getting other people to respect you as a "real person" doesn't take place at the level of a style transfer; it invariably involves reciprocal attention and moments of intersubjectivity kneelingbus.substack.com/p/lo-fi-beat...
…“prediction markets exist and are a big business, so they are not only in the business of predicting reality: They’re also in the business of changing it”… The fallacy of prediction markets is the belief that the physical world is inherently “real” kneelingbus.substack.com/p/outsider-t...
Outsider Trading
Prediction markets don't reflect reality, they create it
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the casino sportsbook as an "informational sublime" where information becomes so perfectly actionable that it becomes useless, like an arbitrage always already played out kneelingbus.substack.com/p/situationg...
My latest column for Vice, about content oversaturation anxiety and gooning as a way of dealing with it: www.vice.com/en/article/g...
Gooning: A Logical Response to a World of Infinite Slop
The culture around gooning suggests that Gen Z has adopted a different, less anxious response to the oversaturation of content than millennials.
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The popularity of “slop” as a concept points to something significant about how we experience digital culture in 2025... the term’s usage gets less precise as it’s overloaded with everything we hate about the internet. kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-...
Slop as a Way of Life
AI slop is just the culmination of how humans have been using the internet for years
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once the platform becomes a container *it must be filled*
kelly pendergrast@kellypendergrast.bsky.social · last yr.Great new entry into the annals of slop theory from @kneelingbus.bsky.social (for those still ok with reading ss links): kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-way-of-life Inspired me to note down my current working theory on the genesis of the slop era:
Great new entry into the annals of slop theory from @kneelingbus.bsky.social (for those still ok with reading ss links): kneelingbus.substack.com/p/slop-as-a-way-of-life Inspired me to note down my current working theory on the genesis of the slop era:
Like some of y'all -- I subscribe to too many d*mn newsletters but there are a handful I actually am excited to read. Top of the list is @kneelingbus.bsky.social's writing and today's is one I'll be revisiting for days / months / etc to come kneelingbus.substack.com/p/here-comes...
Here Comes a Regular
Taste is obsolete & gatekeeping is code for what the internet took from us
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it’s fine you can forget the alamo phil collins is remembering it for all of us
pulling my toddler out of the path of James Murphy's citibike
Blunderbolt@bolt451.bsky.social · last yr.Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
With cryptocurrency, the spaces of traditional finance are reconstituted in the self, a grim condition highlighted by the recent kidnapping of a Bitcoin whale, in which the access point for dematerialized wealth is no longer the bank vault but the individual kneelingbus.substack.com/p/channel-su...
Channel Surfing
We won't need to see ads once they're implicit in everything
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This is too good to microdose, yo. Go read the whole thing.
Drew Austin@kneelingbus.bsky.social · last yr."As screen time approaches the limit of our available waking hours, it becomes possible to view the foundational activities of life, such as work and education, as the few remaining obstacles to unfettered content consumption" kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
"As screen time approaches the limit of our available waking hours, it becomes possible to view the foundational activities of life, such as work and education, as the few remaining obstacles to unfettered content consumption" kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
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"As screen time approaches the limit of our available waking hours, it becomes possible to view the foundational activities of life, such as work and education, as the few remaining obstacles to unfettered content consumption" kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-post-w...
The Post-Work City
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet
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I wrote for Vice about the twilight of millennial relevance and our inability to gracefully ride off into the sunset www.vice.com/en/article/a...
An Obituary for Millennial Culture
All mediocre things must come to an end.
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I wrote for Vice about the twilight of millennial relevance and our inability to gracefully ride off into the sunset www.vice.com/en/article/a...
An Obituary for Millennial Culture
All mediocre things must come to an end.
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@kneelingbus.bsky.social words hitting at exactly the right moment, as I’m thinking about the spiritual death and cowardice in probabilistic living (and how often our heroes are those that break free from working the odds, hedging)
"Good protocols, more than comprehensive physical design, enable the staging of uncertainty, the irrigation of territories with potential, and the accommodation of unanticipated opportunity." - @kneelingbus.bsky.social
leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
Cody@codyjohnston.bsky.social · 2y agoI guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
Screen time is also blame the victim as-a-service - tim cook tsk tsking you for watching too many youtube videos
Jay Owens@jayowens.bsky.social · 2y ago‘The most significant feature of the contemporary feed is not the algorithmic black box that curates what appears, but the more straightforward autoplay feature ... Your attention, a harder thing to quantify, doesn’t really matter.’ — Drew Austin kneelingbus.substack.com/p/falling-as...
‘The most significant feature of the contemporary feed is not the algorithmic black box that curates what appears, but the more straightforward autoplay feature ... Your attention, a harder thing to quantify, doesn’t really matter.’ — Drew Austin kneelingbus.substack.com/p/falling-as...
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Statement from Katherine Franke.pdf
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Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless.
Arno Rosenfeld@arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 2y agoScoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...
there should be a twitter clone where you can export over all your follows but no one is able to post
the Seahawks beating the Bears 6-3 is the most Thursday night coded football game you will ever see
“Humans have the gift of forgetting but the models don’t.” kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...
The Meme Fossil Record
Content sometimes dreams about itself
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This piece from @kneelingbus.bsky.social about the commodification of public space is low key really good service design exegesis on what we see vs. what's hidden. kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-amazon...
