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Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
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ICYMI: Ethan Klein’s Attack on Fauxmoi
Why a YouTuber is threatening legal action against a celebrity culture subreddit and how this may affect your favorite Reddit pages.
29 min
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What Next TBD | $Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
21 min
29
ICYMI: Welcome to the TikTok Pharmacy
How do you separate the solutions from the scams?
47 min
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What Next TBD | Elon's Endgame
He's slashing the federal workforce. He's gutting programs he doesn't like. But at the end of the day, what does he want?
30 min
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ICYMI: The Wishbone Kitchen vs. Bon Appétit Foo...
Why the internet is rallying behind a former private chef in the Hamptons and taking on a big bad media institution.
30 min
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What Next TBD | Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Chris Hayes discusses his new book that calls attention “the world’s most endangered resource.”
23 min
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What Next TBD | Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy ...
Elon Musk's bid to purchase OpenAI is both an attempt to control the future of A.I. and a massive troll.
20 min
34
ICYMI: The Brilliance of “Montoya, Por Favor”
Plus, what happened when an American went to Pakistan to get married, and instead became a controversial online star.
33 min
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What Next TBD | Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Dig...
Erasing wokeness, one dataset and line of code at a time.
23 min
36
ICYMI: The TikTokification of Sports
From fancams to fan-favorite couples, TikTok is bringing new audiences to sports.
28 min
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What Next TBD | Is Elon Musk Unstoppable?
Inside the DOGE assault on the federal government.
23 min
38
ICYMI: Will Memes Save 2025?
Meme historian Aidan Walker on which memes changed the internet and why Distracted Boyfriend deserves a closer look.
43 min
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Slate Money | Money Talks: Capitalism Extremist...
Historian Quinn Slobodian joins Felix Salmon to discuss the tech billionaires who idealize a world without democracy.
38 min
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What Next TBD | The DeepSeek Panic
How one app brought the US-China A.I. war out into the open.
22 min
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Slate Money | The Federal Employee ‘Buyout’ Mak...
Federal employees are sent a resignation offer, Invidia’s stock drops thanks to Deepseek, and bookstores are booming.
47 min
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ICYMI: So You’ve Fallen For A Smear Campaign
How Justin Baldoni’s PR team has used fandom tactics in its battle against Blake Lively.
31 min
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What Next TBD | RFK Jr. Is a Feature, Not a Bug
The vaccine skeptic’s nomination reveals the Trump 2.0 approach to public health.
23 min
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ICYMI: Social Media Has Become A Minefield
Can you escape Trump-supporting tech owners? Maybe.
31 min
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What Next TBD | The A.I. Will See You Now
Doctors are increasingly using artificial intelligence to help with appointments. But do the risks outweigh the benefits?
20 min
46
Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
Tiktok is back (for now), Trump has a memecoin, and everyone is digital shoplifting.
45 min
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ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?
The return of TikTok brought scandalous secrets and social media conspiracies.
30 min
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What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
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ICYMI: Rawdogging, Brainrot, and Brat
How linguists picked 2024’s extremely online words of the year.
26 min
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What Next TBD | As Fires Approached LA, Angelen...
A conversation with the app’s cofounder.
19 min