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The Cat Lady Stereotype: What the Historical Record Shows
Witchcraft records, satirical prints and suffrage imagery reveal several histories behind the cat-lady stereotype, rather than one simple origin.
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AICats in AI Training Data: From Shelter Photos to Neural Networks
How cats became CAPTCHA subjects, benchmark categories and learned visual features—and what those examples do not prove about…
TechnologyMicrochip Cat Flaps and Cameras: The Engineering of Selective Pet Doors
How microchip cat flaps identify pets, why readers can struggle, and what prey-detecting cameras can—and cannot—tell you about…
MusicCats in Opera and Classical Music: From Rossini’s Cat Duet to Prokofiev’s Clarinet
From Rossini’s borrowed cat duet to Prokofiev’s clarinet: feline music, ballet and opera, with the keyboard legends separated…
GamingNeko Atsume and the Idle Game Boom: Why Leaving Is Part of Playing
How Neko Atsume made waiting part of the fun: its modest download target, cat-collecting design, idle-game roots and…
Internet CultureI Can Has Cheezburger and the Rise of LOLspeak
How I Can Has Cheezburger helped spread LOLspeak: cat-caption grammar, community language play, LOLCODE and the contrast with…
Internet CultureGrumpy Cat: The Business Empire Built on a Single Photograph
How Grumpy Cat became a licensing business, why the $100 million earnings claim is disputed, and what the…
Film & TVThe Aristocats and Disney’s Feline Problem: Jazz, Animation, and a Complicated Legacy
The Aristocats revisited: Disney’s post-Walt transition, xerography, jazz, feline heroes, Marie merchandise and the film’s complicated legacy.
Books & ReadingPoe’s The Black Cat: Guilt, Alcohol, and an Unreliable Confession
Poe’s The Black Cat explained: the 1843 story, its unreliable narrator, guilt, alcohol, real cats and the films…
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