Monthly Link Dump: August 2026

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology, anarchism, utopianism, the gothic, neo-fabulism, and the Weird - all discovered through my RSS feed reader (another reason why you should get a feed reader too). Knitting the Web: We Need Interlinkers!by Brennan Kenneth Brown at brennan.day We are makers of digital literature. Sacredness wrapped in HTML. Ceremony in the act of blogging. For some people, each post is both therapy and proof of existence. A seed planted in soil, which might one day grow into something more. In the era of AI slop, human curation is even more importantby Juha-Matti Santala at hamatti.org The dead internet theory refers to the idea that the most of the user generated content in the web comes from bot activity and automated content rather than humans. It’s based on the idea that because these platforms…