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Jacob Kramer-Duffield

@jaykaydee.bsky.social

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Consulting on audience strategy, audiostrategy.org Writing a book for @beltpublishing.bsky.social Teaching digital sociability and ethics, NYU-Tandon ACT-UAW Local 7902 Ph.D., UNC-SILS Fmr audience data WNYC, NYMag, Megaphone jkd.10 on Signal Enjoys birds

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · Nov 12

Since I am apparently on a starter pack or something: hello! I'm JKD. I have been bopping around the Internet for a long time, used to work in politics, got my Ph.D. studying digital identity, worked in-house in media on analytics and audience, and now consult on that and teach about Online. (1/n)

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 1d

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

in rethinking institutional design questions, "make hearing SCOTUS cases as annoying as possible so they don't really take very many" is I think an underrated consideration. Congress needs to do stuff again (we need to fix that too! but still).

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

idk, I kind of admire this. Almost no big tech company has made the bet that their product is valuable enough for users to actually pay for, and so have all become horrifying data surveillance/advertising platforms. If Snap thinks they can make a go of a different route, that's something!

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

Salvador Dali too!

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

reading between the lines of this piece makes me actually less sure that there's a deal that comes together here.

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

oooof that is grim

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

John.

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 1d

hey that's not fair - they also make pictures of Spongebob doing 9/11

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

"You have elected to take a job where the primary purpose is for you to eat shit and own the death of broadcast TV news, a thing that is going to die no matter what you do. Nice work!"

Read this whole thing, one of the best and most succinct analyses of our current media ecosystem.

nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 2d

@lopatto.bsky.social banger alert on the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

Out Sorkining Sorkin

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

Jamelle Bouie's video work is the first thing that comes to mind

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

I think this is very much a function of how literate they are in the channel(s) in which they're participating

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

Also amazing that even in the friendly confines of the New York Post literally the only thing they can think of to say about the other dude is his absolutely-totally-really-happened chicken sandwich story.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

Garry Trudeau *really* had his number - reading '80s and '90s collections of "Doonesbury" as a child was how I learned about him (and basically US politics 1970-1990)

The cover of the Doonesbury collection "Give Those Nymphs Some Hooters" featuring a Sistine Chapel-like painting with a nude Donald Trump, an exhausted JJ Caucus on a platform underneath

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

YESSSSS

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Erik Simpson @erikthesimpson.bsky.social · 2d

Job Alert! Tenure-track, Creative Non-Fiction (broadly conceived), Grinnell College. joblist.mla.org/job/2000443/...

Assistant Professor of English: Creative Writing Tenure Track job with Grinnell College | 2000443

Research and teaching interests might include: screenwriting/tv writing, memoir, lyric essay, narrative journalism, graphic storytelling.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

Gardetto's rye chips, which I will either just fish out of Chex Mix or buy a solo bag and house by myself

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

Only way to go, really

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

this is just good sense

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 2d

A thing I was thinking about earlier is that he only has one setting, rhetorically: deny and escalate. Also not sure that's sustainable given extended public exposure.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 3d

I just want to wear my jeans and my light jacket and boots on my birthday!!!

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 3d

I agree, and also it's a rigged game. There are benefits to engaging at a certain level but more efforts need to be made to create alternative paths where the rules are different.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 3d

Very much this. It is welllll past time to get off there, if you were ever on.

AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 3d

i don't want to hear a single solitary boo about bari weiss's CBS news takeover from anybody still publishing on substack

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 3d

it's true and it's also true that the same media figures who don't push back on the GOP at all will spend weeks digging into the slightest Dem misstatement (or imagined misstatement). The answer as with many things is to create an independent information ecosystem that actually calls lies, lies.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 3d

Important to remember that it is extremely normal for once-dominant information channels to just... not exist anymore. In many cities, the evening newspaper was *the* dominant newspaper and now we just don't have evening newspapers. All of this has happened before and will happen again.

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 3d

It’s distressing to have so many zombie news brands lumbering about, and to have CBS News joining them. If we squint, though, we can see a golden opportunity — after the nadir of all this (*gestures around*) — build up new, worthier ones.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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