Sameer Vasta
@sameervasta.bsky.social
Unabashedly earnest. Unapologetically enthusiastic. Infinitely curious. (he/him)
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New voices are always welcome and can bring new insights - but make sure you also listen to the folks who were working on these things long before they were popular & have deep expertise in what happens in the places most think-tank-types have never actually lived in, worked in, or even visited...
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
New voices are always welcome and can bring new insights - but make sure you also listen to the folks who were working on these things long before they were popular & have deep expertise in what happens in the places most think-tank-types have never actually lived in, worked in, or even visited...
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come join us tomorrow night, 6.30-8.15 pm
OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
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What Can Systems Thinkers Learn from Tech Governance
Bianca Wylie and Su Lynn Myat in discussion about the connections and relationship between tech governance and systems thinking.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
come join us tomorrow night, 6.30-8.15 pm
OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-can-s...
OCADU - 205 Richmond Street West, Toronto
www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-can-s...
Celebrating ten years of marriage to this amazing woman today. An amazing decade together; here’s to many more.
November 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Celebrating ten years of marriage to this amazing woman today. An amazing decade together; here’s to many more.
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Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide
We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide
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Help shape the future of London’s Library Branches! 🏛️
Take our short Facilities Feedback Survey and tell us what you want to see in your Library branches over the next 10 years.
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Take our short Facilities Feedback Survey and tell us what you want to see in your Library branches over the next 10 years.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Help shape the future of London’s Library Branches! 🏛️
Take our short Facilities Feedback Survey and tell us what you want to see in your Library branches over the next 10 years.
💡Share your ideas: buff.ly/aoTFzn3
Take our short Facilities Feedback Survey and tell us what you want to see in your Library branches over the next 10 years.
💡Share your ideas: buff.ly/aoTFzn3
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I think a lot of commentators didn't appreciate how many immigrant parents in NYC looked at Zohran and saw the possibilities for their children
For all of its fundamental flaws, to many, he is their American Dream
For all of its fundamental flaws, to many, he is their American Dream
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think a lot of commentators didn't appreciate how many immigrant parents in NYC looked at Zohran and saw the possibilities for their children
For all of its fundamental flaws, to many, he is their American Dream
For all of its fundamental flaws, to many, he is their American Dream
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
@showuptoronto.ca Thanks for writing about prisoners’ rights today.
This is important: “How a society treats its prisoners is a harbinger of how it will treat everyone it deems undesirable.”
Thank you.
This is important: “How a society treats its prisoners is a harbinger of how it will treat everyone it deems undesirable.”
Thank you.
November 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
@showuptoronto.ca Thanks for writing about prisoners’ rights today.
This is important: “How a society treats its prisoners is a harbinger of how it will treat everyone it deems undesirable.”
Thank you.
This is important: “How a society treats its prisoners is a harbinger of how it will treat everyone it deems undesirable.”
Thank you.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
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I want to posit that one of the things we mean when we say we’re “procrastinating” is that our own sense of what matters has diverged from what our boss or company is concerned with. That is, procrastination is often a political conflict, not a personal failing.
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I want to posit that one of the things we mean when we say we’re “procrastinating” is that our own sense of what matters has diverged from what our boss or company is concerned with. That is, procrastination is often a political conflict, not a personal failing.
Can you remember the last time you daydreamed? www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-dea...
On The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
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November 4, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Can you remember the last time you daydreamed? www.afterbabel.com/p/on-the-dea...
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“It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn…Most of all, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss, imperishable hope, and coming home.”
Ken Burns, “Baseball”
Ken Burns, “Baseball”
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn…Most of all, it is about time and timelessness, speed and grace, failure and loss, imperishable hope, and coming home.”
Ken Burns, “Baseball”
Ken Burns, “Baseball”
Family in the neighborhood is out on their driveway with a bunch of crock pots serving meatballs and gnocchi to everyone that passes by (and candy for the kids too). They are the true heroes of this Halloween.
