Podcast appearances and mentions of Ian Bogost

Universities tried to be all things to all people. That model may not be working anymore. Adam Harris is joined by Ian Bogost, Atlantic contributing writer and a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, to discuss the state of higher education. On campuses across the country, students are graduating into a job market with questions on their mind. What kind of career is stable in 2026? Will AI make it even harder to get an entry-level job? Was my education worth all the money it cost? For universities that are already facing federal funding cuts and enrollment declines, the identity crisis their graduates are facing is an extension of their own: Is the purpose of college just to get a good job, or is there more to it?  Colleges have been in rough spots before, but is it finally time to start rethinking their entire model? - - - Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You'll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Atlantic subscribers also get access to exclusive subscriber audio in Apple Podcasts. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/Listener. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs This pasta sauce wants to record your family LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Depths of Wikipedia GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Jeff's Gemini happy ending The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs This pasta sauce wants to record your family LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Depths of Wikipedia GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Jeff's Gemini happy ending The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs This pasta sauce wants to record your family LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Depths of Wikipedia GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Jeff's Gemini happy ending The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs This pasta sauce wants to record your family LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Depths of Wikipedia GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Jeff's Gemini happy ending The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs This pasta sauce wants to record your family LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Depths of Wikipedia GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Jeff's Gemini happy ending The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

Game designer and Atlantic writer Ian Bogost joins to argue that the true joy of technology is not frictionlessness, but the small sensory pleasures and constraints that keep us tethered to real life. Discover how AI could push us back into the world, not just behind our screens. CSA and Security Experts on Mythos Planning Scoop: NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite Defense Department blacklist Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox Anthropic's most dangerous AI model just fell into the wrong hands News: Anthropic Removes Claude Code From $20-A-Month "Pro" Subscription Plan For New Users (Developing) Anthropic Changes Pricing to Bill Firms Based on AI Use Amid Compute Crunch Microsoft's GitHub grounds Copilot account sign-ups amid capacity crunch Token demand makes an AI bubble unlikely, says Michael Dell Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership SpaceX Strikes Deal With Cursor for $60 Billion Google Cloud Releases New TPU Chip Lineup in Bid to Speed Up AI Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all Kimi K2.6 Tech Blog: Advancing Open-Source Coding Sam Altman's "proof of human" company pushes into mainstream services Humanoid robots race past humans in Beijing half-marathon, showing rapid advances This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts Next Time You Order a Dairy Queen Blizzard, You May Be Talking to AI Chip Maker TSMC Is More Bullish Than Ever on AI, Despite Iran War AI traffic to US retailers rose 393% in Q1, and it's boosting their revenue too Stanford's AI Index finds China has nearly closed the performance gap with the US despite spending 23 times less New Movie Trailer Shows First AI-Generated Performance By a Major Star: the Late Val Kilmer We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked it to make a profit | Andon Labs This pasta sauce wants to record your family LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers Tokyo court rules movie and anime 'spoiler articles' are copyright infringement in landmark criminal case — detailed, monetized plot summaries land man in Japanese prison Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data AI's New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails Depths of Wikipedia GitHub - google-labs-code/design.md: A format specification for describing a visual identity to coding agents. DESIGN.md gives agents a persistent, structured understanding of a design system. Is Your Site Agent-Ready? Jeff's Gemini happy ending The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO's Face Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau Guests: Lucas and Ian Bogost Download or subscribe to Intelligent Machines at https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: webroot.com/twit monarch.com with code IM outsystems.com/twit

