Justin Ling
@justinling.ca
Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
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Newsletter: www.bugeyedandshameless.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JustinLing
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Justin Ling: Rebuilding Canada’s military may be the right thing to do — but Mark Carney still needs to sell us on his plan
Ottawa must communicate the scale of the changes we’re about to see and the time it will take to get them right. So far, it hasn't.
www.thestar.com
My column this weekend is all about how Canada (and Europe) can't help Ukraine and defend itself unless it can build out military strength. To do that properly, it needs to get social license. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
My column this weekend is all about how Canada (and Europe) can't help Ukraine and defend itself unless it can build out military strength. To do that properly, it needs to get social license. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: Rebuilding Canada’s military may be the right thing to do — but Mark Carney still needs to sell us on his plan
Ottawa must communicate the scale of the changes we’re about to see and the time it will take to get them right. So far, it hasn't.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My column this weekend is all about how Canada (and Europe) can't help Ukraine and defend itself unless it can build out military strength. To do that properly, it needs to get social license. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
The Putin loyalists win, America sells out Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The Putin loyalists win, America sells out Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
uh, that's bad.
Exclusive: Officials from Tulsi Gabbard's office arrived unannounced at a secret CIA archival facility in April to seize still-classified files on the JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. assassinations, sources told Reuters reut.rs/3XRquHg
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
uh, that's bad.
Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Reposted by Justin Ling
1. EXCLUSIVE
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
1. EXCLUSIVE
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage
The use of Chinese components was previously unreported
Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Reposted by Justin Ling
The administration stayed home from Halifax and forced the US military to do so as well. This isn’t an aberration: Also over the weekend, the administration boycotted the G20 in S Africa. How does the Trump team expect to win any diplomatic victories when it’s not even on the field? wapo.st/4oZH3wz
Opinion | America has become a rogue nation. U.S. allies are looking elsewhere.
Europeans and Canadians are talking about making their own security arrangements.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The administration stayed home from Halifax and forced the US military to do so as well. This isn’t an aberration: Also over the weekend, the administration boycotted the G20 in S Africa. How does the Trump team expect to win any diplomatic victories when it’s not even on the field? wapo.st/4oZH3wz
i see that Big Paper Towel has gotten to the Washington Post.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
i see that Big Paper Towel has gotten to the Washington Post.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...
Wherein I do a bit of Kremlinology around the White House's chaotic Ukraine peace negotiations. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: American leadership looks chaotic. The truth may be more sinister
A recent flip-flop on Ukraine may be less a sign of disorganization than infighting.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Wherein I do a bit of Kremlinology around the White House's chaotic Ukraine peace negotiations. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...
The Eye That Never Sleeps
Social media is making us afraid and anti-social. What if that's the point?
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
Reposted by Justin Ling
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
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My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘They decided to kill us with cold’: Ukrainians struggle against Russian assault on power network
Chernihiv residents say they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in ‘invincibility points’ to charge up and warm up
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...
The Eye That Never Sleeps
Social media is making us afraid and anti-social. What if that's the point?
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...
This weekend I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum, which — for the first time — has no official delegated from the U.S. government. I'll post some occasional thoughts from the Forum over the weekend, below 👇
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
This weekend I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum, which — for the first time — has no official delegated from the U.S. government. I'll post some occasional thoughts from the Forum over the weekend, below 👇
The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza.
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: The Trumps’ latest money-making scheme has a little-known Canadian connection. Can we do anything about it?
It's a refuge for criminals and a cash cow for the man who wants to annex us, yet bitcoin is still being mined in Canada.
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza.
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Baby Grok will no longer rizz up Elon Musk, rizz king
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Baby Grok will no longer rizz up Elon Musk, rizz king
The year is 2035. The Meta People's Liberation Army breaks into my underground printing press. But I've already escaped on my pedal-powered flying machine. "Death to the machines!" I yell before crashing into the city's last remaining tree.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: I’m a new columnist at the Star. I’m going to be focusing on our era’s most influential gatekeepers
The decline of the gatekeeper isn't the boon some think it is.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The year is 2035. The Meta People's Liberation Army breaks into my underground printing press. But I've already escaped on my pedal-powered flying machine. "Death to the machines!" I yell before crashing into the city's last remaining tree.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
This rules. @404media.co www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...
Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This rules. @404media.co www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...
Oh great, Steve Witkoff has been given another "peace plan" by his Russian minders. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war
"We feel the Russian position is really being heard," Russia's envoy told Axios.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Oh great, Steve Witkoff has been given another "peace plan" by his Russian minders. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
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"Donald Trump’s claims that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi directly contradict a CIA report concluding the crown prince approved it." — CPJ MENA's Regional Director Sara Qudah
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Donald Trump’s claims that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi directly contradict a CIA report concluding the crown prince approved it." — CPJ MENA's Regional Director Sara Qudah
The U.S. has formally signed a deal to integrate its icebreaker-building capacity with the Canada and Finland — just a few months after Trump ranted that he was going to cut Ottawa out and build everything at home.
www.canada.ca/en/public-se...
www.canada.ca/en/public-se...
Canada signs new partnership agreement with United States and Finland to produce Arctic and polar icebreakers - Canada.ca
The Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Quebec Lieutenant, joined by Alejandro Mayorkas, United States (U.S.) Secretary of Homeland Security, and Wille Rydman,...
www.canada.ca
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The U.S. has formally signed a deal to integrate its icebreaker-building capacity with the Canada and Finland — just a few months after Trump ranted that he was going to cut Ottawa out and build everything at home.
www.canada.ca/en/public-se...
www.canada.ca/en/public-se...
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Two Ukrainians collaborating with Russian special services are behind two railway sabotage acts in Poland, PM Tusk said.
Speaking at the Sejm, Tusk said that the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had been operating with Russian intelligence for a long time
Speaking at the Sejm, Tusk said that the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had been operating with Russian intelligence for a long time
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Two Ukrainians collaborating with Russian special services are behind two railway sabotage acts in Poland, PM Tusk said.
Speaking at the Sejm, Tusk said that the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had been operating with Russian intelligence for a long time
Speaking at the Sejm, Tusk said that the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had been operating with Russian intelligence for a long time
oh my god @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this headline. www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
Epstein Helped Build MAGA. Has He Blown It?
Steve Bannon, Jeffrey Epstein, Bubba, and the end of democracy
www.garbageday.email
November 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
oh my god @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this headline. www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...
A little bit of 🌈💫🦣personal news🦣💫🌈
After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.
After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A little bit of 🌈💫🦣personal news🦣💫🌈
After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.
After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.