Encore: The internet's fight over dinosaur emoji
A few years ago, we brought you the story of how dinosaur emoji had entered the debate about trans rights. We were reminded of this episode recently when a White House memorandum lambasted NPR for sp...
9 Touko 202528min
Boy do we have a rant for you
It's rant season. Or is it? When is it *not* rant season? In this week's episode of Endless Thread, Ben and Amory discuss two very different, very viral, rants from Reddit. One is about how the curren...
2 Touko 202521min
Introducing NHPR's "The Final Days of Sgt. Tibbs"
Endless Thread is thrilled to introduce you to a new podcast from our friends at NHPR’s Document team. That’s the team behind other great narrative shows like Bear Brook and The 13th Step. For the pa...
18 Huhti 202517min
Nothing Violent
There's a conspiracy theory on Reddit right now suggesting that Reddit is using aggressive tools to hide posts praising or supporting Luigi Mangione's alleged execution-style killing of the CEO of Uni...
11 Huhti 202524min
Introducing Levittown, new podcast from Kaleidescope and Bloomberg
Have you ever been deepfaked? Or maybe this is just a new fear – that photos of you end up online that are you – but not really you? What would you do? For an increasing number of people – especially ...
8 Huhti 202530min
Toyota Hilux trucks - why are they popular online and in war zones?
In April of 2024, a group of aid workers were killed by Israeli Defense Forces while bringing food to Central Gaza. The IDF had alleged that its military analysts had identified a gunman on top of one...
4 Huhti 202531min
How to responsibly leak information to the press
Well, the messaging app Signal has been in the news recently, thanks to a snafu in which prominent federal defense officials mistakenly added The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a gro...
28 Maalis 202525min
