Kirbstr
@kirbstr.bsky.social
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 //
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My current music obsession is somewhere between Wet Leg and Emerson Woolf.
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
My current music obsession is somewhere between Wet Leg and Emerson Woolf.
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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...
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...
OSINTIrl Episode 14 - Monkeying Around: Pets & Wildlife
YouTube video by OSINTIRL
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December 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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...
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...
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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.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
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#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
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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
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...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#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
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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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).
w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social
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).
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Plessas Experts Network Inc. BLACK FRIDAY
w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social
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).
w/ @kirbstr.bsky.social
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).
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#OSINT #PlessasExpertsNetwork #Cultures
The first module in this course is Free.
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The first module in this course is Free.
w @kirbstr.bsky.social
academy.plessas.net/offers/UXvjr...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#OSINT #PlessasExpertsNetwork #Cultures
The first module in this course is Free.
w @kirbstr.bsky.social
academy.plessas.net/offers/UXvjr...
The first module in this course is Free.
w @kirbstr.bsky.social
academy.plessas.net/offers/UXvjr...
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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
OSINTirl on Twitch & YouTube with @kirbstr.bsky.social
Always Love Vistors
Come visit us on Twitch on Wednesday evenings @ 7 PM EST
November 7, 2025 at 8:19 PM
#OSINT
OSINTirl on Twitch & YouTube with @kirbstr.bsky.social
Always Love Vistors
Come visit us on Twitch on Wednesday evenings @ 7 PM EST
OSINTirl on Twitch & YouTube with @kirbstr.bsky.social
Always Love Vistors
Come visit us on Twitch on Wednesday evenings @ 7 PM EST
Scrolling through Sora memechain slop is the new Vine. Complete with Jake Paul showing up randomly.
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_69052201...
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_69052201...
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...
sora.chatgpt.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Scrolling through Sora memechain slop is the new Vine. Complete with Jake Paul showing up randomly.
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_69052201...
sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_69052201...
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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.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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.
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Howard University launches an artist residency
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.
wapo.st
October 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Howard University launches an artist residency
Seeing Experian ads getting into RocketMoney's business
October 2, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Seeing Experian ads getting into RocketMoney's business
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feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word
Vibe working is all about Office’s new Agent Mode.
buff.ly
October 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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Oh dang while I'm giving shoutouts @graze.social just also launched a banger new website, well done @devingaffney.com www.graze.social
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October 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Oh dang while I'm giving shoutouts @graze.social just also launched a banger new website, well done @devingaffney.com www.graze.social
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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...
ChatGPT will now attempt to guess a user’s age, and might require users to share an ID.
🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-will...
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.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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...
ChatGPT will now attempt to guess a user’s age, and might require users to share an ID.
🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-will...
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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People’s conversations with Anthropic's Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
Hundreds Of Anthropic Chatbot Transcripts Showed Up In Google Search
People’s conversations with Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.
www.forbes.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
People’s conversations with Anthropic's Claude began popping up in Google search results — just like what happened with ChatGPT and Grok. They’ve now disappeared.
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...
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We are proud to announce the launch of Evident — a nonprofit news organization producing documentary journalism for the public good — 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.
Evident is building a new kind of newsroom powered by a team of journalists that is covering crucial stories for public good.
March 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We are proud to announce the launch of Evident — a nonprofit news organization producing documentary journalism for the public good — 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.
Evident is building a new kind of newsroom powered by a team of journalists that is covering crucial stories for public good.
First episode of #OSINTirl
www.youtube.com/watch?v=or1G...
#osint @4realkyle.bsky.social @osintunleashed.bsky.social
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#osint @4realkyle.bsky.social @osintunleashed.bsky.social
OSINTirl Episode 1: Coffee, Epstein, and Lizard People
YouTube video by OSINTIRL
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September 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
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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...
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
August 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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...
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...