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Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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Mom & Dad: If You’re Tracking Your Kids, Should...
Slate’s parenting podcast on helping kids grow up in public.
37 min
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ICYMI: The Orwellian World of Vintage Fast-Food...
Burger patties with earrings. Michael Jordan. And so much rapping.
38 min
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Slate Money: Optimal Illusions
Coco Krumme joins Slate Money to discuss the false promise of optimization.
37 min
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What Next TBD: Bad Air, Worse Vibes
Between COVID and now wildfire smoke, the case for improving school ventilation makes itself. So what’s the hold-up?
17 min
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ICYMI: Are Green Powders a Pyramid Scheme?
How wellness brands like Bloom are making green powders go viral on TikTok
49 min
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What Next TBD: Tech Disrupts the School Bus
A Silicon Valley start-up promised to modernize school transportation. Instead, it stranded thousands of students.
24 min
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The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline
Bama Rush Tok has blow up, but there’s something very familiar about these girls…and what they’re promoting.
38 min
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ICYMI: The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee...
Tory Lanez was sentenced for shooting Megan, but he’s not the only “Toronto Mans” to do her dirty.
45 min
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Slate Money | Criminals Series: The $5 Billion ...
Jho Low stole billions and funded a Leonardo DiCaprio movie.
38 min
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What Next TBD: Social Media’s Pivot from News
When it comes to natural disasters, getting the latest news via Twitter or Facebook is, well, disastrous.
25 min
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Future Tense Fiction: Welcome to the A.I. Haunt...
On this month’s episode of Future Tense Fiction, Janelle Shane discusses her short story “The Skeleton Crew.”
61 min
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Slate Money: You Better Not Be Working
Slate Money checks in on the status of work ahead of Labor Day
48 min
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ICYMI: TikTok Shop is a Dystopian Mall Kiosk
How TikTok’s e-commerce feature is ruining the app and small businesses
37 min
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What Next TBD: Is LinkedIn...Cool Now?
Personal posts, influencers, and cultural cachet, all in a surprising place.
23 min
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Dear Prudence: Relationship Podcasts Are Ruinin...
She sees every unmarried woman as competition. Is there anything that can be done?
36 min
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Mom & Dad: Lessons From a Racist Instagram and ...
Slate’s parenting podcast interviews award-winning journalist, Dashka Slater, on her new book, Accountable.
37 min
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ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End...
How the changing financial incentives of the internet make loud and unabashed thirst more fraught.
34 min
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What Next TBD: The Cost of "Sustainable" Pet Food
There's been a rise in high-end pet food, marketed as a healthy, environmentally-friendly option for our pets. The reality is much more complicated.
24 min
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Slate Money: Twelve Ways to Help Fix the World
A book provides a dozen ways to help the world’s poorest people. Will they work?
46 min
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ICYMI: Addison Rae is the Newest Pop Princess
How the divisive TikTok star shocked us with a bop-filled EP
40 min
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What Next TBD: TikTok's Shady Deal with the U.S.
Inside the draft of a deal between ByteDance and the U.S. to keep TikTok in the states.
24 min
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ICYMI: How to Make Millions Playing Dungeons & ...
Critical Role is an unvarnished success. But what does it mean for the rest of the D&D community?
36 min
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What Next TBD: Digital Life After Death
Is the ghost of your online life destined to haunt your friends and family?
23 min
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ICYMI: The Child Content Creator Crash is Coming
What Lil Tay’s death rumors signal about the child influencer economy.
36 min
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What Next TBD: How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Why sex workers turned to crypto, and how crypto turned on them.
22 min