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Ever wonder where the internet stops and IRL begins? Close All Tabs breaks down how digital culture shapes our world through thoughtful insights and irreverent humor. From internet trends to AI slop to the politics of memes, Close All Tabs covers it all.How will AI change our jobs and lives? Is the government watching what I post? Is there life beyond TikTok? Host Morgan Sung pulls from experts, the audience, and history to add context to the trends and depth to the memes. And she’ll wrestle wit...
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Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car
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What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement?
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Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines
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AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress
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Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines
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The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift
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AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Drea...
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The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl
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Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines
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Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef
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Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED
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The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control
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How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)
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Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?
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'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up
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Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
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The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried
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A Queer History of The Sims
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How To Prove You're Not AI
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Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap
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Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics
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Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War
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How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
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My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)
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Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
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The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game
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Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsui...
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The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers
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Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme
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To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair
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The Fight for Your Right to Repair
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'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
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Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws
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Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
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Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall
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Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling
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How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities
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The Real Cost of AI Slop
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Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think
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Are You Allowed to Record ICE?
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Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists,...
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Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat
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One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione
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What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
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Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’
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Where Do Games Go When They Die?
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Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
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A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
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Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
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Beyond the AI Hype Machine
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