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MJ Banias

@mjbanias.bsky.social

Co-founder and Investigations Lead at Permanent Record Research | Bullshit Hunter at bullshithunting.com | OSINT and Analysis | Journalist at TheDebrief.org | Will Probably Die in Winnipeg

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Bullsh*t Hunting@bullshithunting.bsky.social · last yr.

It all started with a Twitter account, some ChatGPT quotes, and someone looking for a good time. This is the breakdown of how a guy convinced Rolling Stone he was the rep for a suddenly popular AI band, Velvet Sundown. www.bullshithunting.com/p/a-free-osi...

A Free OSINT Lesson: The "Velvet Sundown" Squatter Who Duped the News Media

Andrew Frelon: A fake band manager pretending to manage a band that doesn't exist. How Avant-garde.

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MJ Banias@mjbanias.bsky.social · last yr.

Holy! @justinseitz.bsky.social and @kennedycatherine.bsky.social - we’re way better than Deloitte. Can we start charging Deloitte prices please!?

ProPublica@propublica.org · last yr.

After being hired to promote Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program, Deloitte Consulting priced reports about its own marketing performance at $300,000 a month. A final report, which was due in February, could cost the state nearly half a million. ➡️ Read the full story: propub.li/3YOiJ66

An excerpt of Deloitte’s marketing contract shows its $300,000 per month expenditure on reports on its own performance, $250,000 per month for community outreach, $478,000 Final Marketing and Outreach Campaign Report, and $10.7 million total budget.
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry@kennaculture.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another week calls for another episode of the "Debrief Weekly Report" #podcast! This week @mjbanias.bsky.social joins me in discussing #robots, #cleanenergy and screen detoxing. It's all here and more! thedebrief.org/hydrogen-min... @stephgerk.bsky.social

Hydrogen Mining the Misty Mountains

On this week's episode of The Debrief Weekly Report, Kenna and MJ climb to the mountain top and talk about mining hydrogen. They also get weird with shapeshifting embryonic robots, and then remember a...

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MJ Banias@mjbanias.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spent a day in LA talking about secret Soviet technology, CIA projects, and the Cold War. And oddly enough, a weird zeppelin ghost story made it into the mix.

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MJ Banias@mjbanias.bsky.social · 2y ago

At some points in my week, I very much become alternate universe Lt. Harry Kim from Star Trek: Lower Decks and, as I push the button to destroy all universes, yell, “I’m two pip Harry Fucking Kim and I don’t have to listen to anybody!” I then self immolate into atoms.