post_fact

It’s exactly that! 🙂

Surveillance tech used by ICE - and the hackers pushing back After the fatal shooting of an unarmed activist in Minnesota, scrutiny grows over ICE’s expanding surveillance arsenal and the hackers working to track and disrupt it.

#OSINT is a two-edged sword.
Tech can help it be weaponised against anyone — for good and for bad.
General OSINT literacy + understanding its potential misuse are crucial.
A worthwhile read:

cybernews.com/privacy/ice-...

#surveillance #surveillancetech #digitalforensics #eff #socmedia

By the way, your feed is excellent. Good content, well-chosen reposts.
Fighting the good fight. Keep it up!
(And congrats on the award.)

Wouldn’t that depend on the flavour of the jelly (and of the ice cream, for that matter)?
My sister and I found raspberry jelly + vanilla ice cream was the best combo.
Wonder whether that has anything to do with why I’m now diabetic …. :})

Classic moments in #australianjournalism #73:
www.instagram.com/reel/DLtmfoZ...

Ice cream and jelly is a traditional food for kids after they’ve had a tonsillectomy.
Gentle on the throat. It’s also a tasty combo.

Answer below, please.
Merry Christmas and happy new year to all.

Challenge:
What did I just punch?
Answers under the spoiler post, please (ie, the next image below.)
#whatdidijustpunch
#osintchallenge
#xmasgiftchallenge

Excellent #OSINT work in this report.
Every minute is worth watching.

Off topic:
Any other #adhd folk have a habit of buying lottery tickets but never checking to see if they’ve won anything?
I’ve done that for years.
For all I know I’m a millionaire many times over while living on the income of a low-level academic. 🙄🤷🏻

The NYT is capping his ascent at mayor?
They don’t believe he could go higher?

Congrats on a terrific investigation. My favourite bit from the piece:
“The investigation has involved everything from tracing digital trails and family social media accounts, to scouring abandoned properties for old phone bills and credit card information.” :})
Love your work. Keep it up.
🙏🏻👌🏻🙌🏻

That’s prob a tougher answer. Likely depends on your field, skillset, capacity/opportunity/willingness to alter course.

Resist attempts to divide — don’t argue w bots

Be civil + genuine in online discussions w those who disagree — contrib positively

Resist false content — always call out dis-/misinfo

Don’t share content unless you’ve verified it (learn how)

Call out + reject AI slop

Don’t be guided by emotions

Social media has rewritten the rules of personal relations, public discourse + the v nature of what ppl believe/trust is real.

It has also been weaponised by bad actors to undermine soc/pol cohesion in lib democracies. We don’t really hate ea other as much as it appears on socmedia.

Solutions … ?

A 50% reliability rate (see graphic) seems an unreasonably low acceptable level to measure AI’s ability and, therefore, usefulness.

Lot of people in the comments seem to be wasting breath arguing with bots.

Perhaps. I’ve been tempted to think the same thing.
But without hard facts/evidence, this is a conspiracy theory.

To get higher quality version of an image posted on #bluesky:

Right-click image to open in new tab

In the URL:

1. Replace "feed_thumbnail" with "feed_fullsize"
2. Replace "@jpeg" with "@png"

Voila.

#OSINT @quiztime #geolocation

@juliabayer.bsky.social
@tlmn.bsky.social
@henkvaness.bsky.social

That’s a disappointingly myopic response from Smith

What a disappointingly myopic response

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Lasse Matthiessen?

Mieze Katz
Björn Dixgård

😢😢😣😖😫😤😠😡

Regarding terms: the Journalism academic community now uses the term OSINV (Open Source Investigation), rather than OSINT. Journalists use a limited set of tools and processes for specific purposes — all of which come under the OSINT umbrella — but are less concerned with security breaches work.

Fake, AI-generated videos about the Diddy trial are raking in millions of views on YouTube Channels serving AI slop feature videos full of false claims about celebs and their involvement with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for quick cash

Thrilled to partner with The Guardian to have it republish my @indicator.media story about Diddy AI slop videos racking up views on YouTube. You can read for free here: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

By the way, those coordinates do match the pic location I confirmed using some drone footage from YT. Posted it above.

Google Earth Pro

Google Earth (desktop)

Apple Maps

Bing Maps

GeoGuessrGPT and OSM gave me the same coords, but when I put them into different mapping platforms the results weren’t consistent.