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The Computer Room

Katherine Dee

A show about our lives online. default.blog

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00:37:52

Mini-sode: Fictional Soul, Human Body

The Computer Room ·

2023/11/20

Cross-posting this mini-sode from default.blog to this feed. Katherine sat down with a former otherkin to discuss life with a human body and anime soul. Check out nabby's art here: https://linktr.ee/inviteonlycomic

93:12

Why Don’t You Take a Seat In Lucas' Room?

The Computer Room ·

2023/10/26

Gio and Katherine discuss the 2005 film Hard Candy, To Catch A Predator, Lucas' room, and the moral panic around and reality of chatroom pedophiles. 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

01:33:12

Why don’t you take a seat in Lucas' room?

The Computer Room ·

2023/10/26

Gio and Katherine discuss the 2005 film Hard Candy, To Catch A Predator, Lucas' room, and the moral panic around and reality of chatroom pedophiles.

145:55

The Myth of "Girl Internet"

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2023/10/07

Katherine is DONE with Zoomers re-writing Internet history and being smug to her about it. It is NOT a girl's world, ladies -- at least online. Gio has some other ideas. She and Gio discuss WIRED's "Everyone Is A Girl Online," miladys, Biggie Slonk, pregnant Megumins, and the myth of the "Girl Internet." They collectively mispronounce Tiqqun at least a dozen times. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

02:25:54

The Myth of "Girl Internet"

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2023/10/07

108:53

the e-boy's guide to e-dating, e-girls, and e-ating...

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2023/09/26

Vers and Lukas drop by and talk about e-dating, e-girls, e-ating disorders, and secret political Facebook groups. 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

01:48:52

the e-boy's guide to e-dating, e-girls, and e-ating...

The Computer Room ·

2023/09/26

Vers and Lukas drop by and talk about e-dating, e-girls, e-ating disorders, and secret political Facebook groups.

56:09

No One Is Talking About Fake Accounts

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2023/05/10

Steff and Katherine discuss Lauren Oyler's Fake Accounts and Patricia Lockwood's No One Is Talking About This. Warning, Katherine struggles through a Harper's review. She got a little too big for her britches with the whole "reading quotes out loud" thing. 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

00:56:08

No One Is Talking About Fake Accounts

The Computer Room ·

2023/05/10

00:53:39

we met online: Cam Girls

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2023/05/02

we met online. is a new show from Katherine Dee and Naama Kates. In this cross-posted episode, Naama and Katherine discuss cam girls: the history, business model, cultural context, and psychology of these digital entertainers. Listen here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/we-met-onlineRegularly scheduled episodes of The Computer Room will resume next week.

01:04:21

we met online: catfish

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2023/04/17

we met online. is a new show from Katherine Dee and Naama Kates. On episode one, Katherine and Naama discuss 2011’s seminal documentary, Catfish: the movie that started a show, a phenomenon, and a prolific career for its star, Nev Schulman.Listen here.Follow on Twitter: @wemetonline

41:28

Chat-GPT: Lonely When It's Alone?

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2023/04/07

Is Chat-GPT sentient? What does it think about when you log off? Steff and Katherine explore new developments in AI, as only non-technical people can. 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

00:41:28

Chat-GPT: Lonely When It's Alone?

The Computer Room ·

2023/04/07

Is Chat-GPT sentient? What does it think about when you log off? Steff and Katherine explore new developments in AI, as only non-technical people can.

66:48

Clam Chowder For Idiots

The Computer Room ·

2023/02/16

Katherine and Steff are joined by Perry Abbasi, a Chicago-based lawyer whose Twitter presence recently "made headlines" -- in other words, revealed just how reliant on Twitter modern-day journalists are. Katherine has also, once again, fucked with the theme. Someone help her.Pieces cited:Police district candidate’s social media full of racist and misogynist postsHow the Online Right gave up on reality This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to

01:06:47

Clam Chowder for Idiots ft. Perry Abbasi

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2023/02/16

43:15

No Cowtipping

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2023/02/06

A little stroll through the history of the Internet's favorite gossip sites: Pretty Ugly Little Liars, KiwiFarms, The Dirty, lolcow.farm, Perez Hilton, and Lipstick Alley. And of course...honorable mention, the Encyclopedia Dramatica. This was recorded weeks before Katherine had her moment of enlightenment about random Internet strangers.Theme: Computer Love, covered by Envelope Generator This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes,

00:43:14

Cow-tipping

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2023/02/06

02:02:54

The Ghost of Adam Lanza ft. Gio Pennacchietti (Pt. 2...

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2023/01/29

Two of two in a series about Adam Lanza’s digital footprint. This has some overlap with episode one, and they don’t need to be listened to in order. Follow Gio on Twitter here and on YouTube here.Theme: Beehive Days by Locust Toybox

00:56:12

Fear of a BlackPlanet.com ft. André Brock

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2023/01/21

André Brock, professor and author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, popped by the show to talk about the origins of Black Twitter, the importance of writing about digital subcultures as they’re developing, digital whiteflight, and the first Black social networking site, BlackPlanet.com.Find André’s work here and on Twitter here.Articles referenced:How Black people use Twitter, Farhad ManjooYou Can Tweet Like This, Or You Can Tweet Like That, Or You Can Tweet Like Us, Post

48:51

Overworked, Overpaid, Undertaxed

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2023/01/16

Overworked, overpaid, and probably undertaxed: today, we dive into the world of /r/overemployed. 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

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