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Faine Greenwood

@faineg.com

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civilian drone technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. read my newsletter: https://little-flying-robots.ghost.io

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@faineg.comAug 4, 2026, 2:36 PM Pinned

Small drones are killing more civilians than ever before - and we need to act. Here’s my thoughts on what we need to do, like establishing a center dedicated to evaluating and investigating drone attacks, training investigators, and explaining how IHL applies to self-defense against drones:

little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWhat Can We Do About Drone Attacks on Civilians? Some ThoughtsLately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...
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@kevinmkruse.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 10:58 PMReposted by @faineg.com

This is especially galling given how cavalier this administration has been about deploying the troops and how callous they've been about their well-being while they're there. Sailors are trying to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln as the Millers soak up benefits meant for the military.

@maggietokudahall.bsky.socialOct 12, 2026, 12:41 AMReposted by @faineg.com

One of the weirdest things about AI is when it apes something from real life. The woman on the left is AI. The woman on the right is the real one but her middle finger has been given a starburst. To what point and purpose is the first? Does just its existence extend the time ppl spend on these apps?

@faineg.comOct 11, 2026, 5:44 PM

stank festivals

@kafsofit.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 4:57 PMReposted by @faineg.com

👁️ Delhi, India. Pandwala Khurd Community Centre. Civilians that attended a peaceful protest (including children) were kidnapped and beaten by authorities. 📸 from disha verma’s (@di_shawarma on X/Twitter) recount. Though the civilians have been released, international solidarity is needed 👇

disha verma @di_shawarma
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This is the most horrific detention story you will hear today.
At 8 PM, this bus stopped at a community centre in Pandwalan Khurd (see photo).
Detainees fractured. Four minors present. Everyone barbarically beaten up. No lawyers allowed to enter.
This is how we got here.disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m
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Peaceful protestors were detained from CP & taken to LIC—in a space sealed off from lawyers, journalists, crowds.
They were made to kneel down in a row.
Cops frisked them & physically snatched all their phones.
One by one, they deleted videos and photos, and kept their phones.
disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m
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The detainees were told, time and again, that nothing will happen to them if they cooperated.
They did. And then they got brutalised. One by one, in those tiny bus compartments-everyone was hit.
An officer identified to lead this extrajudicial violence is named ARVIND KUMAR.disha verma @di_shawarma • 36m
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They then profiled & selected some detainees and took them into buses used for convicts, with tiny compartments & no airflow.
@DelhiPolice then BEAT THEM UP, black & blue. It was described to us as "merciless thrashing" with only screams escaping that suffocating, jail-like bus.
@faineg.comOct 11, 2026, 3:38 PM

Tbh I know most of the legit GenAI power users on this website and I feel confident they’re not going back to Elon Musk’s CSAM Emporium

@faineg.comOct 11, 2026, 3:37 PM

I wonder how Ukraine’s destruction of those Russian data centers is impacting the activity of all those alleged new Twitter users he thinks are arriving from Bluesky l

@faineg.comOct 11, 2026, 3:34 PM

currently doing mental calculus trying to figure out the homophobia particles

@faineg.comOct 11, 2026, 3:34 PM

In Rome, and we just saw an Italian guy out walking with his girlfriend while wearing a shirt that said “I’m not gay, but $20 is $20”

@faineg.comOct 11, 2026, 6:07 AMReposted by @faineg.com

Nikita, brother, what the fuck are you talking about lol

@quinnae.comOct 11, 2026, 10:16 AMReposted by @faineg.com

Angels out here casting Sunbeam at Level 9.

@atrupar.comOct 11, 2026, 1:10 PMReposted by @faineg.com

TAPPER: In terms of tactics, shouldn't agents be checking if a 5-year-old is in the vehicle before they fire into it? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: You know who the 5-year-old was in the car? Oscar did. He chose to accelerate. Why would you put your child into a situation like that?

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@drewharwell.comOct 9, 2026, 1:23 PMReposted by @faineg.com

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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@drewharwell.comOct 9, 2026, 1:24 PMReposted by @faineg.com

I wrote in 2023 about our new "golden age of brutal voyeurism."

"It’s like there are suddenly many more movie theaters in town, and some of them are much more friendly toward snuff films"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

washingtonpost.comViolent videos and ‘brutal voyeurism’ are redefining modern warFrom Russian soldiers shot down on camera to Hamas fighters slain as they tried to escape the Israeli navy, the scenes now shared across the internet are far more violent and graphic than in previous ...
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@dieworkwear.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:47 PMReposted by @faineg.com

i've identified the Dockers store where Michael Tracy bought and then subsequently returned these pants after wearing them. i will be pursuing criminal prosecution.

Michael Tracey in a light blue sport coat and tan chinos.A close up of the chinos show the sizing sticker is still on the pants.
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@jagolinzer.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:33 PMReposted by @faineg.com

Stanford financial economist Anat Admati @admati.bsky.social just joined here.

She’s a leading voice on systemic risk in banks, corporate governance, and finance.

I highly recommend following her here and reading her book The Bankers’ New Clothes.

press.princeton.edu/our-authors/...

@jagolinzer.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 2:35 PMReposted by @faineg.com

See, also, Prof @admati.bsky.social’s keynote at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit:

youtu.be/2lUM8ccDcBI?...

@masnick.comOct 9, 2026, 7:52 PMReposted by @faineg.com

www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/u...

techdirt.comUS Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US Engages In Foreign Information InterferenceOne of the most bizarre things over the last few years is how two guys, Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi, bumbling around cosplaying as "free speech" experts, have done tremendous damage to free speech. After Elon Musk brought them in to report on the so-called "Twitter Files," the two of them spun up nonsense tales...
@masnick.comOct 9, 2026, 7:06 PMReposted by @faineg.com

I was at a conference last week where a well known 1st Amendment professor claimed it was silly to think that free speech was under attack in the US because people at that conference were criticizing the administration, so clearly everyone felt free to speak.

RRuha Benjamin@ruha9.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:58 PM

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X
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@wdonthavetime.selfhosted.socialOct 9, 2026, 5:17 PMReposted by @faineg.com

Have you been Wned?

W Social says it respects your #privacy. But how much of your personally identifiable information is published by them to the open web for anyone to find?

wdonthavetime.tngl.io/wsocial-wned/

#WSocialFacts #WSocial

@mschenk.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 6:08 AMReposted by @faineg.com

If you speak Dutch, it is around 1:33 in today's "De Ochtend":
www.vrt.be/vrtmax/luist...

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