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摘要: I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse. Then the data started getting weird.
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I vibe-coded a billionaire jet tracker to warn people about a possible apocalypse. Then the data started getting weird.
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Kyle McDonald's Apocalypse Early Warning System features a world map with the approximate locations of more than 35,000 private and business jets.
Kyle McDonald's Apocalypse Early Warning System
2026-05-27T08:11:01.274Z
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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kyle McDonald, a programmer and artist in Los Angeles who uses code, machine learning, computer vision, and surveillance tech to create projects that reveal how technology affects society. It has been edited for length and clarity.
I created a website that tracks
private jets
and assigns their movements an "emergency level." The underlying joke is: If something really bad is about to happen, maybe billionaires will know before the rest of us.
The project came together after I saw a threat from
President Donald Trump
about Iran — that a "whole civilization" would die if they didn't agree to a ceasefire deal — and that got me thinking about information: who gets it, who controls it, and who we actually trust anymore.
If there were really going to be a major global catastrophe, I thought, his friends would probably find out first. The people close to power have already benefited from private information in
prediction markets
, politics, and crypto. Why wouldn't that extend to existential risk?
So I started looking at private aircraft and
vibe coding
this project.
I've been pro
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