Vol. II · No. 259
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Wednesday, September 16, 2026
174 writers in the library
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Culture

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An emotional scrapbook of the Internet. Rabbit holes, mood swings, and subcultures.

Recent essays

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With Yumeshipping, Your Heart Has to Be in It or What’s the Point?

case study #24

The Sexual Revolution of the Imagination

thought digest, 09.14.2026

Will UFO Research Always Be a Sideshow?

a conversation with mark rodeghier

Different Types of Truth with Jeffrey Kripal

“You don’t have answers, but you want to have the conversation.”

The Sex Organs of the Machine World

+ something new from Andrey Mir

This Isn’t About Parasocial Attachment

thought digest, 09.03.2026

Minimum Viable Soul

thought digest, 09.01.2026

Ethical AI Monogamy…?

thought digest, 08.29.2026

Should “Technological History” Be a Part of Psych Intakes? (Yes.)

thought digest, 08.27.2026

Logging Back Into Facebook

pleiadian download #3

It’s Not Supernatural. It’s in My Imagination.

case study #23

David/Denise, as seen on MTV's Catfish

as seen on catfish. case study #22

Woke 2

pleiadian download #2

Understanding Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Murder Through the Lens of the Wendigo

the hidden threat of gore videos

Political Pornography

the disembodied sexuality of politics in our aegosexual age

The Benefit of Hindsight in Turkle’s Life on the Screen

the timeline of books in the ‘90s heralding the age of simulation were both premature and incomplete

The Usenet Oracle

from the archives, the late 80s

Cascade of Singularities

A futuristic speculation

11 Things I'm Thinking About While Breastfeeding Two Babies at Once

thought digest, 07.04.2026

There’s a Crack in Everything

At Chicago’s ‘Dawn of Digital’ Exhibition

Drifting, Falling, Floating Weightless, Calling Home

the first newsletter back since i became a mommy of three

Humanoids in the Loop

a guest post by @PrecursorPoets

I Spent a Decade in Love With a Vampire on the Internet

all kink, no aftercare

The Machine Looks Back

i'm noticing a trend in critiques of social media

A Klansman Predicted Online Extremism in 1983. What Came Next Is Worse.

my latest for tablet magazine.

Welcome to LambdaMOO!

from the archives, may 1992

We Thought the Internet Was For Us. It Turns Out It's For AI.

how AI is liberating intelligence from humans

The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover

from the archives, 1985

Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community

from the archive, 1992

Maggot Story

from the archive, 2004