Jacob Kramer-Duffield
@jaykaydee.bsky.social
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
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
Pinned
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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Congrats to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers for winning their *3 year strike*.
It may take a little time, but it turns out it's possible to triumph over those who seek to immiserate the working class, for those with values, determination, and a willingness to not sell each other out.
It may take a little time, but it turns out it's possible to triumph over those who seek to immiserate the working class, for those with values, determination, and a willingness to not sell each other out.
Post-Gazette Strikers Win Three-Year Strike | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
The Post-Gazette must now comply with the Court’s order. Strikers look forward to ending the strike and returning to work.
newsguild.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Congrats to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers for winning their *3 year strike*.
It may take a little time, but it turns out it's possible to triumph over those who seek to immiserate the working class, for those with values, determination, and a willingness to not sell each other out.
It may take a little time, but it turns out it's possible to triumph over those who seek to immiserate the working class, for those with values, determination, and a willingness to not sell each other out.
Absolutely 100% agree; you should also be able to place sports bets at the most depressing horse track you can imagine, but you have to stay there for the length of the game.
I do think sports betting should be legal, but you should have to place bets in person with someone you are afraid will physically harm you if you don't pay up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Absolutely 100% agree; you should also be able to place sports bets at the most depressing horse track you can imagine, but you have to stay there for the length of the game.
I am an "abolish the Senate" fan myself but, if we *must* have a bicameral legislature, moving the Senate to a national-vote party-slate proportional representation chamber (100 is a nice round number for this) is a very obvious pro-democracy measure.
Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I am an "abolish the Senate" fan myself but, if we *must* have a bicameral legislature, moving the Senate to a national-vote party-slate proportional representation chamber (100 is a nice round number for this) is a very obvious pro-democracy measure.
Basically agree with everything Dave says here with the additional note that caving right now at the least-optimal time has the minor benefit of really clarifying in a *public* way who is on Team Fight vs. Team Surrender. That's good and will shape things going forward.
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Basically agree with everything Dave says here with the additional note that caving right now at the least-optimal time has the minor benefit of really clarifying in a *public* way who is on Team Fight vs. Team Surrender. That's good and will shape things going forward.
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some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM
some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you
Yes! Yes!
Reasons I live in NYC:
- the Cambodian food I ate on Friday
- the khati roll and ceviche I ate on Saturday
- the Jewish and Iranian pastries I ate today
- the mango pulp I picked up at the Bengali grocer across from the bumpin’ dog park
- the Cambodian food I ate on Friday
- the khati roll and ceviche I ate on Saturday
- the Jewish and Iranian pastries I ate today
- the mango pulp I picked up at the Bengali grocer across from the bumpin’ dog park
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Yes! Yes!
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"In fact I often have the same concern about folks working in media that I do of folks working in climate: not enough of 'em have ever had to make a dollar stretch and it makes them absolutely terrified of standing up to power. That is not the juice we need in this moment."
A rallying cry for my fellow journalists to put their boots on and grow a backbone.
drilled.media/news/media-b...
drilled.media/news/media-b...
Make Media Brave Again
The only way to protect what’s left of journalism is to do the job right.
drilled.media
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"In fact I often have the same concern about folks working in media that I do of folks working in climate: not enough of 'em have ever had to make a dollar stretch and it makes them absolutely terrified of standing up to power. That is not the juice we need in this moment."
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oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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Oh, changing the time by one hour for Daylight Savings is messing with your sleep schedule? "Why is it dark at 5 p.m.," you ask?
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Oh, changing the time by one hour for Daylight Savings is messing with your sleep schedule? "Why is it dark at 5 p.m.," you ask?
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
Frilled sharks live in such deep water that they never see the sun at all! You didn't think about THAT, did you? No, you only ever think about yourself.
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Apprehending someone with a kid there is not an unprecedented law-enforcement situation. Professionals understand this as posing a question of what to do with the kid: wait until a relative can pick them up? Take them somewhere? Etc?
To _not think about this_ is a CHOICE.
To _not think about this_ is a CHOICE.
So immigration agents drove off in a citizen’s car with a toddler in the back.
**Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.**
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
**Then DHS refused to answer questions about it.**
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Apprehending someone with a kid there is not an unprecedented law-enforcement situation. Professionals understand this as posing a question of what to do with the kid: wait until a relative can pick them up? Take them somewhere? Etc?
To _not think about this_ is a CHOICE.
To _not think about this_ is a CHOICE.
Seconded, they are curious, engaged, and thoughtful. Truly a privilege to teach them!
I'm calling bullshit on college students these days being lazy or disinterested. They're great, and it's a privilege to teach them. That is all.
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Seconded, they are curious, engaged, and thoughtful. Truly a privilege to teach them!
A fun thing to do when editing your own writing is to notice the linguistic tics you employ with absolutely ferocious consistency that you were *completely unaware of*
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A fun thing to do when editing your own writing is to notice the linguistic tics you employ with absolutely ferocious consistency that you were *completely unaware of*
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Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
New College of Florida shows soaring expenses as state targets 'woke waste'
A report by Florida DOGE found that Sarasota's New College is the most financially inefficient school in the university system.
www.heraldtribune.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system"
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla.
Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207
Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765
www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...
Everybody who works for OpenAI should feel shame the rest of their days at the fact that their product is repeatedly helping kill people in their hours of greatest need.
SHAME.
SHAME.
This goes so far beyond creepy.
“‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”
“‘Rest easy, king,’ read the final message sent to his phone. ‘You did good.’”
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Everybody who works for OpenAI should feel shame the rest of their days at the fact that their product is repeatedly helping kill people in their hours of greatest need.
SHAME.
SHAME.
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This is almost certainly hype and nonsense but if a private firm were to actually crack fusion, it would be immediately nationalized and its assets seized as a matter of national security by whatever nation it happened to be located in.
New: Chris Sacca’s venture firm is doubling down on #fusion as it seeks to raise a new fund dedicated to the next-gen nuclear technology. My latest for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chris Sacca’s Venture Firm Is Raising a Second Fusion Fund
The tech billionaire said the next-generation nuclear technology is needed to meet the growing energy demand from artificial intelligence and need for air conditioning.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This is almost certainly hype and nonsense but if a private firm were to actually crack fusion, it would be immediately nationalized and its assets seized as a matter of national security by whatever nation it happened to be located in.
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I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.
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this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!
The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
this has been one of my central arguments the past ten years. the theory underpinning the anti-democratic elements of the american constitutional order is wrong!
Bluesky: the place for sports.
This is wild: Bluesky says at least 3% of all posts made on November 1 -- Game 7 of the World Series -- were about baseball. bsky.social/about/blog/1...
The World Series Was Electric — So Was Bluesky - Bluesky
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” — Moneyball 2011
bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Bluesky: the place for sports.
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If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
If it's true that RealClearPolitics removed their polling average of the VA Attorney General race because it was wrong, that should really be the nail in the coffin for them. It's GOP polling propaganda that hasn't been rigorous or transparent in a long time (www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-pollin...)
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Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).
"'It's time to use it or get left behind,' he said."
Okay, leave me the fuck behind.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Okay, leave me the fuck behind.
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
When It Comes to AI, Adapt or Else, Says Keith Riegert
Keith Riegert, president of the Stable Book Group, offered a master class on AI tools during the recent Sharjah Publishers Conference. He described AI as both transformative and unsettling. It's time ...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Hard to overstate the extent to which executives across the arts actually hate the arts (and artists).