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Jon Crowley

@joncrowley.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 thinks things could be better. dad. Head of Strategy at FUSE Create. habitual collector, usually reading something, owns too many sneakers.

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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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?
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
It's a good reminder than you can't be bigger than the machine if you're part of the machine.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Elbows Up.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Let's look at what they're saying in Canada's premiere national newspaper... www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4b1c9c4...
theglobeandmail.com
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
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 26/02/2025
#Breaking: Toronto’s Pride 2025 festival in peril as large sponsors pull funding amid U.S. backlash against diversity
thestar.com
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."
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I wish people realized feeling uncomfortable isn’t a justification to harm people.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Horrible.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
No black person is shocked that “ending DEI” has turned into firing qualified black people, and replacing them with unqualified white people.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Speaking as a Canadian, my community has just accepted that by and large your country *wants* this. Not all of you of course. But enough that we should stop being surprised.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This piece sums it up pretty perfectly: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
thestar.com
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Strategy and AI and also You open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...
open.substack.com
Strategy and AI and also You
or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the LLMs
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I think we have a mass cultural problem of people not understanding that other people *also* have thoughts and feelings, of equal value to their own.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Anything to distract from the news, even a deep dive on entrepreneurship in Austria. #pinkskyPost
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
thestar.com
Doug Ford’s alcohol sales expansion deal cost taxpayers an additional $612M, watchdog says
In a new report, the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario estimates the liberalization will cost $1.4 billion by the end of 2030.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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...
en.wikipedia.org
Lazarus (comics) - Wikipedia
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
(The open source community might be the only thing outside of left leaning politics with as many purity tests.)
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
There’s an odd thing happening right now where criticism is “political” but everything else is somehow not.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
There's a weird belief that some people have, that any kind of diversity is lowering the bar, because previously these things were not considered and hiring happened purely on merit. In industries that are more white or male than gen pop, this indirectly assumes merit has a race or gender element.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
They don't care about the quality of output, they care about limiting competition.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
youtu.be/VYOjWnS4cMY?...
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Childish Gambino - This Is America (Official Video)
YouTube video by ChildishGambinoVEVO
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This wasn’t made up by an academic or political party, it’s a real world problem that damages the fabric of our society.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As more and more companies are cancelling DEI programs and commitments, it’s worth pointing out that in hospitals and doctors offices, there are still signs reminding people that abusive, aggressive and racist behaviour will not be tolerated. I saw one this morning at a major Toronto hospital.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
As a Canadian who has recently been soft-threatened with American annexation, TikTok is way more interesting to me today. I recognize this is petty.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
My hot take is that people blame advertising for trying to get people to buy things they don’t want, when in actually it’s the alliance between PR and news & lifestyle media that tries to create, codify, and amplify trends to justify continued existence & viewership.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Canada has always, always had a subset of people who move to the USA for opportunity (aka money) and always, always will. But you can't run a country based on the idea that you should reduce the social safety net, to appease people who will leave anyway. Let them go, we'll be fine.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
If I was a realtor, I’d be angry at Netflix. You could not ask for a more impactful anti-realtor campaign than 15 reality shows where a bunch of people in designer clothing do nothing, but are rich because real estate is expensive.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Canada could really benefit from having even one political leader that would put the country ahead of their party or personal ambitions.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
91 year old Jean Chretien is apparently still the toughest man in Canadian politics: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4b1c9c4...
theglobeandmail.com
Jean Chrétien: Canadians will never give up the best country in the world to join the U.S.
The former prime minister says it’s time to enact a Plan B to handle Donald Trump’s outrageous threats
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I keep thinking about this. It’s just so disturbing that someone at Facebook is getting paid to brainstorm approved slurs against queer folks and immigrants and put them in a neat list to circulate. It’s their JOB
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I’m starting to wonder if Donald Trump will be the thing that unites Canada again - I haven’t seen such a large percentage of Canadians vocally unified about anything in the last 25 years.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It’s worth understanding the actual Overton window, vs your personal Overton window.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
When I was in grade school / high school, citing an internet source for an essay was a dicey proposition. The assumption was anything online was questionable. We’re going backward.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
The best possible advertisement for congestion pricing is manhattanites posting pictures of empty intersections all damn week. Love it.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
The band or the body coverings?
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Last time around I just ignored US politics unless Canada was directly involved. It seems that’s not an option this time.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Here were my New Years Day observations. They feel relatively prescient. open.substack.com/pub/abenignc...
open.substack.com
The Presentist, 2025.
2025 is going to be wild.
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Jon Crowley @joncrowley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Well, I guess I’m here now.
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