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A newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of […] [bridged from https://davekarpf.substack.com/ on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/davekarpf.substack.com ]

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The Future Now and Then, now on Beehiiv Same future, new web address
03.03.2026 23:14 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Yeah, so... Substack, I'm out. The Polymarket partnership is the last straw.
20.02.2026 17:46 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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You Can't Make Me Vibecode On the historical parallels between vibecoding and open source
13.02.2026 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We are all going to regret Kalshi and Polymarket. Gambling should be like cigarettes: Legal but inaccessible.
10.02.2026 20:13 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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On Crypto Crashes and Fake Money When the cryptocurrency ecosystem sheds $2 trillion, we should pause to notice where it went.
06.02.2026 17:58 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Jeff Bezos, Moral Cretin What the decay of the Washington Post says about the future of the journalism industry
05.02.2026 21:24 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What comes next, if Claude Code is as good as people say. We know how this turns out. First comes the novelty, then comes the corrosion.
15.01.2026 18:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Long Shadow of January 6th On the failure to hold power to account.
06.01.2026 18:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Future, Now and Then: 2025 in review A look back, and a look forward
29.12.2025 23:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Some 2026 Predictions I think we've made it past rock bottom?
22.12.2025 01:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On Hatereading as Method Ridicule is our last, best weapon
13.12.2025 00:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The end of optimization Some thoughts on a transition point in recent internet history,
09.12.2025 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Black Mirror is not a Pinterest board. Part 1 in what I really hope doesn't become a series
18.11.2025 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Every generation gets to recreate the environmental movement to suit its own purposes Some big-picture reactions to a recent NYT piece
12.11.2025 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Shutdown Surrender I just... I mean... Whatever.
10.11.2025 16:44 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Bullet Points: November 7, 2025 edition Money is fake, it's only accounting fraud if we have a functional administrative state, and taking stock of the past year.
07.11.2025 20:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bill Gates's stunted political vision Bill Gates went full Lomborg. Never go full Lomborg.
04.11.2025 20:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dressing Up as James Carville for Halloween My New Republic piece, discussing the "Deciding to Win" report.
31.10.2025 13:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Here Lies Humanity, Dead by Fancy Autocomplete Adam Becker and I discuss everything that annoyed us about Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book
21.10.2025 16:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash
14.10.2025 19:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bullet Points: A Few Good Reads "Every Day, Computers Are Making People Easier to Use"
25.09.2025 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Authoritarian Transition Is Arriving Ahead-of-Schedule ThisIsFineDog.gif
18.09.2025 03:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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On political violence and political pretext Oh, to live in less-interesting times...
11.09.2025 03:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What *Isn't* Abundance? The new idea is having a moment. And the people behind the idea are blowing their opportunity.
05.09.2025 17:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tesla's Roadmap to Nowhere I'll give him this: Elon Musk has a solid grasp of futurity-as-PR.
04.09.2025 23:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bullet Points: Arguments about Arguments edition (I sprained my ankle yesterday.
24.08.2025 17:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What it's like being a political communication professor right now Misgivings, Grievances, and Thanks as I look ahead to my fifteenth year.
19.08.2025 15:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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GPT5 and the end of naive AI futurism Tech boosters have the memories of goldfish
15.08.2025 20:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The AI economy is full of financial gimmicks. Tech journalists need to start moonlighting as finance journalists.
05.08.2025 19:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Defusing the Depopulation Bomb Book Review: "After the Spike" by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso
25.07.2025 11:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0