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KQED 1134 - Can We Cool Data Centers With… Pee?

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. We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.

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Can We Cool Data Centers With… Pee?

AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents

Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama

Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car

What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement?

Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines

AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress

Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines

The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift

AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines

The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl

Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines

Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef

Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED

The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control

How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)

Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?

'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up

Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures

The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried

A Queer History of The Sims

How To Prove You're Not AI

Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap

Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics

Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War

How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)

Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware

The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game

Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits

The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers

Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme

To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair

The Fight for Your Right to Repair

'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws

Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age

Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall

Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling

How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities

The Real Cost of AI Slop

Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think

Are You Allowed to Record ICE?

Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote

Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat

One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione

What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?

Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’

Where Do Games Go When They Die?

Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality