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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 03/10/2026

1. Don't drop your phone. 2. Don't drop your phone in the toilet. 3. Don't dr....

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 02/10/2026

yeah OK, but did you try the box?

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also, as you might imagine, survivors had horrific experiences trying to get their images taken down. According to the survivors we interviewed, web platforms did better 10 years ago. Which makes their institutional betrayals even more enraging. We’re going backwards. Here’s a link to that study:

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 28/09/2026

But on the other side of the coin is just how challenging it can be to get work reviewed in a timely manner...some of my recent papers were in a review doom loop for multiple years before getting published. Research riding the zeitgeist increases the risk for rushed, poor quality work.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 28/09/2026

This critique is in the absolute spirit of what Scott Jacques envisioned. It also highlights the issues with preprints/working papers and with peer review, which is quite broken. The rush to publish/ be cited is in tension with the quite reasonable position Mr. Jordan takes.

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would've been easy to bash Flock in Senate today, but the reality is that this crisis would've not happened had there been any form of regulation or guard rails. So, let's demand them. And let's vote with the same ferocity we post with.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Basically Labor have a shrinking amount of time to push hard and change the facts on the ground, or the next time they lose power, the Coalition and One Nation will take an axe to everything to aimed at helping get Australians off fossil fuels just like Tony Abbott did in 2013.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 04/08/2026

I mean he finally announced his retirement.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 04/08/2026

I wrote with my student, Adam Costello, about the difference between NFTs that are fraudulent projects versus simply failed, but otherwise legitimate projects. "Decoding crypto asset fraud: A crime script analysis of crypto Ponzi, rug pull, and mint-and-run schemes" doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 27/07/2026

What a portrait. The lighting is perfect and it has so much character.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 18/05/2026

Thought it was the quality reading list.

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Dr Conor Wilson @drconorwilson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New paper in Crime, Media, Culture! I look at examples from the UK, US, Canada and the EU to explore the visual-discursive framing on the border in recruitment materials. You can access it open access here: lnkd.in/eUGeniFF

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 28/04/2026

You forgot about the salt.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I’m absolutely heartbroken to learn that my alma mater is shutting down after nearly six decades. Hampshire College was one of the most innovative institutions in higher education.😢

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Hampshire College to close after years of financial struggles

Hampshire College will close after fall 2026 due to ongoing financial and enrollment struggles.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 30/03/2026

Folks need to read The Pushcart War.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 23/03/2026

April Shaw & I discuss how an inappropriate focus on drug using pasts mars health practitioner-patient relationships: ‘Addiction never seems to Be historic’: how older women in recovery from illicit drug use experience stigma within their practitioner-patient communications doi.org/10.1080/0968...

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‘Addiction never seems to Be historic’: how older women in recovery from illicit drug use experience stigma within their practitioner-patient communications

This qualitative study examines how women in recovery from illicit drug use perceive their communications with health care professionals when seeking care for various health issues and how these co...

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Sadly the Harmful Algal Bloom off South Australia may have had a little boost with the recent rain and heat. Satellite images from 5 March. The red areas indicate Chlorophyll A which is what the algae produce, and the second image is the real colour you can see from space go.nasa.gov/3PjpGKc

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 24/02/2026

Looks like the ideal cover for a new planetarium soundtrack? A guy can dream at least.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 20/02/2026

When in the UK, I had been working with my undergraduate honours students to research an everyday criminology of online life. My student Lisa Burton and I published an examination of consumer-to-consumer marketplaces in the context of the UK Online Fraud Charter. Read it here: rdcu.be/e4P7B

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Preparing and Protecting Users Against Fraud: An Evaluation of Anti-Fraud Messaging and Trust Mechanisms Within Consumer-to-Consumer Online Marketplaces in the Context of the UK’s Online Fraud Charter...

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

How did we get to the VERY LOW BAR of "we need a law to ensure removal within 48 hours of notification?" 48 hours is an eternity and allows abusive content to be shared across other platfrorms. This is so amazingly screwed.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The beauty of this is that Guttenfelder is covering these men the way they have always wanted: dripping in tacticool gear, in action, looking down their sites at an enemy which surrounds them. In doing so, he reveals who they are. They imagine themselves heroes; he shows they are villains.

