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Gregg Butensky
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Passionate OSINT rookie; seasoned Burma activist; documentary film producer; software developer; musician; photographer; traveler; KiranaProductions.org; EthicalTraveler.org.
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The power of #OSINT!
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25d
For 35 years, a famous puzzle on the sculptor Jim Sanborn’s best known artwork, Kryptos, at the CIA headquarters remained uncracked. Then two men found the key hiding in the Smithsonian.
Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smithsonian Vault
Jim Sanborn is auctioning off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the key.
nyti.ms
October 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Reposted by Gregg Butensky
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#HappeningNow the screening of Thabyay: The Creative Resistance.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A screening of Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar, followed by a panel discussion on the future of elections and democracy in Myanmar, was held at Chiang Mai University on Sept. 7.
Read more and check out our photos: english.dvb.no/thabyay-crea...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#thailand
#documentary
Thabyay: Creative resistance in Myanmar film screening - DVB
A screening of Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar, followed by a panel discussion on the future of elections and democracy in Myanmar, was held at Chiang Mai University (CMU) on Sept. 7. “We want...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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#HappeningTomorrow

Come and see Screening of “Thabyay: Creative Resistance In Myanmar" at 5:30-7:00 pm @SEAJunction, 4th Floor BACC.

A powerful look at Myanmar's revolution through 4 leaders torn between peace and resistance, showing how art fuels hope in the fight for democracy and justice.
October 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Reposted by Gregg Butensky
dvbenglish.bsky.social
Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss his four years as America's top diplomat in Yangon. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen wherever you get #podcasts www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRja...

#WhatshappeninginMyanmar #USA
Former US Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel
YouTube video by DVB English News
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October 2, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Reposted by Gregg Butensky
seajunction.bsky.social
Join us #Screening of “Thabyay: Creative Resistance In Myanmar"

🗓 8 October 2025
⏰ 5:30 – 7:00 pm
📍 SEA Junction, 4th Floor, BACC

Please read more info seajunction.org/.../screenin...

The event is free; donation is encouraged to help support future activities of SEA Junction.
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Powerful address by Wai Wai Nu to the UN General Assembly.

Well done @waiwainu.bsky.social!

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar @hrcberkeley.bsky.social
Wai Wai Nu addressing the UN General Assmebly
YouTube video by Gregg Butensky
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October 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Congrats to @justiceformyanmar.org. Well deserved!
justiceformyanmar.org Justice For Myanmar @justiceformyanmar.org · Oct 1
📣 Justice For Myanmar named 2025 Right Livelihood laureate

Award shines a light on Myanmar people’s struggle to dismantle the military cartel.

Press Release 👉🏽 buff.ly/glncPoQ

Right Livelihood Award announcement 👉🏽 buff.ly/0W9ftKU

#changemakers #RightLivelihood #Myanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
October 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Great to see this @alexakoenig.bsky.social. Congratulations!
hrcberkeley.bsky.social Human Rights Center @hrcberkeley.bsky.social · Sep 24
Thrilled that HRC Faculty Director @alexakoenig.bsky.social is one of the inaugural members of Women Transforming Global Security, a new feminist global network addressing crises related to nuclear weapons proliferation, climate change, human rights, and more: transformingsecurity.org
Reimagining Security for the 21st Century - WTGS
Women Transforming Global Security represents a groundbreaking alliance of distinguished women leaders pioneering a comprehensive framework for addressing
transformingsecurity.org
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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World leaders will discuss how to assist the Rohingya in the world’s largest refugee settlement. But no one living there is attending the conference at the United Nations.
Missing From a U.N. Meeting on Helping Refugees? The Refugees.
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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New report from the IIMM, detailing the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques and other property in 2017 and the repurposing of the land to erase all traces of the Rohingya’s long presence.

