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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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The fascist win if you lose your compassion for other people. That's part of the war. You have to keep compassion.

submitted 5 hours ago • 27 comments

Unsustainable

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An essential truth about govt in a capitalist state is that it must blunt the most pernicious effects of capitalism while also propping it up . Destabilization occurs when that fine balance goes too far toward full-on, amoral capitalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

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Capital should be required reading these days. That and Polanyi's The Great Transformation. Oh! And Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class! Ok so basically everyone should study political sociology.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

This is quite the story. I was surprised at the loquaciousness of the ICE spokesperson -- first time I've seen them speak, in-depth, to a reporter.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Definitely worth the read. A true American story.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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.

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This did not end as I expected

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

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...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

It’s always misogynoir.

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Dangerous.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This is a simply terrible idea.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Never again is now.

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

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

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

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Imagine the spirits that live on Alcatraz.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

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

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"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...

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

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

I'm getting real Mr Leahy vibes from this interview

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 22 days ago • 12 comments

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...

submitted 23 days ago • 1340 comments

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...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

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?

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments