Notices by davekarpf (davekarpf@mastodon.social)

Elon Musk's grand electoral ploy is to commit a bunch of blatant election-law crimes.

Because Elon Musk thinks laws are for little people.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/turns-out-the-october-surprise-is?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Some guy in The Atlantic is making fun of Sam Altman today.

(It’s me. The guy making fun of Sam Altman in The Atlantic is me.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/10/sam-altman-mythmaking/680152/

I have some thoughts on Paul Graham's latest essay, "Founder Mode."

Paul Graham founded YCombinator. His singular influence has been to drive Silicon Valley toward producing endless Sam Altmans and zero Aaron Swartzs.

Every time he speaks, we are all worse off.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/paul-graham-and-the-cult-of-the-founder?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Columbia University’s President was so bad at basic strategic comms that now we’ve got police snipers on the roofs of campuses around the country.

I got a little mad about it in my latest post.

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/the-only-thing-university-administrators?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

new, on Substack: Elon Musk's Dealbook Meltdown

https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/elon-musks-dealbook-meltdown

Just posted to Substack: “Twitter and the end of the infinite scroll: this is not (quite) how Twitter dies.”

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/twitter-and-the-end-of-the-infinite

My latest, on substack: “how long does Twitter have left?” (I give it six months)

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/how-long-does-twitter-have-left

How would we know that Twitter has become a ghost town?

I think it’s happening already, and we know because Elon accidentally told us.

My latest, on Substack:

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/twitter-tumbleweed-watch