Bellingcat founder and CEO Eliot Higgins offers his keynote talk at the 2025 University of Cambridge Disinformation Summit

Demanufacturing Consent: How disordered discourse is destroying democracy

Recorded 23 April 2025, University of Cambridge

https://youtu.be/D-FVjonlGOY?si=fLch4N66ZvfMWlfO

Interested in knowing how much Poilievre & Shopify's reciprocal mutual admiration statements earlier this year reflect Poilievre's involvement in the mini-DOGE agenda of "Build Canada" started by the Shopify VP.
#cdnpoli

Our Bellingchat Premium podcast unravels the different techniques our researchers are using. In April's edition Bellingcat's Research Lead Carlos Gonzales explains how he used audio analysis to reveal more detail about the final moments of aid workers killed in Gaza. Listen in here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-audio-about-127433975

'Railing against “unelected” judges, Premier Doug Ford says Ontario will appeal a temporary court injunction preventing the province from removing bike lanes.'

"Vice-President JD Vance has suggested judges do not have authority over the Trump administration's executive power"

It's time we renamed all the "Conservative" parties of Canada "Wannabe American Parties".

#neverVoteConservative

https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/doug-ford-vows-to-appeal-injunction-preventing-removal-of-toronto-bike-lanes/article_5f2b50a7-fc3d-4f34-b397-40c39de1fa97.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gx3j5k63xo

@BruceMirken

The secretary of health and human services once cut off the head of a beached whale with a chainsaw, put it on the roof of his car and drove home. He brags that he has a freezer full of roadkill.

He is opposed to the fluoridation of water and the pasteurisation of milk and believes that horse deworming pills are more effective against Covid than vaccination.

A older MacBook Air fell in my lap. But it would not boot. After some investigation I decided the ssd was dead. Confirming the model u was able to purchase a replacement and install an older version of OS.

But it would not upgrade further.

OpenCore legacy parcherbto the rescue. Now I have a very functional unit.

https://www.jpmorgan.com/technology/technology-blog/open-letter-to-our-suppliers

Journalistic organisations in Canada with official accounts on the #Fediverse :

* @winnipegfreepress
* @thetyee
* @Windspeaker
* @sprawlcalgary
* @livewirecalgary
* @pressprogress
* @thenarwhal
* TechNews @admin
* @HalifaxExaminer
* @thelocal
* @RueMorin
* @cabinradio
* @mtlgazette
* @NTVNewsNL
* @hakaimagazine
* @rewildingmag
* @NatObserver
* @TheBreach
* @theagendatvo
* @TVOntario
* @epicnews
* @chly1017fm
* @CKIAFM

I will update the list as I learn of other such accounts.

1/3

Went to bed as polls were closing and woke up to a Liberal minority government (what I expected, but not by only 4 seats), and the glorious news that Pierre Poilievre (leader of the conservative party) lost his seat in Parliament, so one of his party will have to give up theirs if he wants to be able to speak.

It means we'll probably have another election in two years or so.

#Elxn45 #Canada

@jockr

Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton | CBC News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-federal-election-2025-carleton-pierre-poilievre-results-1.7515695

#canpoli

Congratulations, Canada.

I couldn’t be happier for Bruce Fanjoy. He’s a known local and good guy who went up certain he’d loose. #cdnpoli

Thank you Carleton!!!!!

#Canada #cdnpoli

@brenttoderian.bsky.social

Or donuts?

I do not know where the source is, but I wholly agree with this. #art #aiart #fuckai

Rolling Stone discovers that Canada's Conservatives are generally verboten from speaking to the press (and ravages them for it.) www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

J.D. Vance's Best Friend, the ...

I saw this one posted on Threads abd sharing here for some laughs 😂. Within a few years, we will have jobs to fix all the technical debt created by vibe coders 😉 khhh

@justinling.ca HO. LY. SHIT.

Friends--I warn you that this is very disturbing, but--you need to read this.

Fuck Zuckerberg and Meta and Facebook.

Good god. Meta is using their AI licensing deals with John Cena, Disney, and others to peddle sex chat bots to kids. Burn this company to the fucking ground. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...