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It's fundraising week at CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto's community station! If you listen, consider supporting to keep the station on the airwaves.
Fall Fundraising 2025 - CIUT.FM
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ciut.fm
November 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It's fundraising week at CIUT 89.5 FM, Toronto's community station! If you listen, consider supporting to keep the station on the airwaves.
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Join us for the 6th event in our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series, "Trans-inclusive tech governance," on Dec 2 at 11am EST, with the amazing @blairaf.com (Univ of Alberta) and @histoftech.bsky.social (@uvadatascience.bsky.social). Free & open to all: dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/gender.... See u there
November 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I admire Nick Hune-Brown's tenacity as an editor. This is a despairing, compassionate, and very worthy read.
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor @nickhunebrown.bsky.social to investigate their past work. In the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, removed articles from their sites. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I admire Nick Hune-Brown's tenacity as an editor. This is a despairing, compassionate, and very worthy read.
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Social change needs activism, but we have gotten stuck with ‘datavism’, that is, a push to define all outcomes of social programmes in quantifiable, visible ways idronline.org/article/pers...
Is data failing us?
What do we stand to lose when we privilege data science over human understanding?
idronline.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Social change needs activism, but we have gotten stuck with ‘datavism’, that is, a push to define all outcomes of social programmes in quantifiable, visible ways idronline.org/article/pers...
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Folks may or may not know that I am working on a tool for design rationale and project planning for when the job of determining what the job *is*, is a big part (if not most) of the job: senseatlas.net
Sense Atlas
Sense Atlas is an organizational cartography kit. It helps you collaborate to build maps of projects, policies, and organizational knowledge, to support situation awareness and comprehension among people working together to achieve common goals.
senseatlas.net
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Folks may or may not know that I am working on a tool for design rationale and project planning for when the job of determining what the job *is*, is a big part (if not most) of the job: senseatlas.net
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Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social.
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
November 17, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Join us for a vital discussion with @alexhim.bsky.social about his book Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge, in conversation with @kevinskerrett.bsky.social.
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
Tues Dec 2, 7pm - 8pm. Doors open 6:30pm.
Dominion-Chalmers Centre, 355 Cooper St., Ottawa
RSVP: octopusbooks.ca/himelfarb
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everything is on the table
November 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
everything is on the table
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There's no silver bullet.
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There's no silver bullet.
in the top ten of a technocrat’s favourite framing devices:
“we need to have a grown-up conversation about …”
“we need to have a grown-up conversation about …”
November 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
in the top ten of a technocrat’s favourite framing devices:
“we need to have a grown-up conversation about …”
“we need to have a grown-up conversation about …”
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I'm going to run my immersive three-day short course on Scenario Planning for Urban Futures (in-person in Ann Arbor or live online) with Heather Hannon @landpolicy.bsky.social in May 2026 -- register before 12/31 to save 25% ope.engin.umich.edu/pe/scenario-...
Scenario Planning for Urban Futures
Gain first-hand knowledge about scenario planning and concrete ideas for how to implement scenarios in specific contexts.
ope.engin.umich.edu
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I'm going to run my immersive three-day short course on Scenario Planning for Urban Futures (in-person in Ann Arbor or live online) with Heather Hannon @landpolicy.bsky.social in May 2026 -- register before 12/31 to save 25% ope.engin.umich.edu/pe/scenario-...
weekend reading
rabble.ca/human-rights...
rabble.ca/human-rights...
Risk, fear, and deflection: Some thoughts about antisemitism
Dave Meslin discusses views around antisemitism in Canada.
rabble.ca
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
weekend reading
rabble.ca/human-rights...
rabble.ca/human-rights...
questions scale better than answers
November 14, 2025 at 10:11 PM
questions scale better than answers
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How great to talk to the wise @sharpflower.bsky.social about COVID-19 leadership failures, the unremembered lessons of 2003 SARS1 containment in Vancouver, and the ongoing Long COVID crisis. Listen to publichealthisdead.com!
And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡
And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡
Demanding more of public health
Public Health is Dead podcast host Daniella Barreto on the impact of COVID-19 on workers
briarpatchmagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
How great to talk to the wise @sharpflower.bsky.social about COVID-19 leadership failures, the unremembered lessons of 2003 SARS1 containment in Vancouver, and the ongoing Long COVID crisis. Listen to publichealthisdead.com!
And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡
And read our conversation, out now in @briarpatchmag.bsky.social 😷🫡
if we’re always in crisis we’re never in crisis
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
if we’re always in crisis we’re never in crisis
“…every time you answer someone’s hardships at work with “welp, that’s late-stage capitalism for you,” you make it seem inevitable. And that perceived inevitability is exactly what helps it persist.” ♥️ @rawsignal.ca
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“…every time you answer someone’s hardships at work with “welp, that’s late-stage capitalism for you,” you make it seem inevitable. And that perceived inevitability is exactly what helps it persist.” ♥️ @rawsignal.ca