Drew Austin
@kneelingbus.bsky.social
My latest column for Vice, about content oversaturation anxiety and gooning as a way of dealing with it:
www.vice.com/en/article/g...
www.vice.com/en/article/g...
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.
www.vice.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My latest column for Vice, about content oversaturation anxiety and gooning as a way of dealing with it:
www.vice.com/en/article/g...
www.vice.com/en/article/g...
Reposted by Drew Austin
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-...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-...
Slop as a Way of Life
AI slop is just the culmination of how humans have been using the internet for years
kneelingbus.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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-...
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:
Inspired me to note down my current working theory on the genesis of the slop era:
July 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
once the platform becomes a container *it must be filled*
Reposted by Drew Austin
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:
Inspired me to note down my current working theory on the genesis of the slop era:
July 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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:
Inspired me to note down my current working theory on the genesis of the slop era:
Reposted by Drew Austin
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...
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...
Here Comes a Regular
Taste is obsolete & gatekeeping is code for what the internet took from us
kneelingbus.substack.com
July 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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...
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...
Reposted by Drew Austin
it’s fine you can forget the alamo phil collins is remembering it for all of us
July 28, 2024 at 8:08 PM
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
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
pulling my toddler out of the path of James Murphy's citibike
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paulg is posting good again
June 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/channel-su...
Channel Surfing
We won't need to see ads once they're implicit in everything
kneelingbus.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/channel-su...
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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...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
kneelingbus.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
This is too good to microdose, yo. Go read the whole thing.
Reposted by Drew Austin
"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...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
kneelingbus.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"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...
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...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
kneelingbus.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"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...
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
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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...
An Obituary for Millennial Culture
All mediocre things must come to an end.
www.vice.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
An Obituary for Millennial Culture
All mediocre things must come to an end.
www.vice.com
April 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
Reposted by Drew Austin
@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)
February 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
@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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"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
- @kneelingbus.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"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
- @kneelingbus.bsky.social
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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
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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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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...
— Drew Austin
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/falling-as...
January 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Screen time is also blame the victim as-a-service - tim cook tsk tsking you for watching too many youtube videos
Reposted by Drew Austin
‘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...
— Drew Austin
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/falling-as...
January 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
‘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...
— Drew Austin
kneelingbus.substack.com/p/falling-as...
Reposted by Drew Austin
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...
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
drive.google.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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...
Reposted by Drew Austin
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism
forward.com/news/686797/...
forward.com/news/686797/...
Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.
forward.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
clueless
What tangible wins did Dems get for their anti-tech crusade to offset pissing off big tech and radicalizing CEO’s/VC’s into supporting Trump?
January 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
clueless
there should be a twitter clone where you can export over all your follows but no one is able to post
January 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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
December 27, 2024 at 4:31 AM
the Seahawks beating the Bears 6-3 is the most Thursday night coded football game you will ever see
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“Humans have the gift of forgetting but the models don’t.” kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...
The Meme Fossil Record
Content sometimes dreams about itself
kneelingbus.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 6:02 AM
“Humans have the gift of forgetting but the models don’t.” kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...