Katherine Dee 🐬/acc
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art bell fan. gordon lightfoot❤️. i write about internet history + culture, commission me. bylines all over. @thecomputer_room on insta. 🐬
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Joined June 2018
Did you have unrestricted access to the Internet growing up? Can I interview you for my blog?
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I miss when washed up personalities were corralled onto VH1 reality TV, as opposed to now, where they do the podcast rounds and we’re supposed to pretend they’re anything more than a freak show
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There’s literally an association of internet researchers with an annual conference and a journal
Is internet anthropology a formalized academic discipline yet Someone needs to chart the memetic lineage that has been occurring uninterrupted since Usenet, when BBSs initiated a "parallel culture" that eventually cannibalized and assimilated the culture of meatspace
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I posted this to piss people off I’m sorry. I stand by it but I knew what I was doing…
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I eat Somali and Ethiopian food voluntarily and even pay a lot of money to do it
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The generative era asks of us, what makes an idea most worthy of a remix? What are the atoms of a story that invite maximum cultural mutation? THE REMIX IS THE KPI
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Incredible book btw
Blank Space by W. David Marx
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I wrote for the Telegraph about the often wasted potential of podcasts https://t.co/nLd8D6oRjf
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The medium has become too easy to make and too easy to consume. We should all have higher standards
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I gotta be real pregnancy consistently changes my political leanings, tastes, etc. Not sure if it’s that more is at stake the more kids I have or hormones really alter your perception or both…
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Yes, and it has been for like 30 years
Is internet anthropology a formalized academic discipline yet Someone needs to chart the memetic lineage that has been occurring uninterrupted since Usenet, when BBSs initiated a "parallel culture" that eventually cannibalized and assimilated the culture of meatspace
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This is what my parents’ house is like
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“I could trace a line from tabloids to Tumblr blogs and then incorrectly attributed posts on Instagram and poorly constructed insights from 20 year olds on TikTok.” LMFAOOOOO @laracroftbarbie
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Usenet, pre-LiveJournal, Tumblr, TikTok… https://t.co/AdCqQAOGBs
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An incomplete history of Dissociative Identity Disorder online.
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It’s all so tiresome
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Does anyone know what political and lobbying orgs are fighting against these “online safety” censorship and surveillance laws like KOSA and the SCREEN Act?
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Why bring Wicca into this .
YouTube took this video down—in which we denounce Hitler as a failson, vegetarian, druggy artist who steadfastly blamed his failures on his father for being too strict and marched under a proto-Wiccan symbol. 🤷♀️ God forbid people question the narrative that he was right wing.
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Nothing here I can add that hasn’t been said but I don’t think witch trials and Maoism were animated by the same impulse
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I found this to be one of the more revolting articles I’ve read. In short: one must be dishonest, and anyone who is honest must be vilified and outcast. It is the *same* impulse which animated witch trials and Maoists, and it is the duty of good people not to be cowards.
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