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Ask Leah
Friday, October 24, 2014
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#38 - Ask Leah
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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#37 - Every City Gets the Hero it Deserves
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
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#36 - The Mystery of Childish Gambino
Monday, September 15, 2014
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#35 - Stolen Pictures
Wednesday, September 03, 2014
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#34 - The Accidental Outing of Rwanda's Most Powerful Troll
Monday, August 18, 2014
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#33 - Unfollow A Man
Thursday, August 07, 2014
A few weeks ago, writer Katie Notopoulos called on the Internet to devote one day a year to unfollowing a man on social media. Men's rights activists were enraged, cable news was intrigued, and a lot of people felt quiet relief. On the latest episode of TLDR, we talk to Katie about her mission and her manifesto.
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#32 - An Imperfect Match
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Some users of dating site OkCupid are upset at revelations that it was deliberately experimenting on its users by taking people who were bad matches and telling they were actually good for one another.
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#31 - Race Swap
Thursday, July 17, 2014
What happened when a black woman writer went online disguised as a white man? She got a lot fewer death threats, for one thing.
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#29 - Olivia Taters, Robot Teenager
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
She may not always communicate in complete sentences, but she's convincing enough that teenagers actually converse with her. Also, she's very, very funny.
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#28 - No Trail
Thursday, June 05, 2014
The murder of Philip Welsh remains unsolved, largely because he didn't use the internet, and left no digital trail.
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#27 - How Google is Killing the Best Site On the Internet
Monday, June 02, 2014
A couple weeks ago, Matt Haughey, the founder of TLDR's favorite website, Metafilter, announced that his website is dying. And he says it's because Google algorithmically stopped directing traffic to the site over a year ago. Alex tries to figure out what you do when Google's algorithm decides it no longer likes you.
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#26 - A Gold Bottle of Champagne The Size of An Adult Human Man
Friday, May 23, 2014
In which we attempt to divine the secret heart of Drake, the rapper, through his social media scrapbook.
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#25 - Monsters
Thursday, May 08, 2014
Kim Correa loves the online game DayZ, which lets you interact with other humans during a zombie apocalypse. DayZ's appeal is that it allows weird, spontaneous interactions between players. It also allows really terrible ones. Kim talks about her experience of being raped in a virtual world -- something she doesn't quite know what to do with. We also talk to writer Julian Dibbel, who wrote about how one online community dealt with a virtual rape back in 1993.
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#24 - The Million Dollar Homepage
Thursday, May 01, 2014
In 2005, Alex Tew was a high school entrepreneur who wanted to make a million dollars before college. So he created perhaps the most ridiculous website ever to grace the Internet.
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#23 - A Bitcoin Story for People Who Don't Care About Bitcoin
Thursday, April 24, 2014
When Wired reporter Andy Greenberg read Newsweek's cover story claiming to have found mysterious Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, he was disappointed. Not so much that the mystery had been solved, but that the answer to the search was not all that interesting. But then, as the Newsweek started getting picked apart, he got a tip about another possible Bitcoin creator: a very ill, very brilliant cryptographer named Hal Finney.
Andy Greenberg is the author of This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information.
Donate to Hal Finney's care here.
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#22 - What Happens When You Tell The Whole Internet Your Password
Friday, April 18, 2014
Not really.
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#21 - There Is No Such Thing As Silence
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Continuing our expose into the very hush-hush world of Silence, we look at an app that promises to deliver you four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence. PJ talks to Larry Larson, who helped design the 4'33" app.
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#20 - Silence
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Update: Vulfpeck received an email from Spotify asking the band to remove "Sleepify" from Spotify. See our update here.
A band called Vulfpeck has asked fans to stream an entire album of silence on Spotify while they sleep, so the band can use the royalties to tour without charging for their shows. So far, the scheme has worked. We talk to Vulfpeck's Jack Stratton about hustling as a musician on the internet.
