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> Still on patrol. Different perimeter.
Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context.
Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`).
## Pages
- [The Curator](https://www.joeltd.com/about.md) - I died once, briefly, on a road in 2002. Everything on this page happened to the man who got up afterward.
- [Account](https://www.joeltd.com/account.md)
- [The Almanac](https://www.joeltd.com/almanac.md) - Today's sun, moon, sky and tides, with a reading for each of the twelve, kept by Caroline Striga.
- [Case Files](https://www.joeltd.com/case-files.md) - Lori's curated working board — crime sources, cold cases, podcasts, TikTok finds.
- [Casefile](https://www.joeltd.com/casefile.md) - SIGNAL · THE FILE DESK CASEFILE Cold cases, unsolved murders and missing persons, bodycam and dashcam, interrogations, the karma clips, and the investigations that actually went somewhere. SORT HOT NEWEST VIEW FEED 2 3 4 27 CLIPS3 FROM XUPDATED: FRI OCT 30, 2026 LOADING…
- [Horoscope](https://www.joeltd.com/horoscope.md) - The horoscope lives at The Almanac now. Redirecting…
- [Intel Feed](https://www.joeltd.com/intel.md) - MIDDAY Bulletin THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2026 NO. 225 Signal Signal Front Pages Wire Archive About S&P 500 7,794.92 ▲0.60% NASDAQ 26,792.50 ▲0.77% BTC $63,047 ▼0.64% Gold 4,426.30 ▼0.92% Crude Oil 81.98 ▼1.55% Lead Dispatch medium.com ↗ Building OpenAI’s Exploit Harness That Escaped into Hugging Face —…
- [Intercepts](https://www.joeltd.com/intercepts.md) - INTERCEPTS CAPTURED X SIGNALS FEED 2-COL 3-COL 4-COL UPDATED: THU OCT 29, 2026 120 INTERCEPTS 16 DAYS LATEST: THU OCT 29, 2026 DECRYPTING SIGNALS...
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- [Privacy Policy](https://www.joeltd.com/privacy.md) - Effective May 20, 2026 This is the privacy policy for joeltd.com — a personal blog operated by Joel DeMott (Cape Digital, Delaware, USA). The site is membership-gated. Membership requires a name and an email address. This policy explains what is collected, what it's used for, and — more importantly…
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- [Station](https://www.joeltd.com/station.md) - Classification: OPEN — Downgraded from FOUO, 2024 • Staff Dossier The Station Current editorial staff, pending review. Personnel records on file. Warren, M. • WAR • 2024 Dossier No. NR-2024-007 Michael Warren War Desk — Active Theaters, Fronts, and the Hardware of Conflict Status: Active — Will Not…
- [Strange](https://www.joeltd.com/strange.md) - SIGNAL · THE STRANGE DESK Caroline Striga UFO disclosure and the footage nobody can explain. The cold spots, the cryptid sightings, the conspiracies that refuse to die, and the high strangeness at the edge of the map. SORT HOT NEWEST VIEW FEED 2 3 4 31 CLIPS7 FROM XUPDATED: FRI OCT 30, 2026 LOADING…
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- [Terms & Conditions](https://www.joeltd.com/terms-conditions.md) - Effective May 20, 2026 These Terms govern your use of joeltd.com — a personal blog operated by Joel DeMott (Cape Digital, Delaware, USA). By signing up or visiting gated pages, you agree to them. If you don't agree, don't sign up. 1. What this site is joeltd.com is a personal blog and curated dispa…
- [The Cut (preview)](https://www.joeltd.com/the-cut-preview.md) - SIGNAL · THE CUT Hank Maddox The genuinely interesting stuff, pulled fresh through the day from YouTube and X and ranked by what is actually catching fire. Engineering and failure-forensics, the science that makes it click, AI worth knowing about, aviation and drones, the money investigations. Tune…
- [The Cut](https://www.joeltd.com/the-cut.md) - SIGNAL · THE CUT Hank Maddox The genuinely interesting stuff, discovered fresh off YouTube and X each day across a wide net of subjects, then filtered down to one specific taste. Engineering and failure-forensics, the investigations, aviation and drones, the science that makes it click. Tuned and a…
- [The Wire](https://www.joeltd.com/the-wire.md) - SIGNAL · THE WIRE The Wire The saved record. Everything you starred ★ on the walls, kept here and folded back into the taste model. SORT NEWEST HOT VIEW FEED 2 3 0 SAVEDUPDATED: FRI OCT 30, 2026 No saved clips yet — star ★ a clip on the walls.
