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Political Communication Professor at GWU. I write a lot about the history and future of tech and politics. Best known for that one time I made fun of Bret Stephens. Davekarpf.substack.com
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No home should ever have more than three (3) secret passageways.
EVERYONE ON BLUESKY: let him cook…
That poker scene was ruinously bad.
But Casino Royale is also bad?
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
The pardoned Jan 6 rioters want to be PAID FOR THEIR PROSECUTIONS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
This really is the original sin of the current era of AI. They work precisely because humans react to human imitators in the same ways we evolved to respond to one another.
The same in the ‘we must retvrn’ and it’s an AI image of a nonexistent 80s bedroom full of video games, movies and comics. They’re wistful for manufactured memories of ephemera. You can eat your white bread, nobody took these things away from you, you yearn for your childhood, to be a child
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Think trump might be dead again
C’mon Andrew, be serious. WE didn’t have the world thinking the President was dead. The President died. There was a coverup. We noticed, and the rest of the world did too.
The Trump is dead meme has broken containment This is not a drill
They’re on a mission from God.
Pierce as Saruman.
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Can’t be a zombie. Complete and utter aversion to brains.
I feel like this is the insult that would do the maximum damage to his feelings.
I can
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
Oh yeah, well if Trump is alive then why is his golf game such shit?
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -“An Ethical Grook” by Piet Hein
Reports say Trump is dying. I’d be careful — that’s usually when Phase 2 starts, a health bar refills, and the giant centipede emerges. Toxic damage incoming.
R.E.M. “pushed the boundaries” of alternative rock Herbie Hancock “pushed the boundaries” of jazz Trump & RFK Jr. are “destroying public health & will be responsible for killing people” What is journalism, anyway? 🤷♂️🤦♂️
AI video slop, obviously.
So they’re an 11. Got it.
one of the great conservative moves over the past decade has been to make themselves so unpleasant that their own family members are forced to cut them off, and then use that fact to argue that *liberals* are too uncivil
Putain!
Sir it appears you have just insulted Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
A point that isn't getting enough attention: Why are so many of Trump's key enemies being accused of mortgage fraud? (Letitia James, Adam Schiff, Lisa Cook). It seems to be because Bill Pulte is head of Fannie Mae and Sallie Mae. He is a very partisan pro-Trump Twitter personality. See below: /1
Yeah there’s no coming back from that. You had a good run.
That’s a hostile workplace violation.
Have you tried writing better takes?
they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again
See this is why you should never trust AI. Baptizing babies with Gatorade is NOT okay. It is fantastic.
I might quibble with some of the details, but this taxonomy of different abundance tendencies is really useful. A lot of discourse on this website is driven by the mistaken belief that Moderate-Abundance Synthesis is the only tendency out there. www.niskanencenter.org/abundance-va...
it is a little weird to read stuff like “this place used to be great once” i mean it’s only been a little over two years and a portion of that was just twenty people posting alf memes lol
this is good maxread.substack.com/p/is-the-ai-...
Matt Yglesias, in his latest newsletter: -Bluesky sucks because all those lefties are more interested in shouting at me than they are in winning. -"climate activism' is not on the whole a very productive form of activity." I will never attempt to parody Yglesias. His self-parody is too strong.
a really useful thing that everyone with nimby inclinations in their souls could do right now is go ham on local land use/permitting issues against ice facilities and data centers
Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.
This is the peak Axios AI story. Workers are getting stressed because they’re under pressure to find something useful to do with AI. If they don’t investors will have bought into a bubble. Why do workers hate investors?
The insurrectionists succeeded. It just took awhile.
NEW: The White House appears to have instructed leaders at the GSA to add xAI’s Grok chatbot to a list of approved vendors “ASAP,” according to an email sent by agency leadership earlier this week, which WIRED obtained. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/white-...
They are selling for PATRIOTIC reasons. They want to give everyday Americans like you and me a chance to get in on the action.
They were filled with tiny beanies. It was miniature hats all the way down.
I think we all know what this means… TIME TO BUY THE DIP, FOLKS!
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Some day, between now and eternity, I might learn how to say “no” to service requests.
Well y’see we didn’t need those firefighters to do their job, because…
It’ll work. That’s for sure.
Someone’s book about this should really get published already.
In. DC.
For the uninitiated: youtu.be/6sUPr1k4vB8?...
We live in DC though!
Jim O’Neill is a tech investor, former CEO of the Thiel Foundation, and co-founder with Peter Thiel of the Thiel fellowship. He has no direct medical education or experience. It’s hard to get away from the feeling that they really are trying to kill us.
Seasteaders played bioshock and thought “that wouldn’t have gone down like that if i was in charge”
These days, if they were asked that question more than three times by the same news outlet, they’d just buy the whole place and change the editorial strategy.
The Seasteading Institite?!? Y’all I cannot express in fewer than 20,000 words just how fucking BONKERS the Seasteading crowd is.
O'Neill is a "longevity guy" and is buddies with Bryan Johnson and... "He has also supported the libertarian idea of creating new geographic zones, possibly at sea, in which residents can live by their own rules (including, notably, permissive regulatory regimes for new drugs and therapies). "
You know… the guy who started Zip2!
This is why "Elon went crazy" is cope: he has only ever been rewarded for spouting embarrassing bullshit, and starting stupid companies out of brain farts. He's just rationally following the incentives at this point.
No! They’re a division rival!
That was a good line in their latest episode!
The LPs and investors can still make a killing, so long as they sell before the peak.
There’s more to it, of course. But if you start from there, the entire history of the digital future makes a lot more sense.
The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.
beautiful
First, she’s humming the tune. Then you blink and she’s throwing batteries at Santa Claus!
I have some serious misgivings about the things* my child is being taught in public school. *”Fly, Eagles, Fly. The Philadelphia Eagles fight song.”
Fozzie Bear is the only Muppet I'm remotely attracted to but I swore off dating other comics after my 3rd open mic so I guess what I'm saying is I'll never have muppet babies
magazeum.co/content/in-f...
I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Hey Folks...You may start seeing social media sites and a website for Climate.us If you see it, follow and share. It is legit and has some amazing, credible people behind it trying to plug leaks in the climate science world. Trust me on this one. More is coming....
realistic Star Trek
They don't feel shame, but they care deeply about status. Wanting to be liked--or at least envied--is their Achilles heel. We can use that against them:it's cheap, non-violent & effective. Social shunning of elites supporting Pinochet helped bring down the Chilean dictator: it can work here too.
Okay, but am I fooling anyone when I bring my laptop to the coffeehouse?
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
it's so hilarious that elon was the most hysterical AI doomer alarmist until he had the cash to start a chatbot company, upon which he immediately fell in love with a probabilistic waifu www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
It should be hitting shelves of Barnes & Noble in early October. Some independent bookstores have it, and you can order it at informationmagazine.com (but you have to pay for shipping which kind of stinks).
I still have a few copies for sale at $20 including postage (USA only). (In Formation #3 includes my essay 'The Varieties of Silicon Valley Religious Experience.') buymeacoffee.com/johnsundman/...
A capsule history of In Formation — all three issues, but with an emphasis on #3. I map the history of Silicon Valley & 'tech' culture that it covers, from 1980 to now, to my own history in tech, which also starts year. # 3 contains my essay 'The varieties of Silicon Valley religious experience'.
I am already regretting this readthrough.
👏👏
Informationmagazine.com
informationmagazine.com
Yes! Same magazine! Issue 1 was in 1998. Issue 2 was in 2000. Issue 3 came out last month.
Riiiiiiight?
“This magazine uses Cookies.” “In Formation values your privacy… we can’t tell you anything about it, because we value our privacy more than yours.” “By turning this page, I agree to assign all of my assets and medical power of attorney to In Formation, Inc.” 😂
Currently reading In Formation magazine, and I’m kinda in love with its whole deal.
I wrote what is essentially a blog post (😱) about why Dems keep screwing up their efforts to build out a liberal media ecosystem and what can be done about it: www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
Super super smart (per usual) by @espiers.bsky.social, per usual on the problem with Democratic media efforts. www.elizabethspiers.com/why-dems-kee...
people have been calling for The Broad Left to do this for literally years? i guess i'm not seeing the problem
Omg, my Friend AI video has legs again. I have to finish it!!!
No kings except Beeper Kings.
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
Winter 2026/2027. Whole book is written now, just working on the edits.
