Cool guide out today on @indicator.media! Reverse image search is a valuable verification tool. But sometimes you want to search within an image bank that is not public. @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social explains how to do it:

The Indicator Guide to building your own reverse image search engine

Step-by-step instructions for how to index a private dataset of images (or videos) and run reverse image search queries against it.

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Wrote up a little guide to building your own reverse image search engine for @indicator.media, steered by the brilliant fellow @towcenter.bsky.social alum @craigsilverman.bsky.social: indicator.media/p/the-indica...

The Indicator Guide to building your own reverse image search engine

Step-by-step instructions for how to index a private dataset of images (or videos) and run reverse image search queries against it.

indicator.media

Personal News: December 1st will be my last day as a full-time reporter on the @nytimes.com’s Visual Investigations team. To say the last 3 and a half years on this amazing team have been life-changing would be an understatement.

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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plat...

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Deeply reported context on Ahmed al-Sharaa www.ft.com/content/8aa8...

The secret history of Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa

Is the man once known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani intent on moderating or a brutal strongman?

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The gulf to the east of Mexico and to the south of the US, according to Google Maps when VPNing into different countries 1 - US 2 - Mexico 3 - India (or many other third countries)

Had the pleasure of speaking to the inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference at USC this weekend about my approach to using AI in journalism

Sea level rise, as envisioned by Severance from www.reddit.com/user/Unlikel...

Cool A.I.-enabled story. In addition to classifying vehicle make and model with A.I., they can glean a lot about vehicle classification from detected license plate numbers.

Drone footage shows the devastating and widespread destruction in LA's Pacific Palisades 1&2 - Area around Galloway St/Bashford St just northeast of Sunset Boulevard 3&4 - Area around Chautauqua Blvd, south west of Will Rogers State Park