Drew Austin
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https://kneelingbus.substack.com
My latest column for Vice, about content oversaturation anxiety and gooning as a way of dealing with it:
www.vice.com/en/article/g...
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Gooning: A Logical Response to a World of Infinite Slop
The culture around gooning suggests that Gen Z has adopted a different, less anxious response to the oversaturation of content than millennials.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/gooning-through-the-infinite-slop/
about 2 months ago
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Marcus Bösch
5 months ago
The popularity of “slop” as a concept points to something significant about how we experience digital culture in 2025... the term’s usage gets less precise as it’s overloaded with everything we hate about the internet.
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-...
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Slop as a Way of Life
AI slop is just the culmination of how humans have been using the internet for years
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-way-of-life?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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once the platform becomes a container *it must be filled*
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kelly pendergrast
5 months ago
Great new entry into the annals of slop theory from
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
(for those still ok with reading ss links):
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-way-of-life
Inspired me to note down my current working theory on the genesis of the slop era:
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🌰 Noah Chestnut
6 months ago
Like some of y'all -- I subscribe to too many d*mn newsletters but there are a handful I actually am excited to read. Top of the list is
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
's writing and today's is one I'll be revisiting for days / months / etc to come
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/here-comes...
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Here Comes a Regular
Taste is obsolete & gatekeeping is code for what the internet took from us
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/here-comes-a-regular
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marlo
over 1 year ago
it’s fine you can forget the alamo phil collins is remembering it for all of us
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pulling my toddler out of the path of James Murphy's citibike
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7 months ago
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With cryptocurrency, the spaces of traditional finance are reconstituted in the self, a grim condition highlighted by the recent kidnapping of a Bitcoin whale, in which the access point for dematerialized wealth is no longer the bank vault but the individual
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Channel Surfing
We won't need to see ads once they're implicit in everything
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/channel-surfing
7 months ago
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marcioguilherme
7 months ago
This is too good to microdose, yo. Go read the whole thing.
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"As screen time approaches the limit of our available waking hours, it becomes possible to view the foundational activities of life, such as work and education, as the few remaining obstacles to unfettered content consumption"
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The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-work-city
8 months ago
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"As screen time approaches the limit of our available waking hours, it becomes possible to view the foundational activities of life, such as work and education, as the few remaining obstacles to unfettered content consumption"
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The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-work-city
8 months ago
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I wrote for Vice about the twilight of millennial relevance and our inability to gracefully ride off into the sunset
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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An Obituary for Millennial Culture
All mediocre things must come to an end.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-obituary-for-millennial-culture/
9 months ago
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I wrote for Vice about the twilight of millennial relevance and our inability to gracefully ride off into the sunset
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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An Obituary for Millennial Culture
All mediocre things must come to an end.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-obituary-for-millennial-culture/
9 months ago
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Andrew Moyo
11 months ago
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
words hitting at exactly the right moment, as I’m thinking about the spiritual death and cowardice in probabilistic living (and how often our heroes are those that break free from working the odds, hedging)
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Timber ☀️
12 months ago
"Good protocols, more than comprehensive physical design, enable the staging of uncertainty, the irrigation of territories with potential, and the accommodation of unanticipated opportunity." -
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Jon Bois
12 months ago
leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
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Steve Farrugia
12 months ago
Screen time is also blame the victim as-a-service - tim cook tsk tsking you for watching too many youtube videos
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Jay Owens
12 months ago
‘The most significant feature of the contemporary feed is not the algorithmic black box that curates what appears, but the more straightforward autoplay feature ... Your attention, a harder thing to quantify, doesn’t really matter.’ — Drew Austin
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Joseph “offline” Howley
12 months ago
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it.
drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
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Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cOWRtsVB_NDCm0kNQTq6y3dM2o51fa/view
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Anil Dash
about 1 year ago
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
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clueless
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about 1 year ago
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there should be a twitter clone where you can export over all your follows but no one is able to post
about 1 year ago
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the Seahawks beating the Bears 6-3 is the most Thursday night coded football game you will ever see
about 1 year ago
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Lane Becker
about 1 year ago
“Humans have the gift of forgetting but the models don’t.”
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The Meme Fossil Record
Content sometimes dreams about itself
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-fossil-record
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Ron Bronson
about 1 year ago
This piece from
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
about the commodification of public space is low key really good service design exegesis on what we see vs. what's hidden.
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-amazon...
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when nobody remembers anything, everything is breaking news
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about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
i thought
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was great on this topic
reallifemag.com/cold-discove...
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Jon Bois
about 1 year ago
[while getting my ass kicked] this is helpful context, thank you
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it's all happening right here on bluesky
about 1 year ago
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this may be the most substack-coded crime ever committed
about 1 year ago
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Roland Meyer
about 1 year ago
«Our information landscape is full of ... yesterday’s memes broken down into their component parts and then reassembled as the building blocks of our present and future self-expression.»
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
#PlatformAesthetics
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The Meme Fossil Record
Content sometimes dreams about itself
https://kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-fossil-record?r=649rs&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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[𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚣𝚘] 🟡
about 1 year ago
The Meme Fossil Record by
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Nick Lewis
about 1 year ago
This is a great post by
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
on Hawk Tuah, ‘brain poisoning’ and AI.
open.substack.com/pub/kneeling...
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The Meme Fossil Record
Content sometimes dreams about itself
https://open.substack.com/pub/kneelingbus/p/the-meme-fossil-record?r=649rs&utm_medium=ios
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new research shows that the typical male thinks about the Late Heavy Bombardment at least once a day
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Late Heavy Bombardment - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment
about 1 year ago
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this is 40
about 1 year ago
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"fart"
about 1 year ago
the first time i went to las vegas in like 2008 i attended a timeshare sales seminar to get a free buffet ticket and my salesman saw i wasnt biting at all so in a hail mary he took me into a smaller room and said "look man, i was there on 9/11"
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i miss the era of Facebook when everyone was marking themselves safe from disasters...the beginning of the end...
about 1 year ago
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my phone just tried to correct "today" to "tuah"
about 1 year ago
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you don't have to worry about chatgpt becoming funny anytime soon
about 1 year ago
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i have bluesky invite codes if anyone needs one
over 2 years ago
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sam³⁰⁰⁰
over 2 years ago
“In the contemporary landscape, the punishment for being authentic is becoming someone else’s content.” a big banger from
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I'm Beginning to See the Light
“In the next few years,” Kyle Chayka tweeted yesterday, “the last desperate search for shreds of authentic local culture will convulse the globe as the internet consumes every interesting quirk ...
https://open.substack.com/pub/kneelingbus/p/im-beginning-to-see-the-light?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=lhpw
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pronouncing bluesky like "brewski"
over 2 years ago
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i have bluesky invite codes if anyone needs one
over 2 years ago
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over 2 years ago
all those of good cheer are welcome on my page
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