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What Next TBD: So How’s It Going, Elon?
From canning executives to a plan to charge for blue checks, Twitter has entered the Musk Era.
25 min
677
ICYMI: Did Deplatforming Andrew Tate Work?
BuzzFeed’s Ikran Dahir discusses Tate’s wealth, misogyny, and the community he’s built around himself.
34 min
678
What Next TBD: Big Brother, Big Tech and China
COVID may be an inflection point in the relationship between the surveillance state and the surveilled.
38 min
679
ICYMI: Inside the Online Life of a Health & Wel...
Opening up journalist Julia Craven’s internet diary.
33 min
680
Slate Money: Memelord Takeover
Matt Levine joins Slate Money to talk about all things crypto
49 min
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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
682
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
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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
684
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
686
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
687
What Next TBD: Are You Ready to Be Composted Wh...
How a bunch of environmentalists want to disrupt the American death industry.
28 min
688
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
689
Slate Money: We Can’t Quit Elon
Slate Money talks inflation, the economics Nobel Prize, and Elon Musk.
41 min
690
What Next TBD: The Next Amazon Union Fight
Why labor’s success in Staten Island has been so difficult to replicate.
27 min
691
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
692
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
696
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
698
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