Derek Thompson ✓
@DKThomp · Washington, D.C. · joined 04 May 2009
Substack author. Plain English podcast host. Abundance co-author. Contributing writer at The Atlantic.
261 418Followers
2 120Following
22 702Posts total
22.3MViews on collected posts
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New pod/transcript: PANGRAM VS THE MACHINE
Since 2022, the share of English-language webpages that are partly or entirely written by AI has increased from roughly 1 percent to nearly 40 percent. Like a tsunami of sludge, AI writing is inundating everything from high school
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White women with a college degree were a +17 demo for Kamala Harris. https://t.co/Z7tsjRBEnU
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I went on the BS Podcast to talk about
- why billionaire sports ownership is a moral scandal
- the connection between the Lakers, Mark Walter, insurance float, private equity, and AI
- the “derivatives market” theory of modern media (the decline of reporting and how “nobody
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New BS Podcast w/ @DKThomp — the Sports Plutocracy, Mark Walter’s tricks, Vegas’s 9b NBA team, Denver screws Jokic, biggest 2020s Legacy rings, the NBA’s 2016 Black Swan event, and the WNBA’s avoidable growing pains.
Spotify ⬇️
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Another sorority rush video to drive the libs crazy 🤪 https://t.co/CQiLBkmmJ2
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Really cool at the top of the WSJ homepage today:
"An experimental mRNA-based vaccine succeeded in preventing cancer from coming back or spreading in a study of high-risk melanoma patients, Moderna and its partner Merck said Wednesday"
Last year, an mRNA cancer vaccine was also
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@DKThomp There isn't a really good right-wing equivalent and here is why:
Woke 1.0 was a massive and insanely powerful cultural force that was the most disruptive censorious and vindictive movement since McCarthyism
Here are some things that happened during Woke 1.0:
- The MLB
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iow: the real story here is that (some of) the left is actually kind of doing popularism
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@DKThomp @jasminewsun 20 years of chasing deals instead of making plans. Every deal was a check somebody else would have to pay & now they are. Data center opposition isn't ideology; it's the electric bill, arriving monthly. We've needed a plan for a modern, diverse energy grid f
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what would be the republican equivalent of democrats deciding that woke 1.0 was crazy?
i think it ~might~ be something like: a party-wide acknowledgement that their party leader, now polling at record lows, really did lose the 2020 election and doesn't deserve kingly featly
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@DKThomp @jasminewsun https://t.co/aujW71RNlq
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Today's pod: THE REAL REASONS BEHIND THE NATIONAL AI REBELLION
I talked to the great @jasminewsun about why the Bay Area doesn't understand America's sudden and surging antipathy toward data centers ... and what happens if ~every state declares a moratorium.
Most people in tech
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@DKThomp I think deviance died down with the proliferation of cameras and smartphones. Deviance was fun because you could get away with stuff, now, it's really hard to get away with anything...
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@DKThomp wait so is the answer to act crazier more often
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New pod: A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF HOW CULTURE GOT STUCK
You know the deal: In the modern era, architecture got boring, corporate branding got minimalist, entertainment got captured by repetition and familiarity bias.
But why? What’s the grand theory of cultural stagnation?
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Some personal news.
Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack.
It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an
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На фоне аккаунтов своего размера
12 постов за последние 90 дней рядом с диапазоном 100K–1M подписчиков. показывается широко, но откликается мало кто.
Медианные просмотры59 304этот аккаунт5 983медиана для 100K–1M
Охват, %22.69%этот аккаунт1.49%медиана для 100K–1M
Вовлечённость, %0.55%этот аккаунт0.93%медиана для 100K–1M
| Показатель | Этот аккаунт | Медиана для 100K–1M | Отношение |
|---|---|---|---|
| Медианные просмотры на пост | 59 304 | 5 983 | 9.91× |
| Охват (просмотры ÷ подписчики) | 22.69% | 1.49% | 15.2× |
| Вовлечённость | 0.55% | 0.93% | 0.59× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.75%26 Nov
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0.22%11 Aug
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0.77%1 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes66.1%20 056 in total
Reposts3.9%1 187 in total
Replies8.5%2 573 in total
Quotes3.1%932 in total
Bookmarks18.4%5 572 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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