Nov 19, 2022 • 56M

Episode 140: Katherine Dee (@Default_Friend) Explains The Internet To Jesse

(He still doesn't get it)

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Journalists Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal scour the internet for its craziest, silliest, most sociopathic content, part of an obsessive and ill-conceived attempt to extract kernels of meaning and humanity from a landscape of endless raging dumpster fires.
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Jesse’s been off in Israel resolving and/or exacerbating tensions between the Israelis and Palestinians, FAR too busy to talk to some distant goy like Katie, so here’s an interview he recently conducted with Katherine Dee, an extremely smart and perceptive writer and podcaster on internet culture. Topics include the very… *particular* nature of rationalist gatherings, the perils of parasocial relationships, and the question of what identity means when it’s severed from any sort of embodied, real-world existence.

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2 years ago · 1 like · Jesse Singal

Some of Dee’s favorite articles that she has written:

Tumblr Transformed American Politics

https://theamericanconservative.com/tumblr-transformed-american-politics/ 

Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made

CONTRA
Mass Shootings and the World Liberalism Made
Sandy Hook was supposed to be the tipping point in our national conversation about mass shootings. This wasn’t a shopping mall or movie theater. It wasn’t a high school. We could imagine this happening at a high school. We had seen that before. But we could not imagine anyone shooting six-year-olds. It was so monstrous that it seemed beyond the pale of p…
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9 months ago · 186 likes · 65 comments · Katherine Dee

 

Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual

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Rise of the Female-to-Female Transsexual
Who is the Gen Z bimbo? A November 2020 Rolling Stone article declares that she’s “back, like for real!” The U.K.’s CHECK-OUT Mag explains “how TikTok and Gen Z redefined the core principles of being a bimbo” as though it’s a real political movement campaigning on the platform of bimboism…
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8 months ago · 11 likes · 7 comments · Katherine Dee

 

The Ghost of Adam Lanza, Pt. 1

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Listen now (60 min) | Part one of a special series about Adam Lanza’s digital footprint. In episode one, I speak with the author of the essay, “The Ghost of Adam Lanza,” BlitheringGenius. This is still a work-in-progress— the un-paywalled version may see slight changes (certainly improved audio quality). Please feel free to flag anything in the comments…
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10 months ago · 17 likes · 13 comments · Katherine Dee

 

The brief and wondrous life of a scene.

Default Wisdom
The brief and wondrous life of a scene.
I tried—with very little success—to place a version of this piece. Asked everyone I knew. Got some initial bites from exciting places. Publications I never thought I’d be able to publish with. But the subject matter, however limply I engaged with it, is a real third-rail…
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8 months ago · 25 likes · 26 comments · Katherine Dee

The image is the ace pride flag: https://grpride.org/product/asexual-pride-flag/

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