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3 weeks 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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1 month 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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1 month ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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2 months ago | 
thedispatch.com | Claude S. Fischer |Katherine Dee |David Drucker |Jonah Goldberg
History shows that culture resists legislation. Published March 10, 2025 • Updated March 9, 2025 Scroll to the comments section Audio versions are only available to subscribers of The Dispatch. Join Today! to listen to this post. Americans are about to undergo a dramatic social experiment. For generations, our values and ways of life have shifted leftward—that is, toward a more individualized, permissive, secular, do-your-own-thing direction.
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2 months ago | 
thefp.com | Katherine Dee
Inside the Erectile Dysfunction Industrial ComplexAre men struggling with ED at high enough rates to justify the number of products they’re advertised for it? Royce, 30, doesn’t have erectile dysfunction in the strict clinical sense. He’s fit, has a steady girlfriend, and tells me that he’s only struggled to “get it up” a handful of times.
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2 months ago | 
cartoonshateher.com | Katherine Dee
Welcome to Many Such Takes! For those unfamiliar, this is a free weekly segment (I also do lots of other stuff!) For Many Such Takes, I stay up to date with the latest and most chaotic Twitter (and now BlueSky) discourse so you don’t have to. If you see yourself featured here and you don’t like it, simply send me a Substack message and I will happily remove, no matter who you are or what you said. For previous issues of Many Such Takes, see this tab on my main page.
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2 months ago | 
schooloftheunconformed.substack.com | Ruth Gaskovski |Peter Limberg |Paul Kingsnorth |Katherine Dee
We had a tremendous response to our invitation for readers to join us in a Communal Digital Fast during Lent, with many enthusiastically looking forward to an intentional commitment of recovering cognitive liberty and restoring our human default. I don’t want to merely detox from the digisphere. I want to change my whole relationship to it—the entire way I think about it. Because I’m fed up of feeling less alive because of it.
