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What is the Great American State Fair like?

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By David Karpf
| beehiiv
I stopped by the Great American State Fair on Tuesday. The website listed the day’s theme as "Innovation, Technology & Progress.” It doesn’t get more on-theme for The Future, Now & Then than that. I documented the trip in a bluesky thread, the highlights of which are featured on Flaming Hydra (have you subscribed to Flaming Hydra yet? It is the absolute best. Please subscribe.). The most striking part of the experience, really, was just how boring it all was.
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On the Wired renaissance

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By David Karpf
| beehiiv
❝ “If you still don’t understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot.” -Katie Drummond, Wired EIC There’s been some murmuring among the tech barons about buying Wired magazine and turning it back into the magazine they remember from their youth. Anduril co-founder Trae Stephens wrote an X.com diatribe about this a couple weeks ago, where he complained that Wired still has good journalists, but they are focused on the wrong stories.
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Why Centrist Democrats Keep Being Wrong About Elections Original

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By David Karpf
| The New Republic Verified
A team of centrist Democratic consultants thinks they've figured out what went wrong in the 2024 election. The problem, apparently, was that the Democratic Party was insufficiently nostalgic for 1992. The 60-page election postmortem report titled "Deciding to Win," was published by WelcomePAC-a political action committee that says it is working for a "big tent" Democratic Party but somehow lacks tent space for climate groups or trans people.
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