Andrew Davis

@adadamakes
43 Followers
202 Following
416 Posts
I make cool stuff. 
Co-founder:The Dadvantage Podcast. #GunControlNow 
My 12-year old self thinks I'm a pretty cool guy.
#fedi22
Websitehttps://adada.com
PronounsHe/Him
Side hustlehttps://dodecadonuts.com
Interests#Design #trrpg #fencing #woodworking
Andrew DavisJul 26, 2023

You’re going to outlive Mitch McConnell

McConnell abruptly stops speaking at press conference - https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/1190298694/mcconnell-press-conference?origin=NOTIFY

Andrew DavisJun 30, 2023
kottke.orgJun 30, 2023
The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action. Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier. "Race is the card white people use that never gets declined. It is their most powerful characteristic, the one through which all else is possible." https://kottke.org/23/06/the-supreme-court-has-killed-affirmative-action-mediocre-whites-can-rest-easier
“The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action. Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier.”

Elie Mystal writing for the Nation on the Supreme Court’s recent decision that declared affirmative action in college admiss

kottke.org
Andrew DavisJun 30, 2023
David GerardJun 30, 2023

i won't name the target in this example, but let me assure you that the foss-splainers on mastodon are fucking amazing

i won't say it's always fosstodon, but it's always fucking fosstodon

mastodon: the Linux of social networks. excuse me I think you mean GNU/Linux

Andrew DavisJun 30, 2023
Show threadAndy BaioJun 30, 2023
I knew a lot of this story already, except how horribly Google execs treated the Reader team, who built something wonderful and then were forced to constantly defend it and beg for resources, until they were dragged away to work on Google Plus and it was unceremoniously killed.
Andrew DavisJun 30, 2023
Mark RuffaloJun 30, 2023

“Anyone insisting that you ‘calm down’ about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes that are at our doorstep.”

https://jacobin.com/2023/06/calm-down-narrative-climate-change-crisis-oil-industry-environment

When it Comes to Climate, Beware the “Calm Down” Guy

Anyone insisting that you “calm down” about climate change is living in denial about the catastrophes that are at our doorstep.

Andrew DavisJun 29, 2023

For all those folks in the #WGA labor fight. Science is on your side.

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-game-theory-bullies.html

What game theory can teach us about standing up to bullies

In a time of income inequality and ruthless politics, people with outsized power or an unrelenting willingness to browbeat others often seem to come out ahead.

Phys.org
Andrew DavisJun 24, 2023
Show threadCory DoctorowJun 24, 2023

Hope is how we’ll get through the polycrisis (Dante let the fortune-tellers off easy).

https://doctorow.medium.com/there-is-always-an-alternative-e55fd414d1fd

#Contestation #ScienceFiction #NostrilThomas

Andrew DavisJun 21, 2023
Henry SwobodaJun 21, 2023
Today is #showyourstripes day. What stripes, you ask? The warming stripes of course!
The creation of @ed_hawkins, the stripes show how temperature has changed wherever you live around the world.
Here are the stripes for Ontario. Find yours and share them too: https://showyourstripes.info credit to @kathhayhoe
Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Andrew DavisJun 20, 2023
rose (escaped not sanitized)Jun 20, 2023

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#DnD #Gygax #DMG #ska

#FuckYou70sSexWorkShamersWhoWereAlsoGenocidalRacists

Andrew DavisJun 20, 2023
Caroline Orr BuenoJun 20, 2023
I have adapted the scientific method per the latest developments in podcast science, as explicated in tweet format by Rogan, Musk, and Kennedy (2023). 
References:
Rogan, J., Musk, E., & Kennedy, R. (2023). “Debate Me Bro: Reconceptualizing science as an attention-seeking testosterone contest.” Journal of Doubt Profiteering, 1(1), 1-2.
#Science