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The Computer Room

Katherine Dee

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01:21:36

A Cyberethnography of Imagination ft. Ruby Justice...

The Computer Room ·

2024/04/08

Katherine sat down with cyberethnographer and artist Ruby Justice Thelot and discussed the role of imagination in computer-mediated communication, paracosms, building durable relationships with AI, and more. Ruby's book: https://www.irrelevantpress.com/store/pre-sale-a-cyberarchaeology-of-checkpoints-ruby-thelotRuby's Twitter: https://twitter.com/being_on_lineRuby's blog: https://asterisques.com/

81:37

A Cyberethnography of Imagination

The Computer Room ·

2024/04/08

Katherine sat down with cyberethnographer and artist Ruby Justice Thelot and discussed the role of imagination in computer-mediated communication, paracosms, building durable relationships with AI, and more. * Ruby's book, A Cyberarcheology of Checkpoints * Ruby's Twitter* Ruby's blog * A really cool video Ruby made, Why Aliens Love America This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit default.blog/subscribe

28:49

My Husband Lives In Another Reality... Literally

The Computer Room ·

2024/04/05

I spoke to 23-year-old reality shifter Maddie about her experiences traveling to other timelines. You may have heard of reality shifting before—probably through the lens of the now-familiar genre of ”this dangerous TikTok trend is endangering your kids” clickbait. ‘Reality shifting’ is, simply put, when people shift their consciousness to another timeline—an alternate reality—including ones with fictional elements. My friend Esmé Partridge has written about reality shifting extensively through the

00:28:48

Mini-sode: My Husband Lives In Another Reality ......

The Computer Room ·

2024/04/05

Katherine speaks to 23-year-old reality shifter Maddie about her experiences traveling to other timelines. Learn more about Maddie here: https://maddieshifts.carrd.co/

124:02

Dating 6 Women at Once Is the Most Fun a Podcast Bro...

The Computer Room ·

2024/04/01

Katherine and Gio discuss the Cut's Andrew Huberman profile, what does and doesn't count as "being political," emo kids, and which up-and-coming public intellectuals they want to model themselves after. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit default.blog/subscribe

02:04:01

Dating 6 Women at Once Is the Most Fun a Podcast Bro...

The Computer Room ·

2024/04/01

82:01

seduction.com

The Computer Room ·

2024/03/09

Ross Jeffries, the author of How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed, The Secrets of Speed Seduction Mastery and webmaster of seduction.com and speedseduction.ai, is considered the Godfather of the Red Pill. In his own words, he "doesn’t know s**t about relationships, but he can teach you how to get laid."Gio and Katherine sit down and talk to him about the first PUA newsgroup, alt.seduction.fast, seduction.com, and how the PUA community evolved and the Manosphere developed into what it is today.

01:22:00

seduction.com ft. Ross Jeffries

The Computer Room ·

2024/03/09

Ross Jeffries, the author of How to Get the Women You Desire into Bed, The Secrets of Speed Seduction Mastery and webmaster of seduction.com and speedseduction.ai, is considered the Godfather of the Red Pill. In his own words, he "doesn’t know shit about relationships, but he can teach you how to get laid."Gio and Katherine sit down and talk to him about the first PUA newsgroup, alt.seduction.fast, seduction.com, and how the PUA community evolved and the Manosphere developed into what it is

01:55:37

Coming of Age as a Gay Nerd Who's Afraid of Sex

The Computer Room ·

2024/02/12

Katherine and Gio review the wonderfully weird film Rukus (2018), which is one part of coming of age story and one part mockumentary about furries.

115:38

Coming of Age as a Gay Nerd Who's Afraid of Sex

The Computer Room ·

2024/02/12

Katherine and Gio review the wonderfully weird film Rukus (2018), which is one part of coming of age story and one part mockumentary about furries. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit default.blog/subscribe

33:26

"Friends in your head disorder."