#IIMM #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
UN investigative body finds Rohingya villages destroyed, land seized in Myanmar
International community widely agrees that Rohingya must be allowed to return home, however, 'in many cases their homes, even their villages, no longer exist,' says head of UN body - Anadolu Ajansı
www.aa.com.tr
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Congrats @972mag.com, שיחה מיקומית (Local Call), and @theguardian.com whose work lead to this.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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"As our country becomes more polarized, people are becoming increasingly apprehensive about venturing beyond their communities. I wanted to suggest travel as an antidote to these fears, many of which are being exaggerated by a leadership eager to divide us." -- Jeff Greenwald, EthicalTraveler.org
Don’t let Trump’s presidency keep you from traveling
OPINION: Now more than ever, travel can be a powerful form of diplomacy — and the citizens of those nations will be reassured by meeting Americans who still uphold our long-held values of...
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September 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar tells the courageous stories of four democracy revolutionaries using creative means to resist the military junta.

We’re excited to be on track for the film’s premiere in Bangkok at the end of this month.

Please consider supporting our work!
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THE FILM Myanmar (Burma) is one of the deadliest conflict… Gregg Butensky needs your support for Empower Human Rights in Burma: Help bring our film to light!
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September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Notable final question from @emmafarge.bsky.social. The IMM has a unit conducting open-source investigations, which has collected thousands of videos of suspected crimes. If additional grants are not secured, the IIMM will have to close this vital unit by end of year.

#IIMM #OSINT
Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar Press conference: Launch of Annual Report - 12 August 2025
Launch of IIMM’s Annual Report detailing its progress in investigating serious international crimes committed in Myanmar, including advances in identifying perpetrators.
www.unognewsroom.org
August 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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"The collective report had been expected months ago, but was delayed as State Department officials worked under the orders of political appointees in the agency to cut language in the report."

Journalists need to stay focused on independent reports. Reports from the US Government are propaganda.
Human Rights Report Under Trump Blunts Language on Israel and El Salvador
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:36 PM
gbutensky.bsky.social
Important work indeed. And it's heartening that the IIMM shares their findings with international courts _proactively_.

This, on the other hand, is a major bummer:
"the Mechanism’s access to resources needed to investigate the crimes has significantly diminished..."
August 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Great to hear this today on KQED in San Francisco.
jwassers.bsky.social Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Aug 8
Was great to get to talk about music & protest in Asia w/ @marcowerman.bsky.social of @theworld.org, just tuned into GBH to hear the segment air, taking up about the last 10 minutes of today's episode, various ways to hear it (eg in about an hour at www.kpbs.org )/will share a link once there's one.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Great to hear @jwassers.bsky.social on The World today - one of my favorite radio programs. Well done, Jeff!

#MilkTeaAlliance #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
How activists in Asia have used Western pop culture in their protests - The World from PRX
From a song in “Les Misérables” to a hand gesture in “The Hunger Games,” these are just a couple of examples from Western pop culture that activists in Asia have hooked onto when protesting authoritar...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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@acleddata.bsky.social recently launched a new site with a handy “Conflict Index" tool.

acleddata.com/platform/con...

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Useful as an explainer when discussing Burma re Palestine and Ukraine:
ACLED Conflict Index Rankings
August 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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An awful story, well told (by writer and friend Jeff Greenwald).

Amazon thinks they can take the heat off by reversing harm done by their bots. We need to convince them that’s not the case!
Terminated
There's no "U" in AI / "Open the pod bay doors, please..."
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August 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Another vital American institution bites the dust. MAGA my ass.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Especially given the Trump Administration's recent actions in the DRC, this is nerve-wracking.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
July 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Glenn Kessler, Washington Post fact-checker takes buyout

“I didn’t want The Post to have a gap in fact-checking coverage during this fraught period in U.S. history. But we couldn’t work out an agreement. (Okay, so I buried the lede.)”
After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout. | Glenn Kessler
After more than 27 years at The Washington Post, including almost 15 as The Fact Checker, I will be leaving on July 31, having taken a buyout. Much as I would have liked to keep scrutinizing politicia...
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July 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Citizenship and Genocide Cards
IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
By Natalie Brinham

Open Access download available.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the...
www.routledge.com
July 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM