Starbucks had to destroy third places in order to save them| kneelingbus.substack.com
Cracker Barrel, Moneyball, and sacrificing fun in order to save it| kneelingbus.substack.com
AI slop is just the culmination of how humans have been using the internet for years| kneelingbus.substack.com
Taste is obsolete & gatekeeping is code for what the internet took from us| kneelingbus.substack.com
We won't need to see ads once they're implicit in everything| kneelingbus.substack.com
Cities feel like theme parks and so does the internet| kneelingbus.substack.com
Books are a vibe whether we read them or not| kneelingbus.substack.com
Information is eating itself| kneelingbus.substack.com
How modernist architecture is like Jurassic Park| kneelingbus.substack.com
When everything is a prediction market, anyone can shave points| kneelingbus.substack.com
As technology evolves, the journey and the destination have converged| kneelingbus.substack.com
You can try to log off but the slop will follow you| kneelingbus.substack.com
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of platforms| kneelingbus.substack.com
Notes from the collision of meatspace and the internet. Click to read Kneeling Bus, by Drew Austin, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| kneelingbus.substack.com
Real estate as the portal to a brand's expanded universe| Kneeling Bus
Screens are wholesome; vices are IRL| kneelingbus.substack.com
In the future you'll know nothing and like it| kneelingbus.substack.com
The internet is no place to hang out| kneelingbus.substack.com
The Vegas Sphere is a screen that we view on other screens| kneelingbus.substack.com
Much of TikTok remains inscrutable to me, but even I can tell that it has dethroned Instagram as the internet’s most vital aesthetic engine, if not yet the most broadly transformative.| kneelingbus.substack.com
“The model of the hotel undergoes a conceptual overhaul and is invested with a new experimental ambition that creates Manhattan's definitive unit of habitation, the Residential Hotel—place where the inhabitant is his own houseguest, instrument that liberates its occupants for total involvement in the rituals of metropolitan life.”| kneelingbus.substack.com
Although the classical 20th-century music snob still endures vestigially, the species peaked with Gen X before breathing its dying gasps through Elder Millennials and ‘00s hipsterdom, at which point poptimism and the internet’s democratizing forces finally crushed the phenomenon for good (Pitchfork not only helped euthanize it but provided the movement’s palliative care during its twilight years).| kneelingbus.substack.com
