[runtimepanic]

If you’re tracking signals around geopolitical events, there’s a quirky one a few folks like to watch: the Pentagon Pizza Index. It’s a real-time dashboard that monitors pizza shop activity near the Pentagon as an informal indicator of unusual late-night activity. Historically people have pointed to spikes in food orders before major operations as a sort of low-tech OSINT signal. https://www.pizzint.watch/

Obviously this isn’t hard intelligence — correlation isn’t causation — but when combined with more grounded indicators (verified reports, diplomatic channels, satellite data) it can be a piece of the broader picture. Just a fun example of how people try to find patterns in publicly available data.

[jdmoreira]

You would expect them to have started baking the pizza inside the pentagon already by now :)

[hahahahhaah]

Or they order Chinese food to throw it off

[DecoySalamander]

Why bother monitoring junk food purchases when we can watch videos of helicopters flying over Caracas being uploaded almost in real time?

[pamcake]

Hmm, I guess delivery app API can provide some useful signals if monitored.

(jk, Pentagon OPSEC is TIGHT from what I've been told)