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Close All Tabs — 88 episodes

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Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car

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What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement?

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Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines

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AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress

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Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines

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The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift

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AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines

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The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl

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Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines

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Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef

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Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED

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The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control

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How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)

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Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?

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'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up

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Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures

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The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried

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A Queer History of The Sims

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How To Prove You're Not AI

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Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap

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Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics

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Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War

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How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

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My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)

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Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware

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The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game

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Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits

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The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers

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Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme

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To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair

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The Fight for Your Right to Repair

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'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis

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Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws

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Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age

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Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall

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Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling

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How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities

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The Real Cost of AI Slop

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Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think

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Are You Allowed to Record ICE?

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Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote

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Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat

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One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione

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What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?

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Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’

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Where Do Games Go When They Die?

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Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality

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A Political Reckoning for Twitch?

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Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet

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Beyond the AI Hype Machine

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The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating

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In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard

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AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions

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Groypers, Doxxing and Charlie Kirk’s Death as a S***post

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23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy)

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From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine

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Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating

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Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars'

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Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem?

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Is Algospeak Coming for Us?

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Save or Scroll: ICE + Influencers, Data Hygiene on Grindr, and Labubu Desserts

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Bonus: A Big Win for the Internet Archive

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OGs of Tech: A Latino Engineer in Silicon Valley

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Teens Under the Influence (of Chatbots)

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How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye

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Curls, Coils, and Pixels: Researchers Crack the Code on Black Hair Animation

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The Spotify Effect, Pt 2: Micro-Genre Madness

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Elon's Great Crash-Out / Unmasked in LA

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The Spotify Effect, Pt 1: Ghosts in the Playlist

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Do You Hear What I Hear? Audio Illusions and Misinformation

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Why Can’t Hentai Go Legit?

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The Surveillance Machine, Pt 2: No Opt-Out

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The Surveillance Machine, Pt 1: How We Got Here

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Recession Indicator Memes Are Getting Too Real

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How Safe is AI Therapy?

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Twitter on a Vape: Puff, Post, Pollute

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Save or Scroll: Manosphere Mornings, Luigi Sex Tape Rumors, and the Art of the Hard Launch

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The Broligarchy Pt 2: Is this Techno-Fascism?

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The Broligarchy Pt 1: Chronicles of the PayPal Mafia

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What Happens if the Internet Archive Goes Dark?

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Waymo Problems

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Children of the Vlog

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TikTok's Vibe Shift

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Introducing Close All Tabs

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Influencer Endorsements Gone Wild

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Stan Wars, The Fandom Menace

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Couch F***** Memes vs The Truth

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From the Dean Scream to Brat Memes

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