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3522: Nir Eyal reveals that distraction isn't caused by external triggers but by our urge to escape discomfort, and the solution is to make tedious tasks engaging. Drawing on Ian Bogost's ideas, he shows how curiosity, constraints, and deeper attention can transform even boring work into something immersive and meaningful. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.nirandfar.com/tedious-tasks/ Quotes to ponder: "Fun is not a feeling so much as an exhaust produced when an operator can treat something with dignity." "Fun is the aftermath of deliberately manipulating a familiar situation in a new way." "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Episode references: The Office (U.S. TV series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series) Mary Poppins (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(film) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3522: Nir Eyal reveals that distraction isn't caused by external triggers but by our urge to escape discomfort, and the solution is to make tedious tasks engaging. Drawing on Ian Bogost's ideas, he shows how curiosity, constraints, and deeper attention can transform even boring work into something immersive and meaningful. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.nirandfar.com/tedious-tasks/ Quotes to ponder: "Fun is not a feeling so much as an exhaust produced when an operator can treat something with dignity." "Fun is the aftermath of deliberately manipulating a familiar situation in a new way." "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Episode references: The Office (U.S. TV series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series) Mary Poppins (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(film) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3522: Nir Eyal reveals that distraction isn't caused by external triggers but by our urge to escape discomfort, and the solution is to make tedious tasks engaging. Drawing on Ian Bogost's ideas, he shows how curiosity, constraints, and deeper attention can transform even boring work into something immersive and meaningful. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.nirandfar.com/tedious-tasks/ Quotes to ponder: "Fun is not a feeling so much as an exhaust produced when an operator can treat something with dignity." "Fun is the aftermath of deliberately manipulating a familiar situation in a new way." "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Episode references: The Office (U.S. TV series): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(American_TV_series) Mary Poppins (film): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(film) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's conversation between Dr. James Emery White and co-host Alexis Drye, they discuss the rapidly changing landscape of Christian wellness. The wellness industry is now a multi-trillion dollar global market, one that some within the Christian faith are aiming to capitalize on. They are taking culture's focus on prevention and lifestyle choices and washing all of it in faith - putting a Christian label or a Christian personality behind it to move a product. And “Christian” social media influencers are having a lot of success in gaining the trust of other Christians. Episode Links Alexis mentioned the article that prompted today's discussion written by Kelsey Kramer McGinnis in Christianity Today titled “‘No Guardrails' for Some Christian Wellness Influencers.” In it she notes how influencers are using Christian language and isolated Bible verses to sell everything from energy drinks to supplements, skin care to gym clothes. And the lack of guardrails is a huge concern, particularly when it's spreading distrust of the medical world. In response, Dr. White outlined what a social media influencer is. We had an earlier podcast episode on this topic that you can go back and listen to for a deeper discussion about influencers: CCP128: On Social Media Influencers. He also spent some time outlining the disproportionate influence that YouTube has had on our culture. Here's another past podcast episode that you can check out for more on this topic: CCP149: On YouTube. Finally, there are four additional articles that we'd encourage you to check out that were helpful sources for today's conversation. You can get to them by clicking the titles below: Coralie Kraft, “Why Some Teenage Girls Are Trading Medicine for MAHA,” The New York Times. Alexa Lee, “9 influencers shaping health information online, for better or worse,” STAT News. Ilana Amselem, “I Developed A Dark Obsession With 'Wellness.' Within Months, It Threatened To Consume My Life.” HuffPost. Ian Bogost, “People Are Thinking About Looksmaxxing All Wrong,” The Atlantic. For those of you who are new to Church & Culture, we'd love to invite you to subscribe (for free of course) to the twice-weekly Church & Culture blog and check out the Daily Headline News - a collection of headlines from around the globe each weekday. We'd also love to hear from you if there is a topic that you'd like to see discussed on the Church & Culture Podcast in an upcoming episode. You can find the form to submit your questions at the bottom of the podcast page HERE.

