Bjørn Ihler
@bjornih.bsky.social
Founder & CEO of Revontulet & The Khalifa Ihler Institute - preventing terrorism and keeping people safe by rendering extremists incapable of abusing tech to recruit, organize and coordinate attacks. Primarily operating in 🇬🇧🇳🇴🇸🇪
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Bjørn Ihler
@bjornih.bsky.social
· Jan 27
How A Terrorist Attack Made Me A Peace Activist | DEEP
YouTube video by People Are Deep
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Welcome new followers!
Some of you don't necessarily know the whole story of *why* I care so much about the rise of the far right, about countering terrorism, and about building peaceful and thriving societies.
This video is a pretty good intro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-C5...
Some of you don't necessarily know the whole story of *why* I care so much about the rise of the far right, about countering terrorism, and about building peaceful and thriving societies.
This video is a pretty good intro.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-C5...
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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OSINTukraine is an archive born from urgency. Our work began when Russian tanks crossed the border. It hasn’t stopped since:
OSINTukraine - OSINT Tools for Ukraine
OSINT tools to archive, document and debunk the Russian War against Ukraine This project is a Telegram Archive, a News aggregator & publishing engine designed to support Ukraine and keep Ukraine information in the News cycle.
osintukraine.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:00 AM
OSINTukraine is an archive born from urgency. Our work began when Russian tanks crossed the border. It hasn’t stopped since:
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Lots of good advice and resources in this thread for parents and teachers.
It's not reasonable or practical to ban kids from the internet until adulthood, but keeping an open dialogue can go a long way in mitigating harms and teaching skills that will be beneficial for a lifetime.
It's not reasonable or practical to ban kids from the internet until adulthood, but keeping an open dialogue can go a long way in mitigating harms and teaching skills that will be beneficial for a lifetime.
Steps parents can take now:
1) Check whether your child is using a school-issued computer or device for online gaming or chats.
2) Talk with your child about how they use the device: games, apps, chat features, who they’re talking to, how long they’re online.
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1) Check whether your child is using a school-issued computer or device for online gaming or chats.
2) Talk with your child about how they use the device: games, apps, chat features, who they’re talking to, how long they’re online.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Lots of good advice and resources in this thread for parents and teachers.
It's not reasonable or practical to ban kids from the internet until adulthood, but keeping an open dialogue can go a long way in mitigating harms and teaching skills that will be beneficial for a lifetime.
It's not reasonable or practical to ban kids from the internet until adulthood, but keeping an open dialogue can go a long way in mitigating harms and teaching skills that will be beneficial for a lifetime.
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Norway can and should host the UN
Colombian president accuses Trump of violating UN principles after visa revoked
"Time to go to a more democratic place," Petro said in an X statement.
www.axios.com
September 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Norway can and should host the UN
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The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Buying a tech gift for someone this year? Keep in mind what you're opting them into, and take the time to help set up any device you do get them as privately and securely as possible. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers,
www.eff.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Buying a tech gift for someone this year? Keep in mind what you're opting them into, and take the time to help set up any device you do get them as privately and securely as possible. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Days, like today, underline why the vampires tend to hang out in the nordics in winter...
November 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Days, like today, underline why the vampires tend to hang out in the nordics in winter...
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Reportedly, Indonesia destroyed 31 Chinese vessels allegedly involved in illegal fishing within its territorial waters. China describes it as “serious escalation.”
Indonesia claims ships, linked to Chinese gov, were engaged in poaching and operated as covert intelligence-gathering platforms
Indonesia claims ships, linked to Chinese gov, were engaged in poaching and operated as covert intelligence-gathering platforms
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Reportedly, Indonesia destroyed 31 Chinese vessels allegedly involved in illegal fishing within its territorial waters. China describes it as “serious escalation.”
Indonesia claims ships, linked to Chinese gov, were engaged in poaching and operated as covert intelligence-gathering platforms
Indonesia claims ships, linked to Chinese gov, were engaged in poaching and operated as covert intelligence-gathering platforms
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Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges. The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges. The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
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Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests, known as FKUs, on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
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This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is one of the clearest examples of a disordered counterpublic capturing an institution I've seen. It's nice to have your work proven on a regular basis, but also very bad.
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
demos.co.uk/research/ver...
Did the current Trump Administration, for some reason, decide that the Electric Disturbance Events data by the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response of the Department of Energy was no longer relevant?
November 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Did the current Trump Administration, for some reason, decide that the Electric Disturbance Events data by the Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security & Emergency Response of the Department of Energy was no longer relevant?
Looking at maps for no particular reason and wondering why Maryland has such a strange shape...
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Looking at maps for no particular reason and wondering why Maryland has such a strange shape...
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As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
The dangers facing local reporters who cover extremism.
The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.
www.cjr.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
As I told the Columbia Journalism Review, this swatting incident occurred just before I published an investigative report that unmasked the operators of four major neo-Nazi accounts on X. I don't think the timing was coincidental.
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...
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Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
AWS crashed a couple of weeks ago, and now Cloudflare - the strength of the Internet was allegedly that it's built on distributed infrastructure, but when we all build on stacks relying on like 5 providers and they all rely on each other we still have single points of failure so we're still screwed.
November 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM
AWS crashed a couple of weeks ago, and now Cloudflare - the strength of the Internet was allegedly that it's built on distributed infrastructure, but when we all build on stacks relying on like 5 providers and they all rely on each other we still have single points of failure so we're still screwed.
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This is some very good reporting about the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and how they are targeting kids online for recruitment. GDL hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream coverage like Fuentes and his Groyper buddies have but GDL is worse in basically every way. Thanks for this great reporting, Phil!
MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill
A Phil Williams NC5 Investigates report on a neo-Nazi targeting kids online, telling them to prepare for a 'race war'
www.newschannel5.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is some very good reporting about the Goyim Defense League (GDL) and how they are targeting kids online for recruitment. GDL hasn't gotten a lot of mainstream coverage like Fuentes and his Groyper buddies have but GDL is worse in basically every way. Thanks for this great reporting, Phil!
What is sort of wild is the extent to which the political landscape of the US is still defined by a war that ended 160 years ago...
as a white liberal with Southern roots, quite frankly, I think other white liberals from the South need to get the fuck over their oddly defensive attitude about what should be pretty blindingly obvious.
I understand why some white liberals from the Deep South want to insist that there isn't something distinct (and bad) about Southern political culture but the problem with this is that we wouldn't even have this idea of "The South" as distinct from the rest of the US if there wasn't a there there
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
What is sort of wild is the extent to which the political landscape of the US is still defined by a war that ended 160 years ago...
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It is no longer Saturday or raining (at least where I am??) but you should still read my latest newsletter post on freaky-ass historical flight experiments:
It's RAINING on SATURDAY, which means you PROBABLY HAVE TIME to READ MY LATEST NEWSLETTER POST on the three dreams we needed to make modern drones - read about 17th century concerns about rampaging sky-pirates, flying necromancer kings, and much, much more!
The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: The Fear and Fantasy of Flying
There is something deeply rooted in our psyche that is both appalled and fascinated by the prospect of a human being flying like a bird, by this act that is both deeply unnatural and has also become, ...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
November 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
It is no longer Saturday or raining (at least where I am??) but you should still read my latest newsletter post on freaky-ass historical flight experiments: