'You are powerful': Remembering Aaron Swartz
Amory and Ben honor the legacy of internet activist Aaron Swartz with two people familiar with his life and work: documentary filmmaker Brian Knappenberger (The Internet's Own Boy) and Cindy Cohn of t...
13 Tammi 202330min
Encore: Llama at a Wedding
“What are the dimensions of an adult llama?” asked a Redditor called Mrs. Sam Handwich in the "No Stupid Questions" community. "I've been hired to make a tuxedo for a llama and I don't have its measur...
6 Tammi 202318min
Encore: Unsent Letters
The unsent letter. We all have one, half-composed in our heads or fully-formed as an email draft. Whatever form these letters take, they go unsent because they might be better left unsent, or because ...
30 Joulu 202228min
Bonus: The ‘Stinetingler’ himself
Team Endless Thread is here with your holiday bonus — a bonus episode, that is! If you heard our most recent episode on 'Goosebumps The Musical,' you know that Amory got to talk to R.L. Stine, author ...
24 Joulu 202215min
Listener beware...
When producer Quincy Walters came to an Endless Thread episode ideas meeting talking about 'Goosebumps The Musical,' Amory had two questions: 1) “That’s a thing?!” and 2) “Is it… good?” Yep and YEP!...
23 Joulu 202238min
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part VI: Something Like Us
Can a machine think like a human? Can it be conscious? For decades the answer was clear: nope. But artificial intelligence today is challenging that notion. In our last Good Bot, Bad Bot episode, Endl...
16 Joulu 202240min
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part V: Dating Bots
If you've ever used a dating app, chances are you've encountered a bot, most likely a fake account or a scammer. But this week on Endless Thread, we investigate a new type of bot that is helping users...
9 Joulu 202236min
Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part IV: Tay
Next up in our bots series, we bring you a cautionary tale about Tay, a Microsoft chatbot that has lived on in infamy. Tay was originially modeled to be the bot-girl-next-door. But after only sixteen ...
2 Joulu 202228min
