Podcast Episodes

The Lawyer Fighting Government Surveillance for 30 Years (With EFF's Cindy Cohn)

This week Jason brings you an interview he did with The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s executive director Cindy Cohn, who recently announced she wo…

1 month ago

Inside the AI Slop Propaganda Wars

This week Matthew Gault joins us to discuss his article about Iran’s AI slop and LEGO-focused propaganda, and why the creators chose LEGO. After the …

1 month, 1 week ago

The Journalist Who Tracked Epstein Island Visitors’ Phones

This week Joseph talks to Dhruv Mehrotra, a journalist and technologist at Bloomberg. Before that, Dhruv was at WIRED, where you probably saw a ton o…

1 month, 1 week ago

The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts

This week we start with Emanuel’s crazy story about WebinarTV, a company that is secretly recording Zoom meetings and turning them into AI-powered po…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Marketing Tricks of "Artificial Intelligence"

This week, Sam talks to Emily Bender and Alex Hanna about the marketing ploys of “artificial intelligence,” why ridicule works to keep big tech’s cla…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Disappearing DOGE Depositions

This week we start with Joseph’s series of articles about the DOGE depositions. He watched hours and hours of them, then a judge ordered them removed…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Google Street View's Unmappable City

There's only one city in America that isn't on Google's Street View. Documentary filmmaker Chris Parr set out to map it, using North Oak, Minnesota's…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis'

This week we start with Sam’s story discussing something that has come up a lot but no one has really answered: how do you speak to your friend or fa…

2 months ago

Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem

Cecilia D’Anstasio on Roblox efforts to protect children from pedophiles. 

Roblox is one of those games that is more popular than you can imagine, …

2 months ago

The Depravity Economy

This week we discuss our coverage of the U.S.-Israel strikes against Iran, specifically how Polymarket and Kalshi are letting people profit from deat…

2 months, 1 week ago