Jon Crowley
@joncrowley.bsky.social
🇨🇦 thinks things could be better. dad. Head of Strategy at FUSE Create. habitual collector, usually reading something, owns too many sneakers.
So let me get this straight... in an effort to differentiate themselves from Trump, the conservative strat is:
1) giving PM Carney a childish nickname
2) suggesting his election to leader of the Liberal party (and therefore PM) is illegitimate
Is it just me, or is this EXACTLY what Trump would do?
1) giving PM Carney a childish nickname
2) suggesting his election to leader of the Liberal party (and therefore PM) is illegitimate
Is it just me, or is this EXACTLY what Trump would do?
March 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
So let me get this straight... in an effort to differentiate themselves from Trump, the conservative strat is:
1) giving PM Carney a childish nickname
2) suggesting his election to leader of the Liberal party (and therefore PM) is illegitimate
Is it just me, or is this EXACTLY what Trump would do?
1) giving PM Carney a childish nickname
2) suggesting his election to leader of the Liberal party (and therefore PM) is illegitimate
Is it just me, or is this EXACTLY what Trump would do?
This year for Black History Month we had a massive war on DEI... And we can discuss how it's a "not everyone" thing, but realistically I can't recall seeing less BHM content at any other point in my adult life. Thanks to anyone who put effort into telling stories of Black experiences this year.
March 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This year for Black History Month we had a massive war on DEI... And we can discuss how it's a "not everyone" thing, but realistically I can't recall seeing less BHM content at any other point in my adult life. Thanks to anyone who put effort into telling stories of Black experiences this year.
Let's look at what they're saying in Canada's premiere national newspaper... www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4b1c9c4...
Brace yourselves: whatever crazy, awful things Trump may have done to date, it’s only going to get worse
The world has never before been faced with such a threat. The United States has handed the nuclear codes to a madman, a criminal, a would-be dictator and a moron
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Let's look at what they're saying in Canada's premiere national newspaper... www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4b1c9c4...
Watching a lot of ham-handed dismantling of DEI initiatives during Black History Month is a reminder that the path of progress is never a straight line. There's nothing noble about doing something because it's popular, rather than because it's right.
February 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Watching a lot of ham-handed dismantling of DEI initiatives during Black History Month is a reminder that the path of progress is never a straight line. There's nothing noble about doing something because it's popular, rather than because it's right.
Reposted by Jon Crowley
#Breaking: Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival in peril as large sponsors pull funding amid U.S. backlash against diversity
Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival in peril as large sponsors pull funding amid U.S. backlash against diversity
Kojo Modeste, executive director at Pride Toronto, told the Star that the companies have informed Pride Toronto that "they will no longer be supporting Pride because their mandate has changed."
www.thestar.com
February 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
#Breaking: Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival in peril as large sponsors pull funding amid U.S. backlash against diversity
I wish people realized feeling uncomfortable isn’t a justification to harm people.
February 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I wish people realized feeling uncomfortable isn’t a justification to harm people.
The US brain drain has to be coming, no? Funding for science is disrupted, anyone who isn’t a straight white dude has been effectively told they’re getting sidelined, and the entire federal workforce is now engaging in a weekly humiliation ritual. Time for other countries to offer a safe landing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The US brain drain has to be coming, no? Funding for science is disrupted, anyone who isn’t a straight white dude has been effectively told they’re getting sidelined, and the entire federal workforce is now engaging in a weekly humiliation ritual. Time for other countries to offer a safe landing.
Horrible.
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as next week
The Bureau of Prisons is moving forward with plans to move transgender inmates out of prisons that align with their gender identity and into facilities that align with their assigned sex at birth.
www.npr.org
February 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Horrible.
No black person is shocked that “ending DEI” has turned into firing qualified black people, and replacing them with unqualified white people.
February 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
No black person is shocked that “ending DEI” has turned into firing qualified black people, and replacing them with unqualified white people.
This piece sums it up pretty perfectly: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Manisha Krishnan: DEI was always flawed. It’s being replaced with something much worse
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives were often flawed, obscuring bias and power in workplaces while purporting to address just those issues.
www.thestar.com
February 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This piece sums it up pretty perfectly: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Strategy and AI and also You
open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...
open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...
Strategy and AI and also You
or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the LLMs
open.substack.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Strategy and AI and also You
open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...
open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...
