Davey Davis

@daveydavis.bsky.social

novelist and writer. read my newsletter on sex & sensation at itsdavid.substack.com

PICNIC MAG IS BACK! Just in time for things to heat up, we have a steamy, sensual new collection of fiction, essays, and poetry from your favorite NYC transexual literary magazine and culture rag

Cover of Picnic 2, featuring a beautiful woman reading the first issue of Picnic on the beach. Cover lines read: Jesi Gaston, Anton Solomonik, Sloane Murphy, Willem Helf, Leah Tigers, Davey Davis, Chala June

ICYMI, in December we're publishing CASANOVA 20: Or, Hot World, the new novel by Davey Davis. An exploration of art, desire, and mortality, it follows a young man isolated by his extraordinary beauty and his strange friendship with an older painter. Read more:

Casanova 20: Or, Hot World — Cipher Press

IMPORTANT UPDATE: As a result of VAT changes that came into place on the 1st July, we can no longer sell books directly to EU customers via our website. We are working on a solution to this, and will…

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Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade. And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

Is the Magic 8Ball sentient? We asked the Magic 8Ball, the company that are raking it in from the toy & the players who are using it rather than going to therapy. An LLM is a predictive algorithm that replicates the most common or likely response. It's like asking if a fruit machine is suffering.

Guardian headline:

Can Als suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times.

Image is of a white person's face covered or consumed by a visualisation of a data network.

Are we planning to watch Israel murder every journalist in Palestine while still making sure we're being careful not to single out Israel because it makes it feel bad? What is the fucking plan? Who are you calling today? Where are you sending money today? What meeting are you signing up for today?