Dave Karpf

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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.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Opinion | Why I No Longer Subscribe to the New York Times

ah what a helpful op-ed to toss into the mix new york times www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Why I Don’t Votewww.nytimes.com If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.

The Claremont Institute doesn’t have the collective intellect to win at tic tac toe.

I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Suprise: unwashed fascist ghoul Matthew Walther - who wrote a column that the New York Times just published advising Americans not to vote - did in fact vote in 2020 and 2022. It’s time for us to stop tolerating these ratfucking liars.

he voted in 2020 and 2022 voteref.com/voters/MI/vi...

Voter Referencevoteref.com VoteRef.com is dedicated to ensuring transparent, accurate and fair elections in the United States of America.

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

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This guy's headshot choices tell a story and it's a story Quantico's Behavioral Science unit should investigate

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law

More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?

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www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/dem... — some great new reviews by @davekarpf.bsky.social

Democracy After Truth | Journal of Democracywww.journalofdemocracy.org A review of The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — and What We Can Do…

I just entered “author photo of a washed out, middle-aged white guy who has just kinda given up and is making that everyone else’s problem” into Dall-E. Uncanny!

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Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

My latest: “Bullet Points: Ideological Axe-grinding” Just sharing notes from a couple recent book reviews I published. (Of Yaniv’s Varoufakis’s book and Steve Brill’s book) Plus, an earnest book recommendation. (Renee Diresta’s Invisible Rulers is great!) open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Bullet Points: Ideological Axe-Grindingopen.substack.com Liner notes on a couple recent book reviews

Once again asking myself: why do I still read Noah Smith?

Idly thinking about how difficult it would be to do a heel turn and take part in on that Bari Weiss grift economy. …It wouldn’t be for the money. It’d be for the protective shield if Trump wins. Like, how late do you think I could wait before executing that sell-out pivot?

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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans

Update: Cambodian court handed jail terms of up to 8-10 years to 10 activists of an environmental group on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the king www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/c...

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This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda

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when we say a second Trump term will be the end of meaningful elections in America, we mean it

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency

I have been saying since February that major media are 100% devoted to But Her Emails 2, but I didnt imagine it would get this bad. The day after SCOTUS stops the law applying to Trump, we have to scroll thru 4 fucking top stories on “Biden old” & an ad before getting to anything on SCOTUS decision

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Yes, it seems to be a non-issue that 78-year-old Donald Trump was incapable of staying awake during his own criminal trial. He's a spring chicken, you see, the very picture of youthful vigor.

didn't read the NYT piece yet but did any NYT reporters see Biden repeatedly falling asleep in public or was that only Trump

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The idea that these are the top stories when the Supreme Court blew up the constitution yesterday makes me want to scream and cry forever.

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rolling out this gem again

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Friends, the NY trial court is going to be considering a motion to set aside the guilty verdict on the basis of the SCOTUS immunity ruling. You should prepare for the possibility that the court does set aside that guilty verdict.

NEW: Judge Merchan postpones Trump's sentencing till September (full letter via Tyler McBrien, Lawfare)

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Official act. Immune.

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

We KNOW, based on how he governed last time, how the Trump Immunity decision will be abused if he is re-elected. It's a decision that will one day result in a body count. The Supreme Court majority are extremist, partisan ideologues. They are not subtle about it. open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

A Supreme Court Decision with a Body Countopen.substack.com The Supreme Court majority are extremist, partisan ideologues. They are not subtle about it.

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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.

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And the SCANDAL of Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch !!!!

The robust conservative media infrastructure has retconned 2016: The scandal accusations against Trump were, in retrospect, attempts to steal the election of the legitimate president. The candidate who kept getting whacked by the FBI and hackers? Yeah she tried to rig it

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NEW: Trump sentencing likely delayed. Manhattan DA's office says it would not oppose a brief delay to brief issues surrounding immunity decision. (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360)