@davekarpf

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Associate Professor at GWU. Internet politics researcher. The guy who made that one Bret Stephens joke that one time. davekarpf.substack.com

“Civil War” left me rattled for days.

There’s a lot that Alex Garland leaves out of the film. And I think that’s ultimately what made it so effective.

My review, “Civil War is a blunt object.”: https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/civil-war-the-movie-is-a-blunt-object?r=eeyg&utm_medium=ios

Civil War (the movie) is a blunt object.

And the bluntness is the point.

The Future, Now and Then
TL;DR version:

Something I just learned: substack doesn’t know how to interpret mastodon links in its analytics dashboard.

Just looked at the data on yesterday’s post: 79% “direct,” 12% email, 5% Twitter.

Almost all of that “direct” traffic is mastodon.