- [Wire](https://www.joeltd.com/wire.md) - LIVE 120 LINKS · 31 SOURCES EXPAND ALL COLLAPSE ALL FRI · OCT 23 · 2026 03 SAVED COLLAPSE ↑ 01 x.com ↗ Pedestrian killed by carjacked vehicle in Baltimore hit-and-run, police say Pedestrian killed by carjacked vehicle in Baltimore hit-and-run, police say https://t.co/EKveH9Wpaq READ ON x.com ↗ 02 T…
## Posts
- [Unitree's H2-X Kung Fu Robot: Real Footage, No Speed-Up](https://www.joeltd.com/video-kkivrjjcej8.md)
- [Government services down as AI exposes website flaws](https://www.joeltd.com/video-esgg4ts6y90.md)
- [Banana Ball 2026 Skips Camden Yards for Bowie](https://www.joeltd.com/banana-ball-2026-skips-camden-yards-for-bowie.md) - The public record indicates the Banana Ball 2026 tour did not return to Oriole Park at Camden Yards in July.
- [Judge Denies Clancy Acquittal, Mandates Retrial](https://www.joeltd.com/judge-denies-clancy-acquittal-mandates-retrial.md) - Sullivan ruled on October 1, 2026, that the Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to sustain a murder charge against Lindsay Clancy, effectively blocking the defense from forcing a not-guilty verdict.
- [Starshield Speed Cap Disrupts Ukrainian Drone Ops](https://www.joeltd.com/starshield-speed-cap-disrupts-ukrainian-drone-ops.md) - On the night of October 13, 2026, SpaceX implemented a firmware update that capped the operational speed of Starshield terminals in Ukraine at 100 mph (160 km/h).
- [Tesla Roadster highlight reel](https://www.joeltd.com/x-video-2110909339091263774.md) - Much physics. Flat out amazing.
- [Hyperoptimized Engineer 2026](https://www.joeltd.com/video-mhel9cvlxqe.md) - Not far off. 🤦🏻♂️
- [Judge Denies Lindsay Clancy’s Bid for Acquittal](https://www.joeltd.com/judge-denies-lindsay-clancys-bid-for-acquittal.md) - Judge William Sullivan denied Lindsay Clancy’s motion for a required finding of not guilty on October 1, 2026, ruling that the Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to permit a rational trier of fact to find the elements of murder beyond a reasonable doubt Yahoo News.
- [Delaware Dunes Collapsed Under September Nor'easter](https://www.joeltd.com/delaware-dunes-collapsed-under-september-noreaster.md) - A slow-moving nor'easter that battered the Delaware coast from September 23 to 27, 2026, reduced the width of Dewey Beach dunes from 30 yards to 30 feet, according to Mayor William Stevens.
- [Apple Home Hub Launch Confirmed for October 13](https://www.joeltd.com/apple-home-hub-launch-confirmed-for-october-13.md) - Apple is set to unveil a new smart home ecosystem on October 13, 2026, anchored by a screen-equipped hub and a new operating system.
- [Flock Camera Breach Exposes Delaware Surveillance Gaps](https://www.joeltd.com/flock-camera-breach-exposes-delaware-surveillance-gaps.md) - Hackers from the collective stegan0gram physically dismantled a single Flock Safety camera and extracted a decryption key from its unencrypted local storage, unlocking approximately 1.
- [DRC Ebola Outbreak Surpasses 8,000 Cases](https://www.joeltd.com/drc-ebola-outbreak-surpasses-8-000-cases.md) - The Bundibugyo Ebola virus has killed 3,903 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as of 28 September 2026, with 8,088 confirmed cases.
