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The Great Lemming Lie
Telling a story is hard. Filming nature is even harder.
That may be why, in the 1940s, Walt Disney productions leaned on movie magic to develop its T…
1 year, 9 months ago
A Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
When the founder of the messaging and social media app Telegram, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France, it exposed something: many of Telegram's millio…
1 year, 9 months ago
Ignore All Previous Instructions
How do you break a bot? Recently, one sneaky idea turned into an online meme. Tell the bot, "Ignore all previous instructions and..." Then you fill i…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Internet's Most Hated Bird
Gulls are not beloved creatures. Consult social media, where they are deemed relentless, dirty pests who steal our food and crowd our beaches. As one…
1 year, 10 months ago
Bad Assumptions
A blurry video surfaces on the r/trashy subreddit of what appears to be a work dispute in an unspecified African country. A Chinese man slaps a clipb…
1 year, 10 months ago
Singing About the Rain
What is it about weather reporters that makes them so goofy? Whatever it is, today, meteorologists have appeal far beyond the airwaves. Several have …
1 year, 10 months ago
The Digital Cage
When Hashim crossed the U.S.-Mexico border seeking asylum in 2020, he was tired—tired of running, tired of being locked in cages.
Hashim was a politi…
1 year, 11 months ago
The context of all in which we live
When future generations learn about the launch of current Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, memes are going to be part of the stor…
1 year, 11 months ago
The American Lean
It's an idea that pops up on Reddit from time to time: that Americans have a unique propensity lean on things. Walls. Chairs. Anything to keep from h…
1 year, 11 months ago
This Bonus Drop is Marked Seggsplicit
Is it just us, or has almost everything on the internet — even breaking news — become NSFW?
In this bonus episode, Endless Thread host Ben Brock John…
1 year, 11 months ago