Aric Toler
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Aric Toler
@AricToler
@nytimes Visual Investigations
Previously @bellingcat
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South of Gaza City: 2022 vs. last week Recent image via Planet
- MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money
- So, Google is killing its cache (which was amazingly useful), and replacing it with a third-party solution of linking to the Internet Archive. I really hope the Internet Archive is being paid -- and paid a lot -- for this.We know many people, including those in the research community, value seeing previous versions of webpages when available. That’s why beginning today, we're adding links to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to our "About this result" panel, to give people quick context and
- This isn't a Hamas tunnel, it's an old transmitter facility in Sweden. youtube.com/watch?v=OWZ4wj… (Great eyes from folks on the Project Owl server with this too, and I learned a lot about Swedish cold war bunkers!)
- Israeli and U.S. intelligence officials believe that a projectile captured on videos shortly before the Ahli Arab Hospital explosion was a Palestinian rocket. @nytimes Visual Investigations found that this object was launched from Israel, and likely unrelated to the deadly blast.
00:00 - A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees "covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]" a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee. There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...
- The guy who self immolated at the Trump trial was a minor celebrity on r/stupidpol and used to co-host a podcast entirely focused on Laura Dern (it ran for 53 episodes)
- Replying to @AricTolerSurefire Intelligence's "Financial Investigator" in Zurich is Christoph Waltz. What a great hire!
- I can't stop reading the Grok reply page. It's going schizo and can't stop talking about white genocide in South Africa. x.com/grok/with_repl…
- Sadly, Reddit banned the Sudanese soldier who posted pictures on r/meth from his bombing runs in the ongoing civil warmy friend went down a sudan war reddit rabbit hole and found out the SAF got meth heads in charge of the air strikes😭
- This bike lock is/was available for sale on campus via Columbia's Public Safety department under their "Crime Prevention Discount Bike, Locker and Laptop Lock Program". See their flier with a discount here: publicsafety.columbia.edu/sites/default/…
00:56Deputy Commissioner Tarik Sheppard shows the chains used to secure Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. "This is not what students bring to school. This is what professionals bring to campuses and universities."Readers added contextMisleading: The post suggests that students wouldn't typically bring in that chain. However, it's actually a Kryptonite bike lock, sold at a discount by Columbia University. publicsafety.columbia.edu/content/crime-… amazon.com/Kryptonite-Noo… - The judge who granted the search warrant against the Marion, KS newspaper once drove into a school building. This happened while her license was suspended for an earlier DUI. She had been an active prosecutor for eight years already when this happened.