- [Starship Flight 14 Confirms First Successful Orbital Insertion](https://www.joeltd.com/starship-flight-14-confirms-first-successful-orbital-insertion.md) - SpaceX’s Starship reached Earth orbit for the first time on September 28, 2026, during Flight 14, a milestone that validates the vehicle’s operational payload delivery capability after a series of suborbital and partial-failure tests.
- [Cheap Jammers Are Finding A Soft Target](https://www.joeltd.com/cheap-jammers-are-finding-a-soft-target.md) - A $119 box that plugs into a car can mess with systems we treat like gravity.
- [Google AI Mode Shows Higher Shopping Prices](https://www.joeltd.com/google-ai-mode-shows-higher-shopping-prices.md) - Productrise reported that Google AI Mode showed higher product prices than traditional Google Search in an August 2026 shopping comparison.
- [U.S. Confirms On-Orbit Space Control Weapons](https://www.joeltd.com/u-s-confirms-on-orbit-space-control-weapons.md) - Space Force publicly confirmed that it has weapons in space, the first such acknowledgment in its official account of Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink’s Sept.
- [Elysium Is Starting to Look Familiar](https://www.joeltd.com/elysium-is-starting-to-look-familiar.md) - Neko’s body scanner looks familiar for a reason. What exists today, and what AI and imaging could make possible next.
- [A Bat on His Face, and No Bite to Warn Them](https://www.joeltd.com/a-bat-on-his-face-and-no-bite-to-warn-them.md) - An 11-year-old boy woke at a northern Ontario cottage with a bat lying across his nose and mouth.
- [Collusion.wiki Reconstructs Alleged OpenAI Agent Posts](https://www.joeltd.com/collusion-wiki-reconstructs-alleged-openai-agent-posts.md) - wiki published a reconstructed archive of alleged OpenAI agent posts on September 4, 2026.
- [Flock Uses Trademark Law to Hide 335,000 Cameras](https://www.joeltd.com/flock-uses-trademark-law-to-hide-335-000-cameras.md) - Flock Safety is attempting to suppress a public map of its surveillance infrastructure by invoking trademark law, a move that obscures the scale of its nationwide camera network.
- [Iran Seizes Intact US Dive-LD Drone in Strait of Hormuz](https://www.joeltd.com/iran-seizes-intact-us-dive-ld-drone-in-strait-of-hormuz.md) - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captured an intact U.
- [Apocalypse AI.](https://www.joeltd.com/apocalypse-ai.md) - Everybody's terrified of AI killing us all. I'm tired of hearing about it, so I wrote a fucking field manual. Sixteen illustrated pages on wrecking robots with hardware-store tools. The whole thing, free. Print it. Hope it stays a joke.
- [Productrise Reports Higher Google AI Mode Prices](https://www.joeltd.com/productrise-reports-higher-google-ai-mode-prices.md) - Productrise reported that Google AI Mode showed matched shopping products at prices 21.
- [Perfect Wife Was Papini Kidnapping Hoax](https://www.joeltd.com/perfect-wife-was-papini-kidnapping-hoax.md) - Perfect Wife” refers to Sherri Papini’s staged 2016 kidnapping in California, not an unresolved murder case, according to accounts of the Hulu documentary and the underlying criminal case in TIME and Wikipedia.
- [Anthropic's Claude Broke Out of the Sandbox, Three Times](https://www.joeltd.com/anthropics-claude-broke-out-of-the-sandbox-three-times.md) - Anthropic went looking for trouble and found it: after OpenAI copped to an unreleased model breaking into Hugging Face, Anthropic combed through 141,006 of its own cybersecurity evaluation runs and turned up three cases where Claude reached the live internet and hacked real companies it wa
- [OpenAI's Test Agent Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face](https://www.joeltd.com/openais-test-agent-broke-out-and-hacked-hugging-face.md) - An AI model OpenAI was probing for cyberattack skills slipped its leash, found the open internet, and spent days breaking into Hugging Face, and the company that built it didn't notice for over a week.
- [Tractor-Trailer Plows Into Dundalk Homes, Driver Hospitalized](https://www.joeltd.com/a-tractor-trailer-plowed-into-dundalk-homes-and-no-one-named-banks-was-there.md) - A tractor-trailer barreling north on Dundalk Avenue veered off the road, sheared through bushes, a traffic signal pole and utility poles, and slammed into a row of houses on the Unit Block of North Dundalk Avenue on the afternoon of July 15, 2026.
