Elise Thomas
@elisethomas.bsky.social
Senior OSINT Investigator at @cen4infores.bsky.social. Former disinfo and extremism researcher. Opinions, hot takes, mistakes all my own. https://www.clippings.me/elisethomas
Gotta say, the whole concept is giving me visions of people in Bangladesh being paid 20 cents an hour to sit in VR acting as the Mechanical Turk-esque robot servants of people in rich countries, but hopefully it won't evolve that way.
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Gotta say, the whole concept is giving me visions of people in Bangladesh being paid 20 cents an hour to sit in VR acting as the Mechanical Turk-esque robot servants of people in rich countries, but hopefully it won't evolve that way.
Yeah unless the shadow somehow exactly matches the makeup line, it looks more like someone’s just upped the contrast on that part of his face a lot
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Yeah unless the shadow somehow exactly matches the makeup line, it looks more like someone’s just upped the contrast on that part of his face a lot
Obviously the other thing they have in common is that they're both talented political communicators who have, in very different ways, learned how to leverage social media and the dynamics of attention today far better than their opponents.
November 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Obviously the other thing they have in common is that they're both talented political communicators who have, in very different ways, learned how to leverage social media and the dynamics of attention today far better than their opponents.
Just never stops being funny
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Just never stops being funny
Exhibit A(7A5) in why cryptocurrency is dodgy: bsky.app/profile/elis...
NEW: Do you want to know how a businessman wanted for a billion-dollar fraud in Moldova, accused of enabling Russian political influence and working with a Russian state-owned military bank is linked to a new cryptocurrency in Kyrgyzstan?
Then I've got the OSINT investigation for you 1/
Then I've got the OSINT investigation for you 1/
A7A5: Circumventing sanctions with stablecoin cryptocurrency
A CIR investigation suggests that Russian company A7 has been constructing a system based on both fiat currency and cryptocurrency to transfer money into and out of Russia.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Exhibit A(7A5) in why cryptocurrency is dodgy: bsky.app/profile/elis...