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Technology coverage from across the Slate Podcast network
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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
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Slate Money | Trump’s TikTok Backtrack
Tiktok is back (for now), Trump has a memecoin, and everyone is digital shoplifting.
45 min
57
ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?
The return of TikTok brought scandalous secrets and social media conspiracies.
30 min
58
What Next TBD | Department of Government Elon
To trim government, first you must add to government, apparently.
19 min
59
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
61
What Next TBD | Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-Morphosis
Is this a pivot? Or was the Meta CEO always this way?
23 min
62
ICYMI: We Have Some News
It’s about our new co-host’s identity.
44 min
63
What Next TBD | Why Tech Is Bending the Knee
Meet the man running Trump's FCC.
22 min
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ICYMI: Scaachi Koul on Terrible Emails, Moo Den...
How Slate culture writer Scaachi Koul decides who to fight and ignore online, and what she misses about the heydays of BuzzFeed.
42 min
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Amicus | TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced
The Supreme Court had a very busy end of week, what comes next is anyone's guess
56 min
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What Next TBD | Will the Supreme Court Save Tik...
The ban has now reached the highest court in the land.
25 min
67
ICYMI: Should I Join Bluesky?
Nitish Pahwa and Steffi Cao share the personal internet dilemmas we'd like to resolve this year.
43 min
68
What Next TBD | Bitcoin Takes the White House
Cryptocurrency folks see the future, and with Trump returning to office, it looks like a giant pool of money.
20 min
69
ICYMI: An Influencer Hates To See This Subreddi...
How r/NYCInfluencerSnark became the most popular anti-influencer (and potentially, anti-feminist) space on Reddit.
43 min
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What Next TBD | Musk vs. MAGA
Elon Musk and the base discovered their opinions on immigration are actually pretty far apart.
22 min
71
What Next TBD | The Cost of Suicide Prevention ...
Is this the best way to address an urgent mental health crisis? The data isn’t there yet.
24 min
72
ICYMI: Goodbye to All That 2024 Internet
A roundtable on everything we don’t want to see online next year.
47 min
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ICYMI Encore: Who TF Did Reesa Teesa Marry?
We break down the 52-part TikTok series starring an Atlanta woman who was trapped, bamboozled and chronically scammed by her ex-husband
50 min
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Slate Money | From Behind the Money: Why Northv...
The story behind the Swedish start-up’s ambitious rise and massive downfall
29 min
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What Next TBD | Influencer vs. Influencer
When everyone’s aiming for the same target, some convergence seems inevitable.
27 min