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Katherine Dee

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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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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 7h

My views are maturing

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Nico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 8h

A very good point

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 11h

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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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 1d

TIL Victorian anti-masturbation beliefs is partially responsible for the invention and popularization of sex magick

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 1d

;(

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

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

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 4d

Come say hi at Pretty Good Fest!

Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 5d

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.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

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

“Cartography of Generative AI (2024)” shows a sprawling, diagrammatic ecosystem of how generative AI is produced and maintained. The background is light pink with turquoise and yellow highlights. The left side has a turquoise vertical sidebar with labeled sections such as AI imaginaries, Critical expertise, Data sciences, Silicon Valley, and AI harms.

The main diagram maps the flow of generative AI development from top to bottom:

Top left: A globe icon with arrows represents global energy consumption, linked to servers and calculation power (chips, GPUs, and companies like TSMC).

Top center: Rows of red server racks show data centers, connected to big data platforms and pipelines of training data (shown as orange blocks).

Top right: Yellow stacks and schematic diagrams depict the supply chain of raw materials (e.g., cobalt, lithium) and scenes of mining.

Upper right corner: A vignette labeled digital colonialism shows resource extraction sites and cables crossing oceans.

Middle section:

Blue isometric office-like spaces labeled AI start-ups and Silicon Valley venture capital, with tiny illustrated workers at desks, computers, and whiteboards.

Orange and yellow arrows and blocks represent the movement of datasets, training, and alignment processes.

A section labeled human labour shows rows of workers annotating data.

Lower section:

Gridded platforms in orange and yellow depict data extraction from the internet—social media, images, sound, text—and web scraping from sources like Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, YouTube.

Groups of small figures interact with large wireframe cube models labeled generative AI engines.

Other vignettes show AI products (like chatbots), digital gig work, and consumer use.

Far right:

Layers of stacked chips show advanced chip production and global supply chains.

A blue network node diagram illustrates the infrastructure economy behind AI technologies.

Boxes at the bottom describe research and governance structures.

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 5d

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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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 5d

tbh the success of the "let's shit on social media" cottage industry is a strong signal those pundits are looking backwards and not at the present

Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social · 5d

"It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline."

By @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

www.ft.com/content/a072...

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

We're live.
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LIVE NOW: Call-in Show #22: Alien Abductions

Katherine Dee on Substack

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

So excited for this one

Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight...

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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · May 20

Went deep on the first AI streaming music fraud case. Mike Smith, the defendant, had more ties to the industry than you'd think. He worked with Snoop Dogg and RZA. And his former business partner suspects he'd been up to sneaky stuff for a while: www.wired.com/story/ai-bot...

‘A Billion Streams and No Fans’: Inside a $10 Million AI Music Fraud Case

A chart-topping jazz album! Loads of Spotify and Apple Music plays! Just one problem: The success might not be real.

www.wired.com

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

Tonight...

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Christian Evans @christianevans.bsky.social · 6d

This is an excellent takedown of a lot of popular "phone bad" sentiment, which sits at the intersection of moral panic and nostalgia for the precise time in your life you were a carefree young person.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 7d

Been a while since I did a post just tearing apart absurd anti-tech screeds & Gen Z panicmongering, so let's go!

Today's newsletter is a 3-for-1 rant about romanticizing the past and pathologizing the present...

reason.com/2025/10/01/c...

Can we please stop romanticizing pre-smartphone life?

A lot of anti-tech screeds only work by romanticizing the past while pathologizing the present and projecting damage on strangers.

reason.com

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

LMAO

Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, I think for most people it's just a passing thing, like any other form of intimate roleplay

Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

Preliminary thoughts up on Substack, but as a "note" not an article. The preview image is of a person I'm disagreeing with -- not my own views!
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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 6d

would you say it’s more of a role play or identity? I think I grok what you mean re fetish — like my identity as a woman has something to do w how I have sex but it’s mostly just who I am in a broader sense

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 7d

People on twitter keep dming me about puppygirls. I’ll write about the new paper! If you are or know a puppygirl who can chime in, please dm. Bedtime now though

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 7d

What’s the rp scene like?

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Llamhigyn y Dŵr @llamhigynydwr.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Bisexual Awareness Week. Have a fanfiction where Milo Yiannopoulos tries to take down Nick Fuentes in a devious plot involving two of Nick's most famous ex-boyfriends, Jaden McNeil and Patrick Casey
archiveofourown.org/works/71224056

Imbolc Blessings - llamhigynydwr - 21st Century CE RPF [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Llamhigyn y Dŵr @llamhigynydwr.bsky.social · 7d

I contributed to this!

Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 8d

Nick Fuentes has a lot of fans *on the left.* Over the past couple of weeks, I've been getting to know them.
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Nick Fuentes' Body, Our DeviantArt Account

thought digest, 09.30.2025

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Katherine Dee @defaultfriend.bsky.social · 8d

Nick Fuentes has a lot of fans *on the left.* Over the past couple of weeks, I've been getting to know them.
default.blog/p/nick-fuent...

Nick Fuentes' Body, Our DeviantArt Account

thought digest, 09.30.2025

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 9d

Should unlikable people be able to survive in society? Should they be able to thrive?

It's rare for dreamers of better socities to confront those questions, but I think they are the ones that matter the most.

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