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What Next: TBD | When A.I. is Sycophantic
Chatbots want to please - but it’s pushing some into dark places.
19 min
2
ICYMI | Love Island’s Toxic Relationship With S...
How Love Island USA can learn from the UK franchise’s mistakes.
38 min
3
What Next: TBD | Hot Measles Summer
Why the next few months are crucial for containing the outbreak.
23 min
4
ICYMI | Encore: Is ChatGPT Your Therapist?
Dazed’s Laura Pitcher on the daily users of ChatGPT who confided in the chatbot as their friend, life organizer, and sometimes, therapist.
36 min
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What Next: TBD | How A.I. Lost (and Won) the Bi...
With a little help from country music.
24 min
6
ICYMI | Not Even Lawsuits Can Stop AI
Two recent rulings spell bad news for creatives.
40 min
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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
8
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
9
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
11
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
12
What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
13
ICYMI | TikTok May Win Battles, But YouTube Wil...
Behind the scenes at VidCon—and 20 years of YouTube.
41 min
14
How To! | Balance Mind, Body—and iPhone
Molly Caro May on the somatic approach to changing our dependency on our devices.
35 min
15
What Next: TBD | Airlines Are Selling Your Data...
And they don’t want you to know.
22 min
16
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
17
Slate Money: We Submit To The AI Overlords
50 min
18
What Next: TBD | We Deport. You Laugh?
Why the White House is memeing its mass deportations.
26 min
19
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
21
ICYMI: It’s International Bestselling Author Qu...
Why the prolific street lit author keeps going viral
38 min
22
What Next: TBD | New DOGE, New Tricks
Elon may be gone, but Big Balls is staying on.
24 min
23
What Next: TBD | The Future of the Internet Hin...
You may be asking, “Who?”
25 min
24
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
25
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