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Bullet Points: Everything is Collapsing Edition
Plus, a few ideas about the role of ideas in Silicon Valley
Feb 7
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Dave Karpf
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Things are going even worse than I expected
On our unelected President Elon Musk, and mourning the loss of foreclosed potential futures.
Feb 2
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Dave Karpf
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January 2025
Mark Zuckerberg's commitment to free speech is as deep as Exxon's commitment to clean energy
Meta's policy commitments never last longer than an election cycle
Jan 9
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Dave Karpf
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Mark Zuckerberg's commitment to free speech is as deep as Exxon's commitment to clean energy
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Someone Else's Problem
Ultimately, it just would have been too inconvenient to deal with the January 6th attack.
Jan 6
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Dave Karpf
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Bullet Points: 2025 is going great so far
Burning cybertrucks, Instagram AI bots, and debating exhausting people
Jan 3
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Dave Karpf
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December 2024
The Future, Now and Then: 2024 in review
It was an eventful year. (derogatory)
Dec 31, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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Weighing in on Casey Newton's "AI is fake and sucks" debate
AI is real, but the hype is manufactured. A dose of skepticism is helpful for seeing how this story goes.
Dec 10, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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Weighing in on Casey Newton's "AI is fake and sucks" debate
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Bitcoin is worth $100,000. It still doesn't have a single legitimate use case
It's speculation all the way down
Dec 6, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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Bitcoin is worth $100,000. It still doesn't have a single legitimate use case
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UNCOUTH.
On Hunter Biden, and the unspoken value system that our media and political elites seek to defend
Dec 3, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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November 2024
Charting the path forward: Some things that won't work anymore, and a few that might.
Some early notes on political resistance in Trump's second term.
Nov 22, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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Charting the path forward: Some things that won't work anymore, and a few that might.
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Bluesky as the Ship of Theseus
Maybe, just this once, we *can* have nice things online.
Nov 18, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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Don't expect the tech platforms to help us this time.
Some thoughts on how resisting the next Trump administration will differ from the previous one.
Nov 9, 2024
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Dave Karpf
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