Call-In Show #4: Cursed Hotels & Tulpa Jesus

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. It’s hard work. You guys watch a lot of disturbing porn, I’m not going to lie.

Consider sending me a few bucks for my efforts:

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Blessed be, Deeheads!

Today’s call-in show theme is DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. As usual, the show starts on Substack and X at 7:30 Central/8:30 Eastern. Give us a call at: (702)-530-6638.

Some housekeeping:

• This week on the blog, I published an interview with synthetic intimacy expert Dr. Julie Carpenter. Read it here.

Of Love, Bombs, and Sexbots

• If you need me, send me an email (defaultefriend@gmail.com) not a Twitter/X DM! Invite me to things. Commission me. Ask me to speak at your niche conference, podcast, or cable news program. Tell me what you think about my writing. Ask me a question I can’t answer. Most of all Missed Connections and advice questions.

• Did you know that Spiritualism is still an active faith? I went to a Spiritualist Church on Sunday. I really enjoyed it and felt moved by not only the service but the reading I received. I was very surprised to see they still recognize the Fox sisters, who as far as I know, were self-admitted hoaxers. My one piece of feedback is that they should ban cellphones — seeing people glued to their phones or hearing ringtones or the bleep from texts really took me out of the experience.

• Reminder to read my latest in Comment magazine, Internet Overexposure Syndrome.

• There are still copies of egirl 001 left! Here’s a very nice review I received on BlueSky:

And I’ll send you all off with some Ravi Shankar since we talked about it on the last stream: