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-...

once the platform becomes a container *it must be filled*

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:

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...

it’s fine you can forget the alamo phil collins is remembering it for all of us

pulling my toddler out of the path of James Murphy's citibike

paulg is posting good again

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 kneelingbus.substack.com/p/channel-su...

This is too good to microdose, yo. Go read the whole thing.

"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" kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...

"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" kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...

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...

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...

@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)

"Good protocols, more than comprehensive physical design, enable the staging of uncertainty, the irrigation of territories with potential, and the accommodation of unanticipated opportunity." - @kneelingbus.bsky.social

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

Screen time is also blame the victim as-a-service - tim cook tsk tsking you for watching too many youtube videos

‘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 kneelingbus.substack.com/p/falling-as...

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...

Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.

clueless

there should be a twitter clone where you can export over all your follows but no one is able to post

the Seahawks beating the Bears 6-3 is the most Thursday night coded football game you will ever see

“Humans have the gift of forgetting but the models don’t.” kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...

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...

“party city’s going out of business” would be a good line right before you kicked someone in the nuts

when nobody remembers anything, everything is breaking news

i thought @kneelingbus.bsky.social was great on this topic reallifemag.com/cold-discove...

[while getting my ass kicked] this is helpful context, thank you

it's all happening right here on bluesky

this may be the most substack-coded crime ever committed

«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 kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...

This is a great post by @kneelingbus.bsky.social on Hawk Tuah, ‘brain poisoning’ and AI. open.substack.com/pub/kneeling...

new research shows that the typical male thinks about the Late Heavy Bombardment at least once a day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_He...

this is 40

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"

i miss the era of Facebook when everyone was marking themselves safe from disasters...the beginning of the end...

my phone just tried to correct "today" to "tuah"

you don't have to worry about chatgpt becoming funny anytime soon

i have bluesky invite codes if anyone needs one

“In the contemporary landscape, the punishment for being authentic is becoming someone else’s content.” a big banger from @kneelingbus.bsky.social

pronouncing bluesky like "brewski"

i have bluesky invite codes if anyone needs one

all those of good cheer are welcome on my page