Strong agree with the Commissioner here: the registry is about transparency. But the real challenge comes in enforcing both the registry and laws against foreign interference in Canada. And that largely comes down to the RCMP. 👀 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

New foreign influence office won't prevent foreign interference, commissioner says | CBC News

Canada's new foreign influence office won't prevent foreign interference in Canada, but it will provide more transparency for Canadians who want to know who is trying to influence their politicians an...

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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social spoke with NPR about Google's now paused new feature that allowed users to create AI-generated satellite images.

Geoff Brumfiel@gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 5d ago

UPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again

Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.

gillianbrockell.com

This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.

if CNBC is right it sure sounds like they lost $45 billion IN A MONTH ahhhhhhhhhhh www.cnbc.com/2026/07/30/l...

AI investor Leopold Aschenbrenner forced to unwind all public stock positions after steep losses, sources say

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund has sold all of its public stock holdings, according to people familiar with the matter.

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The FIFA World Cup was predicted to be the biggest betting event in history. Bellingcat researcher @msramalho.bsky.social looked into the data on prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi - and found that fans wagered more than US $14 billion through the two sites www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

Will Ronaldo Cry​? World Cup Fans Bet Billions Through Prediction Markets - bellingcat

Users traded on almost 60,000 outcomes, betting on everything from the sponsor of the Golden Boot winner to whether Cristiano Ronaldo would shed a tear during a Portugal match.

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This is going to be my Zapruder film. The guy on the left gets hit full blast with the stench, but don't sleep on the guy on the other side, who likewise starts squinting and blinking as the stink lines strike his face.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 6d ago

He’s got the look of a TSA beagle who just hit on something foul.

An OpenAI test that escaped its cage and alarmed the AI and cybersecurity industry attacked more than just Hugging Face, the AI platform that initially appeared to be the sole victim of the virtual lab leak. https://cnn.it/4vXjYNR

God this makes my skin crawl. I genuinely can't understand how adult men can behave like this & retain any self-respect.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

kids, i have something exciting to tell you. I just financed a cybertruck through x the everything app. also your mom left

New: an update to this reporting! Sex-themed betting site OnlySpins, which was open to Ontarians despite not having a licence to operate here, has shut down following stories from The Star, @investigate-europe.eu and many international partner outlets. Gift link: www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2w ago

The Star's @emmamci.bsky.social spoke recently to Newstalk 1010 about her investigation into a network of blacklisted and 'predatory' gambling sites. The full story: trib.al/0IO3QGa

I looked at the census data for PhDs in Canada ~10 years ago. I discovered that your odds of being a full-time academic if you hold a PhD were worse than your odds of playing in the NHL if you played in the OHL. (<20%) www.signal49.ca/product/insi...

Seva@seva.bsky.social · last wk.

at this point if an undergrad asks about jobs in academia I nudge them toward something more practical like shark assassin

NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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really something to see tech YouTuber types calmly discussing the latest Tesla or SpaceX business news without once mentioning Elon’s 50 Day of the Rope posts per day or his murdering 700,000+ people

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last mo.

X owner Elon Musk indicates he would prioritise political violence (assassination of pro-migration politicians is the common sense meaning) over violence against "invaders" (refugees, asylum seekers, maybe ethnic minorities generally) while endorsing call for violence (killing) against both groups

"I've done more for you than your parents, okay?" -- Trump goes full cult leader during a Michigan rally that also included numerous "jokes" about him serving a third term, and a protester heckling him as a "pedophile protector" Here's a supercut:

Trump goes full cult leader in Michigan

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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ok reasonable

Nothing like having to create flow charts to keep track of the deranged (meta)physics of your novel...

Michael Cruickshank@cruickshank.bsky.social · 2w ago

Finally got around to adapting this into a full-length psychological horror novel about OSINT, paranoia, synesthesia and hungry ghosts. Just finished Part 1 of 4 entitled 'Desaturation'. If you want to give it a read, let me know, and I'll send you the text. Blurb in the image below:

Scoop by @rorywh.bsky.social and Darius Snieckus.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 2w ago

NEW: Export Development Canada provided between $100 million and $200 million in project financing for the gas-fired plant that will power Meta's data centre in Sturgeon County, Alta., Canada's National Observer has discovered.

Trump: "As far as elections in Venezuela, they're not really ready for them yet ... Delcy has been doing a fantastic job. The amount of oil coming out of Venezuela ... we're taking a lot"

Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

Trump: “Canada disinvited the US to the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge, which is fine, considering they are paying substantial TARIFFS, but the original Deal on the Bridge, which was terribly negotiated by a previous Administration, no longer stands. We changed terms so that the US now gets 50%”

When the AI is trained on a single tweet

Rory Carroll@rorycarroll.bsky.social · 7mo ago

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of July 21, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Having the dumbest people available run the place was a terrible idea.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Rep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"

seems like a real hallmark of our era is the total inability to be normal about anything. it is just a movie! watch it or not but this shit is weird.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

They’re having a completely normal one over at the National Review this weekend

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.