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Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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What Next TBD: Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
No matter what Elon Musk does, Twitter will never be the same
36 min
627
ICYMI: How a Lesbian Emu Influencer Got Milksha...
The owner of Emmanuel the emu posted online last week about her sick bird, but then the story took a turn.
34 min
628
What Next TBD: Can We Make an Alzheimer’s Drug ...
Advances towards an effective drug therapy have been uneven and unclear, but there are promising developments.
30 min
629
ICYMI: What’s It Like Being a Twitch Streamer?
It’s a lot of fun as long as it’s just a hobby.
35 min
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What Next TBD: When An Algorithm Raises Your Rent
If it draws on data from landlords and tells them what others are charging, when does it become price-fixing?
29 min
631
ICYMI: What’s the Deal With Broadway’s 1776?
One of the show’s stars raised quite a few issues with the production in a recent interview.
33 min
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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
633
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
634
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
Slate Money talks inflation, the economics Nobel Prize, and Elon Musk.
41 min
635
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Why labor’s success in Staten Island has been so difficult to replicate.
27 min
636
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
637
ICYMI: The Internet Is an Invisible Force
The hosts of NPR’s Invisibilia on how the internet shapes the world around them.
32 min
638
What Next TBD: When Your Church Surveils Your P...
A look at the rise of accountability apps in churches.
20 min
639
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
640
What Next TBD: Could the Supreme Court Kill the...
Section 230 has made it to the Supreme Court.
25 min
641
ICYMI: Why an Orthodox Jewish Boys Choir Is Goi...
Everybody on TikTok is bopping to pop music in Hebrew right now.
31 min
642
What Next TBD: The Philosopher With Silicon Val...
A deep dive into longtermism.
54 min
643
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
644
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
645
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
647
ICYMI: Serial Didn’t Free Adnan Syed
Not reckoning with their own oversights is a failure of journalism.
37 min
648
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
649
ICYMI: It’s OK to Criticize the Dead
Respectability politics gets in the way of remembering a person’s entire, complex legacy.
29 min
650
What Next TBD: The Hidden Abuse Behind Those Sp...
Human trafficking victims in Asia are being forced into scamming people online.
26 min