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 ⬇️
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 ⬇️
Ha that’s my showing
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 ⬇️
New @isdglobal.org research shows 764 is evolving to new crimes. www.isdglobal.org/digital_disp...
Beautiful team, beautiful run. Will take a while to get over.
I’m big mad
Friends are reporting they are having similar issues. Not good timing for Rogers
Really cool night for Sportnet+ app to keep dying. Not like it’s 400 bucks a year and the World Series
You absolutely send that guy in the 10th. Chill.
Hmmm, the colonel is in the house?
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...
Being a Toronto Blue Jays/New York Rangers fan has been pretty painful since 1995.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024
INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
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."
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.
This was a $120M opening in my circle.
John Mulaney, pretty funny.
Forgot to cancel Britbox so, what’s good there?
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
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.
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?
realistic Star Trek
Not sure we need AI-enabled smokers.
It’s funny, if it was a festival I’d cut it some slack and say it was A-OK, but call something a ‘stadium’ and I expect to be able to go to the bathroom/buy beer without leaving the place for a walk. Sound and sightlines were pretty good tho!
This is great from @joshokane.bsky.social.
Can’t be worse!
Oasis was fun but it’ll take the 1971 Rolling Stones to get me to go back to Rogers Stadium. Just the worst!
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.
The first Trump admin was supposed to be great for the punk songs but they didn’t really materialize then either.
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
