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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Bi...
With a little help from country music.
24 min
102
ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Two recent rulings spell bad news for creatives.
40 min
103
What Next: TBD | Rerun: Death of the Weather Fo...
Climate and weather aren’t the same thing, but the Trump administration would have you understand neither one.
23 min
104
ICYMI | The Most Famous Facelift on TikTok
What a woman’s viral trip to Guadalajara and Kylie Jenner’s boob job reveal say about the current state of plastic surgery discourse online.
29 min
105
Decoder Ring | The White Noise Boom
There’s more white noise available than any one person could possibly need. And yet, more keeps coming.
48 min
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What Next: TBD | The FTC’s Merger Shakedown
The agency is trying to stop “censorship” on social platforms by keeping private companies from spending their ad dollars as they see fit.
21 min
107
ICYMI | How Coming Out Videos Changed YouTube
We sit down with YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen to reflect on the 10-year anniversary of her most popular video to date.
44 min
108
What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
109
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
41 min
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How To! | Balance Mind, Body—and iPhone
Molly Caro May on the somatic approach to changing our dependency on our devices.
35 min
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What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data...
And they don’t want you to know.
22 min
112
ICYMI | Is Partiful Cancelled?
How Gen-Z’s favorite event invite app got into hot water and why there just isn’t a good online invitation option anymore.
33 min
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Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
50 min
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What Next: TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
26 min
115
ICYMI: The Content Creators Crashing the Diddy ...
And why they’re beating legacy media at their own game.
43 min
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What Next: TBD | Summer Travel Tips To Not Get ...
A guide for digital safety.
24 min
117
ICYMI: It’s International Bestselling Author Qu...
Why the prolific street lit author keeps going viral
38 min
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What Next: TBD | New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon may be gone, but Big Balls is staying on.
24 min
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What Next: TBD | The Future of the Internet Hin...
You may be asking, “Who?”
25 min
120
Amicus | There Is No Musk-Trump Feud Without Th...
The original sin of selling the US Justice system comes home to roost at the Supreme Court.
44 min
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What Next: TBD | Is Palantir Building a Data Bi...
Palantir is laying the groundwork for a central government data system - one that sounds an awful lot like a surveillance state.
26 min
122
ICYMI: Sad Beige Lawsuits and an Influencer’s “...
31 min
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What Next: TBD | So Long, Elon
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
25 min
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ICYMI: Will MomTok Actually Change Mormonism?
43 min
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What Next: TBD | The Drone Wars
Russia and Ukraine are locked in an arms race that will change war forever.
22 min