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Close All Tabs

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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 with as many browser tabs as it takes to explain the cultural moment we’re all collectively living.

Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.

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  1. Sickfluencers, the Covid-Conscious Lesbian Bar and the Algorithmic Ableism Trap 41:22
  2. Cinema Is So Back. And Gen Z Is Behind It. 37:54
  3. Cursed All Tabs: Portals, Creepy Caves, Jumpscares and Haunted Objects 1:07:54
  4. “Sister, yesss!” What’s Behind the Viral Nun Podcast? 37:55
  5. Are Chatbots Harming Our Relationships? | Close All Tabs Presents 25:33
  6. Influencers Are Peddling Peptides, but Is Tanmaxxing Worth the Risk? 40:40
  7. Can We Cool Data Centers With… Pee? 35:17
  8. AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents 51:32
  9. Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama 42:00
  10. Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car 43:20
  11. What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement? 33:30
  12. Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines 30:37
  13. AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress 43:17
  14. Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines 35:21
  15. The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift 36:54
  16. AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines 39:38
  17. The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl 38:48
  18. Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines 39:09
  19. Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef 49:36
  20. Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED 13:12
  21. The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control 37:30
  22. How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload) 37:35
  23. Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark? 36:33
  24. 'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up 41:14
  25. Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures 23:38
  26. The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried 45:07
  27. A Queer History of The Sims 44:32
  28. How To Prove You're Not AI 36:14
  29. Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap 39:22
  30. Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics 36:39
  31. Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War 40:19
  32. How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn 37:04
  33. My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload) 31:32
  34. Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware 30:39
  35. The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game 33:20
  36. Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits 31:38
  37. The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers 37:55
  38. Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme 38:20
  39. To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair 34:28
  40. The Fight for Your Right to Repair 36:33
  41. 'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis 39:40
  42. Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws 38:02
  43. Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age 34:19
  44. Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall 42:30
  45. Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling 44:14
  46. How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities 35:38
  47. The Real Cost of AI Slop 36:03
  48. Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think 41:56
  49. Are You Allowed to Record ICE? 30:55
  50. Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote 44:52