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Close All Tabs — 76 episodes

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1

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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4

Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures

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5

The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried

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A Queer History of The Sims

7

How To Prove You're Not AI

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Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap

9

Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics

10

Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War

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11

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

12

My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)

13

Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware

14

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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16

The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers

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17

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

18

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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20

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

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21

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws

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Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age

23

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

24

Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling

25

How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities

26

The Real Cost of AI Slop

27

Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think

28

Are You Allowed to Record ICE?

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29

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

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30

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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32

What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?

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33

Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’

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34

Where Do Games Go When They Die?

35

Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality

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A Political Reckoning for Twitch?

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37

Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet

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Beyond the AI Hype Machine

39

The All-Seeing Eyes of Modern Dating

40

In Search of Thock: The Quest for the Perfect Keyboard

41

AI Prophets and Spiritual Delusions

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42

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

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43

23andMe (andGeneticPrivacy)

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From MIT’s TeachLab: The Homework Machine

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Teachers Strike Back Against AI Cheating

46

Before ChatGPT, There Were 'Shadow Scholars'

47

Does Gen Z Have A Staring Problem?

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48

Is Algospeak Coming for Us?

49

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

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Bonus: A Big Win for the Internet Archive

51

OGs of Tech: A Latino Engineer in Silicon Valley

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Teens Under the Influence (of Chatbots)

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53

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye

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

55

The Spotify Effect, Pt 2: Micro-Genre Madness

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56

Elon's Great Crash-Out / Unmasked in LA

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57

The Spotify Effect, Pt 1: Ghosts in the Playlist

58

Do You Hear What I Hear? Audio Illusions and Misinformation

59

Why Can’t Hentai Go Legit?

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60

The Surveillance Machine, Pt 2: No Opt-Out

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The Surveillance Machine, Pt 1: How We Got Here

62

Recession Indicator Memes Are Getting Too Real

63

How Safe is AI Therapy?

64

Twitter on a Vape: Puff, Post, Pollute

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65

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

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66

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?

69

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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76

From the Dean Scream to Brat Memes

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