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Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Georgia and guest producer Luis López wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose, and decide to give this practice a name: burnt toast audio.
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Burnt Toast Audio
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Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste?
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Did The Feed Ruin Taste?
Wired - Geese’s popularity is a psyopVulture - The entire feed is fakeFind Kyle:
His column Infinite Scroll in The New YorkerFilterworld: How Algorithms Flattened CultureBluesky–
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Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man
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Everything Plays Doom
Xaser Acheron on Doomwiki and GithubBijan Stephen’s Website and BskyJohn Matter’s Website and BskyMatthew Gantt on Instagram and Diagnostics, his record on OMR Doom Guy: Life in First Person, by John RomeroMaster of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David KushnerNext Generation Magazine, 30 Jun 1997Compute! Magazine Issue 163Computer Gaming World Issue 116Computer Gaming World Issue 116Doom Editing Utilities, DoomwikiOther uses for DOOM engine, UsenetarchivesZfootball, Doomhockey, Hellshots, Gallery Experience, MyHouse.wad–
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I got a tattoo of God. You can’t see it
but it’s everywhere. If I seem out of it,
do the math. I was put on earth.
And then you were, making up your feet
as you went along. New thinspo clanks the spank
bank. New emoticon makes a Holocene.
Excerpt of Money Bin by Michael Robbins
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Georgia chats with Sydney Bradley of Business Insider about dating app Bumble’s termination of the swipe, and the dating app market’s overall pivot to AI
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Swipe No More
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Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet.
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Megadungeons
Megadungeon: A Model for Media Complexity, MagazenMegadungeon: New Digital Volumetries in Art and Media, YT Playlistparanom.asia, Gabriele de Setaunive.it, Paolo Berti–
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Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is easier than hunting for something IRL.
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Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products.
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ZenDis, and Digital Sovereignty
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Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene.
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Vogue — Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?Find Carolina
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Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the walled garden of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result.
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Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A.K.A Jimmy Donaldson — himself. But what does it mean for this one, rich (is he rich?) YouTuber to own a bank (is it a bank?)? And how did he get to this position?
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In the latest installment of Terms & Conditions, Georgia chats with author, professor, and digital piracy expert Aram Sinnreich about torrenting. Peer-to-peer file sharing isn’t new, nor is the legal controversy surrounding it. But what is torrenting? Why does it have such a marred reputation, and what role does it play in our online lives?
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Vote for us at the Webby’s!The U.S. ban on foreign internet routersExplainer on the router banHachette pulls “Shy Girl” off shelvesMeta loses NM lawsuit on child endangermentMeta and Youtube fined for creating addictive social platformsJudge demands DOGE deposition be removed from YouTubeDOGE depositions are back onlineSupreme Court rules in favor of Cox Media in piracy suit–
Terms & Conditions: On Torrenting
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Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliable and often malicious audience — relates to contemporary politics online and historic medieval spectacle.
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Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Georgia's segment talking to Professor Elizabeth Wissinger about how the social internet helped erase an entire fashion demographic — namely, tween fashion for girls.
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Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan.
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Cord Cutters
https://bsky.app/profile/netblocks.org/post/3mgrehog7wk23https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacresShutdown Tracker Optimization ProjectThe Internet, Switched Off Internet Shutdown: How Governments Weaponize ConnectivityIran’s regime has shut down the internet in the middle of warHow Iran shut down the internet and built a sophisticated system of digital controlAfghanistan imposes internet blackout: What has the effect been so far?The Kremlin says the internet is turned off to stop drone attacks. Russians are fed upBlocked and Bypassed: Russians Evade Internet Censorship–
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Thank you to Suha, Fara, Saeed, Samir, Ramin, Mohammad, Hamed, Jabar, Sanam Muradi, Haroun Rahimi, Naser, Ahmad Azizi and Saeed.
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1. These are the vague demands you make on me
2. (that I) assemble
(to) recollect
(to) decode
( ) associate3. that I admit, fraught with difficulty, reintegration
is no day at the beach in eggshell tints
“The inmates start to get brave and a little crazy”
when they hear that friendly voice–the matron4. (But that’s also my mind, lost)
Her epic poem on the constraints society places on the5. misunderstood
Excerpt of Sybil by Rebecca Wolf
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Mike talks with science communicators Alex Dainis, Trade Dominguez and Joe Hanson about what it’s like trying to do their job in today’s information environment.
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Alex Dainis
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https://www.instagram.com/tracedominguez/https://www.threads.com/@tracedominguezhttps://www.youtube.com/tracedominguezhttps://thatsabsurdshow.com/Joe Hanson
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teach us about life
gently
implored the little beings
and stretched their arms
for love of the other shore
Canto XVII (for Diana) by Alejandra Pizarnik
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Mike chats with Jeffrey Parkin of Rogue and Rory Carroll of Alloy about the impending chip shortage caused by the construction boom in AI Data centers. How did this happen, why is there no easy way out, and how should you – as a consumer – be thinking about this these things?
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Chip Chat
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Producer Georgia Hampton looks to writer and blogger Katherine Dee and academic Charles Soukop to help her figure out how to visualize the internet. As in, what kind of a place is it, if it’s even a space at all?
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Charles’s 2006 study on virtual third placesFind Katherine Dee:
default.blogNYT: The phone as a portal to the Otherworld–
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Senior Producer Hans Buetow digs into the data from the 2025 Pornhub Year-in-Review, and wonders aloud to sexual wellness educator Courney Brame, and co-founders of SWR Data, MelRose Michaels and Mike Stabile - what’s going on with the sudden rise in SFW content on a decidedly NSFW platform?
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Pornhub Is Entering Their FrictionMaxxxing Era
Courtney BrameMelRose MichaelsMike StabileSWR Data WebsiteSWR Data SubstackPornhub 2025 Year-In-ReviewMia Khalifa on Always OpenIn 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing (The Cut)How I Frictionmaxx (P.E. Moskowitz)THUTT! (Jessica DeFino)–
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Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Mike's segment on the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media.
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Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/bijan.bsky.social
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