Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 17/06/2026Thanks for doing the considerably harder work of writing it! 110
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 18/05/2026Blogging about bad digital government policy, the 2010s are back, baby!! gfscott.com/blog/bill-c-...gfscott.comNo to Bill C-22 / Graham F. ScottThe Canadian government is once again trying to push through an intrusive digital mass surveillance law. Here's the letter I sent to my MP. 030
Reposted by Graham F. ScottRachel Andrew @rachelandrew.co.uk · 03/04/2026"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...ergosphere.blogThe machines are fine. I'm worried about us.On AI agents, grunt work, and the part of science that isn't replaceable. 03110
Reposted by Graham F. ScottDenise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Does 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...thestar.comWe’re living in an age of impunityFrom small unfairness to gross injustices, we seem to have lost a sense of shame. 1012833
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 25/08/2025"Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time on Tumblr, a site that, like Transformers 2, may very well be the future of pop culture." — Nav in 2009this.orgHigh and low culture collide in a glorious mess on Tumblr.com[Editor's note: If you're curious, This Magazine has its own Tumblr blog. Visit quote.this.org] I have never left a cinema with as big a grin on my face as when I watched the spectacularly awful Tran... 220
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 02/07/2025It's true, I saw a large bunny in our apartment courtyard this spring, and I live on a very dense downtown block. Didn't think anything of it at the time 120
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 06/05/2025Subscribing rewards you with a hell of an email subject line 😅 120
Reposted by Graham F. ScottLisa Whittington-Hill @lisawhitt.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Very 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! 8254
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 21/02/2025Two problems with the contemporary ultrarich, compared to their 19th century counterparts, is that they have no taste and they don't fear god 020
Reposted by Graham F. ScottNavneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 09/01/2025Really 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...programmablemutter.comWe're getting the social media crisis wrongThe bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics 0243
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 21/11/2024Finally 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...gfscott.comArchiving your Twitter account with Eleventy / Graham F. ScottThe Twitter we knew is dead, but I wanted to preserve an archive of my account, on my own terms. Here's how I did it. 142
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 27/10/2024I wrote a sternly worded letter to the government, then compounded my humiliation by blogging about it: gfscott.com/blog/bill-21...gfscott.comSave the bike lanes / Graham F. ScottThe Environmental Registry of Ontario asked for comment on the province’s plot to kill Toronto’s bike lanes. Here’s what I said. 0277
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 01/11/2023You can do this! Also, I guarantee your editor wants you to succeed, and it's their job to help you do so! 110
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 23/08/2023100% 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... 000
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 29/07/2023Patricia Lockwood on David Foster Wallace ✅lrb.co.ukPatricia Lockwood · Where be your jibes now? David Foster Wallace · LRB 13 July 2023We knew he was not benevolent exactly (well, some of us knew) but there was the sense that he was suffering on the same... 010
Graham F. Scott @gfscott.com · 13/07/2023Updating 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 000
