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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Crab for breakfast!
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Crab for breakfast!
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This is an issue I'm running into in my WIP novel set around the West Virginia mining wars: one antagonist is a self-made mine owner whose employees are threatening to unionize. A lot of research went into him; his dialogue is practically verbatim quotes from real people. He seems like a caricature!
the hardest part of writing politically charged fiction is that a good villain needs to be complex, cool and about as right as the protagonist; while evil people in real life are lame, cruel, childish morons motivated by greed or not wanting to look at minorities
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is an issue I'm running into in my WIP novel set around the West Virginia mining wars: one antagonist is a self-made mine owner whose employees are threatening to unionize. A lot of research went into him; his dialogue is practically verbatim quotes from real people. He seems like a caricature!
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If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If by some miracle the whole AI industry falls apart because some tech bros decided to spend trillions on compute without spending maybe tens of millions a year on licensing art, I will laugh so hard I'll be in danger of a ruptured spleen.
This would be absolutely astonishing.
“Simon, who focuses on rheumatoid arthritis at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin, says people in CAR-T-cell therapy trials for rheumatoid arthritis and lupus seem to be ‘cured’. “They lose their autoantibodies which trigger the disease, and they don’t have any symptoms any more,””
Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This would be absolutely astonishing.
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Turn one level of the BQE into a rapid transit ROW, come off the BQE at Pearl Street. Line runs from ~~36th Street to 2nd Ave to Clinton to the BQE. Cuts down via Pearl to include transfers to the F (York) and A/C (High). Then heads east up Flushing Ave and shoots up to Queens Center.
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Turn one level of the BQE into a rapid transit ROW, come off the BQE at Pearl Street. Line runs from ~~36th Street to 2nd Ave to Clinton to the BQE. Cuts down via Pearl to include transfers to the F (York) and A/C (High). Then heads east up Flushing Ave and shoots up to Queens Center.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
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No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No one shld lose sight of the fact that the Guard was only in DC as part of an extended political messaging stunt. The shooter is guilty for the attacks/carnage. Donald Trump is responsible for them. This is the collateral damage of Trump abusing his powers as President.
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Definitely not a bubble
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, AI related stocks have accounted for 75% of S&P 500 returns, 79% of earnings growth, and 90% of capital spending (Capex and R&D) growth. am.jpmorgan.com/content/dam/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Definitely not a bubble
One thing I do know is that I have not for the better part of two decades trusted Ryan Lizza as far as I can throw him, thanks to reading this piece at the time it was written. One of these men has taken a path of honor in the years since, the other - not.
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
One thing I do know is that I have not for the better part of two decades trusted Ryan Lizza as far as I can throw him, thanks to reading this piece at the time it was written. One of these men has taken a path of honor in the years since, the other - not.
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Congress should call it the Own the Libs by Banning Partisan Gerrymandering Act of 2025 and pass it
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Congress should call it the Own the Libs by Banning Partisan Gerrymandering Act of 2025 and pass it
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If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If this is true she should never work as a journalist again.
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precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
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Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
Me Too Forever
Why the backlash was so short-lived.
www.thecut.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Wrote about the backlash to the backlash to the backlash to the backlash there are no waves we are swimming through circular currents and why we’re not on the Faludi style backlash of the right (& center and left’s) dreams: www.thecut.com/article/why-...
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Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Join me at @propublica.org in one of the most rewarding jobs in journalism, guiding collaborative investigative projects in local newsrooms around the country as a senior editor with our Local Reporting Network!
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
We’d love to see your application by Dec 8.
Guillermo del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness"
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Guillermo del Toro's "At the Mountains of Madness"
Have thought for a while even pre-AI-sloppification, that a human-curated portal a la the old Yahoo! is a good way to turn for the information environment we have and it's emerging, and am only becoming more certain of that bet.
It’s clearly evident the main use of AI will be to alter the web, hurting anyone who relies on google traffic. We will forget, in a year or two, how it used to be. New forms of searching and discovering will arise and we will use those.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Have thought for a while even pre-AI-sloppification, that a human-curated portal a la the old Yahoo! is a good way to turn for the information environment we have and it's emerging, and am only becoming more certain of that bet.
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DOT recently installed a bench on Bergen St near the 78th Precinct and now the cops can't park on a few feet of the sidewalk over there. If they're not going to stop this themselves, it's time to design our way out of it.
“The Police Department will continue to allow precinct commanders to ignore parking rules, refusing to implement one of the major placard abuse reforms recommended by city probers earlier this year, Streetsblog has learned.” — nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/25/e...
EXCLUSIVE: NYPD Rejects Ending 'Self-Enforcement' Scandal at Precinct Houses - Streetsblog New York City
Police brass are refusing to implement a major reform recommended by city probers earlier this year. And the agency won't say why.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
DOT recently installed a bench on Bergen St near the 78th Precinct and now the cops can't park on a few feet of the sidewalk over there. If they're not going to stop this themselves, it's time to design our way out of it.
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the intriguing possibility that the first dyson sphere found will have resulted from the builders' home planet having finally come up with a way to get them to go the fuck away having failed to get them to knock it off
We’d better hope it’s a bubble and it bursts soon because otherwise Google and Nvidia will have converted the entire surface of the Earth to datacenters by 2032.
Wanna know how I know it's a bubble?
November 25, 2025 at 3:18 AM
the intriguing possibility that the first dyson sphere found will have resulted from the builders' home planet having finally come up with a way to get them to go the fuck away having failed to get them to knock it off
Good reminder that Weiss is completely out of her depth in her current job and has only risen as far as she has by flattering the low bigotries of the very rich and very out of touch, never by building a mass audience. She is going to fail, and deserve it.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Good reminder that Weiss is completely out of her depth in her current job and has only risen as far as she has by flattering the low bigotries of the very rich and very out of touch, never by building a mass audience. She is going to fail, and deserve it.
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Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/
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incidentally, this is precisely what everybody said would happen with robotaxis, huge numbers of empty vehicles clogging up streets.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
incidentally, this is precisely what everybody said would happen with robotaxis, huge numbers of empty vehicles clogging up streets.
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"Collecting that experience" is an incredible euphemism for "Asking a guy about the fact that more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct"
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"Collecting that experience" is an incredible euphemism for "Asking a guy about the fact that more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct"
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The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
This is true, but it's also worth stepping back and pondering how absolutely bonkers it is that the GOP under Trump's influence have gone from multi-generation Russia hawks to Moscow's errand boys.
I know why but still, it's very, very weird!
I know why but still, it's very, very weird!
The crazy thing about Trump II is that we really have no idea who is drafting the war plans or the peace plans, or even how much Trump is in the loop on either.
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This is true, but it's also worth stepping back and pondering how absolutely bonkers it is that the GOP under Trump's influence have gone from multi-generation Russia hawks to Moscow's errand boys.
I know why but still, it's very, very weird!
I know why but still, it's very, very weird!
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I always really loved Jimmy Cliff’s cover of Cat Stevens’ Wild World, which I found on a cassette of a 1976 live album (In Concert) that in college was one of my favorites to come home and chill out to after a night out youtu.be/wDmSZr9FPO4?...
November 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I always really loved Jimmy Cliff’s cover of Cat Stevens’ Wild World, which I found on a cassette of a 1976 live album (In Concert) that in college was one of my favorites to come home and chill out to after a night out youtu.be/wDmSZr9FPO4?...