Podcast Episodes

Is Wiping a Phone a Crime?

We start this week talking about a very unusual case: someone is being charged for allegedly wiping a phone before CBP could search it. There are a lot of questions remaining, but a super interesting…

Published on 3 days, 15 hours ago

Why Are We Obsessed With Aliens? (With Becky Ferreira)

Humanity has talked about aliens throughout recorded history, and obsession that has changed science, faith, and media. 

The past few years have been very exciting for those who want to believe. The…

Published on 5 days, 15 hours ago

Zines Are Back

We start this week with news of our zine! We’re printing it very soon, and walk you through the process. Independent media is turning back to physical zines as a way to subvert algorithms. After the …

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

How AI Porn Isolates Us with Noelle Perdue

This week Sam is in conversation with Noelle Perdue. Noelle is a writer, producer, and internet porn historian whose works has been published in Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, and more, and you’r…

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

This Podcast Will Hack You

We start this week with Joseph’s very weird story about Apple Podcasts. The app is opening by itself, playing random spirituality podcasts, and in one case directing listeners to a potentially malici…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Inside the Biggest Sting Operation Ever (with Michael Bobbitt)

Joseph speaks to Michael Bobbitt, a former FBI official who worked directly on Operation Trojan Shield. In this operation the FBI secretly ran its own encrypted phone company for organized crime, bac…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

A Massive Breach Reveals the Truth Behind 'Secret Desires AI'

We start this week with Sam's piece about a massive leak of an AI chatbot, and how it showed that people were taking ordinary women’s yearbook photos and using them to make AI porn. After the break, …

Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago

Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)

Jason talks to Chris Gilliard, the author of the upcoming book Luxury Surveillance. Gilliard has studied the rise of companies like Ring and Flock, as well as the dynamics that lead people to surveil…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

The Epstein Email Dump Is a Mess

We start this week with a rant from Jason about how the latest dump of Epstein emails were released. It would be a lot easier to cover them if they were published differently! After the break, we tal…

Published on 1 month ago

The Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier)

The video game industry has had a turbulent few years. The pandemic made people play more and caused a small boom, which then subsided, resulting in wave after wave of massive layoffs. Microsoft, one…

Published on 1 month ago