Stephanie MacLellan
@smaclellan.bsky.social
Writer + editor + policy wonk based in Toronto. Prone to nerding out over online disinformation, infosec, Slovakia and the French football team.
If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they’d send a limousine anyway.
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If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they’d send a limousine anyway.
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So based on this logic, they’re also going to protect trans youth, right?
… Right?
… Right?
Modry adds that the problem of democracy is that it's a "tyranny of the majority over the minority," citing COVID as an example. "If you protect individual rights, you will protect all of societal rights, but the reverse doesn't occur."
January 23, 2026 at 7:18 PM
So based on this logic, they’re also going to protect trans youth, right?
… Right?
… Right?
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This Feb 11-12 I will be teaching the online Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security with Carleton's NPSIA-PT&D. We cover national security issues like violent extremism, espionage, economic national security, ethics of surveillance, and foreign interference. Details below!
Canadian National Security - NPSIA-PT&D
The Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security National security is the condition achieved when a country is able to protect its social, economic
carleton.ca
January 23, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This Feb 11-12 I will be teaching the online Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security with Carleton's NPSIA-PT&D. We cover national security issues like violent extremism, espionage, economic national security, ethics of surveillance, and foreign interference. Details below!
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The ship that became famous for turning around to safety.
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 23, 2026 at 2:54 AM
The ship that became famous for turning around to safety.
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I never want to hear about Grok "malfunctioning" or "going rogue". It's a machine that Elon openly advertised to his customers as a porn machine, and it made porn at a scale unseen in human history, much of it non-consensual, until they reprogrammed it to stop.
The machine worked as advertised.
The machine worked as advertised.
Musk’s participation in the bikini trend opened the floodgates. Grok went from making 300k images a week to 4.4 million. Read more from me, @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com and @stuartathompson.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
January 22, 2026 at 4:34 PM
I never want to hear about Grok "malfunctioning" or "going rogue". It's a machine that Elon openly advertised to his customers as a porn machine, and it made porn at a scale unseen in human history, much of it non-consensual, until they reprogrammed it to stop.
The machine worked as advertised.
The machine worked as advertised.
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Friends, I’d like to show @ucalgary.bsky.social that @bsky.app is where the cool kids hang out and that they should start posting here more and less/none at TheBadPlace™️. Show them some love by reskeeting this 100000000x. 🧪
January 22, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Friends, I’d like to show @ucalgary.bsky.social that @bsky.app is where the cool kids hang out and that they should start posting here more and less/none at TheBadPlace™️. Show them some love by reskeeting this 100000000x. 🧪
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In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.
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We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
Musk’s Chatbot Flooded X With Millions of Sexualized Images in Days, New Estimates Show
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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And here's Havel's "Power of the Powerless" to which Carney was referencing. dn710009.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...
dn710009.ca.archive.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:11 PM
And here's Havel's "Power of the Powerless" to which Carney was referencing. dn710009.ca.archive.org/0/items/the-...
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These thugs will just hide behind their masks, their unmarked cars, federal powers, and if all else fails, the “excited delirium” defence when their restrained victims are killed with this much force and pepper spray.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 10:42 PM
These thugs will just hide behind their masks, their unmarked cars, federal powers, and if all else fails, the “excited delirium” defence when their restrained victims are killed with this much force and pepper spray.
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The Canadian 🇨🇦 govt, and its Minister of AI and Innovation, is rushing headlong into full blown AI.
All gas, no brakes, no real consultation
So we're launching the People’s Consultation on AI
You can find out more here 👇:
www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/news-updates/
All gas, no brakes, no real consultation
So we're launching the People’s Consultation on AI
You can find out more here 👇:
www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/news-updates/
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
The Canadian 🇨🇦 govt, and its Minister of AI and Innovation, is rushing headlong into full blown AI.
All gas, no brakes, no real consultation
So we're launching the People’s Consultation on AI
You can find out more here 👇:
www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/news-updates/
All gas, no brakes, no real consultation
So we're launching the People’s Consultation on AI
You can find out more here 👇:
www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca/news-updates/
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Let's assume that the skeptics were right and that Trump's threats toward Greenland were never serious.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
January 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Let's assume that the skeptics were right and that Trump's threats toward Greenland were never serious.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
Allies are still noticing that Congress was willing to let the executive threaten a NATO ally.
"Aren't you guys going to do anything about this?" remains the underlying trust problem.
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I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."
Right on cue, here are the push alerts from the 3 major newspapers lmao
January 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM
I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."
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Once again, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social proved prescient. This was written back in 2016. "Right now, we are two or three bad elections away from the end of NATO, the end of the European Union and maybe the end of the liberal world order as we know it."
From a decade ago, March 2016. And now here we are. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/don...
