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1 week ago | 
default.blog | Katherine Dee
I’m Katherine Dee. I read in an industry newsletter that I should re-introduce myself in every post. I’m an Internet ethnographer and reporter. This newsletter is filled with interviews, takes on current events, a sporadic advice column, Craigslist-style missed connections, Internet culture explainers, streams, a book club, predictions and forecasts… There’s a lot of stuff. Help me feel better than my comrades-in-Substack through a donation.
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3 weeks ago | 
piratewires.com | Katherine Dee
why a community of depressed young men with nothing to lose is convinced the only way out of their misery is gender transition
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1 month ago | 
default.blog | Katherine Dee
I’m Katherine Dee. I read in an industry newsletter that I should re-introduce myself in every post. I’m an Internet ethnographer and reporter. This newsletter is filled with interviews, takes on current events, a sporadic advice column, Craigslist-style missed connections, Internet culture explainers, streams, a book club, predictions and forecasts… There’s a lot of stuff. I also spend maybe 20 hours a week talking to people about how they use the Internet.
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1 month ago | 
default.blog | Katherine Dee
On Saturday morning, a parked SUV exploded outside the American Reproductive Centers fertility clinic, killing its driver and wounding at least four bystanders. Federal agents branded the blast an act of terrorism aimed at in-vitro fertilization.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Katherine Dee
The Monday Essay Short-form video is the logical outgrowth of an increasingly oral culture. Published April 21, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post.
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2 months ago | 
piratewires.com | Katherine Dee
During a particularly trying period of my pregnancy, I found myself relying on Claude, Anthropic’s AI chatbot, for emotional support. Intrigued by this technology that was supposedly poised to put me, my husband, and everyone we knew out of a job, I asked if he — and it’s always “he,” not quite a person but a silhouette of masculinity in my imagination — could roleplay as my psychoanalyst.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
lessfoolish.substack.com | Peter Limberg |Katherine Dee |Sean Monahan |August Lamm
This essay is over 5,500 words and contains commentary on Tony Robbins’ “Unleash the Power Within” workshop, along with brief visual references used to illustrate the experience. All content is shared under the Fair Use doctrine for the purpose of advancing a “wisdom commons”—a space where wisdom is made more common. All rights to referenced materials belong to their original creators. Less Foolish is not affiliated with or endorsed by Tony Robbins or Robbins Research International. Tony Robbins.
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
clunyjournal.com | Katherine Dee
During the summer of 2019, an English teenager named Mary-Belle Kirschner—better known as Belle Delphine—burst into the mainstream by selling small jars of “GamerGirl Bath Water” for $30 apiece. The stunt spread rapidly across social media and the press, generating a predictable churn of headlines and think pieces. Was she a troll? A “performance artist”? Our era’s Andy Warhol?
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Mar 13, 2025 | 
wisdomofcrowds.live | Katherine Dee
is an Internet historian and culture critic whose 2024 essay, “No, Culture is Not Stuck,” is one of the most popular pieces we’ve ever published. Today, she writes about our lack of, and need for, modern fairy tales that warn us about the dangers of celebrity and money in the age of the Internet.
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Mar 12, 2025 | 
botharetrue.substack.com | Katherine Dee
I had , the writer of on a stream yesterday and it was great. We basically just hung out and talked about being weird online people. Some stuff that came up:We both admitted that having kids, turning 30, and other life milestones did nothing to cure our need for internet attention. If anything, it got worse. Katherine introduced me to "lolcows" - people who get obsessively documented and mocked online. What a world! She has haters who find her boring yet still talk about her constantly.
