Reposted by Drew AustinRob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 22/05/2026getting 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... 151
Reposted by Drew AustinPG Holmlov @pgho.bsky.social · 25/04/2026…“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...kneelingbus.substack.comOutsider TradingPrediction markets don't reflect reality, they create it 021
Reposted by Drew AustinRob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · 27/03/2026the 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... 061
Reposted by Drew AustinHavelock Vetinari @havelockvetinari.bsky.social · 23/02/2026The future of humanity? kneelingbus.substack.com/p/rememberin...kneelingbus.substack.comRemembering Some GuysComputers will never beat humans at pointlessness 021
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025"Confronted with a massive surplus of content that is being shoved into our faces at all times, which is harder than ever to avoid or even limit, we need new ways to process it all as it accumulates, and gooning is one such response to the excess." 010
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 25/11/2025My latest column for Vice, about content oversaturation anxiety and gooning as a way of dealing with it: www.vice.com/en/article/g...vice.comGooning: A Logical Response to a World of Infinite SlopThe culture around gooning suggests that Gen Z has adopted a different, less anxious response to the oversaturation of content than millennials. 140
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 12/08/2025you'd probably like Sachin Benny's substack! summerlightning.substack.comsummerlightning.substack.comSummer Lightning | Sachin | SubstackEssays about story worthy moments in the mundane and every day. Click to read Summer Lightning, by Sachin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers. 120
Reposted by Drew AustinMarcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 02/08/2025The 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-...kneelingbus.substack.comSlop as a Way of LifeAI slop is just the culmination of how humans have been using the internet for years 051
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 01/08/2025great points. might be more accurate to say that slop appears for no *good* reason (at least from the viewer's perspective)...ie a lot of slop is serving a clear purpose for the party who is pumping it out and point 2 deserves its own essay...slop friendly environments 120
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 01/08/2025once the platform becomes a container *it must be filled* 271
Reposted by Drew Austinkelly pendergrast @kellypendergrast.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Great 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: 1254
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 10/07/2025thank you Noah! so glad you enjoyed this one, had been building up for a while 120
Reposted by Drew Austin🌰 Noah Chestnut @noahchestnut.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Like 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...kneelingbus.substack.comHere Comes a RegularTaste is obsolete & gatekeeping is code for what the internet took from us 231
Reposted by Drew Austinmarlo @marlo.ooo · 28/07/2024it’s fine you can forget the alamo phil collins is remembering it for all of us 2761595
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 13/06/2025pulling my toddler out of the path of James Murphy's citibike 040
Reposted by Drew Austinutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 11/06/2025paulg is posting good again 41245
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 04/06/2025With 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...kneelingbus.substack.comChannel SurfingWe won't need to see ads once they're implicit in everything 030
Reposted by Drew Austinmarcioguilherme @marcioguilherme.bsky.social · 01/06/2025This is too good to microdose, yo. Go read the whole thing. 031
Reposted by Drew AustinDrew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"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...kneelingbus.substack.comThe Post-Work CityCities feel like theme parks and so does the internet 075
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 16/05/2025"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...kneelingbus.substack.comThe Post-Work CityCities feel like theme parks and so does the internet 075
Reposted by Drew AustinDrew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I 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...vice.comAn Obituary for Millennial CultureAll mediocre things must come to an end. 062
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I 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...vice.comAn Obituary for Millennial CultureAll mediocre things must come to an end. 062
Reposted by Drew AustinAndrew Moyo @namdeco.bsky.social · 28/02/2025@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) 021
Reposted by Drew AustinTimber ☀️ @tmbr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025"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 021
Reposted by Drew AustinJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 28/01/2025leaving 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 119186613292
Reposted by Drew AustinSteve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 25/01/2025Screen time is also blame the victim as-a-service - tim cook tsk tsking you for watching too many youtube videos 021
Reposted by Drew AustinJay Owens @jayowens.bsky.social · 25/01/2025‘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... 083
Reposted by Drew AustinJoseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Here 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...drive.google.comStatement from Katherine Franke.pdf 611430533
Reposted by Drew AustinAnil Dash @anildash.com · 07/01/2025Wikipedia is the last major, visible platform for facts that they can’t buy. The attacks are going to be merciless. 12685173508
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 03/01/2025there should be a twitter clone where you can export over all your follows but no one is able to post 020
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 27/12/2024the Seahawks beating the Bears 6-3 is the most Thursday night coded football game you will ever see 000
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 21/12/2024yeah thats a great point - theres so many similar versions of that too. technology creates more sophisticated mechanisms for sorting people out into different tiers and routing them into their own spaces 010
Reposted by Drew AustinLane Becker @lanebecker.bsky.social · 09/12/2024“Humans have the gift of forgetting but the models don’t.” kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...kneelingbus.substack.comThe Meme Fossil RecordContent sometimes dreams about itself 041
Reposted by Drew AustinRon Bronson @ronbronson.com · 21/12/2024This 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... 3195
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 19/12/2024when nobody remembers anything, everything is breaking news 060
Reposted by Drew Austin👁️ @nathanjurgenson.com · 17/12/2024i thought @kneelingbus.bsky.social was great on this topic reallifemag.com/cold-discove... 051
Reposted by Drew AustinJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 12/12/2024[while getting my ass kicked] this is helpful context, thank you 174188445
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024this may be the most substack-coded crime ever committed 050
Reposted by Drew AustinRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024«Our information landscape is full of ... yesterday’s memes broken down into their component parts and then reassembled as the building blocks of our present and future self-expression.» @kneelingbus.bsky.social #PlatformAesthetics kneelingbus.substack.com/p/the-meme-f...kneelingbus.substack.comThe Meme Fossil RecordContent sometimes dreams about itself 154
Reposted by Drew Austin[ 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚣𝚘 ] 🟡 @carrozo.com · 09/12/2024The Meme Fossil Record by @kneelingbus.bsky.social 022
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Haha yes, that basically the definition of trauma...which feels right. Congrats on avoiding Hawk Tuah until now! Maybe that means I should be spending less time on Twitter and more time here 020
Reposted by Drew AustinNick Lewis @nickoluigi.bsky.social · 07/12/2024This is a great post by @kneelingbus.bsky.social on Hawk Tuah, ‘brain poisoning’ and AI. open.substack.com/pub/kneeling...open.substack.comThe Meme Fossil RecordContent sometimes dreams about itself 141
Drew Austin @kneelingbus.bsky.social · 06/12/2024new research shows that the typical male thinks about the Late Heavy Bombardment at least once a day en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_He...en.wikipedia.orgLate Heavy Bombardment - Wikipedia 011
