Katherine Dee
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
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big art bell fan. internet culture reporter all over & default.blog
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Did you have unrestricted access to the Internet growing up? Can I interview you for my blog?
about 1 year ago
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Carmilla is much better than Dracula
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My dad passed away and I miss him so much.
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Jodi Ettenberg
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CAE 57 is now out, with the best things I read last month. This month's great pieces include: -
@thelocal.to
on a freelancer not being what she seemed -
@rosalindadams.bsky.social
on the godmother of weed in NY -
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
on how trad culture was never counterculture & more!
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The Curious About Everything Newsletter #57
The many interesting things I read in November 2025
https://jodiettenberg.substack.com/p/fifty-seven
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Laura Routh
about 2 months ago
“The otherworld rewards skilled navigators and destroys the careless: Treasures turn to leaves; fairy wives eventually disappear back home; hubris causes travelers to be lost forever, or worse, to wither and die.”
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
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Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/internet-phones-social-media-addiction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k8.vGlE.M4DCOj-erLDE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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New York Times Opinion
about 2 months ago
“Seeing the internet as a fairyland — an otherworld with its own logic — isn’t about mystifying technology. It’s about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is,” Katya Ungerman writes.
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Opinion | Why We Need Fairy Tales in the Digital Age
The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.
https://nyti.ms/485QIMf
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James A. Reeves
about 2 months ago
"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours." I love this piece by
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
about the need for myth to survive the digital age.
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Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/opinion/internet-phones-social-media-addiction.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4k8.Wi1C.XhzBQvhHCdkM&smid=url-share
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Mario Rustan
about 2 months ago
Hello from Australia
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
(video in reply)
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Mario Rustan
about 2 months ago
"Finally, Featured Author
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle." Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...
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The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next
Flaunting “traditional values” was a way to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues Katherine Dee.
https://www.gq.com/story/trad-movement-sputtering
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Tune it : )
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about 2 months ago
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And we're LIVE! Psychedelia and Mormons. The theme is THE GREAT TRIP.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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LIVE NOW: Call-in Show #29: The Great Trip
Katherine Dee on Substack
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/80912?utm_source=post-publish
about 2 months ago
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Leah (Prime) 🦊 Hail Skaði, Hail Ullr
about 2 months ago
😈❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥😈 ❤️🥵😍🥵❤️ 🔥😍😏😍🔥 ❤️🥵😍🥵❤️ 😈❤️🔥🔥❤️🔥😈
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15ish minutes
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2 months ago
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Tonight at 7:30 CT. Streaming on X, Twitch, and
default.blog
2 months ago
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Reading this now, highly recommend so far… more thoughts when I finish!
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2 months ago
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This week's call-in show is a true homage to Bell: GHOST TO GHOST!
default.blog/p/ghost-to-g...
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Ghost to Ghost
thought digest, 10.29.2025
https://default.blog/p/ghost-to-ghost
3 months ago
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18,000 people tuned in…
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3 months ago
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It's in 30...
default.blog
3 months ago
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Today, for paid subscribers, I explore whether the fact that we talk to our computers, listen to posts, and send endless voice memos matters in the conversation about the end of print culture.
default.blog/p/from-post-...
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From Post-literate to Posthuman
on digital orality and post-literacy
https://default.blog/p/from-post-literate-to-posthuman
3 months ago
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Today, I wrote about taboos.
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
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What Is Taboo Now That Nothing Is Taboo?
thought digest 10.21.2025
https://default.blog/p/what-is-taboo-now-that-nothing-is
3 months ago
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Ryan Mac 🙃
3 months ago
everything i've posted here is off the record
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Today, I wrote about taboos.
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
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What Is Taboo Now That Nothing Is Taboo?
thought digest 10.21.2025
https://default.blog/p/what-is-taboo-now-that-nothing-is
3 months ago
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Michael Kruse
3 months ago
Worth the read from
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
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Why the Young Republicans Felt Comfortable Saying Such Vile Stuff
Life on the internet is eroding the boundaries of decency.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/19/young-republicans-group-chat-internet-reality-00613876
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Mario Rustan
3 months ago
'The internet changes our sense of who we’re speaking to and how our words land. Until we confront that shift directly, we will keep circling the same argument about whether people “really mean it."'
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
for
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Leaked Racist Chats, Internet Realities and the Erosion of Decency
Why the Young Republicans felt comfortable saying such vile stuff.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/19/young-republicans-group-chat-internet-reality-00613876
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Nico
3 months ago
New record traffic on Pre-History of an Encounter!
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Today, I continue my techno-mystical adventure by diving head first out of my depth. What if LLMs are djinn?
default.blog/p/llms-as-dj...
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LLMs as Djinn
thought digest, 10.14.2025
https://default.blog/p/llms-as-djinn
3 months ago
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I expanded on the idea that the Internet is an otherworld and proposed some rules for how to navigate it:
thespectator.com/topic/what-f...
