Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
Journalist, looking for next thing. Bylines all over the place.
Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
Signal: @davelevitan.26
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Book: NOT A SCIENTIST: How politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science (WW Norton).
Signal: @davelevitan.26
www.davelevitan.com
Sign up: www.gravityisgone.com
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Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
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If I am ever arrested for murder, just know that a gas-powered leaf blower made me do it
September 26, 2023 at 6:16 PM
If I am ever arrested for murder, just know that a gas-powered leaf blower made me do it
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The cowardly tautological bullshit behind all those people still being there drives me insane.
Been thinking about this line all day and the history it represents, which feels both brief (15 years! That’s all!) and frustratingly impossible to imagine a world beyond, somehow.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The cowardly tautological bullshit behind all those people still being there drives me insane.
An absolute classic of the “stating Trump/GOP policies in simple factual terms will have people laughing you out of the room” genre right now is “the US is about to invade Venezuela”
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An absolute classic of the “stating Trump/GOP policies in simple factual terms will have people laughing you out of the room” genre right now is “the US is about to invade Venezuela”
Today is probably the first time a niche social media site had a wide-ranging Star Wars argument that stemmed from a ranking from a governor and potential presidential candidate whose family owns a major hotel chain, don't want to guarantee that but I think it's likely
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Today is probably the first time a niche social media site had a wide-ranging Star Wars argument that stemmed from a ranking from a governor and potential presidential candidate whose family owns a major hotel chain, don't want to guarantee that but I think it's likely
Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Jamaica is seeing an outbreak of leptospirosis, just one of the many, many ways severe Melissa hits wll sicken and kill people there over the coming months and years
Complaining about this is annoying but I do think growing these things away from substack (this one is on Ghost) is probably harder and I guess some people just made their peace with staying there but yeah anyway please sign up
www.gravityisgone.com
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I wrote about the absurdity of the COPs failing to make fossil fuels the villain.
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Complaining about this is annoying but I do think growing these things away from substack (this one is on Ghost) is probably harder and I guess some people just made their peace with staying there but yeah anyway please sign up
www.gravityisgone.com
www.gravityisgone.com
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
Cleaning one's home office window, inside and out, is extremely satisfying, highly recommend
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Cleaning one's home office window, inside and out, is extremely satisfying, highly recommend
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Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Having just been through the desert carrying a guy with no name, it felt good to get out of the rain.
I wrote about the absurdity of the COPs failing to make fossil fuels the villain.
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
The UN Climate Process Still Doesn't Understand the Assignment
The original sin of the UN's work was to fail to center coal, oil, and gas as the primary villains in the entire enterprise.
www.gravityisgone.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I wrote about the absurdity of the COPs failing to make fossil fuels the villain.
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
"We have spent 30 years trying to arrive at the place we should have started: that fossil fuels must go."
Are these sad House members aware they have another pretty good option to rein in the WH outside of retirement
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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@punchbowlnews.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Are these sad House members aware they have another pretty good option to rein in the WH outside of retirement
Puppy Tesco interlude
November 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Puppy Tesco interlude
Still think it’s pretty silly that the company involved here won’t say what their Miracle Particle is. Zero environmental impact? Cool!
My take on the general idea of having for-profit companies involved in the field:
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Still think it’s pretty silly that the company involved here won’t say what their Miracle Particle is. Zero environmental impact? Cool!
This is a VERY long piece about solar geoengineering that starts, scientifically speaking, badly, but gets better, but still has a few issues.
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is a VERY long piece about solar geoengineering that starts, scientifically speaking, badly, but gets better, but still has a few issues.
Weapons is even better upon rewatch. What a cool movie.
November 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Weapons is even better upon rewatch. What a cool movie.
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If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
One thing I am greatly looking forward to is never seeing another Truth Social screenshot again for the rest of my life
November 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
One thing I am greatly looking forward to is never seeing another Truth Social screenshot again for the rest of my life
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something that has always irked me is that the seashore is the actual worst fucking place for her to sell seashells.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
something that has always irked me is that the seashore is the actual worst fucking place for her to sell seashells.
Train Dreams is a lovely movie
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Train Dreams is a lovely movie