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Daniel Karp

@karptonite.com
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Lead web applications developer at BoardGameGeek, board gamer, non-practicing scientist, spouse, not in that order. he/him

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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 17h
Well, I think that’s it for the “Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing” feature on my new Apple watch. Last night, at midnight, after I was nearly asleep, my watch buzzed and dinged with a time sensitive alert: I had 5 minutes of screen time left on the New York Times today.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 06/10/2026
"When F.B.I. agents first searched his house, they said they found 303 gold bars. In court on Tuesday, prosecutors said that the correct number was 298 gold bars" Seems to me that FBI agents are going to be extra careful about counting gold bars. Hmmm..... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
nytimes.com
Ex-C.I.A. Officer Who Stashed Gold Bars Admits to Far Larger $145 Million Scam
A plea hearing revealed a far larger pattern of fraud against the government, while keeping some key secrets still hidden.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 09/09/2026
Erin says there are “nib doctors” who repair bent nibs, but that it is expensive. But maybe cheaper than replacing the nib.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 14/08/2026
Noted without comment: I have received 16, and counting, emails today from Google AI Studio congratulating me that my spending limits on Gemini API (a product I have never used) have been raised to the next tier.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 13/07/2026
I just had that happen for me for Name of the Rose (less classic, but also perhaps more vulnerable to spoilage).
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Not for long. Not for long.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/06/2026
"The values described in Claude’s constitution sound very nice, but that hardly matters; it’s dishonest to suggest that Claude is capable of moral reasoning, because it’s not." -Ted Chiang, No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious
Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.
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Holly 🇺🇸🦅 @msdesignerlady.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We cannot allow the Epstein files narrative to just fade away. This reading room is brilliant and what they have done here ensures that. #BelieveTheSurvivors
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Trump's ever-expanding list of taxpayer grifts: -$1.8B slush fund for political allies -$1B for ballroom "security" -$1B for Qatar jet refurbishments -$230M in DOJ "compensation" -$100M+ for golf outings When he says he "doesn't think about Americans' financial situation," I believe him.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them
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Jon Kuperman @jonkuperman.com · 08/04/2026
I also cannot ship my work today because it’s too powerful to release publicly
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 07/04/2026
Note to Trump’s cabinet: if you wait until after the genocidal act of terrorism to invoke the 25th amendment, you’ve waited too long.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 07/04/2026
The president is clearly a terrorist now, and is turning us into a terrorist nation. Even if he doesn't follow through with his threats, the threats themselves more clearly terrorist acts than if he had placed bombs around a city and threatened to blow them up if we didn't give him what he demanded.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 05/04/2026
Talk about lowering expectations: I’m just hoping we get through the week without massive new war crimes.
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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
My love of history was not because of good teachers but in spite of bad ones. 🧵 One taught via call-&-response like he was giving mass. He called on me, "Who was Eugene V. Debs?" expecting recitation of the one sentence from the textbook about opposition to the gold standard (his only mention!).
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 06/03/2026
Cat experts: Cats don't want to eat or drink out of bowls that are too narrow, because it bothers their whiskers. My cat:
A cat sticking his entire face into a tumbler to drink from the bottom of the glass.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 04/03/2026
Polymarket has created a market that would monetize a nuclear attack amid increasing concerns that bets are happening among government insiders who can make military decisions. What stage of the apocalypse is this? polymarket.com/event/nuclea...
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 04/03/2026
I’d love a new edition of this with improved quality and art!
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Whether it's Donald Trump taking bribes from terror-sponsoring foreign governments, Donald Trump plotting to rig the 2026 election, or Donald Trump posting a video of the Obamas as apes, both parties must do better.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 11/02/2025
If dogs could talk, I bet they would say, “This Westminster dog show is a deplorable celebration of racism and eugenics.”
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Stonemaier Games @stonemaiergames.com · 29/01/2026
"We see the tremendous weight of grief, anger, and fear that so many are carrying right now. No one should have to live with constant fear. Everyone deserves to feel safe, valued, and to be treated with dignity." Read more: stonemaiergames.com/we-stand-wit...
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We Stand with Our Community
A few months ago, my coworker, Alex, moved from St. Louis to Minneapolis. This week I spent some time with him in person for the first time since the move, and we had a long chat about the horrifyi…
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 25/01/2026
Are we at “No one could have known this would happen” yet? I’m willing to pretend that is true in exchange for action on the part of those with the authority to change things.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2026
“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
he knows that we know he's lying. he's telling us we're all terrorists to him. he's telling us that to dissent is now a capital crime. he's telling us they'll shoot us, too, and they'll say we deserved it.
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Kevin Erdmann @kevinerdmann.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
"There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes." Ernest Hemingway It really sucks to be living at a time when this quote is relevant.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
my gut tells me american politics are about to shift radically within the next few days, as this rubicon crossing event occurs with both sides heading toward snowstorm-induced isolation and online algorithms
Democrats • @TheDemocrats • 52m
You're a fucking liar with blood on your hands.
Stephen Miller @ @StephenM.3h
A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official
Democrat account sides with the terrorists. x.com/thedemocrats/s...
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 24/01/2026
Many incredibly awful things going on on the world. But also, blep.
A cat laying with one ear folded so you can’t see it, with his tongue slightly sticking out.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 21/01/2026
Yay?
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 18/01/2026
How much of the dangerous and ridiculous situation regarding Greenland is driven by Trump’s misunderstanding of the Mercator projection?
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Matthew M - BGG Community Manager @octavianbgg.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Goddammit
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 27/12/2025
i’ve used em-dashes frequently in my writing for decades, so I find it irritating that they are now seen as a marker of AI generated text—I feel like my punctuation is being taken from me. I can only hope that ChatGPT keeps its grubby AI fingers off my semicolons.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Restaurant advocates have warned that if every supplier insisted on being paid for ingredients, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 08/11/2025
My wife Erin has COVID. Paxlovid helped, but she is now in a rebound. Yesterday she lost her sense of smell. It was like a switch: she went from smelling to zero smell, then, 15 minutes later, normal, then this morning, “flickering”, and now muted. Is this consistent with how others experience this?
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 20/09/2025
Be kind. These are volunteer admins applying detailed guidelines, one of which is, “The title is whatever it says on the cover.” I looked at the cover, and it is ambiguous at best. Even if they correct it to what you prefer, anyone can submit a correction, and the next admin will look at the cover.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This kind of libelous incitement is basically unremarkable now for Republican elected officials. Even msm press treats it as normal.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 07/09/2025
Look, I really like the song Golden, from K-Pop Demon Hunters. I like it a whole lot. I don't know that I needed to hear it three times in one short trip to H-Mart, out of the five songs they played; the other two were, of course, other songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters.
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Not clear what possible legal justification there is for the extrajudicial execution of alleged drug traffickers www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
Arresting firefighters putting their lives on the line to protect our communities doesn't make us safer. This evil stunt is putting families in harm's way just so Donald Trump can score a Fox News hit.
seattletimes.com
Federal agents arrest firefighters working on WA wildfire
Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.
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Daniel Karp @karptonite.com · 28/08/2025
This is not offering the sort of reassurance that I had hoped it would. That is a lot of term left.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Trump desperately wants reporters to stop talking about Epstein and instead pivot to things like Coke with real cane sugar. With that in mind, here is our Times taste test of Coke with real cane sugar.
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