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What folklore can teach us about our online lives
Irish folklore spoke of many worlds. There was the world of fields and hearths and then there were the hidden places where the non-material
https://thespectator.com/topic/what-folklore-can-teach-about-online-lives/
3 months ago
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Social media is not a substitute for news. I don't want to find out information from a Nextdoor push notification.
thespectator.com/topic/life-c...
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Life in Chicago with ICE and the National Guard
The Trump administration has deployed about 500 National Guard troops in the Chicago area for an initial period of 60 days
https://thespectator.com/topic/life-chicago-national-guard-ice-cbp/
3 months ago
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2dcloud
3 months ago
𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨, a letter recounting Substacks’s Stacked Debate: The Digital Sexual Revolution, hosted by
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
Written by Brianna Perry and illustrated by Blaise Larmee.
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Nico
3 months ago
A very good point
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I wrote about eugenics, looksmaxxing, and
@wired.com
's latest Looksmaxxing piece.
default.blog/p/looksmaxxi...
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Looksmaxxing and Human Potential
a response to that WIRED article, thought digest, 10.08.2025
https://default.blog/p/looksmaxxing-and-human-potential
3 months ago
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TIL Victorian anti-masturbation beliefs is partially responsible for the invention and popularization of sex magick
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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Come say hi at Pretty Good Fest!
3 months ago
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Emotionally manipulative criticisms of social media are products not analysis. Like I'm sorry, the medium won if you're creating "digestible" clips of you crying about how Zoomers don't have community anymore because phone bad.
3 months ago
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Justin Hendrix
3 months ago
Hadn't seen this "Cartography of Generative AI" before. From Estampa, a collective of programmers, filmmakers and researchers working in the fields of audiovisual media and digital environments:
cartography-of-generative-ai.net
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Ask me anything on this thread about e-culture no matter how creepy, obscure, TMI, or out there.
default.blog/p/ask-me-any...
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Ask Me Anything (About Internet Culture)
Remember when Substack used to do "threads"?
https://default.blog/p/ask-me-anything-about-internet-culture
3 months ago
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tbh the success of the "let's shit on social media" cottage industry is a strong signal those pundits are looking backwards and not at the present
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3 months ago
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We're live.
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LIVE NOW: Call-in Show #22: Alien Abductions
Katherine Dee on Substack
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/65275?utm_source=post-publish
3 months ago
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So excited for this one
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3 months ago
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Kate Knibbs
8 months ago
Went deep on the first AI streaming music fraud case. Mike Smith, the defendant, had more ties to the industry than you'd think. He worked with Snoop Dogg and RZA. And his former business partner suspects he'd been up to sneaky stuff for a while:
www.wired.com/story/ai-bot...
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‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case
A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bots-streaming-music/
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Tonight...
3 months ago
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Christian Evans
3 months ago
This is an excellent takedown of a lot of popular "phone bad" sentiment, which sits at the intersection of moral panic and nostalgia for the precise time in your life you were a carefree young person.
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People on twitter keep dming me about puppygirls. I’ll write about the new paper! If you are or know a puppygirl who can chime in, please dm. Bedtime now though
3 months ago
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Llamhigyn y Dŵr
4 months ago
Happy Bisexual Awareness Week. Have a fanfiction where Milo Yiannopoulos tries to take down Nick Fuentes in a devious plot involving two of Nick's most famous ex-boyfriends, Jaden McNeil and Patrick Casey
archiveofourown.org/works/71224056
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Imbolc Blessings - llamhigynydwr - 21st Century CE RPF [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
https://archiveofourown.org/works/71224056
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Llamhigyn y Dŵr
3 months ago
I contributed to this!
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K. Chen
4 months ago
Should unlikable people be able to survive in society? Should they be able to thrive? It's rare for dreamers of better socities to confront those questions, but I think they are the ones that matter the most.
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Conrad Hackett
4 months ago
Pew Research Center has done many surveys about libraries. A consistent surprise to me is about 1 in 5 US adults have NEVER visited a public library. Here's a 2016 look at the never library crowd
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/09/a-portrait-of-those-who-have-never-been-to-libraries/
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A portrait of those who have never been to libraries
Nearly half (48%) of Americans visited libraries in the past year. Roughly a third (32%) say they have used libraries at one time or another, though not
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2016/09/09/a-portrait-of-those-who-have-never-been-to-libraries/
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This is what I mean! Folks, I don’t bite! I’m happy to talk to anyone. Just drop me a line.
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4 months ago
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If you want to understand Internet-native nihilism, I recommend
default.blog
and this piece I did late last year:
www.tabletmag.com/feature/adam...
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Adam Lanza Fan Art
My foray into the online world of true crime fandom, where people treat school shooters and serial killers not as criminals but like characters from their favorite movies or novels
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/adam-lanza-fan-art
4 months ago
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René Walter
4 months ago
"The internet is a parallel dimension layered over our reality. It’s a place where thoughts take on form, distortions masquerade as truths, and some people return damaged from staying too long. It’s not just a metaphor; it’s a way to understand why online life feels haunted".
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