Katherine Dee
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
big art bell fan. internet culture reporter all over & default.blog
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Katherine Dee
@defaultfriend.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Did you have unrestricted access to the Internet growing up? Can I interview you for my blog?
15ish minutes
Tonight at 7:30 CT.
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
15ish minutes
Tonight at 7:30 CT.
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
November 6, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Tonight at 7:30 CT.
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
Streaming on X, Twitch, and default.blog
Reading this now, highly recommend so far… more thoughts when I finish!
Out today: Blazing Eye Sees All, my investigation into the wide spiritual world of the New Age. It is an unintentional story of extremism, feminism, climate change, deception, power, myth and the very nature of believing. I hope you read it.
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Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age
bookshop.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Reading this now, highly recommend so far… more thoughts when I finish!
This week's call-in show is a true homage to Bell: GHOST TO GHOST!
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Ghost to Ghost
thought digest, 10.29.2025
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October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This week's call-in show is a true homage to Bell: GHOST TO GHOST!
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default.blog/p/ghost-to-g...
18,000 people tuned in…
October 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
18,000 people tuned in…
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.
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From Post-literate to Posthuman
on digital orality and post-literacy
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October 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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.
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Reposted by Katherine Dee
Today, I wrote about taboos.
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What Is Taboo Now That Nothing Is Taboo?
thought digest 10.21.2025
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October 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Today, I wrote about taboos.
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Reposted by Katherine Dee
everything i've posted here is off the record
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
everything i've posted here is off the record
Today, I wrote about taboos.
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
What Is Taboo Now That Nothing Is Taboo?
thought digest 10.21.2025
default.blog
October 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Today, I wrote about taboos.
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
default.blog/p/what-is-ta...
Reposted by Katherine Dee
Worth the read from @defaultfriend.bsky.social.
Why the Young Republicans Felt Comfortable Saying Such Vile Stuff
Life on the internet is eroding the boundaries of decency.
www.politico.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Worth the read from @defaultfriend.bsky.social.
Reposted by Katherine Dee
'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
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@defaultfriend.bsky.social for @politico.com
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Leaked Racist Chats, Internet Realities and the Erosion of Decency
Why the Young Republicans felt comfortable saying such vile stuff.
www.politico.com
October 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
'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...
@defaultfriend.bsky.social for @politico.com
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Reposted by Katherine Dee
New record traffic on Pre-History of an Encounter!
October 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New record traffic on Pre-History of an Encounter!
Today, I continue my techno-mystical adventure by diving head first out of my depth. What if LLMs are djinn?
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LLMs as Djinn
thought digest, 10.14.2025
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October 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Today, I continue my techno-mystical adventure by diving head first out of my depth. What if LLMs are djinn?
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I expanded on the idea that the Internet is an otherworld and proposed some rules for how to navigate it:
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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
thespectator.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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...
thespectator.com/topic/what-f...
Social media is not a substitute for news. I don't want to find out information from a Nextdoor push notification.
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thespectator.com/topic/life-c...
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
thespectator.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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...
thespectator.com/topic/life-c...
Reposted by Katherine Dee
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.
Substacks’s Stacked Debate: The Digital Sexual Revolution, hosted by @defaultfriend.bsky.social Written by Brianna Perry and illustrated by Blaise Larmee.
October 9, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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.
Substacks’s Stacked Debate: The Digital Sexual Revolution, hosted by @defaultfriend.bsky.social Written by Brianna Perry and illustrated by Blaise Larmee.
Reposted by Katherine Dee
I wrote about eugenics, looksmaxxing, and @wired.com's latest Looksmaxxing piece.
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Looksmaxxing and Human Potential
a response to that WIRED article, thought digest, 10.08.2025
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October 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I wrote about eugenics, looksmaxxing, and @wired.com's latest Looksmaxxing piece.
default.blog/p/looksmaxxi...
default.blog/p/looksmaxxi...
TIL Victorian anti-masturbation beliefs is partially responsible for the invention and popularization of sex magick
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 AM
TIL Victorian anti-masturbation beliefs is partially responsible for the invention and popularization of sex magick
;(
This Halloween, the candy seems to be missing a crucial ingredient, @yeahyeahyasmin.bsky.social reports.
Something Weird Is Happening With Halloween Chocolate
Where did it all go?
bit.ly
October 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
;(
Come say hi at Pretty Good Fest!
October 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Come say hi at Pretty Good Fest!
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.
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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.
Reposted by Katherine Dee
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
October 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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
Ask me anything on this thread about e-culture no matter how creepy, obscure, TMI, or out there.
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Ask Me Anything (About Internet Culture)
Remember when Substack used to do "threads"?
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October 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ask me anything on this thread about e-culture no matter how creepy, obscure, TMI, or out there.
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