Dave Karpf
@davekarpf.bsky.social
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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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Shameless plug:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Shameless plug:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie our lives. Built up over decades, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know about them, and they're all at risk. Here's the latest:
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Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Wrote another headline with @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/business/828...
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
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what was it that you did here exactly?
A DOGE Exit Interview
It’s the agency’s turn to send a pointless, time-consuming email explaining its accomplishments.
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
what was it that you did here exactly?
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I’m going to have to fish out some old posts about this. Cause I got some flack for warning about this.
I also wish I could read the reporting.
I also wish I could read the reporting.
This is as close as the lawyers at the Journal allow reporters to get to "fraudulent fraudsters sighted wearing fraud pants and doing a fraud." www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai...
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I’m going to have to fish out some old posts about this. Cause I got some flack for warning about this.
I also wish I could read the reporting.
I also wish I could read the reporting.
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A big trend in higher ed and I absolutely hate it
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
A big trend in higher ed and I absolutely hate it
One of the interesting bit of Elon Musk lore is the time child-Musk got his ass so severely beat by another school kid that he ended up in the hospital, and Musk’s dad was like “okay, but with the shit you were saying to him? Yeah you deserved that.”
Anyway, yeah. …now he can have Grok say it!
Anyway, yeah. …now he can have Grok say it!
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
One of the interesting bit of Elon Musk lore is the time child-Musk got his ass so severely beat by another school kid that he ended up in the hospital, and Musk’s dad was like “okay, but with the shit you were saying to him? Yeah you deserved that.”
Anyway, yeah. …now he can have Grok say it!
Anyway, yeah. …now he can have Grok say it!
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"The more persuasive explanation... is that they are demobilized & demoralized. But it would be a mistake to blame them for this attitude. Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
November 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"The more persuasive explanation... is that they are demobilized & demoralized. But it would be a mistake to blame them for this attitude. Older generations should instead recognize that the world we have created does not seem to offer a viable path to making change"
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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Tyler Cowen saying again that there is no threat to democracy marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... because Trump is facing opposition and is sensitive to public opinion, but this is how competitive authoritarianism works. Please consult @dziblatt.bsky.social or @stevelevitsky.bsky.social!
November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Tyler Cowen saying again that there is no threat to democracy marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... because Trump is facing opposition and is sensitive to public opinion, but this is how competitive authoritarianism works. Please consult @dziblatt.bsky.social or @stevelevitsky.bsky.social!
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Don’t know the reason/the reason
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don’t know the reason/the reason
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I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I don't think this is a correct description of America's party system.
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Extremely niche take: The fact that Lizza had <2k followers on here when he posted Part I, and now only has ~2k is evidence of how BlueSky DGAF about clout-chasing, insider-y, access-trading “journalists.”
November 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Extremely niche take: The fact that Lizza had <2k followers on here when he posted Part I, and now only has ~2k is evidence of how BlueSky DGAF about clout-chasing, insider-y, access-trading “journalists.”
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ryan lizza is asking you to decide if you’re normal sick or willing to pay for this shit sick
November 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
ryan lizza is asking you to decide if you’re normal sick or willing to pay for this shit sick
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Maybe it's a generational difference, but I just don't think it's OK to sext with metaphors when similes will do. Like, turn it down a notch, Thackeray. You're talking about a blowjob.
November 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Maybe it's a generational difference, but I just don't think it's OK to sext with metaphors when similes will do. Like, turn it down a notch, Thackeray. You're talking about a blowjob.
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I have fallen down the rabbithole of 'her remarks about RFK in the NYT's pundit round tables' and....!!!
September 20, 2024 at 11:19 AM
I have fallen down the rabbithole of 'her remarks about RFK in the NYT's pundit round tables' and....!!!
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While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
November 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
While on tour promoting 'Wake Up Dead Man', Rian Johnson goes off on AI for “making everything worse in every single way.” bit.ly/47UBPfH
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The two types of Bluesky users
November 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The two types of Bluesky users