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What Next TBD | Bezos 2.0
How the Amazon founder went from Trump critic to Trump donor.
25 min
77
ICYMI | The Manosphere That Made Adolescence
Netflix’s new hit show tackles the dark side of the internet.
32 min
78
What Next TBD | Trump's War on Scientific Research
Cutting NIH grants–even temporarily–could have repercussions for years to come.
26 min
79
ICYMI | Are New York City Influencers Boring?
Or are we just following the wrong creators?
37 min
80
What Next TBD | How Trump Is Trying to Kill Pre...
Inside the movement targeting free speech.
26 min
81
ICYMI: Hacktivism, Slacktivism, and (Cybertruck...
The digital resistance is back.
24 min
82
What Next TBD | Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
From “Eco-Friendly” to “Swastiscar”
23 min
83
ICYMI: What’s Going On with Alabama Barker and ...
Why a nepo baby and an internet meme have been fighting online using Kendrick Lamar and Drake’s diss track template.
37 min
84
What Next TBD | Zuckerberg and the Post-Factche...
Does Meta know what they’ve done?
26 min
85
ICYMI: Does This Makeup Make Me Look Republican?
Conservative influencers are coming out of hiding—and heading to Nashville.
26 min
86
What Next: TBD | From 4Chan to Charlottesville ...
How the far-right internet conquered American politics.
27 min
87
ICYMI: The Meghan in Montecito Rebrand
How Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show attempts to rebrand the Sussexes despite internet hate and questions about their business acumen.
37 min
88
What Next TBD | Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
18 min
89
Slate Money | Trump Math & Techno-Fascism
Trump proposes a gold card, Musk resembles a techno-fascist, and black plastic spatulas are actually fine.
46 min
90
ICYMI: And The Oscar Goes To…Club Chalamet
From come-ups to cancellations, fan accounts put in the work this awards season.
32 min
91
What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
92
ICYMI: Ethan Klein’s Attack on Fauxmoi
Why a YouTuber is threatening legal action against a celebrity culture subreddit and how this may affect your favorite Reddit pages.
29 min
93
What Next TBD | $Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
21 min
94
ICYMI: Welcome to the TikTok Pharmacy
How do you separate the solutions from the scams?
47 min
95
What Next TBD | Elon's Endgame
He's slashing the federal workforce. He's gutting programs he doesn't like. But at the end of the day, what does he want?
30 min
96
ICYMI: The Wishbone Kitchen vs. Bon Appétit Foo...
Why the internet is rallying behind a former private chef in the Hamptons and taking on a big bad media institution.
30 min
97
What Next TBD | Can You Pay Attention, Please?
Chris Hayes discusses his new book that calls attention “the world’s most endangered resource.”
23 min
98
What Next TBD | Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy ...
Elon Musk's bid to purchase OpenAI is both an attempt to control the future of A.I. and a massive troll.
20 min
99
ICYMI: The Brilliance of “Montoya, Por Favor”
Plus, what happened when an American went to Pakistan to get married, and instead became a controversial online star.
33 min
100
What Next TBD | Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Dig...
Erasing wokeness, one dataset and line of code at a time.
23 min