skovoroda mus https://gwaramedia.com/en/will-russian-soldiers-be-held-accountable-for-war-crimes-a-human-rights-defender-of-truth-hounds-speaks-on-the-topic/ source : Olena Myhashko #Ukraine

The inability to click an outside link to a #mastodon profile and then interact with it properly if it's from another instance was driving me mad, so I sent up this regex based redirect which restructures the url.

@randahl @anderspuck @DeeGLloyd I’ve seen drones capable of dropping eight grenades at once in the Ukraine War on Telegram, but the sources all seem to say that they’re made by Ukrainians. Can take a closer look at some point.

@glennf Delving into Mastodon…

@joshuafoust thank uuuuu