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  • Katherine Dee

    Internet ethnographer. I want to talk to you if you grew up with unrestricted access to the Internet. @default_friend of X (formerly Twitter). Columnist all over. Commission me anyway!

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    drunk on the milk of paradise * child of the Aten

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    Globalist, elitist analysis.

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    Author: The Digital Reversal. || The Viral Inquisitor. || Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. || Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. || Human as media. // I study media and everything.

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    Writer & witch. Tales from beyond the mirror & musings on the mystical.

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