New from me! After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials. Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again. Check out our investigation!

Haunted by the image of the RTG slowly and unceasingly* melting its way straight down through the glacier. *(okay ceasing with an 87 year half life)

Fascinating story www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The first lawsuit against OpenAI that claims ChatGPT led to a murder www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Quicksand guy posted his account of what happened; “my right leg was fixed in place as if set in concrete” www.reddit.com/r/Campingand...

New from 404 Media: the creator of ICEBlock just sued the U.S. government over it pressuring Apple to remove the app earlier this year. Says it violated his First Amendment rights. www.404media.co/iceblock-cre...

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans. Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for. futurism.com/future-socie...

iPython notebook source code and more thoughts in the blog post: exclav.es/2025/12/03/a...

Satellite Imagery xkcd.com/3173/

The Indigenous Journalists Association released a reporting guide to help reporters cover Indigenous identity responsibly and ethically. It offers tools and context for navigating heritage, identity fraud, community verification, and more. indigenousjournalists.org/2025/11/ija-...

Epstein emails (2.5 GB) Approximately 20,900 unredacted emails and file attachments sent and received by Jeffrey Epstein's [email protected] email address over nineteen years. ddosecrets.com/article/epst... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand. The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Nope, not nuked (love the they’re-using-a-VPN feature)

Meets Zohran on Friday, dressing like an East Village poet who wrote something called "A Fairest Autumn" by Saturday.

The forensic audio analysis by Rob C. Maher of the 2024 Trump assassination attempt has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. This is great news for visual and audio investigations! aes2.org/publications...

Has this already been nuked?

The most surreal database I’ve ever seen

omg they made Jeffrey Epstein Inbox Simulator '25 jmail.world

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

A good start, but looking forward to Gemini being able to verify synthetic images produced by other apps in the industry like Sora (in the works, apparently) www.theverge.com/news/824786/...

This violent CBP agent's Twitter account follows 2 Holocaust deniers (Nick Fuentes and Stew Peters) and 9 accounts associated with InfoWars and its current or former employees. He's likely knee-deep in far-right and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

This is of course something that @samleecole.bsky.social has been writing about literally since the dawn of deepfakes. But the scale of this exposure is really crazy. Millions of images leaked by extraordinarily shoddy security, left exposed on the internet for months

It's sort of hard to explain how incredibly fucked up this is. Nudify apps are terrible, and a scourge that is being used against random nonpublic people (and bad no matter who it is). But this app is worse: people are stealing images of women and are putting them in extreme hardcore AI porn

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"ARC [data broker owned by airlines, bc that's a thing] sells government agencies the ability to search a database of around 722 million ticket transactions, stretching over 39 months of past and future travel data"

Europe is poised to scale back some of its GDPR regulations in the coming months (here’s hoping this applies to Whois records) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

New scam intro dropped

good article featuring fellow ads-b enjoyer @lemonodor.bsky.social we pay for the national airspace system and the government aircraft that fly in it, it's good that basic information on their use is and remains public

We've finally found a business case for A.I.!!!!

Wow, a "sophisticated espionage campaign" (attributed to a "Chinese state-sponsored group") used Claude's agentic capability to _execute_ its large-scale attacks -- the first of its kind, Anthropic believes www.anthropic.com/news/disrupt...

After King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard left Spotify in protest earlier this year, something strange took their place. My investigation into what happened, which resulted in Spotify taking down a bunch of slop tracks www.platformer.news/king-gizzard...

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

Shout out to @bendobrown.bsky.social for his newsletter! He’s sharing a lot of tips, but reading this also brings me back to the days i just started doing osint. Newsletters like these taught me so much! 🥰 osintfieldnotes.substack.com

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling www.404media.co/judge-rules-...

i look forward to hearing penny's side of the story on Joe Rogan

Fun overview of "bioinspiration" -- hooks on burrs led to Velcro and whale fins helped w/ the design of wind turbine blades www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ugh such a depressing read -- I was just considering subscribing to Outside after attending a talk by Peter Heller who was a contributing editor there for a minute. Maybe I still will before it goes the way of Newsweek www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

idk whether John Cale contributed to the instrumentation or was just the inspo here but this is beautiful and such a _tease_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7...

New: On The Gateway Pundit's podcast yesterday, Stewart Rhodes announced he's relaunching the Oath Keepers He also urged Trump to “call us up as a militia" & "order us all to come together in our counties under his command." www.mediamatters.org/oath-keepers...

I’m quoted in an article about AI hallucinating cases. There is a way to fix this, and it’s to have a list of every case so that you can automatically check briefs for bad citations. Right now, that’s impossible because Westlaw is the one creating the citations and they don’t share them. 1/

Publicly available sources to aid open-source investigations can be a tool for all journalists, writes @johannawild.bsky.social of @bellingcat.com ⬇️ niemanreports.org/osint-open-s...

"We sent the footage to A.I. experts who confirmed the film was manipulated. The channel had taken the original footage - filmed in his Russian office six years earlier - and put fake audio on top, with his lips artificially altered to match the script." russia-eu-cars.airwars.org

Canadian Premier League final looked like an absolute blast www.reddit.com/r/soccer/com...

Woof