Dark and on point.

According to our most recent 'State of Social Media in Canada 2025' report (n= 1500), right/right-leaning users on TikTok outnumber left/left-leaning users (39% vs. 33% ). Imagine what it will be like one year after a takeover by Trump's allies. socialmedialab.ca/2025/05/05/n...

Time to stock up on Tylenol? www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

I wish Air Canada and other airlines would implement this boarding schema at all their gates. It takes a lot of stress out of the board process and speeds up boarding significantly. #TravelChaos

Science is not about saying something is right but that it has not proven to be wrong yet. #ScienceNotCertainty #AlwaysTesting #ScienceInProgress

Buyer's remorse: "Forty-nine percent of Republicans say things in the United States are heading in the right direction down from 75% in June." apnorc.org/projects/pes...

It's work-related ... "Meta Accused of Torrenting Porn to Advance Its Goal of AI ‘Superintelligence’. Strike 3 Holdings is suing Meta in federal court, alleging the tech giant pirated copyrighted adult videos to train its AI models." www.wired.com/story/meta-l...

Doubts over Kirk shooting suspect's appearance stem from an AI-manipulated image. Our co-director, @gruzd.ca, confirmed to AFP that the indiscernible logo is characteristic of generative AI's difficulties with reproducing detailed graphics. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

He who controls the algorithm controls your knowledge, choices, and ultimately your autonomy. Some interesting stats from @katharinehayhoe.com highlight the difference between her experience on Threads, which has a heavy-handed algorithm, and Bluesky.

Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk. They don't even know who Jay is because they addressed her as "gentleman." clayhiggins.house.gov/wp-content/u...

5/ Disinformation is not just a distortion of truth, it is an attack on the body politic and society as a whole. By hijacking legitimate grievances and twisting them into weapons, it harms both those who suffer from real injustices and those accused of causing them.

🧵 1/ The most effective disinformation campaigns rarely invent ideas out of thin air. Instead, they take preexisting facts, emotions, and grievances, then distort or exaggerate them in ways that deepen division, heighten resentment, and make falsehoods feel more credible.

Younger adults on social media are much more likely than older users to say social media is important for finding like-minded people and getting involved. pewrsr.ch/41Rz37x

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Meanwhile in Korean media there is clarity that Trump directed this raid out of spite following his Oval Office meeting with the ROK President, who pushed back aggressively on Trump's praise for the North Korean dictator. They're right. US media have no clue of what's going on.

They are not coming back. At least not without a huge premium.

My flowers are officially in their main-character era. #LastDaysofSummer

The view this morning. Hate can be defeated, by ordinary, decent people. But it also needs political leadership standing up to it. Which Britain doesn’t seem to have right now

Scammers are targeting seniors again. When we released our new @polidashboard.org app for tracking political ads, we did not expect that it could also be used to detect financial & other types of fraudulent activities on Meta’s advertising platforms. socialmedialab.ca/2025/07/29/p...

'Just Kill 'Em': Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People. www.huffpost.com/entry/brian-... When you take away empathy, it’s only a matter of time before dehumanization fills the void and violence is treated as policy.

"Canadian Car Visits To U.S. Plummet 34% In August—8th Consecutive Month Of Steep Declines" www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

CBO Sees Lower US Growth, Higher Unemployment This Year www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Grounded! "A bill introduced by the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee is raising alarms among civil liberties advocates, who warn it would let Rubio revoke Americans’ passports on similar grounds." theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

Charlie Kirk shot at Utah event, suspect in custody www.deseret.com/utah/2025/09...

You bring additional sanctions, we’ll bring drones. I think you get the picture now, right, comrade? 👍?

casual very disturbing email to receive from the university (no idea what happened here, reporters could probably run it down?)

In #Rochester, #NewYork, 100 marched to surround a house where roofers were being detained by ICE. While one person was taken, several others were left alone as the crowd "shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents...drove...away on four flat tires." www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

"... dignified funeral for loved ones is a core human instinct, protected in law and explored in art for millennia. ... But on that day, Raab treated love and grief as cause to kill." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu. Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices. A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

"About a quarter of the Texas professors said they have applied for higher education jobs in other states in the last two years, and more than 25% said they soon intend to start searching for out-of-state positions." www.texastribune.org/2025/09/05/t...

"At the end of June, less than 17% of the $46 billion needed to meet global humanitarian needs in 2025 had been received, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). This represents an alarming 40% drop compared to the same period in 2024."

Opinion: The detention of 475 workers at a plant being built by Hyundai and LG in Georgia was choreographed to send a message to Donald Trump's base, and to shock international businesses. Instead, the optics could backfire on the president's plans. on.ft.com/41O6SX8

Seems MAGA is running with "It's not his signature’ instead of the far more believable ‘It’s just a tracing.’ Thankfully, we have plenty of samples from that period—and of course, signatures naturally evolve over time, so context and time frame matter.

There’s a future where the “Epstein hoax” becomes the “Russia hoax” and the “Covid hoax” … where the right wing bullshit machine flips the script upside down and the mainstream follows behind apologetically, led by contrarians and “they have a point” guys.

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1

History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes. If you want a preview of the world we are heading back into, re/watch "A Time to Kill" with Mathew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_...

It's as cringe as you expected. 🫣 WSJ finally published the "Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed." www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Businesses Across the U.S. Rely on These Drones. They Might Be Banned. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/b...

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Adulting is hard, and numbers tend not to care about your politics. But grifting based on vibes is so much easier.

Where institutions have failed us, cough Congress, cough SCOTUS, juries stand as one of America’s last defences against authoritarianism and fascism. 🫡

I guess this is what frustrates me most about the Bluesky v Twitter discourse. Folks like Nate Silver fancy themselves as data driven. But they ignore the LARGE and MEASURABLE rise in hate on Twitter since Musk’s takeover. This study shows 50% more hate and 2x the hate likes once he did.

"An old school ransomware attack has a new twist: threatening to feed data to AI companies so it’ll be added to LLM datasets." www.404media.co/hackers-thre...

Warehouses?! In all of the debates about immigration, our politicians seem to forget that 'asylum seekers' are people, women, children, men, young and old, asking for our help. They are not products that need to be warehoused. #TreatThemAsHuman #DignityNotDetention #CompassionNotCages

Canadians are asking Carney to walk the talk on Canadian sovereignty ... "Carney urged by coalition of experts, public figures to bolster digital sovereignty, scrap strong borders bill" www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

According to Semafor's Ben Smith, Trump is "rebuilding institutions." Sounds like new speak for destroying institutions. Just more evidence of how the media class have failed Americans, the US Constitution and small 'd' democracy.

Apparently, it's a fake quote, but the message is still 🔥! The sentence after the highlighted sentence is also a 😘 ☠️.

"The July jobs report reveals a faltering economy – and Black women and single moms are bearing the brunt of Trump’s economic policies" #ICYMI nationalpartnership.org/july-jobs-re...

"The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission is warning Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail, according to a letter sent from the FTC chair to Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc." www.axios.com/2025/08/28/f...