The Computer Room ·

2024/02/09

Katherine sat down with Tal from the Tally Mark System to discuss the much-misunderstood Dissociative Identity Disorder and its complementary TikTok community. You can find Tal here."Windows have become a powerful metaphor for thinking about the self as a multiple, distributed system," Turkle writes. "The self is no longer simply playing different roles in different settings at different times. The life practice of windows is that of a decentered self that exists in many worlds, that plays many

00:33:26

Mini-sode: It's not friends in your head disorder ft....

The Computer Room ·

2024/02/09

Katherine sits down with Tal from the Tally Mark System to discuss the much misunderstood Dissociative Identity Disorder and its complementary TikTok community. Find Tal here: https://tallymarksystem.carrd.co/.

00:23:22

Mini-sode: I love my waifu, Sayaka Maizono ft. Tobyn...

The Computer Room ·

2024/01/19

In today’s mini-sode, I talked to Tobyn Jacobs about cut-out art, waifus, and whether or not it’s all just a bit.Follow Tobyn on Twitter, TikTok, and YouTube.

01:28:45

Pretty Intense New Year Episode ft. applemilk1988

The Computer Room ·

2024/01/05

In our first episode of 2024 (naturally recorded in September), we interview pretty intense early Japanese language YouTuber AppleMilk1988 about Stickam, Encyclopedia Dramatica, proto-e-girls, and living in Japan.That McDonald's ad from forever agoapplemilk1988's YouTube channelapplemilk1988's Twitch

88:45

Pretty Intense New Year Episode

The Computer Room ·

2024/01/05

In our first episode of 2024 (naturally recorded in September), we interview pretty intense early Japanese language YouTuber applemilk1988 about Stickam, Encyclopedia Dramatica, proto-e-girls, and living in Japan.* That McDonald’s ad from forever ago* applemilk1988's YouTube channel* applemilk1988's Twitch This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit default.blog/subscribe

93:01

Man and Animal and Otherkin

The Computer Room ·

2023/12/05

Gio and Kat discuss Agamben's book The Open: Man and Animal and what it has to do with otherkins. They read some of it out loud and may or may have not butchered some of the pronunciations. If you need to fast-forward through those parts, peep the PDF of the book here. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit default.blog/subscribe

01:33:00

Man and Animal and Otherkin

The Computer Room ·

2023/12/05

Gio and Kat discuss Agamben's book The Open: Man and Animal and what it has to do with otherkins. They read some of it out loud and may or may have not butchered some of the pronunciations. If you need to fast-forward through those parts, peep the PDF of the book here: http://ewa.home.amu.edu.pl/Agamben,%20The%20Open.pdf

00:28:33

Mini-sode: Cartoon Love

The Computer Room ·

2023/12/04

Episodes with Gio coming THIS WEEK. We talk so much I haven't been able to edit them down to manageable episodes. I promise!!I spoke to fictophile/fictosexual Cait Calder about what it’s like to have a fictional crush.When I first talked about fictosexuality over at UnHerd, I got a lot of pushback: Why does this need to be labeled? Don’t all women do this?To some extent, sure. The success of Twilight and Fifty Shades is illustrative. Before that, Stephen King wrote an entire book about women's

28:34

A Conversation With a Young Woman In a Relationship...

The Computer Room ·

2023/12/04

Fictophilia. Today, I spoke to fictophile/fictosexual Cait Calder about what it’s like to have a fictional crush. When I first talked about fictosexuality over at UnHerd, I got a lot of pushback: Why does this need to be labeled? Don’t all women do this? To some extent, sure. The success of Twilight and Fifty Shades is illustrative. Before that, Stephen King wrote an entire book about women's tendency to fall in love not only with fictional characters but with fiction itself—Misery. But that doesn’t

37:52

Fictional Soul in a Human Body

The Computer Room ·

2023/11/20

A couple of weeks ago, I interviewed nabby (@inviteonlycomic on Instagram), a former fiction-kin. You can listen to it here or on The Computer Room main feed.Before I explain what a fictionkin is, we first need to understand what an otherkin is.Otherkin refers to an identity category where one’s soul does not match one’s body. There are human otherkin, like is often the case with fictionkin, mediakin, or otakin/otakukin, who identify with fictional characters, and historykin, who identify with

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