This is clever & depressing: the Apocalypse Early Warning System tracks private jet activity. “In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies…”
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Sure the oligarchs have their little birdies, but I don't think they learn the news so much faster than the rest of us that they'd collectively take off in their PJ's before we learned about the apocalypse by more conventional means (mushroom clouds, zombies in the streets etc).
But I do love a good nerdy data project, so I'm glad this exists, even so. (You've probably shared the Pentagon Pizza Tracker before; similar in spirit and probably a better leading indicator.)
Now Pizza tracker site seems to be suffused with 'Polymarket' odds for all manner of related outcomes... ☹️
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