Greg Van Alstyne

Designer, futurist, director @OCADsLab + @DesignJamCA @OCAD U, teaching @ocadu_sfi & investigating #designthinking #systems #emergence #media. Opinions my own.

[Toronto Machine Learning Society (TMLS) @TMLS_TO]

📈 Join @kunal_chhabaria from @Walmart Connect at the Toronto Machine Learning Summit! Learn about ML-based recommendation systems in retail media. 📈

[Prof. Erik Spiekermann @espiekermann]

Just the typeface: you know you’re in …

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

This is mind-boggling. Ontarians are being told that one political staffer was able to take over the machinery of government and override civil servants to remove land from the cherished, protected Greenbelt, increasing the value of developers’ - who are key donors to the Conservative party - property by billions of dollars. And neither the minister nor the Premier knew?

Yeah, that is believable.

If this was true, it would be the most remarkable failure of leadership.

There are now three reasons for the Minister to resign:

1) violation of the Planning Act, in removing these lands without due process as established in regulation
2) the breach of public trust, in serving the interests of a handful of developers instead of the public
3) lying about doing so

https://t.co/zL8t3dDmqw

[Peter Jones PhD | SDA | FEI | WBW | Worldwide @redesign]

From a historical-futures perspective the events of 2023 dramatically fulfill the dire models of structural demographics and other methods unpopular in speculative #foresight. But man they were spot on. Give Turchin, Howe, even Spengler some credit.

[Ismailov Hayotullo @IHayotullo]

At the #report launching event of #Uzbekistan 🍃 transition #foresight and how the government can benefit from it. Thanks for the invite @MatildaDimovska and @UNDP_Uzbekistan. I believe this start will lead to huge positive impacts in the country.

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

If you’ve ever used https://t.co/ouDw2xchhs for science pre-prints, but you’re really a cultural-creative type, check out https://t.co/gJwR3CR2kQ Open Archive for Media, Film, and Communication Studies

[Jeffrey Heer @jeffrey_heer]

Eddie Segel & I's work on Narrative Visualization won an #ieeevis InfoVis 10 Year Test-of-Time Award. We are humbled and honored, and also shell-shocked by the speed of time's arrow (and just about everything else these days). Here is our decade-old paper: https://t.co/U2jWsRTUBL

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

@OCAD U, Canada's largest #designschool, is a great place of #learning & #creating. But we aren't providing #fairpay and #jobsecurity to our sessional profs. To help bring #positivechange, please sign this #petition: https://t.co/b2dIU0DbAR via @CdnChange

[Kimberlé Crenshaw @sandylocks]

"This, too, is part of whiteness: the belief that to be white is to be non-racial. That to live white in America somehow elevates us out of a racial experience. We think we are immune and exempt. Race is therefore about being Black or brown, not white."https://t.co/CAA2W36pZU

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

I am now a proud patron of seedkeeper Rowen White on @patreon #NewPatron … keen to co-read Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sandtalk … to learn more: https://t.co/6Pi7Y1hEhg

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

@gordperks For John

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

@gordperks I took the old track/ The hollow shoulder, across the waters/ On the tall cliffs/ They were getting older, sons and daughters/ The jaded underworld was riding high/ Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky/ And as the nails sunk in the cloud/ The rain was warm and soaked the crowd

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

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[Toronto Hydro @TorontoHydro]

We’re responding to an outage in the west end of the city, affecting customers in and around the following approximate boundaries: Davenport Rd. south to The Queensway and Runnymede Rd. east to Lansdowne Ave. Crews have been dispatched. We appreciate your patience.

[Henry Mintzberg @Mintzberg141]

Why are we so fixated on pat solutions for puzzling problems? https://t.co/BkNUR9ESsY

[myOCADU @myOCADU]

Just a few days left to provide your input to our Butterfield Park Revitalization Survey! Tell us what functions of the park are most important to you by July 10. https://t.co/bxtp4PXshw

[Greg Van Alstyne @gregvan]

RIP and thank you for the haunting melodies, #EnnioMorricone

[Kate Crawford @katecrawford]

The Color of Surveillance is a consistently brilliant, insightful and important gathering - year on year. This time you can hear from @iajunwa talking about worker surveillance - attend if you can! (is there a livestream again, @alvarombedoya?) https://t.co/6RjF25ndrh