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...

Woah

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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

Jean-Christophe Boucher and I summarize polling the @cdsn.bsky.social conducted on Canadian defence spending and Canada-United States defence relations in Policy Magazine: www.policymagazine.ca/poll-shows-c...

That explains a lot.

Forcing Ukraine to cede Crimea (and all of the Donbas?) is appeasement. Same as it's always been. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

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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.’

🚨 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/...

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

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

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?

Portugal rules out buying F-35s because of Trump – POLITICO www.politico.eu/article/port...

A wonderful and collegial conference in a beautiful location. Don’t miss out!!! #poliscisky #academicsky

Worried about US interference in Canadian society?… we have some data on that. academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Emmanuel Macron with the chiefs of staff of 34 allied free nations. The US is not invited.

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...

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.

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.

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.

The Canadian government should plan for the end of NORAD as a binational command and our expulsion from Five Eyes: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

China targetting Canada again with a spamouflage campaign www.international.gc.ca/transparency...

When you are going back on core values (especially this one which is foundational to the others), it's an ethical failure.

We are so screwed.

I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

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

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.

“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-...

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...

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties & regimes

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 🧵

NATO Sec Gen Rutte on Russian hybrid threats: "We should stop calling it hybrid, because hybrid sounds cuddly, nice, lovely. It is not. It is really state sponsored sabotage, and in some cases, even state sponsored terrorism"

CBC's Fifth Estate has traced a wide web of anti-LGBT hate working to censor or close down libraries in Canada to a right-wing U.S. movement

🚨Huge, dangerous developments getting little coverage. 1. DOJ has killed off its anti-corruption unit. It seized billions in assets from corrupt Russian oligarchs. 2. FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force has been disbanded. It fights foreign interference in US democracy. PUTIN WON THE US ELECTION

NEW COLUMN: Tariffs on friends. Threats to invade allies. Freezing foreign aid. Ignoring Congress. Trump is the U.S. president China fantasizes about. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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I am shocked… also… receiving money from abroad? Foreign interference anyone?

Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office