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Family in the neighborhood is out on their driveway with a bunch of crock pots serving meatballs and gnocchi to everyone that passes by (and candy for the kids too). They are the true heroes of this Halloween.
About twelve years ago — pre-children — L and I went as “French Kiss” for Halloween and it was my favorite costume yet. (Not shown in the photo: the baguettes we were holding to go along with the berets and cigarettes.)
October 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
About twelve years ago — pre-children — L and I went as “French Kiss” for Halloween and it was my favorite costume yet. (Not shown in the photo: the baguettes we were holding to go along with the berets and cigarettes.)
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Hey Ontario! You've heard of the disastrous Ford bill to destroy tenant rights, but did you know that Omnibus Bill 60 would entirely wipe out the ability of cities to right-size their roads by reducing lanes _at all_, not even just for bike lanes?
#onpoli #OttBike #ontario #ottawa
#onpoli #OttBike #ontario #ottawa
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Stand up for your huge, romantic heart at all costs, even when it causes you pain, because becoming numb is so much worse.
www.ask-polly.com/p/am-i-too-r...
www.ask-polly.com/p/am-i-too-r...
‘Am I Too Romantic About True Love?’
Don't change your entire belief system just because you're afraid of seeming naïve.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Stand up for your huge, romantic heart at all costs, even when it causes you pain, because becoming numb is so much worse.
www.ask-polly.com/p/am-i-too-r...
www.ask-polly.com/p/am-i-too-r...
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you can just let others be
October 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
you can just let others be
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"Submissions now open for Issue #0 of Orbital Studies Magazine, closes Dec 10, 2025
Send us your fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual art pitches on the theme of Ways of Seeing the Objective World.
For fiction + essays aim for 2000 words. We pay all contributors."
orbitalstudies.com#submission
Send us your fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual art pitches on the theme of Ways of Seeing the Objective World.
For fiction + essays aim for 2000 words. We pay all contributors."
orbitalstudies.com#submission
❧ Orbital Studies Magazine ☙
Ways of Seeing the Objective World
orbitalstudies.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"Submissions now open for Issue #0 of Orbital Studies Magazine, closes Dec 10, 2025
Send us your fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual art pitches on the theme of Ways of Seeing the Objective World.
For fiction + essays aim for 2000 words. We pay all contributors."
orbitalstudies.com#submission
Send us your fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual art pitches on the theme of Ways of Seeing the Objective World.
For fiction + essays aim for 2000 words. We pay all contributors."
orbitalstudies.com#submission
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"The growing use of AI in digital espionage, cybercrimes and influence operations requires stronger guardrails and policymakers who do more than cheerlead the tech."
Everyone is talking about AI. It's obviously having a transformative impact across all sectors of society.
So how should the Canadian government approach it?
My interview with Yvonne Lau for the @financialpost.com
financialpost.com/technology/c...
So how should the Canadian government approach it?
My interview with Yvonne Lau for the @financialpost.com
financialpost.com/technology/c...
Canada isn't doing its part to stop AI government surveillance, UofT director says
Ronald Deibert says the ability of governments and criminal actors to surveil and target people is growing in scope thanks to AI. Read more.
financialpost.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"The growing use of AI in digital espionage, cybercrimes and influence operations requires stronger guardrails and policymakers who do more than cheerlead the tech."
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If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
I used to love how my daughter's little friend Neha, down the street, would call me "Uncle Jeff" when the girls were little.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
I have “aunts” and “uncles” who aren’t even remotely related to me, so this is ridiculous.
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I have “aunts” and “uncles” who aren’t even remotely related to me, so this is ridiculous.
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
Finally got around to writing a “weekend reading” post, this time with a rumination on collecting stuff, a poem by Maggie Smith, and 28 great links from around the web: www.inthemargins.ca/collecting-m...
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Finally got around to writing a “weekend reading” post, this time with a rumination on collecting stuff, a poem by Maggie Smith, and 28 great links from around the web: www.inthemargins.ca/collecting-m...