Writing, talks, interviews, and field notes from internet ethnographer Katherine Dee (Katya Ungerman).

56k.rip simulates the experience of trying to get online 35 years ago, right down to replicating a typical Windows 3.x desktop and requiring you to figure out what to click…

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A virtual roundtable on wokeism, AI, Israel, and much more, featuring Parker Molloy, Sean Monahan, Katherine Dee, and six other outspoken voices in media.

On astronauts, cold metal, and Florida Man.

One of the oldest and most durable features of human experience is re-emerging.

Cole Allen appeared in court yesterday following his thwarted shooting at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. As is so often the case now, the first thing uncovered about him after the incident w...

Every generation panics about girlhood. The latest, over the negative consequences of social media for tweens, hides a bigger problem in girl world: They’ve got nothing else.

How should we feel about Cole Tomas Allen’s attempted assassination of administration officials? Social media makes that harder to answer

You just can't see what it's become.

This week, Vice President JD Vance appeared on the conservative podcast, The Benny Show, and professed that he believed aliens were demons. There are two easy reads here. The first is that Vance was j...

is america "weirding" or did we just come up with a new name for an old type?

The California governor has the ‘it’ factor. And he knows it.

towards a new category of killer

What appear to be psychological disorders among those who spend much of their life online may in fact be rational responses to their environment.

The culture that fandom built won, writes Katherine Dee. But the privacy and community that made fandoms possible is vanishing—and some fans are revolting.

please excuse this

Is cultural time actually continuous?

a quick primer on why i think the internet is fairyland

thought digest, 01.21.2026

The many interesting things I read in November 2025

The internet is a dangerous place. Folklore can teach us how to move through it.