Jay Heisler

Hey everyone! Welcome to the sixth networking potluck at my apartment…

Friends attending who are originally from the Iran, the US, Ghana, Lebanon, the Caribbean…

But all are Canadians… Friends should move to Canada…

Careers including tech, national security, law, government and journalism (me)…

Me at a party I attended yesterday at the local Army base….. I’m the one not in uniform…..

Researching in-depth the topic of OSINT and AI in December, ahead of an in-person lecture to DEFCON Halifax in the new year, and while I work on a coauthored freelance piece with a Canadian government policy analyst on this topic.....

PM me with resources, expertise and quotes......

Welcome to the seventh monthly geopolitics discussion MeetUp group I’ve been organizing…..

Our guest speaker, Max Medyk, is currently speaking about being one of the top startup founders in Halifax, an influencer from Ukraine…..

People from China, Colombia, Egypt, the US, and of course Ukraine…..

Heyy just followed all 400 personal accounts on BlueSky that have the word "OSINT" in their bio that are in English.....

Feel free to have me on your podcasts.... Also open to journalism collaborations......

Three men enjoy a selfie after Rohingya food…. Liam, Jay and Mohammed (left to right)

Having a fantastic time at the new Canadian home of my Rohingya refugee friend Mohammed Rezuwan Khan…. We were served a five course meal of authentic Rohingya food (most fun I’ve had in a while), me and my friend Liam Brown who works for Canada’s Department of National Defence…..

DEFCON Halifax has invited me to speak at their monthly in-person lecture series, on the topic of AI in weapons systems, because I have been working as a defense journalist since 2019.

PM me for background information on this topic. Happy to cite your company or your research in my lecture.

My certificate for presenting at the conference "AI and the Future of Education" by American Military University.....

Editors, bloggers and podcasters: PM me if you want to publish a piece I’m planning to coauthor with a Rohingya refugee journalist still in the refugee camps….

It can be about whatever you’re looking for, we’re just discussing a collaboration after he approached me looking to coauthor something….

Welcome to the monthly geopolitics discussion group I’ve been organizing….

The speaker this month is Kenneth Oguzie to talk about Africa-Canada trade…. People attending are from Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, India, Lebanon and Iran…. Careers ranging from tech, trade and law to Canadian military….

I know a Rohingya refugee still in the refugee camps in Bangladesh, who wants to be a journalist so wants to interview someone… PM me to be interviewed….

Hey everyone! If you're a journalist, blogger or podcaster and want to connect with a US veteran charity deploying to Jamaica to assist in the country, PM me for an introduction....

Presented today at an academic conference at St. Mary's University, hosted by the Religious Studies and Gender Studies departments at SMU.... I was on the Neurodiversity panel. There was a really exciting dialogue about the future of the Neurodiversity field. I learned a lot from my co-panelists....

Happy to announce there will be a guest speaker at the next in-person geopolitics discussion MeetUp group event, Tuesday November 4 at 5pm at CoWork Halifax on Quinpool....

We are thrilled to be joined by Kenneth Oguzie, the CEO of the Africa Canada Trade and Investment Venture (ACTIV).

Trust but Verify - Open Canada The use and reliance on AI driven open-source intelligence gathering is exploding but the need for human verification has not gone away.

Hey everyone!

I'm happy to share my latest publication, with the Canadian International Council's journal Open Canada.

This is my second publication with Open Canada this year, and this time I have an amazing coauthor, former CIA targeting officer Jake Robinson....

opencanada.org/trust-but-ve...

More photos from my talk at the American Military University conference "AI and the Future of Education."

Over 50 in the audience, and three questions in the Q&A....

Had a great time presenting at the American Military University conference "AI and the Future of Education."

I had at one point over 50 in the virtual audience....

Got some great questions: how the pandemic had an effect on student mental health, and about Maslow's hierarchy of needs and AI.

Have a chance to speak at a conference in Victoria, BC, in April... Victoria is the last major Canadian city I have not been to before... After this, it's down to Windsor, Saskatoon, Saguenay and Sherbrooke. In Victoria, I'm going to just lounge in hippie cafes finding new EDM artists...

Greetings from the fifth monthly geopolitics discussion MeetUp group that I’ve been organizing this year…

Nine attending this month…. Folk from tech, law and military, from Canada, India, Turkey, Ghana, Lebanon and Colombia. Five attending are regulars, so we’re developing a following of regulars…

Around the time you turn 40, which I did in August, working on your laptop on your front porch (or in my case, my front stoop) is the new working on your laptop in a coffee shop... Your neighbors like it and you get more sunlight and it mellows out your taste in music....

Everyone check it out! February will have a Friday the 13th the day before a Valentine’s Day.

A (brief) press release about me today from the official NASA initiative…

Countering China’s Maritime Narrative: The Role of Journalism in Gray Zone Conflict | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University The US and its allies must demonstrate they are steadfast partners against China's maritime threat to the rules-based international order.

Check out my first piece in Small Wars Journal!

Does subliminal messaging really work? Can subliminal advertising influence your mind?

I've seen this article making the rounds again.

It seems nobody is brave enough to acknowledge that it isn't exactly a "subliminal" plot for someone to merely imply things they aren't saying openly, but one can usually do so without being called on it. The bulk of disinformation works this way.

Don’t Believe What They’re Telling You About Misinformation People may fervently espouse symbolic beliefs, cognitive scientists say, but they don’t treat them the same as factual beliefs. It’s worth keeping track of the difference.

From this recent New Yorker piece to bros on LinkedIn gushing about how not panicky they are about the disinfo crisis, I have to wonder whether the real information crisis of our age is the total impunity with which someone can play something down. Holocaust denial was the original disinfo.

A national security education should be a less risky bet - Washington Examiner University closures may not yet be at crisis levels, but they are threatening to make intolerably toxic the process of job-seeking in a national security career.

My latest for the Washington Examiner!

Survivor-Centric Journalism: Redefining Narratives and Dismantling Human Trafficking Stereotypes Place the blame where it truly belongs: at the doorstep of a national news media that cowers in the face of human trafficking survivors.

Considering all of the media surrounding the recent Inaccuracies by political entities in regards to survivors-

I'd like to repost mine and @jayheisler.bsky.social 's article.

Words matter.

Period.

Facebook News Ban in Canada Leaves Small Outlets Struggling | Ghana News Agency Halifax, Nova Scotia, Feb 18 (VOA/GNA) — More than six months into a battle of wills between Facebook and the Canadian government, the biggest losers so far appear to…

Hey! Check it out. My article was syndicated in Ghana's national news broadcaster.

Sorry, just seeing this now. I recommend following Julie S. Lalonde (@ julieslalonde), Moira Donegan (@ moiradonegan), plus "Dr. M" (@ maargentino) and Jacob Ware (@ jacobware). From the four of them I get more than I ever got on Twitter. They're good to follow on domestic extremism issues.

Facebook News Ban in Canada Leaves Small Outlets Struggling Canada's bid to force Meta to compensate domestic publishers has so far hurt only the publishers

My latest article!