episode 018: incognito sicko mode (ft. justine smith)
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...
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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...
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20 of 22 episodesminisode 004: the woke, the horny, the sentient
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...
episode 017: the quadriga affair
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...
episode 016: the algorithmic eldritch odyssey
the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sa...
minisode 003: banderscratch n' sniff
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...
episode 015: the 2020 holographic apology tour
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...
episode 014: islands in the stream
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...
episode 013: you news, you lose
after a new raft of high-profile site closures, the HACKS Institute gang, properly reassembled at last, ponders the current state of journal...
episode 012: hq2 pt. ii — the search for shatner
a big news week demands a supersized episode, so the hacks reassemble (once again missing Rosemary, present only in digital spirit form) to...
episode 011: 23andme and you and everyone we know
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...
episode 010: future's so right I gotta wear shades
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...
minisode 002: betrayed in the hexagon (sidewalk labs pt ii)
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...
episode 009: blaze it pal, the weed episode 420 hell yeah bro
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...
episode 008: lightweight jammin'
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...
episode 007: a touch too much
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...
minisode 001: eine klein nachtmusik
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...
episode 006: rehash power
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...
episode 005: disorder of the triad
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...
episode 004: cops and LAN go hand in hand
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...
episode 003: shade runner 2018
in the first HACKS initiative field report, simon and rosemary go to a public consultation for Sidewalk Labs, Google/Alpahbet's "smart city"...