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This link lead me to the API used by the project: http://www.dronestre.am/ followed by the twitter account linked to the api https://twitter.com/dronestream

I never thought the US conducted so many strikes, especially in Pakistan ...

thanks for checking it out. i'm the person who made it. there are also iOS and android apps if you'd like to get notified for each one...

Impressive. Would you mind explaining how you collect the data?

most of the heavy lifting is done by the bureau of investigative journalism. i just read the news articles they aggregate and fill in some metadata.

Wow. Thank you.

You might be interested in this

https://youtu.be/K4NRJoCNHIs?t=672

Only a short quote, but quite powerful. The whole episode I think is worth it, but this always stuck with me.

Rather like the Ukranian civil war, the world seems content to ignore the civil war in Pakistan and the fact that a global power is intervening on one side.

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