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Richard Ngamita

@ngamita.bsky.social
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studying how threat actors leverage AI for surveillance, influence operations and violent extremism.

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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.anthropic.com/features/ebo...
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The Situation Report
A rare Ebola strain is spreading in the DRC, with no confirmed vaccine. Global health organizations are using Claude to respond as fast as possible.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CFq...
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Burning Spear - Fire Down Below
YouTube video by DeGigantischeSok
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
AI surveillance Dystopia www.transformernews.ai/p/ai-surveil...
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We’re sleepwalking into an AI surveillance dystopia
The technology needed for industrial-scale observation exists — and is already in widespread use
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Domesticated FIMI politicsgeo.com/domesticated...
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Domesticated FIMI: When Foreign Propaganda Comes Home - GEOpolitics
On December 29, 2025, the Georgian government announced that it was sending nine industrial generators to Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities later confirmed their delivery to the Sumy region. On January 2...
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
thank you!
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AWo @awoithon.de · 31/07/2026
Really? Great! Land Rover had a not so happy story in the US before the Range Rover hit the market in 1970. Left a lot of angry dealers and customers, due to the problems at home....However, officially the Range was available in the US from 1987. 17 years all Range were grey imports.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoUZ...
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Earl Cunningham ‎- Words Of The Father
YouTube video by Mystic Revelation
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
☮️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_Qw...
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Love Is a Key
YouTube video by The Viceroys - Topic
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Land rover Defender ❤️
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
FPVs + AI have changed how wars are fought 🙁 bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
CIA Says AI Drones Give Russian Troops Only 30 Minutes to Live
Russian soldiers only live an average of 20 to 30 minutes on the battlefield because of Ukraine’s artificial-intelligence attack drones, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 16/07/2026
The co-founder of an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that developed the powerful Pegasus spyware entered Panama in December 2013 using an Israeli diplomatic passport, migration records obtained by journalists show.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
RIP Fantan Mojah. 🙏
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
✌️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYL_...
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The Kingstonians - Hold Down
YouTube video by Trojan69Skin1
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
wicked 🙌
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
I wasn't wrong on this👇 www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
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A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Rightscon being postponed by the Zambian government should have been pushed but some powerful 3rd party IMHO
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Short thread containing satellite imagery of Emirati weapons smuggled to the genocidal RSF militia in Sudan, with accompanying file photos. Snapped at a secret RSF logistics base in western Ethiopia (10°05'55.5"N 34°34'50.9"E). Wednesday marked 3 years since the start of Sudan's brutal civil war.
Light technical vehicles used widely by the RSF in battle, about 120 seen here before being delivered to the RSF. December 29th 2025.About 200 light technical vehicles seen on February 18th.RSF fighter aboard a technical
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
✌️ "It A Fi Burn" www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7c...
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Josey Wales - It A Fi Burn
YouTube video by Fritz Magik
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 14/03/2026
Honestly, the way this team can put you through 88 minutes of torture, then leave you feeling like this after an extraordinary contribution from Max Dowman is essentially absurd. It looked like it was gonna be a nightmare, instead it became the stuff of dreams. My heartbeat is doing techno BPM
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It’s haunting to see how this reggae song titled "Down in Iran" from January 1980 has become a literal description of what is happening on the ground in Iran today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnLi...
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Wayne Wade - Down In Iran
YouTube video by overstand87
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
NSO has spent years lobbying in the US to overturn spyware restrictions, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos. Now it’s hired former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to help rebuild its business and recruit US law enforcement customers. Will these efforts pay off?
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Will NSO’s US Lobbying Pay Off Under Trump?
Now, with Friedman, a seasoned Trump insider, at its helm, NSO might finally achieve its long-awaited US comeback, writes Vas Panagiotopoulos.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hemedti and his Dubai properties via @thesentryorg.bsky.social thesentry.org/reports/heme...
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Dubai Properties Linked to Hemedti - The Sentry
February 2025 Download the full alert Mohamed ‘Hemedti’ Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is closely linked to a $1.7 million property portfolio in the United Arab Emira...
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
investigation into three Israeli cyber companies that have created spyware for cars - they can now tap with zero action into your car's microphones and cameras etc www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
haaretz.com
Your car is spying on you – and Israeli firms are leading the surveillance race
From Hands-free Systems to Tire-pressure Data, a New Field Known as CARINT Turns Vehicles Into Powerful Intelligence Tools
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
NBA all stars so boring these days 😐
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
it's down to foreign influence and drones. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/w...
nytimes.com
The Secret Egyptian Air Base Behind Sudan’s Drone War
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
great use of network graph! epstein-doc-explorer-1.onrender.com
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
studying is harmful www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
lrb.co.uk
Iza Ding · Studying is harmful: China sits the Gaokao
In a country plagued by corruption, China’s national college entrance exam, the gaokao, is remarkably clean. ‘Open...
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
the research community urgently needs reliable open source web archiving platform beyond the wayback machine or archive[.]ph. too much social evidence is being lost as social media platforms change, decay, or disappear. #societalharms
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
www.anthropic.com/economic-index
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The Anthropic Economic Index
The Anthropic Economic Index reveals the shape of AI adoption across the world. Here, you can explore the data behind our research to understand how people are using Claude across every US state and h...
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
some Malian tunes tonight.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiZ0...
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Amy Koita Diarabi
YouTube video by kkalvine
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Claude skills for OSINT via github.com/tomvaillant/...
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GitHub - tomvaillant/journalism-skills
Contribute to tomvaillant/journalism-skills development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
what is wikilaundering? -> www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
thebureauinvestigates.com
London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires
Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Claude Code 😱
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Small act of resistance... Great lessons for the time we living in.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....
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Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become
1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Books for the holiday reading.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service *** Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.” (Andreessen also helped Elon by Twitter.) 10/24/24 … 1/
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a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service
Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Today i'm blasting to "Are we a Warrior" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3D...
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Ijahman - Are We A Warrior
YouTube video by RastaChaka
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
really some great investigative journalist here 👇👏
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
guns, cash and US aid - israel's support for gaza militia via @news.sky.com news.sky.com/story/guns-c...
news.sky.com
Guns, cash and American aid: Investigation reveals Israel's support for Gaza militia
The former looting gang is living in luxury thanks to aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and smuggled cash, cars and cigarettes.
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
it's all Moldova this weekend and the massive targeting with FIMI (influence ops)
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Here you go, Internet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims. Varsha Bansal explores how misinformation is laundered by AI during breaking news, and the challenges of moderating and regulating AI systems.
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What Does It Take To Moderate AI Overviews? | TechPolicy.Press
After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims, raising urgent concerns about AI moderation, reports Varsha Bansal.
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CYBERWARCON @cyberwarcon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Have you submitted your talk proposal yet? 👀 Due 11:59 PM (ET) on Friday, September 26th, 2025. We pay $500 for each 30-min talk. Lightning round talks excluded, but everyone gets great swag! Learn more: www.cyberwarcon.com/cfp2025
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Call for Proposals — CYBERWARCON
Call For Proposals
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
is it just me or has it become impossible to know what's actually true online? how do we solve this?
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 10/09/2025
This is how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.
theintercept.com
The Disinformation Machine After a Murder
Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy on how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 10/09/2025
Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University.
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities
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Richard Ngamita @ngamita.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
this 👇
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 08/09/2025
“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.” san.com/cc/not-so-s...
san.com
Not so secret: X’s new encrypted chat feature puts users at risk, experts say
X's new XChat feature does not remove sensitive metadata from images, which could lead to the exposure of GPS coordinates.
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