{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thoughts on substack, deBoer or eigenrobot? Also, dude, you better have a backup in case tumblr fucks off because I need to get...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/644662186890919936/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: <p>Thoughts on substack, deBoer or eigenrobot? Also, dude, you better have a backup in case tumblr fucks off because I need to get my meandering Americana, disinhibition, history and media studies takes somewhere. Start a podcast.</p></div>\n<p>Twitter made the writer the brand and contributed to the masthead losing discipline, making the writer the unit of business seems like a reasonable response. It&rsquo;s clear they&rsquo;re actively recruiting writers, it&rsquo;s not clear how this pump-priming relates to stable state.</p><p>De Boer I don&rsquo;t think is such an amazing writer as some people seem to \u2013 his prose is slightly mannered in an MFA way, which is to figure, coming from a background in collegiate writing instruction. But he does seem to show up in the contexts that&rsquo;ll turn out to matter, which is my thing, I remember once in must have been like 2009 seeing him somehow in a three-way issue with Sady Doyle and Rod Dreher</p><p>I can always write somewhere, though on here helps because things regularly prompt me</p>"}