We're joined by Gizmodo's Shoshana Wodinsky to talk about how tech companies are using the impending repeal of Roe v Wade as an opportunity to expand their surveillance apparatus and abilities, and...
2022-05-27 11:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by the writer Emma Berquist (@eeberquist) to talk about a recent piece she wrote on the pitfalls of the True ...
2022-05-24 07:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostSince Hussein promised Phoebe she didn't have to watch cartoons anymore, and he is an honourable man who sticks to his promises, we're instead watching Reality TV. We watch the first episode ...
2022-05-20 09:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're joined by Jessica Lucas (@jessicalucaswrites) from Input Magazine, to discuss the "Will White" fandom, something that does actually exist, and apparently consists on various Moms on...
2022-05-17 13:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by writer and presenter Chanté Joseph, to talk about her recent VICE article on Cringe, and whether being cri...
2022-05-13 12:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by Dipo Faloyin, a journalist, senior editor at VICE and the author of "Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa". In this episode, we ta...
2022-05-10 11:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe did it Joe! We finally got to the end of this series. On the final episode, Lain, who is now the defacto god of the internet, has to try figure out what to do with her powers, and, how to make t...
2022-05-08 10:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Paris Marx (@parismarx), host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, talks to us about Elon Musk'...
2022-05-03 13:20:06 +0000 UTC View PostWe're on the penultimate episode of this damn series, so we're joined by Devon to talk about Lain's final debate with the God of the wired - a debate she wins fairly easily?- causing the God to go ...
2022-04-29 13:05:29 +0000 UTC View PostAlice (@aliceavizandum) joins us this week to talk about some fun posts and TikTok's we found, and we also talk about the ...
2022-04-26 12:32:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we're going back to Cyberia to talk about Lain's current adventures. In "Infonography", The God of the Wired explains more about Lain's purpose in the Wired, suggesting that she is simply...
2022-04-22 13:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by Youtuber and Musician Münecat (@munecatmu...
2022-04-20 08:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostIn part two of our chat with Annie Kelly, a co-host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous, we talk about what's next for QAnon, and why we might see more Q theories make their way into environmental movem...
2022-04-15 09:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostEleanor (@goingmedieval) joins us once again to talk about this weird thing where TERFs and Trad guys seem to realise their...
2022-04-08 13:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) to talk about his recent Harper's long read on Disinformation and the commercialisation of fact-checking, misinformation reporting, OSINT, and i...
2022-04-06 20:14:56 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Just a note that this week's free episode will be out tomorrow due to an emergency rescheduling.
Bonus episode will be out on Friday as usual, and normal scheduling resumes f...
We decided to take a little break from *the discourse on main* this week, to sit as friends and enjoy the Poster's Potluck - where we each bring a few posts we thought were interesting, amusing or ...
2022-04-01 12:33:13 +0000 UTC View PostWere joined by Oobah Butler, a writer, satirist and host of MTV UK's Catfish, to talk about how scamming is embedded into basic...
2022-03-29 12:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by Annie Kelly, an academic and co-host of QAnon Anonymous (@AnnieKNK) , who talks to us about what QAnon...
2022-03-25 11:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by writer and podcaster Huw Lemmey, author of "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History", to discuss his recent substack essay on the Cry Laugh Emoji, and its links to British 'banter' culture a...
2022-03-22 16:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostMilo (@Milo_Edwards) joins us once again to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how its being presented online. In this episode, we talk about how the war has shaped the Russian internet, an...
2022-03-18 13:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by Oscar Rickett (@oscarrickettnow), journalist and editor at Middle East Eye, to discuss the events taking ...
2022-03-15 16:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostHussein and Phoebe talk about SEL Layer 10, "Love", in which Lain finally meets The God of The Wired (just a guy) who tries to debate her about the existence of God and the necessity of religion. T...
2022-03-11 11:46:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Hussein talks to journalist, producer and author Symeon Brown (@symeonbrown), about his new book "Get Rich or L...
2022-03-08 11:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) , who writes the newsletter ...
2022-03-01 11:41:28 +0000 UTC View PostFriend of the show Rachel returns to the pod to talk about her recent Guardian piece on influencers, cynical activism and the limitations placed on protest movements when corporate-backed influence...
2022-02-25 12:10:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by Aaron (@Paradoomer) from The Trillbillies Podcast to talk about a recent essay he wrote about nostal...
2022-02-22 11:44:10 +0000 UTC View PostMilo returns to the poster's dome to talk about how and why comedians have become influencers and what this suggests about how we think about comedy and making jokes. We talk about how internet cul...
2022-02-18 12:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostHussein and Sophie jack into the Matrix once again to complete the watch of the latest Matrix movie. Now that Neo is once again "out", we find out what happened to Zion after the humans-machines wa...
2022-02-11 11:10:50 +0000 UTC View Post