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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 24/03/2026

Cool guide out today on @indicator.media! Reverse image search is a valuable verification tool. But sometimes you want to search within an image bank that is not public. @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social explains how to do it:

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The Indicator Guide to building your own reverse image search engine

Step-by-step instructions for how to index a private dataset of images (or videos) and run reverse image search queries against it.

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Ishaan Jhaveri @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Personal News: December 1st will be my last day as a full-time reporter on the @nytimes.com’s Visual Investigations team. To say the last 3 and a half years on this amazing team have been life-changing would be an understatement.

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Ishaan Jhaveri @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The gulf to the east of Mexico and to the south of the US, according to Google Maps when VPNing into different countries 1 - US 2 - Mexico 3 - India (or many other third countries)

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Ishaan Jhaveri @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Had the pleasure of speaking to the inaugural Open Source Journalism Conference at USC this weekend about my approach to using AI in journalism

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Ishaan Jhaveri @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Sea level rise, as envisioned by Severance from www.reddit.com/user/Unlikel...

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Dylan Freedman @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com · 17/01/2025

Cool A.I.-enabled story. In addition to classifying vehicle make and model with A.I., they can glean a lot about vehicle classification from detected license plate numbers.

How Bloomberg Categorized Cars
Share of vehicles by type heading into congestion zone on Lexington Avenue

Yellow Taxis
+7 percentage points
Taxi license plates begin with Y and end in C

Commercial
No change
Includes vans, box trucks and large freight vehicles

For Hire (Includes Uber, Lyft)
-1 pct. pts
For-hire vehicle license plates begin with T and end in C

Private vehicles
-6 pct. pts.
All remaining vehicles were classified as private

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Ishaan Jhaveri @ishaan-jhavs.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Drone footage shows the devastating and widespread destruction in LA's Pacific Palisades 1&2 - Area around Galloway St/Bashford St just northeast of Sunset Boulevard 3&4 - Area around Chautauqua Blvd, south west of Will Rogers State Park

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