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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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The Doonesbury character Mark Slackmeyer, bug-eyed on a radio mic behind a record player saying "That's GUILTY! Guilty, guilty, guilty!!"
November 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Here's a kitty cat.
Roberto Catmente, a tabby kitten with a white nose and paws, lies in a window perch, his head rested on one paw, looking sidelong at the camera sweetly
November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Roberto Catmente, reporting for duty
A tabby kitten with white feet curled up on a tan duvet, a single fang peeking out of his mouth
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This little man literally walked into my back door a month ago, plopped himself down and announced that he was Inside Baby now. I wish this for all cats!
Roberto Catmente, a beautiful tabby kitten with white boots and nose, is stretched very long on his side atop a tan duvet, looking at the camera,
October 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Rob Lowe in an NFL hat
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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A sleepy window baby
Roberto Catmente, a tabby with white paws, curled up asleep on a window perch
October 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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No kings, only kittens #caturday
Roberto Catmente, a beautiful tabby kitten with white paws, is asleep on his side on a tan duvet
October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Here is a cat.
Roberto Catmente, a tabby kitten, lies on his side - you can see his paws with black toe beans, and a small blep of tongue out of his mouth.
October 14, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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the @dril tweet "go ahead. keep screaming "Shut The Fuck Up" at me. it only makes my opinions Worse
October 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Garry Trudeau *really* had his number - reading '80s and '90s collections of "Doonesbury" as a child was how I learned about him (and basically US politics 1970-1990)
The cover of the Doonesbury collection "Give Those Nymphs Some Hooters" featuring a Sistine Chapel-like painting with a nude Donald Trump, an exhausted JJ Caucus on a platform underneath
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Say hello to Roberto Catmente aka Bobbito
A handsome tabby kitten sits in a black leather slingback chair with an alert look on his face A tabby kitten lays on his back, eyes closed and white throat and soft belly showing, on a tan duvet
September 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Slava Ukraini!
A yellow box truck with some graffiti, under a yellow sign with Chinese and English writing, under a blue sky, looking a bit all together like the Ukrainian flag
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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A white woman with a backwards B that she carved into her cheek
September 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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So an update to initial thoughts here: it seems like this consortium (which grows by the day seemingly) will have access to a forked version of the TikTok algo (or, well, *a* TikTok algo) that they will then be responsible for iterating. Better than I thought they'd get but still not bullish - (1/n)
The software giant Oracle will oversee the security of Americans’ data and monitor changes and updates to its powerful recommendation technology under a new deal to avert a TikTok ban, according to a senior White House official. A copy of the algorithm, the recommendation engine that powers the app’s addictive feed of short videos, will be licensed from China to an American investor group that will oversee the app in the United States, the official said. Oracle will also invest in the new American TikTok, as will the private equity firm Silver Lake, another senior official said. It will be “secured” in the United States outside the control of TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, one of the officials said. The U.S.-run TikTok will work to retrain the copy on users’ data in the United States, and China will not have access to the data, the officials added.
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Hello from baseball
Citi Field, a baseball stadium, viewed from inside - stands, field, under blue skies and white clouds. Perfect day for a ballgame!
September 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Donald Trump and Mitt Romney at dinner, Trump with an unsettling grin looking directly at the camera, Romney turned over his shoulder with a look of resignation and humiliation; the lighting is out of "Twin Peaks"
September 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Very good advice from @acarv.in and also keep in mind the Breaking News Consumer's Handbook from @onthemedia.bsky.social
1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don't trust anonymous sources. 3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There's almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language the media uses. • “We are getting reports”… could mean anything. • “We are seeking confirmation”… means they don’t have it. • “[News outlet] has learned”… means it has a scoop or is going out on limb. 6. Look for news outlets close to the incident. 7. Compare multiple sources. 8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers. 9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you. [BREAKING NEWS CONSUMER’S HANDBOOK ]
September 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Ashley Todd, a white woman, with a black eye and a backwards B she carved into her cheek as a false flag "mugging" op
September 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Nobody who responds to a platform company shutting off referral traffic with bewilderment has any business being a media executive in 2025.

This is just a failure, plain and simple.
Early on, he set an ambitious goal of reaching 500,000 paid digital subscribers by the end of 2026, a figure that would make the business sustainably profitable. The paper is not on a pace to hit that goal. It has about 115,000 total paid subscribers, with 75,000 of those digital-only subscribers, a figure that’s up from about 55,000 at the end of 2023, according to a company spokeswoman. Mr. Morse said the swift rise of generative artificial intelligence, which has quickly changed how people search and consume information, had been an unexpected challenge. “The bottom has fallen out of the entire industry,” Mr. Morse said. “Our organic traffic from Google has dropped 40 percent in the last year. Never could have predicted that.”
August 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Jamaica Bay yesterday for the Shorebird Festival and many a shorebird in the heat and sun; Prospect Park today under cool gray skies, with a flock of warblers - Blue-winged, Worm-eating (two!), Black-and-white, American Redstart, Louisiana Waterthrush - among many other birds. Fall migration! #birds
A view of marshland past a wooden fence in the medium distance, Jamaica Bay a thin strip of blue beyond that, the silhouette of apartment buildings in the Rockaways on the horizon, blue sky above with wispy altostratus clouds A path paved with gray stone leading to an arched bridge which looks out upon a green field; above the path, green trees hang over from the left, green bushes are on the right; Prospect Park, Brooklyn
August 19, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Kicked off yesterday at Jamaica Bay!
A view of marshland past a wooden fence in the medium distance, Jamaica Bay a thin strip of blue beyond that, the silhouette of apartment buildings in the Rockaways on the horizon, blue sky above with wispy altostratus clouds
August 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
August 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

(3rd grade book report)
The cover of the book "The Wrong Stuff" by Bill "Spaceman" Lee with Dick Lally. Lee is wearing an astronaut EVA suit and a baseball glove, and is on a mound winding up to pitch.
August 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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These are just some of the dimmest, most incurious, and most entitled dudes to ever emerge from any culture.

They "had" to do this incredibly juvenile and insulting thing in order to maintain the integrity of their scam, which itself is a "joke" commenting on other scams?

GO AWAY.
"We didn't do this because like we dislike women's sports or, like, some of the narratives that are trending right now are ridiculous," he said. "Creating disruption at games is like, it happens in every single sport, right? We've seen it in the NFL, we've seen it in hockey, you know . . . fans doing random things to more or less create attention. "We knew that in order to get a voice in the space ... we had to go out and do some viral stunts to save us from having to pay that influencer cabal, sacrifice our souls and the fate of the project."
August 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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You've inherited a movie theater, what's your first double feature?

Waking Life (2001) and The Fifth Element (1997)
A still from the movie "Waking Life" where a silhouette of a man is against a blue sky, surrounded by trees The Diva from "The Fifth Element," a blue bipedal presumably female alien with a black metal neckpiece and long tentacles off her head, arms outstreched in front of the backdrop of a blue and white planet and space outside
July 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM