The joke is that AI is dumb & bad at things - as if THAT is the real concern. Something few people ponder is what happens when it gets better & the number of people who know how to use it grows fewer. WHO gets the lion's share of benefit from it then? I can tell you but you won't like the answer.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo ago

I get the hate for AI but I was able to use Claude to build tools to get access to hundreds of court records via courtlistener API, hundreds of 990s via Propublicas charity navigator, and thousands of political campaign spending records via FEC and Google to measure anti-trans political spending.

I sorta need to determine if Linux Mint has the same capability. I'm almost sure it does.

@dellenny.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How to Use Windows 11 Sandbox for Safe Testing If you often download software, test unknown files, or experiment with system settings, you already know the risk involved. One wrong click can slow down your computer, install malware, or create changes that are difficult to reverse. That is where…

Not all heroes wear capes.

Rachel Cunliffe@rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In other news, I have written in defence of early morning airport drinking! Not because I enjoy it (beer at 6am? No thank you!) but because of what the whole sorry debate teaches us about how regulation gets made and its unintended consequences www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

A little disappointed that no one in OSINT here is talking about Whatsmyname.app being down again. I have other tools, of course. But I was running a few searches that thought would have different results. Oh well.

Someone said it on Reddit and I agree but the amount of "OSINT"conflict maps that are vibe-coded Intel dashboards has to STOP. Seriously. It's a lot. Add something unique to the space or find something else.

Rewatching #DS9 and the whole trilogy of episodes concerning the Circle and their coup against the provisional government on Bajor is like the perfect scale of an overarching plot for a 10 episode series. Throw in 7 character focused episodes and boom - there's your #StarTrek show.

Something near and dear to my heart - username enumeration and why it's not so great always for user attribution, especially for evidentiary purposes. I'll explain. As an investigator, I comb a TON of the Internet hunting down whatever I can find on a username.

And no, the new tool In building isn't a skill for OpenClaw - YET. However; it is something that I spent a long time thinking about, in order to meet some requirements for my small solo operated OSINT firm. Nothing too cool but it saved me a TON of money and time.

HUGE fan of OpenClaw. Jesus. It did stuff that would have taken me WEEKS to do. Super fucking glad I tried it out.

Yeah, OpenClaw is kinda the shit. I'm DEEPLY enmeshed an investigation and it's been super fucking solid.

Pretty interesting piece. Though, I would always assume identity management systems would be a huge target for any attacker. You'd also like to think they would be as heavily protected as a response to such targeting. However, that's not always the case and this article seems to reflect that.

InfoSec@infosec.skyfleet.blue · 4mo ago

Iran Cyberwar: Identity Systems Become the Target

You have my attention.

IGN@ign.com · 4mo ago

Manage your very own early 90s video rental store in Retro Rewind: Video Store Simulator! Rent, decorate, and build your business from the ground up. Out now on PC. 📼

Looks like one of my slides made it into this Space Force brief on how to annotate imagery! Glad to see they liked it as much as I did Also seems like the slides just endorse careful language for photo interpretation fwiw. Gotta respect analytic tradecraft

Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 US military document leaked to shows how the Pentagon is working with private companies to manipulate the information you see about the Iran war www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leaked-doc...

I've been working on a new tool to use for OSINT in the "person(s) of interest" domain. I'm working towards getting my business up and running towards doing this as a small living. Once it's complete, I may share what it's like on GitHub and here. It could be super cool.

I believe we underestimate the danger posed to us by people motivated to kill us all for the flimsiest of reasons and with little any motivation to value the surety of their demise in the execution of their plans to commit murder. It's our greatest vulnerability as an ironically, predatory species.

The Trace@thetrace.org · 10mo ago

Investigators believe there may be additional victims of Sunday's shooting and fire at a Latter-day Saint church in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan. So far, at least four people have been confirmed as dead and either others were wounded.

Border patrol is patrolling the dangerous border between the Loop and... the other part of the Loop

The TRiiBE@thetriibe.com · 10mo ago

UPDATE — Witness videos captured Border Patrol agents boating down the Chicago River today. Also, there are multiple anti-ICE protests planned for the Chicagoland area this weekend. More details ⬇️ thetriibe.com/2025/09/bord...

Good news: STIs are down. Bad news: People are still pretty fucking stupid.

BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 10mo ago

CDC released provisional 2024 data on sexually transmitted infections (STIs). For the first time in years, overall reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, & syphilis are down ~9%. In 2024, over 2.2 million STIs were reported. That’s still 13% higher than 10 years ago. www.cdc.gov/sti-statisti...

You can say a lot about how much Bluesky sucks but they tried to cancel Dril here and are accusing Darth of suppressing free speech so you know we are COOKING WITH GAS

What. In. THE. Fuck.??!?!?!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women'

I will say while expertise in a subject is in abundance here. The echo chamber and lack of inconsequential conversations can make this place a bit stuffy. That said, I've hung out over there long enough to know there's ZERO chance to have anything constructive over there.

Dallas ICE shooter was targeting agents, not detainees, officials say abcnews.go.com/US/ice-facil...

Dallas ICE shooter was targeting agents, not detainees: Officials

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said he would put all ICE facilities on a higher alert following a shooting at a Dallas field office.

abcnews.go.com

Investigators identified the suspected shooter who killed a detainee at a Dallas ICE field office as Joshua Jahn.

Texas Officials Identify Joshua Jahn as Suspect in Dallas ICE Shooting

A person detained by ICE was killed Wednesday and two others critically injured when a gunman fired at a Dallas field office.

on.wsj.com

Can't stress enough that this is why you use burners for EVERYTHING.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 10mo ago

So... who gets to keep the phone numbers and use them "for promotional and marketing messages"? Trump? The RNC? The US government? This all seems very, very sketchy and bad.

The thing about here and X is the level of expertise is well-endowed here on such a huge death of topics.

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US NIH grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences go.nature.com/4pBArFH

What research might be lost after the NIH’s cuts? Nature trained a bot to find out

We used machine-learning tools in an attempt to recreate the method for cutting funding, and then applied it to past US National Institutes of Health grants to reveal the broad-reaching consequences of such action.

go.nature.com

A look at a very troubling development, even in the context of a hundred fires burning every day, with some comments by me

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 10mo ago

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

Maybe it's not the generals who show up we need to be concerned about. Perhaps, it would be worth noting who was allowed to fly with them that shall.

My daughter is 7 years old and told me the other day that we were besties. She also wants to be a security pro like her old man. And I've been on Cloud 9 ever since. Time to initiate Project Athena - Phase 2.

struggling with an analogy here but imagine NASA posting a meme about how excited they are to return aviation to the pre-jet age

Alan escapes entirely not near enough attention for getting rubbed down by minors...who also worked for Epstein.

darth™️@darthbluesky.bsky.social · last yr.

“epstein’s lawyer” should be the de facto headline description for this guy forever