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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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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 6h

Torre I think!

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

Yes and I'm saying you actually need to think about how you want to have that happen! Who determines what's garbage? What are the mechanisms? Are we seizing control of the domestic and international supply chain? Who is "we" here?

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

Specifically how do you propose to do that? To determine who's a good and bad person?

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

What policy or sets of policies do you think could accomplish this goal?

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

Also absolutely amazing to say with a straight face, in 2025, "you can't stop progress." Dunno man, sure seems like you can!

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

From the tech bro gospel: “someone was going to coarsen society and further immiserate people, it may as well be me.”

"We're already at the point where we can't tell what's real and what's not online, and OpenAI and other tech companies will have to solve around that," said the former OpenAI engineer, using tech lingo for finding a solution to a problem. "But that's not an argument for not trying to dominate this market. You can't stop progress. If OpenAI didn't release Sora, someone else would have."

In fact, Meta is also trying to, with its recent introduction of Vibes, a platform where people can make and share short AI-generated deepfakes. In July, Google introduced Veo 3, an AI video tool. But it wasn't until OpenAI's release of the Sora app that personalized AI slop really took off.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 13h

This is all correct but we shouldn't underrate the opportunity cost of a billionaire hoarding wealth vs. that money being in, e.g., a credit union. The multiplier of the latter is MUCH bigger - and across all the ultra-wealthy, that is a lot of lost economic potential.

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 14h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 19h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 13h

He's just not very good at running campaigns!

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 15h

One thing of many: if your across-the-street neighbor has a Ring, your comings and goings to your own house - or inside of it unless you draw the curtains - will now be monitored.

Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 15h

This was, of course, always where the IoT and facial recognition were headed. They will not stop unless lawmakers make them.

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

www.washingtonpost.com

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 15h

By their new boss who has no idea what like 90% of them do because she's never worked in any of television, news, or television news, no less.

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

Definitely go see it! I did so this week and it was just tremendous.

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

You are quite welcome!

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

Because cats are perfect already!

Cats Are Perfect. An Evolutionary Biologist Explains Why

Cats have attained evolutionary perfection

www.scientificamerican.com

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

Always always hate that call.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 1d

The number of times I've heard that what education is has to change because AI! When people say this to me now, I just say, "no." Usually they stop talking for ten seconds because no one is ever telling them no, and that's the whole problem

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 2d

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

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

Salvador Dali too!

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

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 · 2d

oooof that is grim

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

John.

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

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

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

"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 · 3d

@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 · 3d

Out Sorkining Sorkin

Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 4d

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