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What Next TBD: Would You Let A.I. Date For You?
Would your personal profile benefit from an impersonal touch?
26 min
552
ICYMI: Vanderpump Rules’ War of the Roses
The reality TV story that refuses to leave our timelines.
39 min
553
Slate Money: The Banks Special
Slate Money talks retail bank products, neobanks, and the Wells Fargo scandal.
42 min
554
What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement ...
What does Big Tech need to do to protect users in Post-Roe America?
22 min
555
ICYMI: The Internet Should Be Fun
You just have to know where to look.
36 min
556
What Next TBD: The Hollywood Weight Loss Wonder...
Are diabetics competing with celebs for Ozempic?
28 min
557
ICYMI: The Internet Hates Hogwarts Legacy
A new video game set in the Harry Potter universe lays bare the mediocrity of Rowling’s world.
38 min
558
Slate Money: Microchips and Child Care
Slate Money talks child care in the CHIPS Act, ESG investing, and mortgages.
42 min
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What Next TBD: What Would Convince a Lab Leak S...
Why one virologist doesn’t find the Department of Energy’s assessment convincing.
29 min
560
ICYMI: Selena Gomez Loves Logging Off
But she never stays offline for long.
37 min
561
What Next TBD: Is a 25-Year-Old’s Brain Mature?
How the new science of brain development isn’t just changing policy, but how we live.
21 min
562
ICYMI: North West Is TikTok’s New Queen
Is deploying her mother’s business savvy or just enjoying being a kid?
33 min
563
Amicus: SCOTUS on the Internet: “It’s Complicated”
Two big tech cases before the US Supreme Court this week promised justices tackling the thorny issues of content moderation, liability, and internet platforms, but instead delivered confusion and dodges.
50 min
564
What Next TBD: Why A.I. Says the Darndest Things
Microsoft is working out the kinks of their chatbot in real time, and we're the guinea pigs.
25 min
565
ICYMI: Tumblr Revived the Welcome to Night Vale...
A poll to find the top “Tumblr Sexyman” reminded users how much they loved narrator Cecil Palmer.
36 min
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What Next TBD: The Baby-Sleep Industrial Complex
Is the Snoo a life-saving necessity, or $1700 luxury item for bougie babies?
28 min
567
ICYMI: The Influencer Even Skeptics Love
Emma Chamberlain has taste, and a personality.
36 min
568
What Next TBD: What Made the Balloon Drama Pop ...
Blown cover or just blown off course?
32 min
569
ICYMI: The Internet’s Black Emo Renaissance
Paramore is for Black people.
37 min
570
What Next TBD: Contraband Tech Behind Bars
Why prisoners risk the consequences to have a cell phone.
28 min
571
ICYMI: Is Weight Lifting a Diet Culture Escape ...
Writer Casey Johnston on how gym weights broke her out of diet and fitness hell.
39 min
572
Slate Money: Will A.I. Kill the Internet?
Slate Money talks A.I. search engines, oil profits, and Bed Bath & Beyond.
48 min
573
What Next TBD: Why Ban TikTok?
If the U.S. wants to protect users, there are better options.
24 min
574
ICYMI: How a 9-Year-Old Took Over TikTok
Plus, drama in the TikTok food world.
35 min
575
What Next TBD: Did a Twentysomething Con Americ...
How the start-up “Frank” went from a shiny new acquisition to “a huge mistake” for JP Morgan Chase.
29 min