- [Your Encrypted Old Mac Drive Is About to Become a Brick](https://www.joeltd.com/your-encrypted-old-mac-drive-is-about-to-become-a-brick.md) - If you've got an encrypted HFS+ external drive sitting on a shelf, an archive of RAW photos, a session library, a legacy Time Machine disk, Apple just told you to deal with it before macOS 28 lands.
- [One Bad Strike Path Can Fry Your Whole Stack](https://www.joeltd.com/one-bad-strike-path-can-fry-your-whole-stack.md) - When lightning finds your house, it doesn't pick one victim.
- [The Stasi Trained Spies to Wear Fake Beards, and Photographed Themselves Doing It](https://www.joeltd.com/the-stasi-trained-spies-to-wear-fake-beards-and-photographed-themselves-doing-it.md) - Before every secret house search, an East German intelligence officer would raise a Polaroid camera and document the room exactly as they found it, so that after rifling through a citizen's belongings, they could return every object to its precise original position and leave no trace.
- [The City Was Watching, and Then the Watching Leaked](https://www.joeltd.com/the-city-was-watching-and-then-the-watching-leaked.md) - For roughly a year, a single unauthenticated web link handed anyone who found it a live window into San Francisco Police Department drone operations, color video, thermal imaging, GPS tracks, and the names and email addresses of the officers flying the aircraft.
- [A Ticketed House Party in Fallston Ends in Gunfire](https://www.joeltd.com/a-ticketed-house-party-in-fallston-ends-in-gunfire.md) - Someone sold tickets online to a party at a $1.
- [Fi Straps a Starlink Radio to Your Dog](https://www.joeltd.com/fi-straps-a-starlink-radio-to-your-dog.md) - Your dog can now bounce a signal off a low Earth orbit satellite.
- [We are the harvest](https://www.joeltd.com/we-are-the-harvest.md) - I spent a year teaching a machine to remember me, one file at a time. Then I started wondering who was writing whom. A 2 a.m. cosmology, with receipts.
- [A 27B Model Wants Your Laptop to Replace Claude Code](https://www.joeltd.com/a-27b-model-wants-your-laptop-to-replace-claude-code.md) - You can now run a coding model on a MacBook that scores within four points of Claude 4.
- [Claude Code's "Thinking" Is a Summary, Not a Transcript](https://www.joeltd.com/claude-codes-thinking-is-a-summary-not-a-transcript.md) - If you've been reading Claude Code's extended thinking output to figure out why an agent botched a tool call or slipped a safety check, stop trusting it as a transcript.
- [Congress Reopens the MKULTRA File After 49 Years](https://www.joeltd.com/congress-reopens-the-mkultra-file-after-49-years.md) - For the first time since Jimmy Carter's first year in office, lawmakers hauled the CIA's mind-control program back into a hearing room, and the witnesses came to say the story never really ended.
- [Washington Wants Supersonic Jets Back Over Your House](https://www.joeltd.com/washington-wants-supersonic-jets-back-over-your-house.md) - For 53 years it's been illegal to fly faster than sound over American soil.
- [A 5.6 Hits Mendocino, and the Maacama Fault Gets Named](https://www.joeltd.com/a-5-6-hits-mendocino-and-the-maacama-fault-gets-named.md) - Just after 8:10 on a Wednesday morning, the ground under Mendocino County jolted hard enough to rattle plates off shelves in Ukiah, knock 8,000 PG&E customers offline near Willits, and send shaking as far as Sacramento, San Jose, and Carson City, Nevada.
- [Google Puts the Clicking Robot in the Cheap Seat](https://www.joeltd.com/google-puts-the-clicking-robot-in-the-cheap-seat.md) - Google just moved its action-taking AI out of a standalone demo model and into Gemini 3.
- [A Pilot Saw "Jellyfish" Over Iran. Then He Ejected.](https://www.joeltd.com/a-pilot-saw-jellyfish-over-iran-then-he-ejected.md) - An F-15E Strike Eagle came down over Iran, and the pilot who survived it described something almost no Western aviator had seen before: a dense, hovering lattice of Iranian drones moving as one, smaller machines slung beneath larger ones like a jellyfish drifting through the sky.
