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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Data science teams at DraftKings built models to identify likely losers and target them with promotions, while efforts to build predictive models for problem gambling were shelved. The counterpoint on self regulation is companies can be more incentivized to avoid identifying harm than addressing it
nytimes.com
At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeesh. 👀 “.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.” (via @talsmith.bsky.social) download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
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Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Russia has ordered Germany to close its St. Petersburg consulate by September 18 and shut all Goethe-Institut branches, with staff to leave by September 13, in response to German measures over the Leipzig drone attack.
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When Canadian military leaders tell me their relarionship with US military is fine. I usually think they are either coopted, stupid, incompetent, or just lying to me to save face.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Scathing, and deeply necessary.
readtheline.ca
Jen Gerson: Once we were ruthless
Every capitulation is simply teaching Washington that our anger carries no price.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The North remembers.
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Christopher Nardi @christopher.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
NEW from me: Russia-backed cybercriminals managed to hack into a Quebec municipality’s water treatment plant systems and gained covert access to critical functions like chlorine dosing and pressure settings before getting caught, according to Canada's cyber agency. nationalpost.com/news/politic...
nationalpost.com
Russian group hacked Quebec water treatment plant, gained access to control pumps and chlorine dosing: CSE
Russian cybercriminals managed to hack into a Quebec municipality's water treatment plant systems.
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Note to Canada’s Department of National Defence.
aviationweek.com
Denmark ‘Significantly Underestimated’ F-35 Costs, Audit Shows | Aviation Week
A Danish audit of the country’s Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has found that the country’s fleet of 27 aircraft could cost some 14 billion kronor more to operate than previously es...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
NEW: A class action lawsuit is accusing OpenAI of sharing ChatGPT chat queries (!) + other personal data with Meta and Google. Reminder: no matter how friendly your chatbot is, it's probably surveilling you. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing intimate user data with Google and Meta without consent.
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Woah
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Standing Senate Committee on National Security, Defence and Veterans Affairs report on Russian foreign information manipulation is just out. You should read it. sencanada.ca/en/info-page...
sencanada.ca
Russia's Disinformation: Understanding the Challenge, Strengthening Canada's Response
Russia’s disinformation poses an urgent threat to Canada’s national security, democratic institutions and social cohesion.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our new #BattleRhythm cdsn.substack.com/p/episode-41... I talk with Artur Wilcyznski about my Indo-Pacific trip to the Philippines and then review of the CAF's info ops at home. I then talk to @jcboucher.bsky.social about our newly published piece in attitudes about the CAF and discrimination
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
In this paper, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... we analyze how discrimination shapes trust in military instutions, but also how it affects support for defense spending and recruitment. Given the state of civil-military relations in the US, this paper comes out in uncertain times.
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Mistrusted to Serve? Discrimination in the Military and Its Impact on Public Support - Jean-Christophe Boucher, Charlotte Duval-Lantoine, Lynne Gouliquer, Stephen M. Saideman, 2026
Does discrimination in the military erode institutional trust and reduce public support for defense spending and recruitment? We test this through a survey expe...
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Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Researchers have been watching this network of YouTube accounts for awhile--the accounts post regularly, push a consistent message and if one goes down, another pops up. They've now turned attention to Alberta separation, and US annexation. www.thestar.com/news/investi...
thestar.com
A network of YouTube accounts is promoting U.S. annexation to Albertans, researchers say. It has 40M views
Flagged as a "potential covert influence operation" in a new report, those behind the network are tough to trace.
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
PM Carney promised us a pragmatic approach to foreign policy. Nevertheless, GoC willingness to ignore PRC and IN foreign intereference strikes me as naive and mistaken ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...
ici.radio-canada.ca
L’Inde, futur client… et ami du Canada?
Le gouvernement de Mark Carney croit que l'Inde, où le premier ministre effectue une visite, n’est plus impliquée dans des activités criminelles au Canada.
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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Recent reports indicate that there are approx. 10,000 North Korean soldiers in the Russian military at the moment - we've taken a number of POWs, most of whom beg not to be repatriated to their mad king. And yet South Korea is still mulling over whether to aid Ukraine.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We found, among other things, Canadians feel more threatened. When asked without any prompts, they cite the US as the greatest threat. Canadians trust, yes, academics more than anyone else we asked about, with military leaders next and the media dead last. #CDSNresearch
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
That explains a lot.
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Casey Michel @cjcmichel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Forcing Ukraine to cede Crimea (and all of the Donbas?) is appeasement. Same as it's always been. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...
wsj.com
Opinion | Trump’s Russia Policy Is Appeasement
Like Chamberlain in the 1930s, he sees Ukraine as a faraway quarrel to avoid. This won’t bring peace or stop Putin.
