S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD
@ashleighweeden.bsky.social
*maybe not here quite so much, as I tend to my grief and growth*
Dr. Weeden. She/Her. Rural Futurist. Feminist. Curious/Furious. Place, power, policy. Obsessed with questions like "why?" and "so what?"
Dr. Weeden. She/Her. Rural Futurist. Feminist. Curious/Furious. Place, power, policy. Obsessed with questions like "why?" and "so what?"
Reposted by S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD
Precisely why it’s so gross to see the government not only legitimizing the scammy crypto industry, but saying it will benefit the very people who will likely be some of its biggest victims.
Sports betting and crypto are not the same but there are some massive overlaps.
Sports betting and crypto are not the same but there are some massive overlaps.
“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”
The rise of sports betting is a growing public health crisis
Sports betting is more addictive than ever, and millions of young Americans are paying the price.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Precisely why it’s so gross to see the government not only legitimizing the scammy crypto industry, but saying it will benefit the very people who will likely be some of its biggest victims.
Sports betting and crypto are not the same but there are some massive overlaps.
Sports betting and crypto are not the same but there are some massive overlaps.
(This is also rife in the “what should government do” space: people who have never worked inside the machinery of government may not have the full picture of what goes on - nor a realistic view of what would happen if govt followed their ideas…)
November 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
(This is also rife in the “what should government do” space: people who have never worked inside the machinery of government may not have the full picture of what goes on - nor a realistic view of what would happen if govt followed their ideas…)
Oooooh! I wonder if our skies have cleared enough here.
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Oooooh! I wonder if our skies have cleared enough here.
(See also: natural resource development, manufacturing, etc. A lot of folks who will never live beside an aggregate pit or work in a factory are doing the equivalent of turning real people/communities into intellectual chess-pieces with no real clue of the material impacts of their thought games)
November 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
(See also: natural resource development, manufacturing, etc. A lot of folks who will never live beside an aggregate pit or work in a factory are doing the equivalent of turning real people/communities into intellectual chess-pieces with no real clue of the material impacts of their thought games)
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...
I share that view, friend - and these words mean a lot to me. Thank you (and ditto).
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I share that view, friend - and these words mean a lot to me. Thank you (and ditto).
Reposted by S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD
It’s very clear that projections about how fast things would get bad were overly optimistic and it’s happening faster than expected and we are literally on a very short timeline for not having *even more* catastrophic ecosystem collapse and transformation and death
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
It’s very clear that projections about how fast things would get bad were overly optimistic and it’s happening faster than expected and we are literally on a very short timeline for not having *even more* catastrophic ecosystem collapse and transformation and death
I miss them all, but most especially that wonderful man in the photo with me - my Dad. He was not a veteran, but he proudly carried the stories of the veterans who shaped his life - his Dad, his Uncle who never returned, and all those who came home and said “We can do better. We must do better.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I miss them all, but most especially that wonderful man in the photo with me - my Dad. He was not a veteran, but he proudly carried the stories of the veterans who shaped his life - his Dad, his Uncle who never returned, and all those who came home and said “We can do better. We must do better.”
Reposted by S. Ashleigh Weeden, PhD
Policies like these — and the budget is rife with them — are incremental and reactive. They are the opposite of transformational. Canada is facing three intertwined crises: US instability, the climate emergency, the digital economic revolution. Old, incremental thinking simply won‘t cut it.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Policies like these — and the budget is rife with them — are incremental and reactive. They are the opposite of transformational. Canada is facing three intertwined crises: US instability, the climate emergency, the digital economic revolution. Old, incremental thinking simply won‘t cut it.