🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

*Anthropocene Analytics Update* The prototype model now has seven critical infrastructure networks geocoded, & all interconnections/dependencies are programmed with just a few minor networks to go. The problem to solve now is: If everything depends on everything else, how do I

And here's some chaotic visualisation of all of the critical infrastructure systems in Mombasa (each system is a different colour). Finding/creating all of this geodata from public sources really put my OSINT skills to the test...

Sentinel-3 imagery of the massive flooding going on in outback Queensland. Very easy to see how some of the early explorers of the area convinced themselves that there was an inland sea that all of these rivers led to. link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/pf7b

If anyone has read Ada Palmer's series 'Terra Ignota' and/or likes political philosophy, I will be hosting a three-part discussion group focusing on some of the political ideas in the books with Interintellect 🧭 First discussion will be on April 17: interintellect.com/salons/the-wor…

In Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota, a non-geographic nation-state challenges traditional borders. This discussion with Michael Cruickshank explores its viability and whether it can prevent inter-state conflict in the modern world. interintellect.com/salons/the-wor…

Explore Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota and the concept of the 'Non-Geographic Nation-State' in this discussion with Michael Cruickshank.  The viability of this model raises important questions about the future. interintellect.com/salons/the-wor…

The fire caused by the RSF attack on the Zamzam IDP camp is large enough that you can see its smoke plume with the low-resolution Sentinel-3 satellite.

Burned Area Index analysis on Sentinel-2 imagery of the Zamzam camp in Darfur would suggest that approx. 7000 structures have been razed in the RSF attack on the camp through to 2025-04-15. This is a humanitarian catastrophe and an ongoing repeat of the 2006 genocide.

The Hindenburg Disaster really did a number on humanity, that we don’t see the obvious and low tech way to reach space on high gravity planets with atmospheres…

With tensions between India and Pakistan once again disturbingly high, I'd invite you to read an excerpt from my forthcoming novel (provisionally titled 'Backscatter') detailing a near-future scenario of how this could go alarmingly wrong. michaelcruickshank.me/the-subcontine…

After centuries of peace, could humanity be more prone to war? Michael Cruickshank explores this unsettling question through Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota in this second book club discussion.interintellect.com/salons/terra-i…

The 2nd discussion will be on May 10, and will focus on another core philosophical idea of the series: That long-term peace causes more brutal wars when the peace invariably ends. And, if true, what does this mean for the present? interintellect.com/salons/terra-i… x.com/MJ_Cruickshank…

I'll leave the India-Pakistan commentary to people who are more knowledgeable, but here's a 3D map I made of the current area of fighting.

TOMORROW✨ 300 years of peace. No memory of war. What happens when it all snaps? Michael Cruickshank leads a new Terra Ignota Discussion: peace, power, and the return of conflict. interintellect.com/salons/terra-i…

So it turns out you can use Apple's Depth Pro algorithm to take a pretty good guess at building heights in 2D satellite/aerial imagery. The main limitation is that the heights outputted are in relative units and must be scaled by objects of known height.

“I’d like two Gamburger, a Dablchiz, and a Teysti”

Made a 3D model of the Lötschental to visualise the catastrophic landslide in Blatten, Switzerland.

Some basic pinch-point analysis of the LA downtown with help from Michael Cruickshank!