The Future, Now and Then
Dave KarpfA newsletter that mixes insights from the history of the digital future (#WIREDarchive) with observations and rants about the state of politics today. Basically a blog for your inbox.
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Hi folks,
I have migrated this blog/newsletter over to Beehiiv. The new web address is davekarpf.beehiiv.com.
I have already ported over the subscriber list. Everyone should have received an email from the new Beehiiv account, making a pa...
Yeah, so... Substack, I'm out.
Substack announced a new partnership with Polymarket earlier this week. I guess if Substack is the future of media (it isn’t), then the future of media is gambling. (That’s bad though. You see why that’s bad, right?)
Unsurprisingly, I hate...
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I’ve been thinking recently about an old Neal Stephenson essay, In the Beginning… Was the Command Line. The essay was published in book-length format in 1999, at a time when Linux felt...
We are all going to regret Kalshi and Polymarket.
The biggest winner in this year’s Super Bowl was the betting market Kalshi. The biggest losers were everyone who used Kalshi to place bets.
It’s being reported that over $1 billion was wagered on Kalshi this Sunday. That included over $100...
On Crypto Crashes and Fake Money
This is going to be a short one, I swear.
Cryptocurrencies are crashing right now. You love to see it. A few months ago, the price of bitcoin was close to $125,000. Last night it hit a low of $60,000. It has bounced back to around $70,000...
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