Everyone needs a library card. Seriously. The number of things you get access to, at no cost, from a decent public library system, towers over most $20-$50 a month subscriptions you can buy.
February 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Everyone needs a library card. Seriously. The number of things you get access to, at no cost, from a decent public library system, towers over most $20-$50 a month subscriptions you can buy.
The problem with threats, is that they're still destructive, even if they're not followed through on. Relationships and trust tend to take much longer to build and repair than they do to damage.
February 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The problem with threats, is that they're still destructive, even if they're not followed through on. Relationships and trust tend to take much longer to build and repair than they do to damage.
Anything to distract from the news, even a deep dive on entrepreneurship in Austria. #pinkskyPost
February 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Anything to distract from the news, even a deep dive on entrepreneurship in Austria. #pinkskyPost
Our current moment makes a lot more sense when you realize that people who have always felt like things were happening FOR them, now feel like things are happening TO them. If you've never been in that situation, I have to image it's terrifying.
January 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Our current moment makes a lot more sense when you realize that people who have always felt like things were happening FOR them, now feel like things are happening TO them. If you've never been in that situation, I have to image it's terrifying.
Fellow Canadians: If you need to invoke the existence of the charter of rights & freedoms (or other human rights legislation) to explain why a politician isn’t a threat… that’s really, really bad.
January 31, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Fellow Canadians: If you need to invoke the existence of the charter of rights & freedoms (or other human rights legislation) to explain why a politician isn’t a threat… that’s really, really bad.
For years we’ve read articles about the people who are angry that “woke ideology” was being “shoved down their throats” but, as always, it’s the ones complaining who start passing laws targeting small, vulnerable groups.
January 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
For years we’ve read articles about the people who are angry that “woke ideology” was being “shoved down their throats” but, as always, it’s the ones complaining who start passing laws targeting small, vulnerable groups.
It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's worth reflecting on where societies go when we let hatred of the other, a desire for someone to blame, and baseless ancient bigotries, guide us as individuals and nations.
January 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It's worth reflecting on where societies go when we let hatred of the other, a desire for someone to blame, and baseless ancient bigotries, guide us as individuals and nations.
Imagine a world where we had Ontario had an extra $4.4 billion dollars to invest in healthcare and education... and all we'd have to trade for it is $200 apiece and buying beer & wine at the beer store & LCBO like we did for my entire life until this year.
January 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Imagine a world where we had Ontario had an extra $4.4 billion dollars to invest in healthcare and education... and all we'd have to trade for it is $200 apiece and buying beer & wine at the beer store & LCBO like we did for my entire life until this year.
A great and oddly prescient comic is Lazarus, by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. It’s set in a future where nations are basically replaced by a global oligarchy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus...
Lazarus (comics) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A great and oddly prescient comic is Lazarus, by Greg Rucka and Michael Lark. It’s set in a future where nations are basically replaced by a global oligarchy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus...
There’s an undercurrent of the “if it’s not open source it’s evil” vibe here, that imo fundamentally limits every open source project from consumer adoption. Bluesky is either going to grow out of that, or succumb to it.
January 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
There’s an undercurrent of the “if it’s not open source it’s evil” vibe here, that imo fundamentally limits every open source project from consumer adoption. Bluesky is either going to grow out of that, or succumb to it.
There’s an odd thing happening right now where criticism is “political” but everything else is somehow not.
January 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There’s an odd thing happening right now where criticism is “political” but everything else is somehow not.
When considering the attack on DEI happening in business and government, we should note that pretty much every immigrant, visible minority, woman, or LGBTQ+ person in an enviable professional position, has been called a DEI hire (or affirmative action hire) at least once.
January 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
When considering the attack on DEI happening in business and government, we should note that pretty much every immigrant, visible minority, woman, or LGBTQ+ person in an enviable professional position, has been called a DEI hire (or affirmative action hire) at least once.
There can be disagreement about morals, but when your individual morals are too flexible, you become untrustworthy. Something that is unacceptable needs to be consistently unacceptable. You cannot embrace behaviour in friends and simultaneously use it as justification to choose your enemies.
January 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
There can be disagreement about morals, but when your individual morals are too flexible, you become untrustworthy. Something that is unacceptable needs to be consistently unacceptable. You cannot embrace behaviour in friends and simultaneously use it as justification to choose your enemies.