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Josh Visser

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Legendary newsman and beer league hockey player.*

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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In a new piece for The Globe and Mail, ISD’s Steven Rai examines how online cultures that glorify violence are reshaping risks facing young people and schools in Canada. He argues for earlier intervention and stronger prevention before law enforcement becomes the only option. Read: tgam.ca/4yf99YW
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Opinion: Canada needs to modernize school violence prevention
We need to be able to identify threats and disrupt plans, denying violent actors the notoriety they seek
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego reflects a newer and increasingly visible form of neo-Nazi accelerationist violence: while extremist ideology remains central, the pathways into it are becoming increasingly diffuse and embedded in nihilistic online subcultures.
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San Diego mosque shooting highlights new generation of neo-Nazi accelerationism - Institute for Strategic Dialogue
The May 2026 attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego reflects an emerging trend in neo-Nazi accelerationist violence.
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Since March 9, a previously unknown militant group—The Islamic Movement of the Companions of the Right—claimed seven bombings and arsons in Belgium, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Greece, six of which targeted the Jewish community.
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Since the conflict in Iran began on 28 Feb, ISD has been tracking narratives from Russian, Iranian or Chinese-state backed and state-linked actors on social media. Our second update below ⬇️
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
ISD analysts have been closely monitoring the conflict in Iran for foreign information manipulation, coordinated inauthentic behaviour, AI-generated disinformation and other hybrid threats. Some of our initial findings ⬇️
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
New ISD research shows a growing prominence of antisemitism across US-based extremist movements, spanning the political spectrum. Analysis of 150,000+ posts found a 21% increase in antisemitic content between Aug 2024 & Jan 2025, w/ spikes linked to major domestic & geopolitical events ⬇️
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Antisemitism across the extremes: A deep-dive on US-based violent online networks
New ISD research finds antisemitism rising across US extremist spaces, up 21 percent since Aug 2024, driven by events and conspiracy narratives.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
One of the very best to do it. nypost.com/2025/11/13/s...
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RIP Brooksie: Larry Brooks, Post legend and Hall of Fame hockey writer, dead at 75
RIP Brooksie: Larry Brooks, Post legend and Hall of Fame hockey writer, dead at 75
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New @isdglobal.org research shows 764 is evolving to new crimes. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
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From sextortion to violence: The evolving threat of the 764 network in the US
The 764 network’s US activity has shifted from sextortion and CSAM to real-world violence, reflecting a broader nihilistic-violence trend.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Beautiful team, beautiful run. Will take a while to get over.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Really cool night for Sportnet+ app to keep dying. Not like it’s 400 bucks a year and the World Series
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
You absolutely send that guy in the 10th. Chill.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Hmmm, the colonel is in the house?
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Mark Medley @markmedley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
My book Live to See the Day is off to the printer and available for preorder. I’d love it if you bought a copy or spread the word. It took me around the world — and took seven years to write! Which is fitting for a book about things that might never happen. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/645965...
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Live to See the Day by Mark Medley | Penguin Random House Canada
An imaginative study of human nature, Live to See the Day is a globe-trotting exploration of what drives certain people to pursue a dream beyond all logic, reason, or reward.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Being a Toronto Blue Jays/New York Rangers fan has been pretty painful since 1995.
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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
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Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
What happens when a fandom obsessed w/ mass killers starts generating its own? Since 2024, the True Crime Community (TCC) has been linked to 16 school shootings/disrupted plots. Attackers seek notoriety, borrowing from past killers w/ a “memetic” twist. ISD analysis & what prevention requires below.
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Memetic violence: How the True Crime Community generates its own killers
What happens when a fandom obsessed with high-profile murderers consequently becomes one of the biggest producers of them?
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This was a $120M opening in my circle.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
John Mulaney, pretty funny.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Forgot to cancel Britbox so, what’s good there?
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/08/2025
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A warning I often repeat for those working with attacker manifestos, like the one in Minnesota: resist the temptation to seize on one element that aligns with your own political or policy concern and elevate it as the only motive. Don't strip-mine manifestos to suit your current political project.
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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
realistic Star Trek
A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation.
Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL.
Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN!
IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION.
THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF
PREY! 🚀🦅✨
Picard: ARE YOU SURE?
LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN.
Data: ...
Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT!
ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT?
Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration.
Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Not sure we need AI-enabled smokers.
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Graham Isador @grahamisador.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is great from @joshokane.bsky.social.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Oasis was fun but it’ll take the 1971 Rolling Stones to get me to go back to Rogers Stadium. Just the worst!
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
The last time I saw Oasis, Noel got jumped on stage and Liam was forced to defend his brother in public. Hope it goes better for them tonight.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Was back home on PEI for this and really apparent how unready the island is for climate change, just at a practical level. Many homes and businesses don’t have AC, playgrounds have little shade or water, etc. When I moved away 20 years ago, days over 25C felt rare. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Temperatures recorded at 2 sites break P.E.I. record for hottest day in recorded history | CBC News
A temperature of 39.5 Celsius was observed at the UPEI Climate Lab's Fox Island station near Alberton, and a recording device at Maple Plains in central P.E.I. registered a high of 38.1 C.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2025
that summit could've been an email
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Gee, it’s not like the experts all predicted this would happen. globalnews.ca/news/1133482...
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Ford considers widening ‘jammed up’ Hwy. 407 East weeks after tolls were removed | Globalnews.ca
At an unrelated event, Premier Doug Ford said he was considering widening the public portion of Highway 407 only a few weeks after removing tolls on the route.
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Daniel Kaszor @dkaszor.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
It's wild how many of Toronto's current problems can be traced back to "knock on effect from Rob Ford tearing up the Transit City plan as the first thing he did as mayor."
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 12/08/2025
Doug Ford's 401 tunnel is a fantasy that will almost certainly never come true. It should still worry us. A lot. thewalrus.ca/a-highway-to...
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Ford’s Plan to Dig a Tunnel under Highway 401 Is Almost Certainly Doomed | The Walrus
The megaproject is a $100 billion boondoggle with the risk of roadway collapse
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
It’s possible for something to both be a power grab and a distraction.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Cannot recommend highly enough reading older non-fiction.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Who knew what, when? www.thestar.com/life/sophie-...
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’d do this tonight if I was home in Toronto and not at the PEI tractor pulls.
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Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Last fall, I attended the premiere of a film that meant a lot to me. In late January, all of its hundreds of planned screenings were canceled without explanation. For @defector.com, I went digging:
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Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector
If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
AI is bloatware, pass it on.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
In amazons very silly War of the Worlds remake, the aliens attack a park north of Winnipeg, and leave all of eastern Canada and the UK alone. 🤷
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We won 🚲 www.cycleto.ca/cycle_toront...
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Joey Coleman @joeycoleman.ca · 30/07/2025
Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death - A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design. yle.fi/a/74-20174831
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death
A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
AI search is rotting your brain.
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Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs: CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence
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Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs
CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I was living sans internet in rural Canada in the 90s.
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Barry Hertz @hertzbarry.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
NEW & NOS: After year and a half of reporting and writing, I'm thrilled to announce that WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS, THE BLOCKBUSTERS THAT SUPERCHARGED THE WORLD is available to pre-order. Coming Nov. 25 @grandcentralpub.bsky.social www.amazon.ca/Welcome-Fami...
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Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World
Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters that Supercharged the World: Hertz, Barry: 9781538771037: Books - Amazon.ca
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Best show in TV doesn’t get a single nom…
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms: www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
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The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Can’t help but think if these cameras were meant to catch cyclists, Toronto police would have caught the culprits.
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Here’s the real truth about Toronto and its speed cameras
What we can learn from the brazen vandalism of the speed cameras on Parkside Drive.
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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The Ontario Place waterpark is a catastrophe. Diamond Schmitt @diamondschmitt.bsky.social want to tell you it is great. It is not. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #topoli #onpoli #ontarioplace
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The Ontario Place spa: new drawings, still a disaster
Newly released visuals of the planned site show a malignant growth on the city
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Josh Visser @joshvisser.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I’m sorry…an $80 renewal increase??? Rogers recouping that NHL deal I guess.
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