I would like to see a new feature on arXiv that labels preprints that use AI upfront, since apparently TWO slop papers were successfully uploaded to the preprint server over the last two nights... arxiv.org/abs/2610.26056 🔭🌟🪐

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I mean, this image, showing a dozen P-51Cs and Ds of the 361st Fighter Group tooling up on some (I'm guessing from the tail) B-17s in late summer 1944 (they have stripes), is 331 MB, and you can zoom in almost to your hearts' content... This is how you digitally conserve.

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Looking through the NARA images today, hunting down Kodachrome ones, and came across this well-known image of P-51B-15-NA 42-106950 'The Iowa Burt'. I've not seen this image so clean before, and the original file is 83 MB. Screw you IWM, this is how you do photos. #avgeek

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PS - although they look a bit tubular, don't confuse the Canopée's sails with Flettner rotors - that's an entirely different and much more surprising approach to stealing the power of the wind...

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It sounds like a joke, but this here is genuinely a wind-powered rocket ship.

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