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The AI Slop Panic Is Hiding Something: We Already Let Machines Choose What We Consume
Episode 1409
We've all done it. We spot the tell-tale AI phrasing, screenshot it, post it with a face of disgust, and get a small hit of moral applause. But here'…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Brand Called You: When Who You Are Started Beating What You Do | Between the Lines
Episode 1408
Somewhere out there is the most gifted person alive at something you love, and you will probably never hear their name. That single unfair fact is th…
2 months ago
Education in the Age of AI 01 | The Factory That Taught Us to Sit Still
Episode 1407
Before we can talk about artificial intelligence, we have to talk about the machine we already built. This episode traces the design history of moder…
2 months, 1 week ago
My Life Is Full, Just Not by Your Standards | Between the Lines
Episode 1406
You know the face. The little tilt of the head, the soft and sorrowful eyes, the gentle "you really should get out more" delivered like a diagnosis. …
2 months, 1 week ago
A History of Sex as a Business 10 | Where Do We Go From Here: Laws, Justice, and Human Dignity
Episode 1405
What if there is no policy solution to this question that doesn't require us to make genuine tradeoffs between values we all hold — and what if the m…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A History of Sex as a Business 09 | The Digital Turn: Platforms, Algorithms, and OnlyFans
Episode 1404
What happens when an industry that has been managed through physical geography for five thousand years suddenly loses its geography — when a brothel …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A History of Sex as a Business 08 | The Business Model: How the Industry Actually Works
Episode 1403
If you wanted to build a business that generates enormous profit from other people's bodies, that is extraordinarily resistant to law enforcement, an…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A History of Sex as a Business 07 | The 20th Century: Wars, Migration, and the Criminalization Wave
Episode 1402
What if the twentieth century's most passionate campaigns to protect women from commercial sex actually made the women in it less safe, less visible,…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A History of Sex as a Business 06 | Victorian Shadows: The Underground Economy of the Empire
Episode 1401
What do you do with a society that publicly proclaims that respectable women are pure, modest, and above the desires of the flesh — and privately mai…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A History of Sex as a Business 05 | The Colonial Export: Race, Empire, and the Global Trade
Episode 1400
What happens to the already brutal economics of commercial sex when you add the logic of empire — the idea that an entire category of people exists f…
2 months, 2 weeks ago