Opinion | Is this the end of the West as we know it?
We may be two or three bad elections away from the end of the liberal world order.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Once again, @anneapplebaum.bsky.social proved prescient. This was written back in 2016. "Right now, we are two or three bad elections away from the end of NATO, the end of the European Union and maybe the end of the liberal world order as we know it."
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I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
January 21, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”
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If I walk up to you with hammer and say “I could break your knees if you don’t give me $20 but I won’t,” would you feel relieved that I’d ruled out breaking your knees?
January 21, 2026 at 2:17 PM
If I walk up to you with hammer and say “I could break your knees if you don’t give me $20 but I won’t,” would you feel relieved that I’d ruled out breaking your knees?
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I truly hope you or your loved ones are not among the people who are suffering or experiencing a worse outcome while waiting for care in an Alberta ER and/or hospitals.
However, if you are/were, please consider sharing your experience - use the form at the bottom of this story.
#AbHealth #AbLeg
However, if you are/were, please consider sharing your experience - use the form at the bottom of this story.
#AbHealth #AbLeg
Minister says Alberta emergency room deaths and poor outcomes are exceptions to the norm | CBC News
As Alberta doctors raise red flags about seeing what they say are delays in emergency room care, the province’s hospitals minister says he doesn’t think cases that the doctors have recently highlighte...
www.cbc.ca
January 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%
January 21, 2026 at 3:32 PM
If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%
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AI can do lots of stuff but what it can’t do is care work which we’ll need a whole lot more of in the next century.
This is so funny after the incessant ads from Palantir about empowering, not replacing the American worker.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:07 AM
AI can do lots of stuff but what it can’t do is care work which we’ll need a whole lot more of in the next century.
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Vancouver council is back in session today
Which means they are once again only providing real-time updates on city business to a single website that's under investigation for child exploitation
They've stubbornly defended their approach
Which reaches approximately 50 people
Which means they are once again only providing real-time updates on city business to a single website that's under investigation for child exploitation
They've stubbornly defended their approach
Which reaches approximately 50 people
January 20, 2026 at 10:24 PM
Vancouver council is back in session today
Which means they are once again only providing real-time updates on city business to a single website that's under investigation for child exploitation
They've stubbornly defended their approach
Which reaches approximately 50 people
Which means they are once again only providing real-time updates on city business to a single website that's under investigation for child exploitation
They've stubbornly defended their approach
Which reaches approximately 50 people
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Solidarity with the peoples of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and all who stand for democracy and against colonialism.
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Solidarity with the peoples of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) and all who stand for democracy and against colonialism.
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Israel demolished UNRWA’s offices in Sheikh Jarrah, fired tear gas at a nearby vocational school for young refugees, and shot a 15-year-old in the eye with a rubber bullet.
Meanwhile, babies are freezing to death in Gaza
www.thestar.com/news/world/m...
Meanwhile, babies are freezing to death in Gaza
www.thestar.com/news/world/m...
Israeli crews target UN facilities for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Tuesday targeted at least two United Nations facilities, pushing forward with its crackdown against the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees tasked with delivering h...
www.thestar.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Israel demolished UNRWA’s offices in Sheikh Jarrah, fired tear gas at a nearby vocational school for young refugees, and shot a 15-year-old in the eye with a rubber bullet.
Meanwhile, babies are freezing to death in Gaza
www.thestar.com/news/world/m...
Meanwhile, babies are freezing to death in Gaza
www.thestar.com/news/world/m...
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The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 PM
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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This is the right understanding of our geopolitical reality, but Carney's actions aren't in line with these statements. We need investment in our diplomatic corps and a clear foreign policy to mobilize Canada to meet the moment.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...
www.cbc.ca
January 20, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This is the right understanding of our geopolitical reality, but Carney's actions aren't in line with these statements. We need investment in our diplomatic corps and a clear foreign policy to mobilize Canada to meet the moment.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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The very premise of the international liberal order is that illiberal behavior has to come with costs. That could be sanctions, prosecution, military or clandestine action, isolation, etc.
America has become an illiberal actor and no other country has imposed any costs on it. That's bad.
America has become an illiberal actor and no other country has imposed any costs on it. That's bad.
January 20, 2026 at 4:51 PM
The very premise of the international liberal order is that illiberal behavior has to come with costs. That could be sanctions, prosecution, military or clandestine action, isolation, etc.
America has become an illiberal actor and no other country has imposed any costs on it. That's bad.
America has become an illiberal actor and no other country has imposed any costs on it. That's bad.
Two of my favourite people in security writing a book together? Smashing that pre-order button
Great timing for a smart book on Canadian far right extremism by @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social www.mqup.ca/Books/F/For-...
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Two of my favourite people in security writing a book together? Smashing that pre-order button