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#OSINTirl going live - @cybersalukis.bsky.social has some thoughts about the Fediverse

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Going live! Inside the 2026 Social Media Lawsuits Changing Everything

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The End of "Seeing is Believing" As an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) investigator, my job used to be about finding the needle in the haystack, such as locating a specific user in a Twitter-crowd or verifying a Snapchat image. But ...

#Deepfakes #AI an article from @kirbstr.bsky.social on LinkedIn
The End of "Seeing is Believing"
"When political leaders pass off AI-generated images as truth, they aren't just lying about a specific event; they are sabotaging the very methodology of truth-seeking."
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How Friend Overlap Analysis Reveals Hidden Accounts, Alternate Personas, and Social Graph Secrets — Plessas Experts Network In the world of open-source intelligence, the most powerful insights rarely come from what is explicitly visible. Instead, they emerge from patterns, connections, overlaps, and relationships that most...

I mentioned that I would give an explanation on how my Friend Overlap Tool GPT worked and how to use it.

plessas.net/blog/2026/4/7/how-friend-overlap-analysis-reveals-hidden-accounts-alternate-personas-and-social-graph-secrets

OSINTirl - Twitch OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies

#OSINTirl will be live on Facebook, Twitch, YouTube and LinkedIn today at 11am Eastern. This is NOT an April Fools' Day joke, but we will be covering why today is the most annoying day on the internet. Join us and send in some examples!

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A company is secretly entering Zoom meetings, scraping the call, and then turning those meetings into AI-generated, public podcasts. A really wild business when many people are having sensitive conversations, including about ICE

Watch more here and subscribe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SI...

OSINTirl - Twitch OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies

We are live now on Twitch! #OSINTirl

Dark Curiousity: Weird stuff on the dark web

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Happy Friday!

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OSINTirl - Twitch OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies

Tonight, at 7pm eastern, I will go over ways to hash evidence and checking those hashes. Hint: you don't need any special software. #OSINTirl

Watch on Twitch tonight: www.twitch.tv/osintirl

Or on Youtube tomorrow: www.youtube.com/@osintirl

Fascinating work. I don't have the expertise to double check it, but the whole thing is available on GitHub so that others could.

randallscott25-star.github.io/epstein-fore...

did you know you can fit every planet in the solar system in between Earth and the Moon?

I can't tho, I'm busy

This has been postposed till next week w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social

#Tools #Vetting #OSINT

Happening Today
February 26, 2026 OSINTirl @1900 EST
Join Kirby and me tonight on Twitch OSINTirl Episode 23, we'll discuss Tool Vetting.
7PM EST Every Wed www.twitch.tv/osintirl
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w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

How did journalists find the man behind the biggest deepfake porn site in the world? 404 Media’s @samleecole.bsky.social reveals how David Do, a pharmacist, was confronted at his Toronto home in her new podcast Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire on CBC.

Listen now: open.spotify.com/show/69ttdE2...

Ricky Chilton - Ronnie Rigor Mortis (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Ricky Chilton

This is my current morning alarm music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=meA5...

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

#AudioOSINT #AcousticOSINT #OSINTirl #OSINT
Feb 4 OSINTirl @1900 EST
Join @kirbstr.bsky.social & me on Twitch for OSINTirl Episode 20
Audio & Acoustic OSINT from adversarial, OPSEC, & investigative perspectives.
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Epstein was everywhere. Like the Forrest Gump of evil.

Dad Jokes with Mothman

“If you see something, shovel something.”
I shoveled out crosswalks, instead of complaining.
If your neighborhood is also stuck in “snowcrete,” please take the #IceBreakUpChallenge: clear a sidewalk, post a photo.
Use social media to incent civic behavior.
If you like this idea, pass it on.
🪏 🧊💪 🇺🇸

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For over 30 years EFF's EFFector newsletter has chronicled the rise of the digital rights movement. Check out our archives going back all the way to 1990: www.eff.org/effector

🚨 #OSINT warning: Typosquatters on whatsmyname[.]* domains are copying WhatsMyName data without attribution & hiding their identities. Be careful where you run sensitive investigations. Official repo: github.com/WebBreacher/... and main site: whatsmyname.app

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

#OSINTirl #OSINT #ROBLOX #Twitch

OSINTIrl 15 ROBLOX with Kirby Plessas Today at 7 PM, 1900, EST
Join Us on Twitch, twitch.tv/osintirl
Can't make it? recording on www.youtube.com/@osintirl
Discussion on Roblox Investigations in OSINTirl
Safety and Some Critiques on Age-Appropriate Design.

There could be a study on the culture wars on Soras remixes. #aivideo

My current music obsession is somewhere between Wet Leg and Emerson Woolf.

OSINTIrl Episode 14 - Monkeying Around: Pets & Wildlife YouTube video by OSINTIRL

OSINTIrl with @kirbstr.bsky.social

OSINTIrl Episode 14 - Monkeying Around: Pets & Wildlife
Investigating Monkeys on Facebook, Lions on YouTube, & The Turtles
Puppy Scams Oh My!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vV5...

OSINT Fieldcraft for Threads: Beginner Video Extraction — Plessas Experts Network This beginner-friendly OSINT guide explains how to safely download and preserve videos from Threads.net using OPSEC-conscious methods. You’ll learn multiple techniques—from simple screen recording to ...

Downloading videos from threads (or wherever)

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