Gregg Butensky
@gbutensky.bsky.social
Passionate OSINT rookie; seasoned Burma activist; documentary film producer; software developer; musician; photographer; traveler; KiranaProductions.org; EthicalTraveler.org.
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Thabyay offers a simpler story for the viewer, one of two sides: the military, and the people resisting it. This simplicity is not naïve. The film instead spends its energy on showcasing some of the breadth of resistance
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Thabyay: Creative resistance in Myanmar documentary film (review) - DVB
Guest contributorSeán Barry “Why can’t we build up a nation with everyone all together?” asks Myanmar community organiser and human rights activist Thet Swe Win, one of four protagonists in Jeanne Hal...
english.dvb.no
November 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Thabyay offers a simpler story for the viewer, one of two sides: the military, and the people resisting it. This simplicity is not naïve. The film instead spends its energy on showcasing some of the breadth of resistance
english.dvb.no/thabyay-crea...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#documentary
#film
english.dvb.no/thabyay-crea...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#documentary
#film
For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us for a free screening of our new film.
Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar
San Francisco Public Library
Sunday, 30 Nov 2025
1:00p - 3:00p
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar
San Francisco Public Library
Sunday, 30 Nov 2025
1:00p - 3:00p
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Film: Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar | San Francisco Public Library
Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar is a new documentary about creative resistance in one of the deadliest conflict areas in the world. The film follows four democracy revolutionaries who are find...
sfpl.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
For those in the San Francisco Bay Area, please join us for a free screening of our new film.
Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar
San Francisco Public Library
Sunday, 30 Nov 2025
1:00p - 3:00p
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar
San Francisco Public Library
Sunday, 30 Nov 2025
1:00p - 3:00p
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
The power of #OSINT!
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
The power of #OSINT!
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#HappeningNow the screening of Thabyay: The Creative Resistance.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:55 AM
#HappeningNow the screening of Thabyay: The Creative Resistance.
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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
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#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...
english.dvb.no
October 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
Read more and check out our photos: english.dvb.no/thabyay-crea...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#thailand
#documentary
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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.
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
#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.
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.
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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
#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
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
#WhatshappeninginMyanmar #USA
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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.
🗓 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
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.
🗓 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.
Powerful address by Wai Wai Nu to the UN General Assembly.
Well done @waiwainu.bsky.social!
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar @hrcberkeley.bsky.social
Well done @waiwainu.bsky.social!
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar @hrcberkeley.bsky.social
Wai Wai Nu addressing the UN General Assmebly
YouTube video by Gregg Butensky
youtu.be
October 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Powerful address by Wai Wai Nu to the UN General Assembly.
Well done @waiwainu.bsky.social!
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar @hrcberkeley.bsky.social
Well done @waiwainu.bsky.social!
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar @hrcberkeley.bsky.social
Congrats to @justiceformyanmar.org. Well deserved!
📣 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
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
Congrats to @justiceformyanmar.org. Well deserved!
Great to see this @alexakoenig.bsky.social. Congratulations!
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
Great to see this @alexakoenig.bsky.social. Congratulations!
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
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.
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
#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
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
#IIMM #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
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.
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
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.
Congrats @972mag.com, שיחה מיקומית (Local Call), and @theguardian.com whose work lead to this.
"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...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
"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
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!
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!
Donate to Empower Human Rights in Burma: Help bring our film to light!, organized by Gregg Butensky
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September 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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!
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!
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
#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
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
#IIMM #OSINT
"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.
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
"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.
Journalists need to stay focused on independent reports. Reports from the US Government are propaganda.
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..."
This, on the other hand, is a major bummer:
"the Mechanism’s access to resources needed to investigate the crimes has significantly diminished..."
The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar annual report is out & it's a really grim read.
Important documentation nevertheless, presents evidence of torture & sexual abuses at detention centres, summarily executions of captured combatants or civilians accused of being informers & more.
Important documentation nevertheless, presents evidence of torture & sexual abuses at detention centres, summarily executions of captured combatants or civilians accused of being informers & more.
Myanmar Mechanism advances its identification of perpetrators – Annual Report | Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar
The Mechanism has also collected evidence identifying perpetrators who have summarily executed captured combatants or civilians accused of being informers. These killings have been perpetrated both by the Myanmar security forces and affiliated militias and by opposition armed groups.
iimm.un.org
August 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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..."
This, on the other hand, is a major bummer:
"the Mechanism’s access to resources needed to investigate the crimes has significantly diminished..."
Great to hear this today on KQED in San Francisco.
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
Great to hear this today on KQED in San Francisco.
Great to hear @jwassers.bsky.social on The World today - one of my favorite radio programs. Well done, Jeff!
#MilkTeaAlliance #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
#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...
theworld.org
August 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Great to hear @jwassers.bsky.social on The World today - one of my favorite radio programs. Well done, Jeff!
#MilkTeaAlliance #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
#MilkTeaAlliance #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
@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:
acleddata.com/platform/con...
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Useful as an explainer when discussing Burma re Palestine and Ukraine:
August 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@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:
acleddata.com/platform/con...
#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Useful as an explainer when discussing Burma re Palestine and Ukraine:
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!
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..."
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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!
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!
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
Another vital American institution bites the dust. MAGA my ass.