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What Next TBD: Are You Ready to Be Composted Wh...
How a bunch of environmentalists want to disrupt the American death industry.
28 min
552
ICYMI: What Makes Online Advice Good?
Slate’s Dear Prudence is here to talk about giving advice online and why everybody likes to chime in with their own opinion.
35 min
553
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
Slate Money talks inflation, the economics Nobel Prize, and Elon Musk.
41 min
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A Word: How Tech Can Help—or Harm—Racial Justice
Talking about the intersection of technology and the social sciences with Ruha Benjamin.
27 min
555
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Why labor’s success in Staten Island has been so difficult to replicate.
27 min
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ICYMI: The Internet Is an Invisible Force
The hosts of NPR’s Invisibilia on how the internet shapes the world around them.
32 min
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What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your P...
A look at the rise of accountability apps in churches.
20 min
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ICYMI: The Bling Ring Wasn’t Possible Without t...
The new Netflix documentary on the Bling Ring reveals just how savvy and desperate for fame these thieves were.
32 min
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What Next TBD: Could the Supreme Court Kill the...
Section 230 has made it to the Supreme Court.
25 min
560
ICYMI: Why an Orthodox Jewish Boys Choir Is Goi...
Everybody on TikTok is bopping to pop music in Hebrew right now.
31 min
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What Next TBD: The Philosopher With Silicon Val...
A deep dive into longtermism.
54 min
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ICYMI: BuzzFeed Set the Try Guys Up to Fail
The recent news about Ned Fulmer’s infidelity reveals how BuzzFeed trapped them in specific and limiting online identities.
37 min
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What Next TBD: When Climate Change Makes You Se...
How a mandatory buyout program in Harris County is upending a decades-old community.
23 min
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ICYMI: Jojo Siwa Did What on TikTok?
And why is everybody posting Adam Levine’s sexts?
33 min
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What Next TBD: Can Nuclear Power Be Green?
The war in Ukraine and climate change are forcing countries to rethink their stance on nuclear power.
22 min
566
ICYMI: Serial Didn’t Free Adnan Syed
Not reckoning with their own oversights is a failure of journalism.
37 min
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What Next TBD: The Fight Over Online Speech Hea...
How laws in Texas and Florida take aim at social media companies and how they moderate content.
28 min
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ICYMI: It’s OK to Criticize the Dead
Respectability politics gets in the way of remembering a person’s entire, complex legacy.
29 min
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What Next TBD: The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Sp...
Human trafficking victims in Asia are being forced into scamming people online.
26 min
570
ICYMI: Where AI Art Can Go Wrong
Rachelle asks a tech reporter what’s up with A.I. art and other burning questions.
28 min
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What Next TBD: How Big Internet Keeps Small Com...
The fight for internet between East Carroll parish and Sparklight.
22 min
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ICYMI: Harry Styles Knows Exactly What He’s Doing
To understand his online savvy, we need to look back at his One Direction days.
32 min
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What Next TBD: The Chaos That Made YouTube a Ju...
How the company has struggled with creators, extremism, and itself.
30 min
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ICYMI: Everyone Wants to Be a Food Influencer…o...
TikTok has totally changed how we cook online.
25 min
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What Next TBD: Can A.I. Make Great Art?
A.I. generated art is reaching new levels of sophistication at a rapid rate.
25 min