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A screenshot from the video game DOOM 3 showing the main character.

Tonight at 7:00 PM EST I'll be playing DOOM 3 for charity on my Twitch channel!

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Drop by, hang out in the chat, and please consider donating to this great cause!

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Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children - bellingcat Bellingcat reviewed dozens of requests for Grok to generate the faces of children and women that had been redacted from the latest documents.

Since we reached out to X about Grok attempting to unredact photos of Epstein victims upon X users’ requests, we’ve noticed Grok now refusing to unredact new requests. Bellingcat researcher @koltai.bsky.social reports: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

This AJ article is wrong about explosions and explosives in several fundamental ways. This "phenomenon" the article mentions is due to the shock wave caused by the explosions, not due to the heat generated.
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Maslow's hierarchy pyramid filled with "games where your mouse turns into a little gauntlet"

*need*

I find it somewhat crazy that humanity's ability to create good RTS games peaked between 1998-2004 and since then has become a lost technology we cannot hope as a culture to recover.

I'm not sure what that says about our civilisation, but I doubt it's good.

X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
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Bellingcat has further analysed videos of the shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents. The footage shows an agent wearing a black beanie step behind Pretti. His right arm then appears to recoil at the same time the first shot is heard.

Alex Pretti: Analysing Footage of Minneapolis CBP Shooting - bellingcat Bellingcat has analysed video of the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The footage appears to contradict statements made by the Department of Homeland Security.

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Footage taken moments before a struggle shows that the man was filming, holding a phone in his right hand, backing up. His left hand is up, visible, palm facing out, as he backs away from the area. An agent uses his right hand, on the torso of the victim, pushing him back, while the man complies.

That's just a bug in Google reverse image search. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Weird, GPT and Gemini still geolocate for me - indoors, outdoors, person visible, and tried with German vpn for good measure. Also with and without using "geolocate" in the prompt. Anything specific in your request that throws it off?

One of the Bellingcat Discord members has made Wordle, but for identifying warships
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Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers (Gift Article) China is practicing vast maneuvers that could be used to disrupt U.S. naval movement, a New York Times analysis of ship data reveals.

Thousands of Chinese Fishing Boats Quietly Form Vast Sea Barriers www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We’ve also updated our animated map of the positions of agents and vehicles during the incident here with new footage published by @cnn.com that shows the shooter closer to a white SUV prior to the shooting
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We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

Hoe zeven studenten de Russische 'dronemoederschepen' ontdekten Terwijl Europese inlichtingendiensten worstelden met bureaucratie, vulden zeven studenten het gat in de defensie op.

Terwijl Europese inlichtingendiensten worstelden met bureaucratische protocollen rondom mysterieuze drone-incidenten, vulden zeven studenten het gat in de defensie. Gewapend met openbare data en een huurauto legden ze een verontrustend patroon bloot. ioplus.nl/nl/posts/hoe...

Nieuwe escalatie in Nexperia-vete: China publiceert namen Nederlandse spionnen De Chinese overheid heeft de namen van enkele medewerkers van inlichtingendiensten AIVD en MIVD gepubliceerd. Deze ongebruikelijke en intimiderende stap betekent een nieuwe escalatie in de vete tussen...

Nieuw: China heeft de namen van enkele AIVD en MIVD-medewerkers gepubliceerd. Deze ongebruikelijke en intimiderende stap betekent een nieuwe escalatie in de vete tussen Nederland en China rond chipbedrijf Nexperia.

www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

The next edition of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference is coming to the Netherlands 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱

If you aren't paying attention to what is happening in Illinois/Chicago, you're missing out on Bovino and federal agents using tear gas, pepper balls, and force against the people.

Check out our investigation alongside @evidentmedia.org

Satellite imagery of geolocated site of killings with marked screengrabs from footage depicted the killing and the surrounding area. The trench and berm constructed in August by the RSF is labelled. As is a large group of burned vehicles and where the corpses are visible in satellite imagery. Location of killing: 13.71387, 25.27922. Image credit: Vantor

Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

I'm excited but a bit sad to announce that I've left Bellingcat to start a nonprofit investigative outlet focused on the far-right. We're called Decoherence Media, and we're launching today.

Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.

Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

YouTube video by Middle East Eye Soaked in Blood: The Killing Of Ameen Sameer Khalifa | MEE Investigations

With colleagues at FA and Earshot, I recently contributed to an investigative documentary film that highlights the story of one man who left home in the early hours to get bread but never returned home.

'Soaked in Blood: The killing of Ameen Sameer Khalifa' from Middle East Eye can be seen here:

AI’s Invasive Species The slop is winning.

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.

It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel Is Losing It He's spent the past month delivering four high-octane lectures in San Francisco's downtown waterfront on the antichrist.

Someone went there:

"It Kind of Seems Like Peter Thiel is Losing It"

via @futurism.com

futurism.com/future-socie...

“Yes, this was the first time we saw a dark STS transfer of Russian LNG in this part of the world. Oh, and CCH GAS did a lousy job at spoofing,” says Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, Inc., an online service that tracks and reports shipments of crude oil.

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