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plessas.net // former CIA and DIA intelligence professional, U.S. Army veteran, and leading OSINT expert who has trained over 25,000 law enforcement professionals through FBI and DEA programs // knowledgebase.plessas.net

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Latest posts by kirbstr.bsky.social on Bluesky

My current music obsession is somewhere between Wet Leg and Emerson Woolf.

06.12.2025 04:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
OSINTIrl Episode 14 - Monkeying Around: Pets & Wildlife
YouTube video by OSINTIRL OSINTIrl Episode 14 - Monkeying Around: Pets & Wildlife

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...

05.12.2025 15:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OSINT Fieldcraft for Threads: Beginner Video Extraction โ€” Plessas Experts Network This beginner-friendly OSINT guide explains how to safely download and preserve videos from Threads.net using OPSEC-conscious methods. Youโ€™ll learn multiple techniquesโ€”from simple screen recording to ...

Downloading videos from threads (or wherever)

plessas.net/blog/2025/12...

05.12.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

19.11.2025 14:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2261    ๐Ÿ” 463    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
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Plessas Digital Knowledge Base Each entry in the knowledge base has been carefully reviewed, evaluated, and updated. AI plays a role in crafting the content, but we take it further by providing deep insights, highlighting controver...

#DigitalYouth #Safety #764 #PlessasExperts #OSINT
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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

17.11.2025 14:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Plessas Experts Network Inc. BLACK FRIDAY
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Get full access to all online OSINT training, including our new modular series (featuring "Internet Subcultures" and soon-to-be-released "Practical OSINT for Retail Crime Investigations"), for a year for $1,625 (usually $2,625).

17.11.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#OSINT #PlessasExpertsNetwork #Cultures

The first module in this course is Free.
w @kirbstr.bsky.social

academy.plessas.net/offers/UXvjr...

07.11.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

07.11.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Labeled Gen Z but I think Gen A

05.11.2025 12:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The iterations of this meme on Sora have me crying laughing

05.11.2025 12:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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mikmik776 on Sora This but @jakepaul

Proof

sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_690a5f93...

04.11.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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sketch.confusion on Sora Ultra-realistic television footage of The Price Is Right stage in the 1990s, featuring host Bob Barker standing beside a brightly lit prize display. The audience cheers wildly as Bob, wearing his icon...

Scrolling through Sora memechain slop is the new Vine. Complete with Jake Paul showing up randomly.

sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_69052201...

04.11.2025 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AIโ€™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 thatโ€™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.

20.10.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1991    ๐Ÿ” 639    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 53    ๐Ÿ“Œ 125
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Howard to launch artist residency with gift from nonprofit that is closing The $500,000 endowment from CulturalDC will bring artists from underrepresented groups to campus for a semester at a time.

Howard University launches an artist residency

15.10.2025 21:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh, I agree. Just watching some of the other companies recognizing value in that niche.

02.10.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seeing Experian ads getting into RocketMoney's business

02.10.2025 02:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

01.10.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8226    ๐Ÿ” 1673    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 132    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78
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Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.

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

01.10.2025 17:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 146    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID for Age Verification OpenAI introduces new age prediction and verification methods after wave of teen suicide stories involving chatbots.

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 userโ€™s age, and might require users to share an ID.

๐Ÿ”— www.404media.co/chatgpt-will...

16.09.2025 15:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 121    ๐Ÿ” 45    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

13.09.2025 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17047    ๐Ÿ” 4838    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 247    ๐Ÿ“Œ 216
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Hundreds Of Anthropic Chatbot Transcripts Showed Up In Google Search Peopleโ€™s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results โ€” just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. Theyโ€™ve now disappeared.

Peopleโ€™s conversations with Anthropic's Claude began popping up in Google search results โ€” just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. Theyโ€™ve now disappeared.
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...

09.09.2025 11:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 11    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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We are proud to announce the launch of Evident โ€”ย a nonprofit news organization producing documentary journalism for the public good โ€” here on Bluesky.

Evident is building a new kind of newsroom powered by a team of journalists that is covering crucial stories for public good.

04.03.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 177    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
OSINTirl Episode 1: Coffee, Epstein, and Lizard People
YouTube video by OSINTIRL OSINTirl Episode 1: Coffee, Epstein, and Lizard People

First episode of #OSINTirl

www.youtube.com/watch?v=or1G...

#osint @4realkyle.bsky.social @osintunleashed.bsky.social

04.09.2025 01:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OSINTirl - Twitch OSINT in real life---Takeaways from Real Life Examples of OSINT Tactics and Methodologies

Going live on Twitch in an hour. Our first #OSINTirl episode

www.twitch.tv/osintirl

03.09.2025 22:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

25.08.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8523    ๐Ÿ” 3726    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 57    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37
top 5 lies in epstein footage
YouTube video by voidzilla top 5 lies in epstein footage

Fangirling the OSINT

youtu.be/_oCrW4cVCO0?...

17.08.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Following our earlier investigation into the effectiveness of LLMs for geolocation, we've tested some of the latest LLM updates to see if they're even better.
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...

14.08.2025 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 141    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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List of academic databases and search engines

A list of dozens of the largest online tools for finding scholarly articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

#research #science

28.07.2025 13:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@kirbstr is following 20 prominent accounts