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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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What Next: TBD | The Other Iran-Israel War
Cyberattacks are much less explosive, but just as dangerous.
20 min
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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