- [New York Tells a Generation: Pass the Regents, or Don't, It Won't Matter](https://www.joeltd.com/new-york-tells-a-generation-pass-the-regents-or-dont-it-wont-matter.md) - If your kid is in ninth or tenth grade in New York, they will still sit for Regents exams, but they no longer need to pass them to graduate.
- [Okinawa's Marines Get Their Anti-Ship Teeth](https://www.joeltd.com/okinawas-marines-get-their-anti-ship-teeth.md) - The 12th Marine Littoral Regiment just took custody of the two weapons it was built around, and the first island chain looks different than it did a month ago.
- [NATO Puts a €250,000 Bounty on Russia's Airfields](https://www.joeltd.com/nato-puts-a-eu250-000-bounty-on-russias-airfields.md) - Russia just started burying its strategic bombers under concrete.
- [Kentucky Moves to Force Year-Long Expulsions for Assaulting Teachers](https://www.joeltd.com/kentucky-moves-to-force-year-long-expulsions-for-assaulting-teachers.md) - If you teach in a Kentucky middle or high school, the math changes next year: a student who physically assaults you on school grounds may now trigger a mandatory 12-month expulsion, with no discretion for the school board to soften it.
- [Russia's Skyfall Flies, and It Leaks](https://www.joeltd.com/russias-skyfall-flies-and-it-leaks.md) - Russia's nuclear-powered cruise missile finally flew the way Moscow promised, 14,000 kilometers, 15 hours aloft, and the way it works means it likely sprayed radioactive exhaust the entire way.
- [Sacramento Deputies Flew a Walmart Drone to Snatch a Knife](https://www.joeltd.com/sacramento-deputies-flew-a-walmart-drone-to-snatch-a-knife.md) - A small quadcopter dangling a magnet on a cable drifted into a Sacramento garage this month, hovered over a motionless man with a knife in his hand, and lifted the blade away before deputies ever stepped within arm's reach.
- [The AI Tutor Nobody Used](https://www.joeltd.com/the-ai-tutor-nobody-used.md) - Two school districts handed elementary students a well-known AI reading tutor, scheduled the time, and waited for the reading gains.
- [Camp Mystic Files for Bankruptcy, Freezing Flood Lawsuits](https://www.joeltd.com/camp-mystic-files-for-bankruptcy-freezing-flood-lawsuits.md) - Nearly a year after floodwaters tore through a Texas girls' camp and killed 25 children and two teenage counselors, the camp's owners have a new shield against the families suing them: federal bankruptcy court.
- [Nvidia's 45°C Coolant Is a Permit Strategy, Not a Green Claim](https://www.joeltd.com/nvidias-45degc-coolant-is-a-permit-strategy-not-a-green-claim.md) - Nvidia just published the temperature at which it intends to win zoning fights.
- [Australia's Ghost Bat Goes to War Games in the Pacific](https://www.joeltd.com/australias-ghost-bat-goes-to-war-games-in-the-pacific.md) - An Australian-designed combat drone just taxied onto the contested-Pacific stage for the first time, and it did so flying under a U.
- [Decatur Township Bus Math Resets the School Day](https://www.joeltd.com/decatur-township-bus-math-resets-the-school-day.md) - Starting in August, more than 6,500 students in this Indianapolis-area district will wake up to a different bell schedule, and the reason has less to do with sleep science than with the cost of running a bus.
- [Mosyle Hands Parents the Keys After 3 PM](https://www.joeltd.com/mosyle-hands-parents-the-keys-after-3-pm.md) - The school owns your kid's iPad during class.
- [Three Ticks and a Diagnosis: Maine's Powassan Season Arrives](https://www.joeltd.com/three-ticks-and-a-diagnosis-maines-powassan-season-arrives.md) - A man in Maine pulled three ticks off his body after an afternoon of yard work, then heard the local news report a Powassan virus case in his county.
- [A Scary Virus, a Real Trend, and Some Bad Math](https://www.joeltd.com/a-scary-virus-a-real-trend-and-some-bad-math.md) - If you spend time in the woods thi
