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justinling

@justinling@mastodon.online

Freelance investigative journalist β€” national security, disinformation, conspiracy theories, extremism, Russia/Ukraine, policing. πŸ•΅β€β™‚οΈ

Published in Foreign Policy, WIRED, The Guardian, other places.

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justinling, to random
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So much commentary about the war on Gaza seems uncurious or fatalistic about what the future holds. But there's no great mystery: Palestine needs a ceasefire, fresh elections, and a path to statehood. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/gaza-and-the-day-after

justinling, to Russia
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Kids programming, Kremlin propaganda, anti-Putin activism: It all happens on YouTube. And yet the video platform stays online in Russia β€” for now. https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-russia-propaganda-censorship-2024/

justinling, to random
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Hi! If you're in Toronto tomorrow, come out to listen to me interview Kaya Genç about his fantastic book about Turkey and its fraught modern politics. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/kaya-genc-a-journey-through-modern-turkey-tickets-884955083477

justinling, to random
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Three years ago, Justin Trudeau promised to ban the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from using three controversial, risky, tactics.

But then the RCMP say they didn't want to, so Trudeau gave up. thestar.com/opinion/contributors/i-asked-justin-trudeaus-liberals-why-they-broke-a-promise-to-ban-three-controversial-police/article_72a61ab8-1f59-11ef-823e-cbe4f1fc720d.html

justinling, to random
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Vivek Ramaswamy has a plan to save BuzzFeed. It is, may I say, not very good. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/lol-vivek-ramaswamy-buzzfeed

justinling, to Russia
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Russia's beleaguered liberal opposition has had a brutal few years β€” poisoned, imprisoned, beaten, marginalized.

I went to Lithuania to catch up with the activists still trying to replace Putin. https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/05/29/putin-dissidents-attacks-volkov/

justinling, to sweden
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In , a far-right trollfarm exposes how outraged gets manufactured and weaponized online. Exposing it has never been more crucial. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/inside-the-swedish-trollfabrik

justinling,
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@RoyBrander So, yeah, co-signed. Schools should be quick and nimble to try and demystify and explain aspects of modern life which could be harmful.

But I confess I'm really skeptical it would do much good. I think, just by definition, the lessons are going to be out-of-date before they ever hit the classroom. But hey, that's not a reason not to do it. (And I think, to some degree, this IS being done.)

justinling, to random
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Canada is in a constitutional crisis, it's just that no one wants to admit it. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/heres-what-i-learned-from-my-conversation-with-justin-trudeau-theres-only-one-way-to/article_5563637a-148c-11ef-b074-97c48c751727.html

justinling,
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@johnefrancis I hear there are a few services out there which let you skirt around that paywall.

It would be wrong to use them, of course.

RoyBrander, to random
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@justinling

You've done good Convoy coverage - but has it ever been released, exactly how much bank-account-locking was done?

  • How many for more than 3 days?

  • How many lost access to not just small-biz account but personal, grocery account?

Pat King trial has me wondering, don't know those numbers, just that THEY thought it horrendous.

A story comparing olden-days, Occupy, and encampment arrests to the bank accounts frozen, (and the one cracked collarbone) would be a dramatic contrast..

justinling,
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@RoyBrander The Rouleau Commission report gets into some of the nitty gritty of that on page 387: https://publicorderemergencycommission.ca/files/documents/Final-Report/Vol-2-Report-of-the-Public-Inquiry-into-the-2022-Public-Order-Emergency.pdf

And we know that all of the accounts, except those subject to court proceedings, were unfrozen between Feb 21 and Feb 24.

I do think that some accounts went wonky after being unfrozen, but I think that was largely result of the banks and credit agencies not having good processes for this sort of thing.

adr, to random
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Made the mistake of clicking on an X link, got an ad from the Epoch Times (sigh) saying Tucker Carlson (BIG SIGH) is warning Canadians about the DESTRUCTION OF THEIR CULTURE.

A) fuck off, Americans
B) stop trying to get me to like the Liberals
C) seriously stop

justinling,
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@adr i'm not even done my coffee and i'm already catchin' bullets

justinling, to random
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Worrying updates from Kharkiv. https://open.substack.com/pub/mickryan/p/russia-advances-into-kharkiv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=svcu

justinling, to random
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The right-wing grievance machine is moving fast and breaking things. We need to stop falling for it.
https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/chris-rufo-katherine-maher-signal

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@justinling

https://kafeneio.social/@foufoutos/112399409691034629

...you mentioned chanting support for Ho Chi Minh in 1968 as something that might shock modern sensibility, since he was a repressive autocrat when in power.

Thing is, he didn't strike Boomers as worse than the ones our nations supported, like Marcos or Pinochet.

If your only choice is between autocrats, I'm back to picking the "power-to-the-people" ones, not the "400 families" autocrats.

https://www.historynet.com/south-vietnam-corruption/

justinling,
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@RoyBrander Aha, if I even tried unpacking the particularities of which brutal despots became American allies and which became cartoonish villains in the U.S. mass media, I would have had no chance of making word count.

nauss, to random

I listened to Short Cuts last night. It was pretty interesting and I hope some of the people involved in the movement, especially at , give it a listen

I am a bit disappointed that Jesse's guest @justinling didn't plug his Mastodon account? I've bothered Goldsbie on here before about why the journos all chose Bluesky and I half-suspect Jesse Brown decided his newsroom is going to double doen on his bad pro-Twitter, anti-Mastodon take from late 2022. Maybe that's tinfoil hat of me but it's perplexing when Justin actually has an account that he seemingly still uses!

/end nerd alert

justinling,
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@nauss hi! While I still try to use my Mastodon account, I'm definitely more active on Bluesky. I think it'd got a better conversation going on, amongst journalists/researchers/academics/etc. I still like Mastodon but it'd definitely my secondary account.

I'm hoping federation brings them together!

justinling, to random
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The Mounties finally get their man β€” and it all leads back to Narendra Modi. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nijjar-killing-arrests-made-1.7192807

justinling, to Ukraine
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I got the inside scoop on Ukraine's drone start-up scene. What happens here could decide the fate of the war. https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-drone-startups-russia/

justinling, to random
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Just say no to riot policing. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-police-crackdowns-wont-bring-order-to-campuses/

justinling, to random
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I went to Columbia to see what all the fuss was about. I came away pretty damn sure that we've all lost the plot. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/leave-those-kids-alone

justinling, to random
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I'm on this week's Battleground podcast, talking about Ukraine's drone innovation, Canada's lacklustre commitment to Kyiv, and the messy state of the Russian opposition. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/battleground/id1617276298

justinling, to random
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I think we need to step back, survey the field, and say: Holy crap, we made a lot of urbanist progress in a very short amount of time.

Maybe there's some lessons to learn here about combatting polarization. https://www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-wonderful-propaganda-of-more

justinling,
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@cpi Ottawa city staff chuckles, throws it on pile marked 'BIKE BRIGADE'

justinling,
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@CedarTea Oh totally. Same thing with where I grew up: Post-industrial coal city. We were super used to apartment blocks down the street, or row houses, etc. People didn't balk at the idea of making room for people to live.

It's the people who specifically fled the city and think they have a veto over who lives near them.

justinling, to random
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The story of how Canada went from tripping over itself to meet the country's emissions targets to openly hostile to good climate policy is a saga worth learning some lessons from. https://www.splinter.com/canadas-cautionary-climate-tale

justinling,
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@mpjgregoire My view is 'yes,' but it's been so hobbled by other participants in the market β€” Ontario and others joining then leaving, other places promising to join who bail, California's messy management β€” that I don't know that we can say anything terribly conclusive.

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