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What Next: TBD | Where DOGE Is Taking Us
What happens when you run the government like how Elon Musk runs a business?
24 min
2
ICYMI | Justin Bieber Crashes Out and Rachel Ze...
Plus, how two sports stars parlayed a TikTok soft launch into an Instagram hard launch.
31 min
3
How To! | Replace Your Tesla
35 min
4
What Next: TBD | This Is Your Brain On Ketamine
And Silicon Valley's too.
22 min
5
ICYMI | 9-to-5 Influencers and Social Media’s R...
Why a content creator known for boring “workday in the life” videos got backlash once he quit his job.
33 min
6
What Next: TBD | We Made a Memecoin
Because—how hard could it be?
27 min
7
ICYMI | Are Influencers Too Normalized To Be Mo...
How a Swiss train put its foot down against an influencer-bashing Instagram account and what this says about our troubling self-surveillance culture.
25 min
8
What Next TBD | Bezos 2.0
How the Amazon founder went from Trump critic to Trump donor.
25 min
9
ICYMI | The Manosphere That Made Adolescence
Netflix’s new hit show tackles the dark side of the internet.
32 min
10
What Next TBD | Trump's War on Scientific Research
Cutting NIH grants–even temporarily–could have repercussions for years to come.
26 min
11
ICYMI | Are New York City Influencers Boring?
Or are we just following the wrong creators?
37 min
12
What Next TBD | How Trump Is Trying to Kill Pre...
Inside the movement targeting free speech.
26 min
13
ICYMI: Hacktivism, Slacktivism, and (Cybertruck...
The digital resistance is back.
24 min
14
What Next TBD | Will Tesla Survive Elon Musk?
From “Eco-Friendly” to “Swastiscar”
23 min
15
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
16
What Next TBD | Zuckerberg and the Post-Factche...
Does Meta know what they’ve done?
26 min
17
ICYMI: Does This Makeup Make Me Look Republican?
Conservative influencers are coming out of hiding—and heading to Nashville.
26 min
18
What Next: TBD | From 4Chan to Charlottesville ...
How the far-right internet conquered American politics.
27 min
19
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
20
What Next TBD | Cracking the Egg Crisis
An eggsplanation.
18 min
21
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
22
ICYMI: And The Oscar Goes To…Club Chalamet
From come-ups to cancellations, fan accounts put in the work this awards season.
32 min
23
What Next TBD | The DOGE Resistance
Lawsuits, protests and Elon Musk's Achilles Heel
24 min
24
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
25
What Next TBD | $Trump
Crypto poured money into the campaign, now the first family is cashing in.
21 min