Sam Dal Monte

@samd

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Toronto
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Joined September 2006
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    14 hours ago

    I have an unproven theory this in part explains why the Design Exchange in Toronto, Canada‘s so-called only design museum, was hard for people to wrap their heads around. Strip ‘design’ away and you realize the staff ran a Luxury Marketing Museum and Corporate Venue Rental.

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    Jun 10

    this is a really good obit of the landscape architect cornelia oberlander

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    27 Oct 2020

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    May 23

    Cornelia Oberlander, a Vancouver landscape architect who worked on some the city's most iconic buildings, passed away yesterday at the age of 99. If you're interested in her remarkable life, this documentary is a good start.

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    May 11

    Sacrifice your first-born to me for I am thy Creator

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    Apr 29

    moralizing the *methods* and *rhetoric* of Jane Jacobs in Toronto instead of taking a broader look at the *outcomes* she wanted has stopped people from thinking critically about the big picture. homeowners vs. developers is not the david vs. goliath story presently.

    oh boy...when it's noted that 300-500 affluent folks attending meetings can dictate the outcomes of entire areas of the downtown and this happens out in the 'burbs, one should be able to see why many of us are so upset about the current nature of public consultation and input.
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    Apr 18

    It’s past time. Doug Ford must resign.

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  8. Apr 18

    This tweet got me vaccinated.

    [ON] Received report that Wellesley Community Centre added limited spots for Apr 16-17:
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    Apr 13

    I like to think I'm a critical guy but it is very easy to get lulled into a sense of "on certain subjects I think we are doing better than our neighbours" and then someone shows you a chart with more than two countries on it.

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    Apr 13

    Journalists are failing in Ontario, and people are suffering because of it. My latest for

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    Apr 12

    I very sincerely don't know what an effective affordable housing strategy looks like if homeowner equity is untouchable. Homes are unaffordable because they cost too much, and the way to fix that is for them to cost less.

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    Apr 8

    “Don’t be mad, everyone is trying very hard” as the central organizing principle of this fake-ass country

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    Apr 7

    Housing discourse has been stuck in bad faith debate abt "others" causing housing cost escalation - foreigners, then "foreign capital", immigrants, fentanyl dealers, money launders, "speculators" But if u just ask ppl they tell you that they *want* housing to cost more.

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    Apr 4

    Ontario's vaccine rollout: Eligible: 55 yr old executive, works from home in Kingston Ineligible: 30 yr old, works in factory with 300 people, takes the bus, lives with extended family in Peel With 985,732 doses in freezers, this is NEITHER speed NOR precision.

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    Mar 2

    I’m glad artists are having second thoughts about NFTs b/c of environmental impact, but another reason might be to not shit in your own water supply by helping turn art into an automated stonks exchange that ultimately only makes money for celebrities and hedge funds

    Until CrytpoArt platforms become more transparent & environmentally sustainable in their business practices, do not participate in EFT art market. Current emissions produced by EFTs are environmentally irresponsible at a critical moment in the climate crisis. Thread:
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    Mar 1

    I wrote a bit about the things that keep sticking in my brain re: future of flexible office work: - If you’re serious about DE&I, you have to be serious about remote work. - Get ride of add-on management - Boundaries are meaningless; we need guardrails

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    12 Dec 2020

    Two of our region’s most significant design accomplishments... SFU and Granville Island. Both won by young, unproven + emergent firms for public agencies. Almost unimaginable today.

    The critical anecdote: "When the two men won the 1963 competition to plan and design a new university from scratch, they hadn’t even established a firm or rented an office yet." That design competition made a better province and country. Would never, ever happen now. 3/
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    23 Sep 2020

    Canadian tech darling , a , has just signed a three-year deal with ICE. Yes, the family separation, forced hysterectomy ICE. Please read this important thread.

    Been debating talking about this publicly because I don’t want to get fired, but it seems like the cat’s already out of the bag so whatever: yesterday Hootsuite signed a three-year deal with ICE. Over 100 employees have been extremely vocal in their opposition to this deal
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    20 Jul 2020

    stephen holl, looking over an intern's shoulder at rhino: say, what does "boolean difference" do

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    12 Jul 2020

    Fellas is it gay to use Helvetica

    Finally, typefaces for men!
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