Consider a scenario increasingly common in INDOPACOM: a gray-zone incursion by an unidentified maritime vessel, operating in contested waters near the Philippine archipelago. A U.S. partner nation or allied command post is monitoring the area using Palantir’s battle management suite—receiving feeds from distributed sensors and maintaining geospatial awareness over a designated maritime security zone.

Upon detection of the vessel’s entry into this monitored zone, an adjacent SOF element—equipped with a Group 3 UAV, our Multi-INT V-BAT—launches to gain positive identification. Shield AI’s autonomy stack, Hivemind, powers the onboard intelligence, enabling the aircraft to operate in degraded GPS and comms environments, autonomously collect FMV and associated intelligence, and stream KLV metadata to ground systems in real time.

The sensor data is ingested directly into the Palantir Platform, where it is fused, visualized, and flagged for analysis. From there, operators use Target Workbench to review and triage the contact—tagging it, assigning confidence, and collaborating with upper echelons on potential courses of action. Once a course is selected, Hivemind enables the rapid execution of that decision, transforming intelligence into action by directing autonomous systems to track, monitor, or strike as needed.

This is not a futuristic concept. It’s a real, operationally relevant workflow that our teams at Shield AI and Palantir are enabling today—with fielded systems, mature autonomy, and extensible software frameworks that support rapid integration across the kill chain.

SAURAV AGARWAL (2025). Shield AI + Palantir: Mission Autonomy and C2 Working as One. Available at: Shield AI. (2025). Shield AI + Palantir: Mission Autonomy and C2 Working as One. [online] Available at: https://shield.ai/shield-ai-palantir-mission-autonomy-and-c2-working-as-one/

Sen. Ted Cruz, whose top donor is AIPAC, says Tucker Carlson's foreign ties should "absolutely" be investigated.

He's "very concerned" that Carlson could be receiving foreign money.

🇮🇷👉🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ The Iranian command stated that the crew of the Gerald R. Ford deliberately set fire to the aircraft carrier in order not to participate in the conflict.

His message is quoted by the republic's state broadcaster IRIB.

Previously, the Pentagon claimed that the Gerald R. Ford was damaged for reasons unrelated to combat operations.

This email shows Jeffrey Epstein discussing a strategy to “tie up” JASTA litigation for 5–10 years.

JASTA is the law 9/11 widows & children fought for to pursue justice for the murder of 3,000 innocent Americans.

Why was Epstein trying to stall justice for 9/11 families?

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02668884.pdf

https://x.com/patty49583/status/2029966540880109991

The Day Liberty Died

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, an unarmed intelligence ship, was positioned in international waters off the coast of Egypt when it was attacked by unmarked IDF jet planes firing rockets and machine guns and throwing napalm onto its deck.

This ambush was followed by a torpedo strike that blew a forty-foot hole in the starboard side of the ship. Lacking the capacity to defend themselves, thirty-four sailors were killed and 174 wounded, many for life.

So intense and sustained was the attack—it lasted for nearly an hour and a half—so specific was the aiming for the antennae and satellite dish on deck, that it was scarcely credible that Israel's aggression was not deliberate; such was the view of Marshall Carter, the director of the NSA, and Richard Helms, the Director of Central Intelligence.

"If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of." — USS Liberty survivor

A massive public archive of declassified US government files vanished just one day after President Trump ordered the release of all UFO-related docs.

The Black Vault, run by researcher and ufologist John Greenewald Jr, had its main server reportedly wiped clean on February 20, deleting hundreds of gigabytes worth of files on UFOs, declassified CIA projects, and major conspiracies, including the assassination of JFK, Daily Mail reports

@insiderpaper

Israel hacked nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras to spy on Ali Khamenei before launching an attack to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader.
Israeli spies spent years surveilling the Ayatollah’s bodyguards by accessing the Iranian capital’s traffic camera network, intelligence sources claimed.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/03/03/israel-hacked-iranian-traffic-cameras-to-spy-on-khamenei/

⚡️🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 - The US has burned through "years" worth of munitions since start of the Iran war, just 13 days ago, per FT.

Details include:

1. Concerns are reportedly mounting around rising costs and the US’ ability to replenish stockpiles

2. The rapid depletion of weaponry includes advanced long-range Tomahawk missiles, sources say

3. The Pentagon is set to request $50 billion in additional spending for the military

4. Pentagon officials told Senators that the war had cost more than $11 billion in the first 6 days of strikes

Costs of the Iran war are rapidly mounting.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

This is a fascinating story. Check it out.

Hundreds of animal species famously died out during the last Ice Age. The reasons behind the Ice Age, Pleistocene, or Quaternary, megafaunal extinctions have been puzzled over for more than a century without any clear resolution. The problem has been called the ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem of paleobiology’. These extinctions took place over thousands of years and around the world, but there was a strange specificity about which animals could stay and which had to go. There are two accredited narratives about what caused this, the human-hunting narrative and the climate-change narrative. Both, in curious ways, are wrong.

https://open.substack.com/pub/forrestbishop/p/the-pleistocene-murders-part-1?r=lp6h7

How to Slay a Wizard

THE SECRET GUIDE TO WORD MAGIC

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/how-to-slay-a-wizard

🧠 Scientists Ran a Real Fly Brain Inside a Virtual Body
@science

📝 A team of researchers has recreated the entire brain of a fruit fly neuron-by-neuron and launched it inside a simulated body.

This isn’t a neural network trained to imitate a fly.
It’s something far stranger: a structural copy of the real biological brain.

The system includes roughly:

▪️ ~125,000 neurons
▪️ ~50 million synapses
▪️ The original wiring diagram reconstructed from connectomics data

Virtual sensory signals enter the model, neural activity propagates through the network exactly as it would in the real insect, and the simulated body moves in response.

In other words: the fly’s brain is effectively running inside a digital organism.

🔬 Researchers built the system using detailed neural mapping and simulation tools developed in the emerging field of whole-brain emulation.

The long-term goal is even more ambitious:
👉 the same approach could eventually be applied to mouse brains, which are several orders of magnitude more complex.

If that succeeds, it would represent a major step toward true digital organisms — simulated bodies driven by real biological neural architectures.

🤖 Anime fans of Pantheon may feel a sense of déjà vu.

🔗 More details: https://eon.systems

💬 Discussion:
If a brain’s wiring and signals can be perfectly reproduced in software, where exactly does the organism “exist”?

#neuroscience #connectomics #simulation #digitalbiology #AI #science