Iran has had access [0] to a satellite capable of capturing images with 0.5 m resolution [1] since 2024.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iran-used-chinese-spy-sa...

[1] https://thedefensewatch.com/product/tee-01b-earth-observatio...

I’d bet all the money in my pocket they’re getting imagery from the Russians, who obviously want to maximize pain for the Americans.

Yep. I switched over to Zensical shortly after it was released.

Insufficient - the LLM can figure out what to pass in and pass it in.

I have a production system that I deploy through Claude Code, and initially placed a safeguard like that. About three weeks later it had automated around it.

That’s fine in my case because I’m a professional - I have backups, contingencies in place, etc. If I were non-technical I likely wouldn’t know to do that.

Well, I’ve been persevering through the hard bits for 42 years, and still struggle with it. It’s not about chasing novelty, it’s about novelty being many many times more attractive than it is for others.

How would you say your numbers compare to the amount of business leaders who are marketing themselves with messages of liberation, but actually want to usher in an era of unfettered corporate authoritarianism? I was not saying an anarchist wearing a suit cannot exist. Rather I was pointing out the current pop culture abuse of the concepts of anarchism/libertarianism.

I’m not sure; lots of people self-identify as anarchists while holding beliefs that are diametrically opposed to my own, and lots of people who are much closer to my own beliefs call themselves other things because they’re either afraid of the word “anarchism” or understand it to mean something else.

If I had to ballpark it, I’d guess something like 1:5 people in tech are broadly aligned with me politically (meaning “less extreme, but directionally similar”) while maybe 1:100 would self-identify as an anarchist and 1:500 both self-identify and align fully with me.

Does that help?

Not really, as you keep missing my larger point about authoritarianism marketing itself as anarchism/libertarianism. And that dynamic seems to be quite prevalent in Surveillance Valley.

> lots of people self-identify as anarchists while holding beliefs that are diametrically opposed to my own

It’s Banksy. He uses color to highlight things or where the color is important. Here, I assume the flag is intentionally indistinguishable.

Perhaps, but he’s also a talented artist.

One of my favorite contemporary musicians is a Socialist Filipino rapper who lives in LA. I can enjoy the music while finding the ideology abhorrent because they are two separate things.

I’d say what matters is whether it matters to you. What difference does it make in the outcome?

I think my use case is a little different than yours - I’m wanting to use it as a framework for me and an agent to manage specs, then split implementation into a separate agent fleet and use the spec as the interface layer - but the tool itself looks great and should work well!

It definitely ramped up with the invasion. I watched the webcam streams go dark.