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#OSINTirl #OSINT4Good #Podcast 3:30-4:30 EST Today Join @kirbstr.bsky.social , & me tonight to discuss 20 Years of the Adam Walsh Act: Protecting Children in a Digital Age, LinkedInLive, Twitch- www.twitch.tv/osintirl, & YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl (image prompted through Proton Lumo)

#OSINTirl #NVEs #Extremism #OSINT 3:30-4:30 EST Today Come join @kirbstr.bsky.social & me to discuss "Killers Without a Cause?: OSINT & the 2025-2026 Wave of Nihilistic Violent Extremism on LinkedIn, Twitch- www.twitch.tv/osintirl, & YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl (image via Kagi Assistant)

#OSINTirl Come join @kirbstr.bsky.social & me next Wed to discuss Op SpecTOR, a 2023 multinational operation targeting darknet drug trafficking, and how it applies to OSINT-3:30-4:30 EST For prior episodes- www.youtube.com/@osintirl/st... www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.linkedin.com/events/deepf...

🚨 OSINTirl is Live. 🚨 We break down the: Digital Clues That Exposed a Seville Predator Bear with us, we are trying to find the best possible timing for us both (crazy time zone differences!) www.youtube.com/@osintirl www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.linkedin.com/in/kirbyp/

#OSINTirl going live - @cybersalukis.bsky.social has some thoughts about the Fediverse youtube.com/@osintirl/st... twitch.tv/osintirl linkedin.com/in/kirbyp

Going live! Inside the 2026 Social Media Lawsuits Changing Everything #OSINTirl www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.youtube.com/@osintirl www.linkedin.com/in/kirbyp/

#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." www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-se...

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 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! www.twitch.tv/osintirl www.youtube.com/@osintirl

We are live now on Twitch! #OSINTirl Dark Curiousity: Weird stuff on the dark web www.twitch.tv/osintirl @cybersalukis.bsky.social

Happy Friday!

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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 Past episodes available on YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social

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...

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. www.twitch.tv/osintirl Past episodes on YouTube- www.youtube.com/@osintirl

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. 🪏 🧊💪 🇺🇸

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

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 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...

Downloading videos from threads (or wherever) plessas.net/blog/2025/12...

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

#DigitalYouth #Safety #764 #PlessasExperts #OSINT w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social Public & Free Plessas Experts Knowledge Portal recently dropped 764 resource reviews. If you are an investigator examining online extremism or a trusted adult with youth safety, please stop by. knowledgebase.plessas.net

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#OSINT OSINTirl on Twitch & YouTube with @kirbstr.bsky.social Always Love Vistors Come visit us on Twitch on Wednesday evenings @ 7 PM EST

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

Howard University launches an artist residency

Seeing Experian ads getting into RocketMoney's business

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

Oh dang while I'm giving shoutouts @graze.social just also launched a banger new website, well done @devingaffney.com www.graze.social

OpenAI has announced it is introducing new safety measures for ChatGPT after lawsuits accusing it of playing a role in several teen suicide cases. ChatGPT will now attempt to guess a user’s age, and might require users to share an ID. 🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-will...

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture: