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OpenAI has an unsubtle communications strategy.
The load-bearing relationships between futurity-vibes and finance
May 23
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Dave Karpf
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My 2025 SMPA Commencement Address
This is GWU’s commencement weekend.
May 17
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Dave Karpf
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My 2025 SMPA Commencement Address
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Mark Zuckerberg's Phantom-Friend-Future
Champagne for my real friends; real pain for my sham friends (amirite?)
May 2
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Dave Karpf
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Book Review: "More Everything Forever"
A book that takes Silicon Valley's unserious ideas seriously, and then delightfully tears them apart.
May 1
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Dave Karpf
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April 2025
The Trump Administration is Coming for ActBlue.
File under: "will the United States continue to hold free and fair elections?"
Apr 25
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Dave Karpf
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The Trump Administration is Coming for ActBlue.
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"Abundance" is a book for an alternate timeline
There are many good ideas in Klein and Thompson's book, but no solutions to the crisis we now face.
Apr 22
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Dave Karpf
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Welcome to the Resistance, Bret Stephens.
The elite opinion vibe shift is underway.
Apr 18
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Dave Karpf
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How would an old school techno-optimist make sense of the Trump administration?
<This is me venting.> I just need to vent for a moment.
Apr 15
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Dave Karpf
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March 2025
Two Podcast Appearances and One Provocation
On mindless techbros and feckless Democratic Senators.
Mar 13
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Dave Karpf
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Two Podcast Appearances and One Provocation
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On the Miraculous Tradition in Silicon Valley Thought
"And then a miracle happens" is not a plan.
Mar 10
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Dave Karpf
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February 2025
The Three Types of Money Behind Silicon Valley's Rise to Dominance
Two of them are real. The third, notsomuch.
Feb 25
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Dave Karpf
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The Tech Barons have a blueprint drawn in crayon. They have not thought any of this through.
A review of Balaji Srinivasan's book, The Network State.
Feb 16
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Dave Karpf
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