Graham Davison

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An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

So I’m gathering up my weird nature facts for the Hugo ceremony—I am the toastmaster, and this is gonna be EDUCATIONAL—and I found one that was actually a little more unsettling than I wanted. You all prepared?

To recap: humans have done war for a long time and we developed both biological and cultural adaptations for it. Those adaptations, when placed in a modern society, make us vulnerable to fascism - they are MAL-adaptive in modernity. Consequently, we must guard against this vulnerability.

"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.

Thinking about how Osprey, a publishing house almost entirely devoted to publishing military uniform/equipment fetish material disguised as dry but picture heavy non-fiction tomes, put out a book dismantling the right wing mythologization of Sparta with an absolute all-timer table of contents.

The Anne Lamont line that goes “you don’t always have to cut with the sword of truth, sometimes you can just point with it” has been helpful for me.

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Go check out the whole announcement - including the cover reveal, which you don't want to miss. But in the meantime, here's my two cents.

The Loop was supposed to transform Vegas. It's the dumbest transit system imaginable.

I’ve followed this story for its absurdity and as an illustration of how police lie and bully the public they are supposed to protect. Only after national media attention do they withdraw a case of accusing a woman of something she can’t possibly have done… cbs12.com/news/local/f...

listen up graduates

Screaming into the void some thoughts on AI coding. androidessence.com/leave-me-beh...

With 'Israel and Palestine' trending at #1 on Mother's Day, let me say James Baldwin had it exactly right: "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." 🧵

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

There will be no new federal funding for pharmacare. Provinces and territories will have to go it alone. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... @policyalternatives.ca

Never met Tony Peters, don’t know who he is, but a million years ago on Facebook he posted this and I don’t think anyone’s ever put it better.

I feel *so* called out by this thread…

Oh wow really

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” - Douglas Adams

I fear media literacy is dead

So excited!

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

You know who is excited about tonight’s Artemis 2 launch? Commercial pilots who might get a chance to see it from the air.

A politician with the guts to say it: "No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War." - Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

So, browsing the internet from France-but-tropical (Guadeloupe), I wonder if all of the cookies I’ve rejected will stay rejected when I go home

If not @arachno.capital, then why @arachno.capital -shaped?