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Slate, Gizmodo, BBC, Audible Original, etc. Substack at http://josephmatheny.substack.com More writing at https://josephmatheny.com/portfolio/writing/

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AJ and company were kind enough to invite me to do an in-studio appearance on The Why Files: Basement, but my schedule won't allow for it. Such a shame. I really wanted to meet the goldfish. 😜Maybe sometime in the future, if time allows.

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Springtime in the Desert Mountains It's the magical time when the cold winter desert becomes an Eden of Wildflowers, as we luxuriate in the the spring warmth of the Sun & the birds are all delirious. Just like that, way up here in…
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Will AI Eat the Earth? The digital world promises a frictionless existence of infinite growth, convenience, and total scale. But what happens when that virtual map starts consuming the real territory? Rushkoff reflects on…
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THE COMMERCIAL VIABILITY OF ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES: A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR PROFITABILITY AND SCALABILITY From: THE COMMERCIAL VIABILITY OF ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES:A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR PROFITABILITY AND SCALABILITY LINK: However, preceding Publius Enigma was what expert Szulborski (2005) suggests w…

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Please Just Let the Metaverse Go Google and Epic Games aren't ready to let the metaverse die.

Just go play in Second Life and stop wasting our time.
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Ghost Towns Used As Movie Filming Locations In New Jersey: Ong’s Hat and Other Mysterious Abandoned Settlements While mostΒ ghost townsΒ fade quietly into history,Β Ong’s HatΒ has carved out a peculiar legacy that blends verifiable abandonment with decades of digital-age mythology. Located de…

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Joseph Matheny announces free audio versions of his work In his latest newsletter, available here, Joseph Matheny announces audio versions of several of his works are now available for free.Β  The ...

Joseph Matheny announces free audio versions of his work @ongs-hat.com - www.rawillumination.net/2026/03/jose...

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β€œIt is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

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Tip of the hat to @rob-brezsny.bsky.social for making me aware of this article, and by extension this book and by further extension, this writer.
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Free Candy? A non-suss archive of freebies without the creepy white van

josephmatheny.substack.com/p/free-candy

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Most People Have Long Forgotten About This Vacant Ghost Town In Rural New Jersey - Marsha Bowen Washington

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Love when artists I admire are genuine and enjoyable IRL.

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Life in the Pines: Ong's Hat Stories of blueberries, weird science and the Jersey Devil in remote corner of NJ

One from the archives: 2014
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet - Deception, Silence, Intelligence with Bogna Konior Bogna Konior is a scholar and a writer whose work focuses on emerging technologies. She is currently Assistant Professor of Media Theory at NYU Shanghai, where she works at the Artificial…

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A bibliographic archeology of gamelike conspiracy narratives: examining the Ong's Hat Incunabula catalog This paper aims to reframe contemporary research on conspiracy narratives by examining a formative document in online conspiracy culture using bibliographic archeology and focusing on its use of inter...

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Aaron Astor on X: "Per the NAM model, Ong's Hat, New Jersey is about to get 40 inches of snow. https://t.co/W0Jd4ccRMD" / X Per the NAM model, Ong's Hat, New Jersey is about to get 40 inches of snow. https://t.co/W0Jd4ccRMD

People feel compelled to send me the weirdest $h|t. (Warning, link to that "other" site)
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22.02.2026 16:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Find a foolish project and pursue it. It doesn't matter what people think of you."
It's like he knows me. 😜
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