The internet once felt novel and exciting, with new mysteries waiting to be discovered around every corner. These days there's a different mystery: who is actually deciding everything that you end up seeing? Journalist Kyle Chayka, author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, has been watching how platform algorithms have been invisibly been guid ... Show More
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Lisa Hanawalt on Autobiographical Cartooning, Horses and Why We Broke Up
This week's episode gets a little personal as my guest is...my ex! Today I'm joined by cartoonist and writer Lisa Hanawalt, as we discuss autobiographical cartooning, horses, and our breakup...which has inspired our latest artistic ventures.SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON: https://ww ... Show More
1h 47m
Oct 7
The Fight Against Flock with Chad Marlow
You may have heard of Flock cameras, a network of automatic license plate readers that track not only license plates, but what vehicles look like, and even descriptions of people inside them. If this sounds like the makings of a surveillance network that is both antithetical to o ... Show More
1h 13m
Oct 2025
Overthinking About The Algorithm
If the algorithm knows what we want before we do… who’s really in charge? This week, host Amanda Montell(@amanda_montell) is joined by linguist, creator, and internet culture observer Adam Aleksic (@etymologynerd) to spiral deep into the invisible yet all powerful force shaping o ... Show More
42m 30s
Apr 2024
Guest Spotlight: Why Govt. Deficit Is a Good Thing | Are Algorithms Controlling Our Taste?
Bestselling author and professor, Stephanie Kelton, joins Jordan Klepper and Ronny Chieng to break down the flexibilities of government finances despite being in a deficit and how the Modern Money Theory can help change how we interpret government spending. Also, Jordan and Ronny ... Show More
29m 24s
Oct 2024
Yuval Noah Harari IV (on the history of information networks)
Yuval Noah Harari (Nexus, Sapiens, Homo Deus) is an author and historian. Yuval joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how people can be manipulated by misinformation, how powerful the role of an editor is, and how much our lives are shaped by bureaucracies. Yuval and Dax talk abou ... Show More
2h 26m