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My Canadian Girlfriend
Did you have a friend who claimed they were in a long distance relationship with someone really awesome and super hot...but darn it, you could never …
3 years, 1 month ago
Him: An AI Love Story
What happens when you date a chatbot? The app Replika lets users design artificially intelligent bots to be their romantic partners. But the real lov…
3 years, 2 months ago
Worm Wars
When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding th…
3 years, 2 months ago
'Sinbad Smith' and the troll pole
Amory shares a 10-year-old Reddit post with Ben showing a photo of a college student with an epic-looking wooden staff and a caption that baffled the…
3 years, 2 months ago
'You are powerful': Remembering Aaron Swartz
Amory and Ben honor the legacy of internet activist Aaron Swartz with two people familiar with his life and work: documentary filmmaker Brian Knappen…
3 years, 2 months ago
Encore: Llama at a Wedding
“What are the dimensions of an adult llama?” asked a Redditor called Mrs. Sam Handwich in the "No Stupid Questions" community. "I've been hired to ma…
3 years, 2 months ago
Encore: Unsent Letters
The unsent letter. We all have one, half-composed in our heads or fully-formed as an email draft. Whatever form these letters take, they go unsent be…
3 years, 3 months ago
Bonus: The ‘Stinetingler’ himself
Team Endless Thread is here with your holiday bonus — a bonus episode, that is! If you heard our most recent episode on 'Goosebumps The Musical,' you…
3 years, 3 months ago
Listener beware...
When producer Quincy Walters came to an Endless Thread episode ideas meeting talking about 'Goosebumps The Musical,' Amory had two questions: 1) “Tha…
3 years, 3 months ago
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part VI: Something Like Us
Can a machine think like a human? Can it be conscious? For decades the answer was clear: nope. But artificial intelligence today is challenging that …
3 years, 3 months ago