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Ulrike Klinger @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Come join us in Amsterdam for a fully funded 4-year PhD position on the topic of "Visual Politics and the Emergence of Angry Publics", with @alessandronai.bsky.social and @lindabos.bsky.social! All info here, deadline is June 4 👇👇👇 (Please share!) #polcom #commsky werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
scenic view of Amsterdam with bikes
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Canada, UK and France say that if Israel doesn’t halt its renewed offensive and restore aid to Gaza, ‘we will take further concrete actions in response. We oppose any attempt to expand settlements in the West Bank … We will not hesitate to take further action, including targeted sanctions.’
pm.gc.ca
Joint statement from the leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank
The Israeli Government’s denial of essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable and risks breaching International Humanitarian Law.
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
🚨 The Canadian Association of University Teachers has just advised against any non-essential travel to the United States.🚨 Was doing this anyway, but still shocking to see it officially in writing. www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...
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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
International academic research chair search! If you are an established scholar with expertise in public policy, public administration, and/or political polarization, please consider this opportunity and share with your networks! #academicsky #poliscisky #academia #polisky
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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
If the world stops buying American weaponry, what happens to the US arms industry? They’re not going to be happy with Donald Trump, are they?
defenseone.com
Trump’s anti-NATO turn could sink F-35 sales
Allies are questioning their reliance on U.S.-made weapons, experts and former defense officials warn.
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Portugal rules out buying F-35s because of Trump – POLITICO www.politico.eu/article/port...
politico.eu
Portugal rules out buying F-35s because of Trump
The country’s air force has recommended buying the jets, but the outgoing defense minister said “the predictability of our allies” must be taken into account when making procureme…
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Loleen Berdahl 🇨🇦 @loleenberdahl.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A wonderful and collegial conference in a beautiful location. Don’t miss out!!! #poliscisky #academicsky
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Worried about US interference in Canadian society?… we have some data on that. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...
academic.oup.com
Transnationalism and Populist Networks in a Digital Era: Canada and the Freedom Convoy
Abstracts. The growth and success of right-wing populist movements globally has been remarkable since the early 2010s. Indeed, populist parties in Europe,
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Emmanuel Macron with the chiefs of staff of 34 allied free nations. The US is not invited.
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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
I've heard of people buying Canadian flags from Amazon and other places. The best place to get your flag is from the legion (NEVER AMAZON). That way your money is going to help real Canadian veterans. www.poppystore.ca/products-sea...
poppystore.ca
Product Search
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
US is medsing around the Ukrainian F16… maybe we need to cancel our F35 purchase. We can’t trust American platforms if we don’t have full control of it.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
just taking tonight to really appreciate all these years of journalistic tut-tut-tutting about how over-the-top it was for anyone to focus on trump's affinity for russia and putin.
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/03/2025
Trump’s betting Canada will fold, but this is a country that spent 30 years fighting Denmark over a rock in the Arctic just for the principle of it.
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
China targetting Canada again with a spamouflage campaign www.international.gc.ca/transparency...
international.gc.ca
Canada targeted in a new Chinese transnational repression campaign linked to ‘Spamouflage’
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
"Sir, the Truck guys are pro-Trudeau now."
Bush being informed
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🍁🍂 🎃 Diva for the Season 💚💙🏈🫶👠👑 @queenofthinair.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
When you are going back on core values (especially this one which is foundational to the others), it's an ethical failure.
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jcboucher.bsky.social @jcboucher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
We are so screwed.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Friedrich Merz, Germany's new chancellor: "The interference in the German elections by Elon Musk and Trump's Washington was no less radical and outrageous than that of Moscow." #GermanElections #CDU
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Lisa Young 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jlisayoung.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Tomorrow morning, @loleenberdahl.bsky.social and I will be on The Current on CBC Radio talking about Arts graduate education. Should be around 9am in all time zones, 9:30 in NFLD.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
“Over the past decade, U.S. institutions worked to form a comprehensive shield against foreign interference in American politics. Over the past few weeks, the second Trump administration has turned itself to the task of undoing this project.” New from me&Quinta www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
lawfaremedia.org
The Rise and Fall of America’s Response to Foreign Election Meddling
The administration is dismantling U.S. capacity against foreign interference despite the urgency of the work being done.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 19/02/2025
Not the first time but still shocking to hear comments from the US president that echo those from the Kremlin. Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war (Russia invaded) while also wrongly claiming Zelensky has just 4% approval rating (its 52%). www.ft.com/content/2506...
ft.com
Donald Trump signals Ukraine to blame for war
US president suggests Ukrainian election is overdue in first remarks after talks with Moscow
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties & regimes
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The best way to fight back against Musk: Don’t buy a Tesla. (And if you own one, sell it.) The company was already in a precarious position before Musk launched his assault on democracy. A Tesla boycott would be devastating – and richly deserved. Me, in Slate 🧵
slate.com
Don’t Buy a Tesla. Sell Your Tesla. Refuse a Tesla at the Rental Counter. Yes—It Will Help.
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.
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