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- 2018 - 2025
ICYMI: Inside the Internet’s Hottest—and Messiest—Club
On today’s episode, Rachelle is joined by Nadira Goffe to dive into the firestorm engulfing two recent interviews on Shannon Sharpe’s delightfully dishy podcast Club Shay Shay. Katt Williams and Mo’N…
00:48:19 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Apple Vision Pro: The Ultimate Surveillance Device?
Apple Vision Pro goggles might be a crime against fashion but with the amount of data they can collect—both on the world around the user and on the users themselves—they have the potential to invade …
00:28:54 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
ICYMI: The Turbulence of Air Force Taylor
Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim catch up on the latest stories churning the Taylor Swift media machine, from her lawyers sending a cease and desist letter to a college student, to her possibly leadi…
00:46:57 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
A Word: Ghost in the Medical Machine
The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is that it can reduce the influence of human error and bias in health care. But there’s growing concern that A.I. in medicine –as in other fields– c…
00:26:40 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Warfare Enters the A.I. Era
The war in Ukraine reordered the priorities of the country’s growing tech sector, and has become a place for foreign companies to test out new tools with less regulation or scrutiny.
Guests: Vera Be…
00:28:03 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
ICYMI: The State of Dating Apps
Candice Lim is joined by dating culture researcher Lakshmi Rengarajan and culture writer Kate Lindsay to discuss the past, present and future of dating apps. Online dating has been around since the d…
00:40:20 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
Decoder Ring: Why Do So Many Coffee Shops Look the Same?
The eerie similarity of coffee shops all over the world was so confounding to Kyle Chayka that it led him to write the new book Filterworld: How Algorithms Are Flattening Culture. In today’s episode,…
00:33:59 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Breaking Up with Dating Apps
For a while, it seemed like the only place to meet potential partners was through an app—Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, etc. But as the apps are trying to monetize their matchmaking—and some users now with a…
00:25:36 |
Sun 11 Feb 2024
ICYMI: The Terminally Ill Influencers Posting Their Way Through Life—and Death
On today’s show, Rachelle makes her triumphant return. She’s joined by A.W. Ohlheiser, a senior technology reporter and editor at Vox, who recently wrote about the complicated lives and deaths of Tik…
00:39:54 |
Sat 10 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: The NFL’s Concussion Settlement Farce
The NFL's concussion settlement was meant to provide financial support and medical help for players who developed traumatic brain injuries from the sport. So why are so many players denied the help t…
00:29:34 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
ICYMI: Was TikTok Silent or Silenced?
Candice Lim is joined by culture critic and reporter Cyrena Touros to break down the battle between Universal Music Group and TikTok. On February 1, UMG started pulling their artists’ music from TikT…
00:34:57 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: Streaming Is Cable Now
The number of TV streaming services is going up—and so is the cost and so are the number of ads. Cordcutters are finding themselves back to cable prices and inconveniences. And these changes don’t ju…
00:30:39 |
Sun 04 Feb 2024
ICYMI: Paloma Diamond Is TikTok’s Favorite Oscar Loser
Candice Lim is joined by Julian Sewell (@juliansewell), the creator of TikTok’s most famously snubbed actress: Paloma Diamond. In March 2023, Sewell posted a TikTok parodying the behavior of nominate…
00:32:43 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
Slate Money: Why Musk Lost $56 Billion
This week, Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers discuss why a Delaware judge blocked Tesla’s $55 billion compensation package for Elon Musk and what it means for his Mars dreams. Also: the …
00:44:57 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
What Next TBD: The Taylor Swift Deepfake Saga
For all the promise of the technology, one use-case for artificial intelligence reared its ugly head last week: non-consensual pornographic images. As millions of users saw abusive A.I. generated ima…
00:26:41 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
ICYMI: Nicki Minaj’s 72-Hour Spiral
Candice Lim is joined by Slate writer Nadira Goffe to break down the latest developments surrounding Nicki Minaj’s beef with rapper Megan Thee Stallion. On January 26, Megan Thee Stallion released “H…
00:39:35 |
Wed 31 Jan 2024
What Next TBD: Why Is Everybody Sick?
Are we still paying off our pandemic-induced “immunity debt,” or is there another reason that it feels like we’re all sniffling and coughing and just feeling sick?
Guest: Keren Landman, senior healt…
00:23:17 |
Sun 28 Jan 2024
ICYMI: Why YouTube Loves Video Essays
Candice Lim is joined by Anisa Khalifa, a podcast producer and host of The Broadside from WUNC. They dissect the phenomenon surrounding video essays, which are not exactly new to YouTube, but finding…
00:32:57 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
What Next TBD: Are You Ready for the A.I. Election?
In the days leading up to the New Hampshire primary, voters received a robocall purportedly from Joe Biden. Authorities have now determined the call was likely A.I.-generated.
In the era of A.I., ho…
00:26:01 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
ICYMI: The TikTok Joy of Mychal the Librarian
Candice Lim talks to Mychal Threets (@mychal3ts), a Bay Area librarian by day and beloved TikTok creator by night. In December 2023, Threets was the target of a negative tweet that called his TikTo…
00:32:10 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
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