Blogging about bad digital government policy, the 2010s are back, baby!! gfscott.com/blog/bill-c-...

Engaging in civic life 🫩

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding." ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Does anyone else feel sick of it all? Wrote for the Star about Toronto Police, Open AI and everyone in power who deserves a public shaming. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Whole thread, but especially this part

it’s *all* running on oil

Very honoured and touched to receive this award. Thank you @canadamediaawards.bsky.social! Thank you also to @gfscott.com for nominating me and to the lovely people who wrote letters of support. This means so much. Thank you!

Brutal

Two problems with the contemporary ultrarich, compared to their 19th century counterparts, is that they have no taste and they don't fear god

Really solid post from @himself.bsky.social that takes the side of "misinformation isn't the problem" but in a smart, interesting way that suggests one problem with social media is not that it indoctrinates, but changes what *we think other people think*. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

Finally nuked Twitter for good, but because I'm both sentimental and a sicko, I made my own personal Twitter archive: twitter.gfscott.com And you can too! It uses @11ty.dev to process a `tweets.js` file into a static site: gfscott.com/blog/elevent...

I wrote a sternly worded letter to the government, then compounded my humiliation by blogging about it: gfscott.com/blog/bill-21...

100% serious that the only way to actually change public policy anymore is to fuck up rich people's cottages www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/o...

Gasadalur, Faroe Islands

Patricia Lockwood on David Foster Wallace ✅

Updating my list of all the services where I once had profiles. My own version of those still-life paintings where they added a skull to remind you that you're going to die

Everyone creating Fireworks Content

Leavenworth, Wa.