Eman El-Sherbiny
@emansh.bsky.social
Digital forensics @ICRC.org. Former @Bellingcat.com @Lighthouse Reports @the HALO Trust, @Cen4InfoRes & @Sudanese_archive #osint chronically online & views are strictly my own📍Amman
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Eman El-Sherbiny
@emansh.bsky.social
· Dec 6
www.amnesty.org
In case you missed it, here's Amnesty's Q&A regarding their research into the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023 and treatment of hostages, which I happen to have assisted with
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www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Pope Leo to AI Forum: “The Church calls all builders of AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work — to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
November 7, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Pope Leo to AI Forum: “The Church calls all builders of AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work — to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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The ultimate mancave
November 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The ultimate mancave
The view from Jesus Cave where he supposedly hid for 40 days with his disciples. The cave itself was locked, in true Jordan fashion.
November 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The view from Jesus Cave where he supposedly hid for 40 days with his disciples. The cave itself was locked, in true Jordan fashion.
Noticing multiple successful attempts of geolocation efforts in the south of Lebanon on Telegram and WhatsApp channels given the lack of near-real time reporting as the IDF ramps up targeted strikes on structures nestled in residential areas and at times, school districts
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Noticing multiple successful attempts of geolocation efforts in the south of Lebanon on Telegram and WhatsApp channels given the lack of near-real time reporting as the IDF ramps up targeted strikes on structures nestled in residential areas and at times, school districts
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We've covered how Meta Ray-Bans could have been worn by CBP during ICE raids, how it's being modded for facial recognition, and how it's being used as a spy tool.
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team:
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team:
What’s the Difference Between AI Glasses and an iPhone? A Helpful Guide for Meta PR
Meta thinks its camera glasses, which are often used for harassment, are no different than any other camera.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We've covered how Meta Ray-Bans could have been worn by CBP during ICE raids, how it's being modded for facial recognition, and how it's being used as a spy tool.
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team:
Every time Meta argues: What is the difference between Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and an iPhone?
SO yeah—here's a guide for Meta's PR team:
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This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.
November 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM
At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.
Al Jazeera flagrantly doing both-sidesism on Sudan when overwhelming evidence points to the RSF being the ultimate mass murderers.
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الجزيرة مباشر on X: ""يجب أن نكون هناك في المعركة".. سجال بين مذيع الجزيرة مباشر أحمد طه والدكتور إبراهيم الأمين على الهواء #الجزيرة_مباشر #السودان https://t.co/PN4PWrkGLn" / X
"يجب أن نكون هناك في المعركة".. سجال بين مذيع الجزيرة مباشر أحمد طه والدكتور إبراهيم الأمين على الهواء #الجزيرة_مباشر #السودان https://t.co/PN4PWrkGLn
x.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Al Jazeera flagrantly doing both-sidesism on Sudan when overwhelming evidence points to the RSF being the ultimate mass murderers.
x.com/ajmubasher/s...
x.com/ajmubasher/s...
A shame he's gone without being held accountable for his crimes
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
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VP served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush
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Cheney will be remembered for key role after 9/11
The former White House chief of staff, congressman, secretary of defense and US vice-president Dick Cheney has died, his family has said. He was 84.
A Yale dropout who avoided service in Vietnam, Cheney nonetheless became a giant of Republican politics. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A shame he's gone without being held accountable for his crimes
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He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM
He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Eman. Before this she stayed home with her children Nabil, 7, Muhammad, 4 and Taim, 2 and her husband was a barber. Her husband was shot in the foot trying to get aid and Nabil is suffering from severe skin infections from contaminated water.
November 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Eman. Before this she stayed home with her children Nabil, 7, Muhammad, 4 and Taim, 2 and her husband was a barber. Her husband was shot in the foot trying to get aid and Nabil is suffering from severe skin infections from contaminated water.
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In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.
Ireland plans to make a $1,500 a month basic income for artists permanent
Ireland's Basic Income for the Arts experiment has given creatives a weekly payment for three years. Now, a permanent program could be on the way.
www.businessinsider.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In a win for the arts and universal basic income, Ireland plans to make permanent a $1,500-a-month pilot program for artists, citing benefits to creativity, mental health, and financial stability.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Kinda massive
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative. The switch comes amid rising concerns about public bodies being reliant on US tech companies.
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Kinda massive
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The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The ChatGPT subreddit is absolutely hilarious. LLMs just output statistically likely responses, and a statistically likely response to being asked to do some work is "I'll have that done by...". So apparently in some cases ChatGPT had just been telling users it'll get back to them later.
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My sister-in-law chooses to call my mom 'mama', which is hella confusing to me at times, but I wouldn't outright call her a liar. I know it's not the same and far from the Mamdani context, but good God
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
My sister-in-law chooses to call my mom 'mama', which is hella confusing to me at times, but I wouldn't outright call her a liar. I know it's not the same and far from the Mamdani context, but good God
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Zenni has developed glasses with a lens coating that blocks infrared light to protect your identity from facial recognition cameras. But they won’t stop someone from successfully running an online facial recognition search on your picture.
Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
These anti-facial recognition glasses technically work, but won’t save you from our surveillance dystopia.
www.404media.co
October 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Zenni has developed glasses with a lens coating that blocks infrared light to protect your identity from facial recognition cameras. But they won’t stop someone from successfully running an online facial recognition search on your picture.
Zero mobilisation for Al Fashir but then again people in Sudan & abroad have been beseeching the world for any form of humanitarian diplomacy towards the worst displacement crisis in recent history except nothing can stop the bloodied gold trade the UAE has been fervently backing for over 3.5 years.
October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Zero mobilisation for Al Fashir but then again people in Sudan & abroad have been beseeching the world for any form of humanitarian diplomacy towards the worst displacement crisis in recent history except nothing can stop the bloodied gold trade the UAE has been fervently backing for over 3.5 years.
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Geolocation| Casualties, including a child, pulled from the rubble after a reported Israeli airstrike, reportedly on the Abu Toha family house in the Al-Shati Camp, Gaza City, Northern #Gaza
At least 6 people were reportedly killed.
31.533953, 34.444058
🗓️25 Sep.
At least 6 people were reportedly killed.
31.533953, 34.444058
🗓️25 Sep.
September 26, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Geolocation| Casualties, including a child, pulled from the rubble after a reported Israeli airstrike, reportedly on the Abu Toha family house in the Al-Shati Camp, Gaza City, Northern #Gaza
At least 6 people were reportedly killed.
31.533953, 34.444058
🗓️25 Sep.
At least 6 people were reportedly killed.
31.533953, 34.444058
🗓️25 Sep.
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Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
October 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.
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built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...