Bit @Bit111111

The Inside GNSS article by Steven Murdoch analyzes ~12M messages in GPS satellites' public "special message" field (a spec slot for discretionary data). **ELI5:** GPS sats have secretly run a global "numbers station" for 19 years. They broadcast encrypted ciphertext (gibberish numbers) in signals your phone already receives. Only authorized military receivers with secret keys can decrypt it. **Purpose:** One-way key distribution. Satellites automatically send new crypto keys/commands to update military GPS devices worldwide for secure, anti-spoof, jam-resistant use. No separate radio needed. **What it's used for:** Mainly rekeying the military P(Y)/M-code system. Key findings: massive coordinated 2011 flip across 31/32 sats, repeating "ghost" chunks years later (encryption metadata leaks), and spreading "TEXT" messages. Rate slowed recently. Publicly receivable but useless without keys. Neat public-signal OSINT.

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their public signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 of 32 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i…

Pain management is really getting rammed through in Calgary now. I just had an epidural steroid injection that took ~10 seconds from the time the site was cleaned, w/ the doc not even waiting for the lidocaine to do anything before squirting in the cortisone. Horrendous feeling.

One year ago, I gave this interview to CNN about leaving the U.S. because of cuts to scientific funding and because immigrant scientists like me no longer felt welcome there. What followed was a difficult year. I applied for dozens of positions, received dozens of rejections, and eventually relocated to Germany. Even now, I still mourn some of those opportunities that never materialized. That's a normal part of the process. At the time, there was widespread concern that American scientists would flood an already saturated European academic job market. That never happened, and likely never will. The reality is that opportunities outside the U.S. are far scarcer than many people realize. Many of the initiatives and campaigns that promised a "safe haven" for scientists leaving the U.S turned out to be something else entirely. In practice, most were used to attract European researchers back from American institutions, while others functioned largely as political or media statements. Very few created meaningful opportunities for the thousands of scientists, immigrants and U.S. citizens, whose careers were disrupted by funding cuts and instability. The hard truth is that most scientists affected by these policies remain trapped. They cannot easily stay, but they cannot easily leave either. Meanwhile, the situation continues to deteriorate. I wish more institutions and governments expressing concern about the U.S. scientific exodus would move beyond press releases and empty gestures and invest in real pathways for talented researchers to rebuild their careers elsewhere. #BrainDrain edition.cnn.com/2025/06/01/wor…

@JMeddings 🫠 Going 'bake sale budget strategy' when even the FMC's cafeteria looks gutted compared to ~15 years ago. Feels like building a fancy penthouse suite before the foundation's finished being poured or the support pillars have been inspected due to a lack of funding.

Fascinating. Only 1 in 10 MD's could increase services. I suspect most of those are surgeons who cannot operate as GoA has shuttered our OR's. Rather than forcing them to go private, why not invest in our existing public OR's? We need to train more MD's...

Parksy @PfParks

2 days ago

I was reviewing the AMA internal survey on Bill 11 (Dual Billing) The findings bear sharing with ALL ABs: - only 10% could provide more services if allowed (no question to ascertain how much this would impact other HCWs staffing in the public sys) 1/3

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U.S. Central Command said a U.S. aircraft disabled the Gambia-flagged cargo ship Lian Star on May 30 after it ignored more than 20 warnings and continued toward an Iranian port in the Gulf of Oman. CENTCOM said a Hellfire missile struck the vessel’s engine room. The action marks the fifth commercial ship disabled since the blockade of Iranian shipping routes began on April 13.

A population of at least 150K and all there is available is one OR??? Where are you wasting all our tax$? This is about as stark as it gets - we don't have the h/c capacity to look after AB. This is a primary job of the GoA. Not wasting time/$ on referenda to have a referenda.

Missellie @Missellie19

4 days ago

@PfParks @ABDanielleSmith @AdrianaLaGrange

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Yeehaw. x.com/BenNollWeather…

Ben Noll @BenNollWeather

3 days ago

The El Niño signal from CanSIPS has intensified, with the latest run peaking at 2.6˚C above average during December — an increase of 0.6˚C compared to last month. Some extreme scenarios reach 4.1˚C above average. It also shows a stronger positive Indian Ocean Dipole.

