Keith Murphy
@kmtam.bsky.social
anthropologist of small things | writing about design, language, machines, Sweden
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We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
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We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
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Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
Trump 0-3 on indicting Tish James and just had his ass handed to him by Indiana Republican legislators he threatened and bullied. Also new low in AP poll at 36% approval.
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Lol at every university trustee and law firm partner who concluded they had no choice but to play ball with this bumbling fool
This seems relevant this morning www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...
Helveticization, Comic CERNs, & Change: A Design Anthropologist on "Fontroversy" – PRINT Magazine
A Type Tuesday conversation with Keith Murphy, design anthropologist at UC Irvine, on Microsoft's default font change, the golden age of "fontroversies," and why we care so much about type.
www.printmag.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This seems relevant this morning www.printmag.com/type-tuesday...
I literally research “fontroversies” and I thought woke fonts would be a bridge too far even for these guys, but here we are
Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
December 10, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I literally research “fontroversies” and I thought woke fonts would be a bridge too far even for these guys, but here we are
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Klingon teenager: welcome to the OC b’Itch
December 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Klingon teenager: welcome to the OC b’Itch
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"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup
December 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup
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it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
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🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to all helping to spread the word! 🙏🙏🙏
I really want to get to 100,000 followers by Christmas! Can you please help me? Thank you!
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to all helping to spread the word! 🙏🙏🙏
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
November 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...
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Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Fuck the Democratic Party. Absolute 100% losers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Fuck the Democratic Party. Absolute 100% losers.
Cowards
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Cowards
Last year I fed my class pizza in exchange for a couple of hours talking about how they consume news. I was astounded at how common it was for them to distrust *everything.* The comment that still haunts me: a random redditor might be lying but the NYT is definitely lying (so reddit gets more trust)
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.” More than a third of teens believe journalists could improve by simply “Telling the truth,” “Fact checking,” and “Not lying.” buff.ly/7vgO0ci
“Biased,” “Boring,” “Chaotic,” and “Bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
www.niemanlab.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Last year I fed my class pizza in exchange for a couple of hours talking about how they consume news. I was astounded at how common it was for them to distrust *everything.* The comment that still haunts me: a random redditor might be lying but the NYT is definitely lying (so reddit gets more trust)
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Someone ought to run for president on a platform of outlawing Meta and sending Mark Zuckerberg to a supermax prison for his crimes against humanity
Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Someone ought to run for president on a platform of outlawing Meta and sending Mark Zuckerberg to a supermax prison for his crimes against humanity
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Pioneering new and exciting ways to use the word “unrecognizable”
November 5, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Pioneering new and exciting ways to use the word “unrecognizable”
I think we need to frame these moves as a deep betrayal of society itself. We need to keep a list, and when we have power again, these institutions need to be held accountable for what they’ve done
CBS News has reportedly disbanded its race and culture unit, which was formed in the wake of George Floyd's murder in 2020
NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
NBC News eliminated its editorial teams for NBC Asian America, NBC BLK, NBC Latino and NBC OUT earlier this month
CBS News Cuts ‘Evening News,’ ‘Mornings’ Streaming Shows in Newsroom-Wide Layoffs
The newsroom downsizing comes as Paramount Skydance lays off 1,000 employees throughout the newly merged company
www.thewrap.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I think we need to frame these moves as a deep betrayal of society itself. We need to keep a list, and when we have power again, these institutions need to be held accountable for what they’ve done
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what stage of capitalism is this
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
what stage of capitalism is this
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
I try not to get too worked up about politicians and candidates I can’t vote for — and Platner’s work for Blackwater should’ve been disqualifying even before the tattoo stuff came out — but I also can’t help but think this too. Can we trust his politics are sincere?
The more evidence mounts that Platner is lying, the more convinced I become that he is lying not only about his past but also about his current views.
CNN confirms that multiple sources suggest Graham Platner knew his tattoo was a Nazi symbol years prior to launching his campaign — and is now blatantly lying about it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I try not to get too worked up about politicians and candidates I can’t vote for — and Platner’s work for Blackwater should’ve been disqualifying even before the tattoo stuff came out — but I also can’t help but think this too. Can we trust his politics are sincere?