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here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to wo...

porn: pretty much all of us watch it or consume it in one form or another, and it takes up a measurable % of the entire internet, but what d...

we're working on a new shcedule of alternating full- and mini-sodes for the foreseeable future, so we hope you can adjust on this decidedly...

maral, rob, and simon get in way over their heads in a special, nearly double-length discussion of a recent financial calamity and the consp...

the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sa...

it's the all-bro edition of HACKS, as maral and rosemary were both out of reach this week. so rob and simon decided to rewind to the hallowe...

we decided that a regular prediction episode was too normal and boring and played out so we tried a different thing and we promise not to do...

in our last proper show of 2018, the gang (sadly maral-less) ponders just what the music and film/TV streaming economy has done to both crea...

after a new raft of high-profile site closures, the HACKS Institute gang, properly reassembled at last, ponders the current state of journal...

a big news week demands a supersized episode, so the hacks reassemble (once again missing Rosemary, present only in digital spirit form) to...

we are sadly rosemaryless this week, but we're still excited to finally tackle one of the most annoying and pervasive subjects of the modern...

the rise of neo-fascist Bolsonaro in Brazil prompted a new wave of relection on the role of major social media apps and networks in aiding a...

we decided to take a quick return to sidewalk labs (aka alphabet aka google) and their attempt to transform a chunk of toronto's aterfront i...

bro!!!! have you heard that pot is legal in canada??? we ponder the rollout and the ramifications, before moving onto our main topic: the st...

using a silly McDonald's prank as our starting point, the hacks ensemble goes off on a lot of freewheeling tangents concerning the somehow-s...

the gang is all back, and with a topic we have not even remotely touched on before: sex! sex! sex! in the first (and briefer) segment, we sp...

We didn't have time to do a full court press this week, so a slightly diminished gang quickly assembled to dive deep on a narrowed topic (or...

blame simon the birthday bitch, as well as a wide variety of behind-the-scenes recording issues, for the late appearance this week. after ou...

with the hacks shorthanded for the first time, they decide to once again go after low-hanging fruit in search of sweet, sweet #content - thi...

here at the HACKS initiative, if there's one thing we love, it's our cops ! but sometimes they do things that freak us out a bit, like when...

in the first HACKS initiative field report, simon and rosemary go to a public consultation for Sidewalk Labs, Google/Alpahbet's "smart city"...

already scraping the very bottom of the content barrel only two weeks in, the gang takes a look at Unfriended: Dark Web , the latest attempt...

in our first episode, the gang ponders the promise and mission of Wealthsimple, the robo-advisor company selling you "ethical investing" wit...