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Industry-based sociologist. UX Strategy and Research. Enterprise Software. Future of work. Foresight. Also photography. 🇨🇦 living SF Bay Area. Working on a book on strategic foresight to be published by Routledge. More: https://www.samladner.com/
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Definitely worth the read. A true American story.

If there’s one thing we all need, it is light. The darkness of grift, lies, and hatred is almost overwhelming. Light, go to the light.

This did not end as I expected

Sharing on behalf of my @cunygcsociology.bsky.social friend/colleague Ruth Milkman who isn't on social media. Here's her statement re a problematic censoring of an obituary for Michael Burawoy to appear in ASA Footnotes #soctwitter #socsky #sociology docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It’s always misogynoir.

Dangerous.

This is a simply terrible idea.

Gavin, you’re wrong. Very, very wrong.

As a Canadian growing up in Vancouver, I heard nothing of this. Great historical record here of the time Philly police BOOMED a city block www.phillytrib.com/news/local_n...

ChatGPT might be good for something: research shows it may help dispel conspiracy theories nautil.us/conspiracy-t...

I’m about halfway through writing my new book on strategic foresight (no title yet). Everyday, the news cycle affirms this book is needed…just being alive today requires some tools to deal w whipsaw change.

Never again is now.

“Not as inefficient as I expected” is maybe the highest compliment you can pay to any serious organization that actually does things

The Naval Academy is in Annapolis. Locals are unhappy with book bans at the Academy library www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Imagine the spirits that live on Alcatraz.

It's time to share my 2014 photos from Ai Wei Wei's incredible art installation on Alcatraz. The prison was taken over with these kites of freedom.

Somehow we never end up with Newtonian physicists complaining about too many Einsteinians at the faculty meeting. I wonder why.

"A nation which depends upon others for its new basic scientific knowledge will be slow in its industrial progress and weak in its competitive position in world trade, regardless of its mechanical skill." -- Vannevar Bush nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/2023-04/Endl...

Experimental research suggests that "intelligence is about doing while consciousness is about being" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The first 100 days? Yes, it’s been a shit show. But we still have 1,360 to go 😭

Affecting 1 in 5 people, transportation insecurity is America's overlooked hardship. New research from Alexandra Murphy and @natashap.bsky.social uses the Transportation Security Index to provide insights on this prevalent challenge. #EconSky #PolicySky psc.isr.umich.edu/news/transpo...

Another sighting of the very rare "direct inverse correlation".

Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m

I'm getting real Mr Leahy vibes from this interview

People are looking for the Joe Rogan of the left, and I submit to you that it is Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch, who can LOOK AMERICA'S YOUNG MEN IN THE EYE and tell them to FEEL THINGS.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Good morning to everyone including Anthony Scaramucci who called Carney’s win the best thing that Trump accomplished in 100 days www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Imagine if a sitting judge was arrested by the FBI. Imagine if a pastor and his praying congregation were arrested in the Capitol. Then imagine it being during Biden's term. How differently would this play out? What narrative frames would appear in the media? What would the opposing party say?

Voting day in Canada. Here’s hoping Canadians are wise enough to reject hatred and blame-fueled politics.

Brutal childhoods risk creating adults who venerate brutality. It is the fetish behind fascism. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ap...

Trump administration provides a concise closing statement at the end of the Canadian federal election campaign.

Really good read.

90% of Canadians oppose this. This is incredibly aggressive and reckless for Marco Rubio to say angusreid.org/canada-51st-...

www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Keep fit and have fun! These two are exactly the same as ever.

BREAKING: The ACLU says the Trump administration has deported three U.S. citizen children.

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

How long is the entire history of the universe, and how much of that have humans experienced? Film makers craft a scale model of all of time youtu.be/nOVvEbH2GC0?...

What will the effects of Trump's tariffs be? Fortunately we have data from the LAST time he did this. The tl;dr: consumers pay higher prices, quality of life declines, and manufacturing jobs do not come back hbr.org/2024/12/what...

Al Gore, you son of a bitch I'm in