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& we haven't even hit meteorological summer yet. x.com/WeatherProf/st…

Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf

4 days ago

That magenta dot seems out of place. Doesn’t it. Most unusually intense early season heatwave in Europe.

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Agriculture isn't going to sufficiently withstand this in a decade. Imagine conflicts like the Iranian & Red Sea blockades happening in parallel with food shortages. Markets will make survival very difficult & spur mass migration for those who don't want to starve. Vicious cycle.

Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf

5 days ago

The Western European heatwave was so deviant for May it’s almost impossible to count all the records. Here’s a last 7-day review of all the records neared, tied, and broken. The pink are all-time May records! #heatwave #Europe

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I'm not sure all of us want that

Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @DrDoyleSays

3 days ago

Many trauma survivors, as we work our recovery, come to understand: death isn't the real threat. We're all going to die. The real threat is letting our conditioning keep us from actually living. Yes, we want to avoid a premature death-- but continuing to exist is not living.

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@matthew_d_green youtube.com/watch?v=kzSlRO…

There is not enough anti-ballistic missile production in the United States and this could lead to a crisis in different parts of the world. Russia is ramping up its internal production of ballistic missiles. I sent a letter to the White House and to the U.S. Congress. I hope they will understand and respond. 60–65 anti-ballistic missiles per month, compared to current challenges, is nothing. It is no secret and Russia knows this. We need to expand the production. I asked the previous U.S. administration, and I am asking today’s administration to give Ukraine licenses to produce Patriot missiles. We can increase the production of Patriot missiles. This will help us. This will help the Middle East and any other country that the United States decides to help. Until we produce a European anti-ballistic system, we will need support from the United States. From an interview with Face the Nation. (2/5)

That’s gotta hurt. War is a test of Will and a test of Logistics. Losing so many trucks degrades Russian logistics significantly.

Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien

4 days ago

Good Lord, in two days the Russians have lost almost 1000 trucks and close to 3000 soldiers.

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Our new study and map of Ukrainian efforts to suppress the Russian rear, evidence @FedorovMykhailo's announcement of the “logistics lockdown.” 1/6

Canada, you’ve always said that healthcare is part of our identity. It is on life support. If there was ever something to stand up and be counted for, well the time is now. Surely this is a good cause.

CAEP @CAEP_Docs

5 days ago

Patients assessed in chairs. Examinations conducted in waiting rooms. Care delivered in hallways, closets, and other unconventional spaces. As overcrowding and access block continue to strain emergency departments across Canada, "chair care" is becoming an increasingly common

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Long COVID acts as an interconnected network of six biological domains driven by self-reinforcing feedback loops. This framework shifts focus from symptoms to mechanism-anchored stratification for targeted precision medicine.🧵

Given the shortage of Patriot PAC-3 interceptors, Ukraine's recent successes targeting Iskander TELs and bases is an important new development.

🇺🇦 Unmanned Systems Forces @usf_army

5 days ago

USF Destroyed Tu-142 Aircraft and an Iskander Missile System Deep Behind Enemy Lines Operators of the @1usc_army destroyed two Tu-142 aircraft at a military airfield in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, russia. The Tu-142 is a long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine aircraft used

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I guess the impending demise of much of civilization would be more palatable to me if I hadn't spent my lifetime being seen as chopped liver. Whatever self-confidence I can summon is moot if there are so many systems & people controlling much of my life that see me as expendable.

It really is becoming crystal clear how Rome fell.

Russian efforts to spy on and recruit from Orban’s regime revealed . #HUMINT

VSquare @VSquare_Project

5 days ago

A Russian diplomat working as an undercover SVR officer who spent years infiltrating the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) and other think-tanks tied to the Orbán government was quietly expelled from Budapest. @panyiszabolcs vsquare.org/the-think-tank…

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