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?
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CAE 57 is now out, with the best things I read last month. This month's great pieces include:
- @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed
- @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY
- @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture
& more!
- @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed
- @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY
- @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture
& more!
The Curious About Everything Newsletter #57
The many interesting things I read in November 2025
jodiettenberg.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
CAE 57 is now out, with the best things I read last month. This month's great pieces include:
- @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed
- @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY
- @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture
& more!
- @thelocal.to on a freelancer not being what she seemed
- @rosalindadams.bsky.social on the godmother of weed in NY
- @defaultfriend.bsky.social on how trad culture was never counterculture
& more!
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“The otherworld rewards skilled navigators and destroys the careless: Treasures turn to leaves; fairy wives eventually disappear back home; hubris causes travelers to be lost forever, or worse, to wither and die.” @defaultfriend.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“The otherworld rewards skilled navigators and destroys the careless: Treasures turn to leaves; fairy wives eventually disappear back home; hubris causes travelers to be lost forever, or worse, to wither and die.” @defaultfriend.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
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“Seeing the internet as a fairyland — an otherworld with its own logic — isn’t about mystifying technology. It’s about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is,” Katya Ungerman writes.
Opinion | Why We Need Fairy Tales in the Digital Age
The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.
nyti.ms
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
“Seeing the internet as a fairyland — an otherworld with its own logic — isn’t about mystifying technology. It’s about seeing it sharply, as the strange and powerful environment it really is,” Katya Ungerman writes.
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"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours."
I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.
I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"With the internet, we cross a threshold into an otherworld. A.I. is like a creature from the otherworld who crosses into ours."
I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.
I love this piece by @defaultfriend.bsky.social about the need for myth to survive the digital age.
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Hello from Australia @defaultfriend.bsky.social (video in reply)
Currently in a book store in Melbourne and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald has just come on the speaker.
November 28, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Hello from Australia @defaultfriend.bsky.social (video in reply)
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"Finally, Featured Author @defaultfriend.bsky.social makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle."
Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...
Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...
The Trad Movement Is Sputtering. Here’s What Comes Next
Flaunting “traditional values” was a way to gin up attention online, but being “trad” was never a true countercultural movement, argues Katherine Dee.
www.gq.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Finally, Featured Author @defaultfriend.bsky.social makes the case that unlike the “trad” movement, the next real counterculture will refuse spectacle."
Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...
Among this week's Fairer Disputations highlights.
www.gq.com/story/trad-m...
Tune it : )
And we're LIVE! Psychedelia and Mormons. The theme is THE GREAT TRIP.
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open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE NOW: Call-in Show #29: The Great Trip
Katherine Dee on Substack
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Tune it : )
And we're LIVE! Psychedelia and Mormons. The theme is THE GREAT TRIP.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE NOW: Call-in Show #29: The Great Trip
Katherine Dee on Substack
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 AM
And we're LIVE! Psychedelia and Mormons. The theme is THE GREAT TRIP.
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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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.
bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...
bookshop.org/p/books/blaz...
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!
default.blog/p/ghost-to-g...
default.blog/p/ghost-to-g...
Ghost to Ghost
thought digest, 10.29.2025
default.blog
October 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This week's call-in show is a true homage to Bell: GHOST TO GHOST!
default.blog/p/ghost-to-g...
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.
default.blog/p/from-post-...
default.blog/p/from-post-...
From Post-literate to Posthuman
on digital orality and post-literacy
default.blog
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.
default.blog/p/from-post-...
default.blog/p/from-post-...
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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...
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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.
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'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
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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?
default.blog/p/llms-as-dj...
default.blog/p/llms-as-dj...
LLMs as Djinn
thought digest, 10.14.2025
default.blog
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?
default.blog/p/llms-as-dj...
default.blog/p/llms-as-dj...
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...
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.
thespectator.com/topic/life-c...
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...