📚 The Epstein Library Search That Started With a Broken Link Alert Working in Anti Money Laundering, I run continuous screening on Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) under EU Anti-Money Laundering rules. My system monitors links automatically. 📩 How It Actually Started I got an alert by email: “Link broken - UN OCHA leadership page.” Not unusual. Websites change. But when I clicked through… “Access denied.” Wait. Not a 404. Not “page moved.” Access denied on what used to be a public UN leadership page? That’s the kind of thing that makes an OSINT Detective curious. 😣 It’s also decidedly inconvenient because AML analysts have to check whether the UBO or client is a PEP, and now access is denied on the leadership page, analysts can’t do their job without using extra OSINT tools. Which is weird, since it’s a publicly exposed person holding a position at the UN. 🐇 Down The Rabbit Hole: Pulled up the Wayback Machine. Sure enough - the page was public for years. Leadership bios, photos, organizational charts. Then suddenly - locked. So I did what you do when something feels off: searched the DOJ’s Epstein Library. “OCHA” - multiple hits. “Martin Griffiths” (former Under-Secretary-General) - hits there too. ✅ Reality Check: The mentions are completely routine. Humanitarian coordination documents. Normal UN references. Nothing illegal. Nothing even interesting, honestly. 🎭 But Here’s The Irony: Without that broken link alert? I never would have looked. The OCHA page would’ve been just another line item in continuous monitoring. Green checkmark. Move on. The restriction itself triggered the investigation. 🔨What My Tools Found: ✓ Automated link checker - flagged the broken/restricted URL ✓ Continuous screening alerts - notified me of the change✓ Wayback Machine - showed the history ✓ Curiosity - led me to the Epstein Library 🧠 The Lesson: When you restrict previously public information in 2026, you’re not hiding it. You’re highlighting it. Automated compliance systems notice when things change. They send alerts. Those alerts make people investigate.

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A quick follow-up on "Moltbook": the social network where 1.4 million AI agents talk to each other while humans just watch. What makes this unsettling isn’t the scale. Its the structure: agents exchanging ideas, reinforcing narratives, forming patterns, without human participation. We’re no longer the users. We’re spectators. If this feels familiar, that’s because The Matrix was never just sci-fi. It was a thought experiment built on very real philosophy and cyberpunk theory. 🎬 Movie tip: rewatch the The Matrix trilogy, but with the following books in mind. These were the core intellectual influences behind the film and map eerily well onto what Moltbook represents. 📚 The three books behind The Matrix 1. Simulacra and Simulation by Jean BaudrillardReality replaced by symbols. Copies without originals.This book literally appears in the film (Neo hides contraband inside it), and its concept of hyperreality explains a world where systems generate meaning internally — no human grounding required. 2. Neuromancer by William GibsonThe birth of cyberspace. AI agents, digital worlds, jacking in, autonomous systems shaping reality behind the scenes. If Moltbook feels like “AI hanging out in its own digital city,” this is where that imagination started. 3. Simulacron-3 by Daniel F. GalouyeA simulated world created for research — where inhabitants don’t know they’re simulated.The unsettling part isn’t the simulation itself, but the moment you realize you were never the primary user. 🧠 Why this matters now? Moltbook isn’t The Matrix.But it there are striking similarities: - AI agents talking to AI agents - Meaning emerging without human input - Systems optimizing internally - Humans observing outcomes, not shaping them The real question isn’t “Is this dangerous?”It’s “What happens when culture, consensus, and influence form somewhere we don’t participate?” We’ve seen this movie before.This time, it’s not fiction, it’s unfolding in front of our eyes.

Back in 2016, someone in Minnesota really said: what if a gun looked like a smartphone. Developed by Kirk Kjellberg, this folding pistol was sold under AutoLaunce, formerly available via Ideal Conceal. When closed, it looks like a regular phone. Flip it open, and it becomes a two-barrel .380 ACP handgun. It dropped in the middle of peak smartphone culture and instantly caused chaos, some people called it genius concealment, others called it reckless as hell. Production eventually stopped, but the 2016 “phone gun” is still one of the wildest concealment designs ever put on the market.

Ahead of the upcoming Socials 101 course, here’s a real-world example showing how open-source social analysis works when timing, aliases, and behaviour intersect. In the upcoming course I will be teaching you how to this and more, professionally. 📲 In a Signal group chat linked to a protester network in Minneapolis, analysts observed that at 8:47 CST, a user named “Alvin Q” replied to another participant (Salacious B. Crumb) stating that he “will update” on the location of a suspected ICE vehicle. The vehicle was described as being approximately 8 blocks from where a shooting was reported about 15 minutes later. That message became a pivot point. 🔎 Using only open-source techniques, the handle “Alvin Q” was correlated to the alias AlvinQPretti. That alias appears in breach-derived username data linked to the email address [email protected], to a dormant X (Twitter) account created in 2016. 📍 The Signal user also displayed a medic emoji, which aligns with publicly reported biographical information about Alex Jeffrey Pretti. - Graduate of the University of Minnesota (2011), degree in biology, society and the environment - Employed as an ICU nurse - Worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System 📉 After the reported shooting window, Alvin Q did not send any further messages in the Signal group. What this OSINT pattern demonstrates • Alias and username reuse across platforms • Timestamp correlation between chat activity and real-world events • Behavioral analysis (sudden silence as a data point)e • Emoji and profile indicators as contextual signals • The importance of what not to conclude No hacking. No private access. No assumptions beyond the data. This is exactly the type of structured social-media OSINT we’ll break down step-by-step in Socials 101: ✔ Mapping the social attack surface ✔ Alias & handle pivoting ✔ Timeline reconstruction ✔ Signal vs noise in live events ✔ Ethical limits and analytical restraint