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

AI tools are no longer unable to realistically render faces of real people, and can now generate face images of actual individuals that are essentially undetectable as synthetic to most human observers, research by Kramer et al concludes: buff.ly/yooYg1g HT @bxjaeger.bsky.social

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I spoke to NPR yesterday about X's AI, Grok, and users generating sexual content of women and girls. This has been an issue for months on X. This did not just suddenly start over the holidays. And on a larger scale, an issue for years in AI-gen tech www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...

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Elon Musk's X faces bans and investigations over nonconsensual bikini images

After the social media app's AI chatbot started generating sexualized images of women and children, two countries have blocked it and several more have launched investigations.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 07/01/2026

I think that's a Mike Levi worthy pun.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

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Dutch_OsintGuy @dutchosintguy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

ICYMI 👇

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 20/12/2025

To say it has no use is a problem. To not know what kind of output it produces is also a problem. To not think about how people will use/misuse it, also a problem. Academics don't have to incorporate it into their workflow, but should play with it to see what it does and how it produces.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 20/12/2025

AI can help identify terms where you might have an idea/description but don't know the term It can help reduce the reading level of something It can help simplify/create outlines It might help identify PII faster than a human first pass But all of these require further human input to be right.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 19/12/2025

Maybe there is an unsubscribe command? Or filter it.

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Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This is the third edition of OSINT Field Notes, a monthly newsletter on digital investigations, techniques and tools. This issue covers X location data, Nano Banana, 3D flight paths, and a sanctions data diving. Thank you for the support on these 🙏 tinyurl.com/osintfieldno...

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OSINT Field Notes #3

3D scenes from scraps of imagery, X’s hidden location signal, how to follow sanctions paper trails and the global MAGA grifters exposed.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 09/12/2025

Yep, that is labor intensive! Massive effort. I wish there was more out there on this process as we move towards open science frameworks in some spheres -- the time add is important to estimate. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 09/12/2025

Would AWS help do a first pass strip potentially?

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Theoretical Criminology @theoreticalcrim.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

#TheoreticalCrim is happy to name our 4th and final #EditorsChoice article of 2025: Sean Columb's, 'Criminal synergies: Human smuggling and illicit organ removal on the Central Mediterranean route.' Check out this article and this growing #OpenAccess collection: journals.sagepub.com/page/tcr/col...

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"Ethically trained" typically means "fine tuned with data acquired with consent". Unless a company or service has clearance for every single piece of training data in their BASE MODEL, it's likely still utilizing protected IP. I don't personally care much until "ethically" is used in marketing.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

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How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business

Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

On top of that, you'll be losing negotiation power to competition from other buyers trying to panic-buy a new house before the rates go back up. Buy what you can afford. You can't refinance an overvalued house purchase.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/11/2025

Breaking News: Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre who testified a century later in Congress to the terror she witnessed in the hope of winning reparations, died at 111. nyti.ms/4or9B1e

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

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Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn

Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 20/10/2025

Very useful; working to develop "OSINT as a social science methodology" course and will be digging into this in a couple of months.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The UK Government has released its response to the House of Lords’ Media Literacy report. The Lords warned that poor media literacy threatens democracy itself. The government agrees, but its plan focuses on coordination more than transformation. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 17/10/2025

And pushing concrete is hard and often unrewarding work.

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James Scheibner @jamesscheibner.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I do some online teaching, and this is one of the benefits, along with opening up education to people in rural and regional areas. However, to quote a friend, if you want to build a house you gotta push concrete. There are skills you get from face to face that are difficult to replicate with online.

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R. V. Gundur @ravejudgerun.com · 17/10/2025

AI as a shortcut disrupts and damages learning processes. Failure to master fundamental skills & knowledge causes cumulative debt; when it comes due, it will likely be all at once. They must consider the ethics & legality of uploading text. In a job, a mistake could result in them being fired.

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