Outlouders, enjoy this free taster of Mia Freedman on today's subscriber episode. Listen to the full conversation — 'Mia's Diary Note: Burnout & Bras & Books, Oh My!' — at 5 pm TODAY. What do you mean, you're not a subscriber yet? Solve that problem HERE. Mia is deep in a nostalgia hole this week after bingeing the JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy series, Love Story. It turns out, seeing a world without DMs, TikTok trends, or the urge to live-stream your breakfast has her ready to trade her smartphone for a flip phone and some chic minimalism. Are we actually 'connected' or just... exhausted? In this episode: The 'Always On' Burnout: Mia gets real about the specific brand of fatigue that comes from being reachable 24/7. When did 'relaxing' become just another word for 'scrolling in a different room'? The Content Trap: Why are we obsessed with turning every family moment into a production for the group chat? Mia asks if it’s possible to just exist — without looking for the best lighting.Mia's Reccos The retro chocolate bar making a comeback in Mia’s pantry. The sports bra finally doing the literal heavy lifting. The memoir sparking a heated debate: is supporting your partner’s career a romantic gesture or a professional death wish? Remember, this is your free sample of today's subs episode. The full debrief drops for subscribers at 5pm. Get 25% off Nala with your Mamamia subscription. Click here to get your code ends April 1st. What To Listen To Next: Listen to our latest episode: A Dangerous Influencer Trend & Scurrilous Lip-Reading Gossip Listen: 'Are Flaps In Or Out?' Mia's Rogue Oscars Fashion Feedback Listen: A Very Awkward Oscars & That Manosphere Doco Listen: What We Did Before 9am Listen: A Lil' Treat: Jessie’s Very Surprising, Very Wonderful Twins Update Listen: Mia, Female Friendships & The '3-Word Rule' Listen: A Reluctant Pregnancy Announcement On Live TV Listen: Mia's Diary Note: What I Didn't Expect About Being A Nana Connect your subscription to Apple Podcasts Discover more Mamamia Podcasts here including the very latest episode of Parenting Out Loud, the parenting podcast for people who don't listen to... parenting podcasts. SUBSCRIBE here: Support independent women's media Watch Australia's #1 podcast, Mamamia Out Loud: Mamamia Out Loud on YouTube What to read: Mia Freedman steps down from No Filter after 10 years. Kate Langbroek announced as new host. ‘There’s a loneliness that comes from knowing you’re too much.’ What happened when I was diagnosed with ADHD at 49. MIA FREEDMAN: 'The type of burnout I didn't realise I had.' Mia Freedman on starting a media company with her husband. This new series tackles the complicated legacy of the '90s hottest couple. THE END BITS: Check out our merch at MamamiaOutLoud.com GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We’re listening. Send us an email at outloud@mamamia.com.au Share your story, feedback, or dilemma! Send us a voice message. Join our Facebook group Mamamia Outlouders to talk about the show. Follow us on Instagram @mamamiaoutloud and on Tiktok @mamamiaoutloud Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land on which we have recorded this podcast.Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we complete our series on a pair of empathy games, Papers, Please and Cart Life. We spend some more time with Melanie and her coffee hut before turning to our takeaways, shared between both games. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Several days of Cart Life Issues covered: the tutorialization in the Melanie story, a whole functioning town, replaying the first few days, real world flexibility, entering a potential failure state, adding parenting into the mix, encountering a bug, reading deeply into the simulation, having a meaningful experience without a systemic backing, supporting the illusion of systems, being forced to have your daughter go to her dad's, bugs and not being sure, losing Andrus's cat, dream sequences, having trouble wanting to play the game, adventure game topics and language, high pressure time, topics in other games, keywords, production economy, words as an inventory, life under capitalism vs authoritarianism, depriving a character of connection, choosing coffee due to life choices, not taking baristas for granted, useful friction and life, min/maxing the simulator vs trying to experiment with it, the horror of retail, opportunities for connection, making the game or life go more quickly, getting OCD with espresso, the physical repetitive tasks, "playing anything," what motivates play and games, being naturally empathetic with the character, choosing an abstract aesthetic, production techniques for lo-fi heart and enabling creativity, being glad that such games exist, tactility of game elements, abstraction and QTEs, Easter eggs.  Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: BioStats, CalamityNolan, Samuel Jackson, Pulp Fiction, Twine, The Walking Dead, David Lynch, Dark Souls, Ultima (series), Her Story, Sam Barlow, Hal Barwood, Return of the Obra Dinn, Mad Libs, howling dogs, WarCraft, Gilmore Girls, The Sims (series), Skyrim, Typing Tutor, Sabrina Carpenter, Receiver, Ian Bogost, Play Anything, Power Washing Simulator, Kim Jung Gi, Sierra, The Last of Us, Cleo 5 to 7, Jeanne Dielman, Chantal Ackerman, David Cage, God of War, Outer Wilds, Passage, Brad, Jason Rohrer, N. K. Jemisin, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: BioStats and CalamityNolan's interview with another host Twitch: timlongojr and twinsunscorp Discord  DevGameClub@gmail.com 

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on indie games, by looking at Papers, Please. We talk a bit about Lucas Pope, its creator, and then turn to the game's mechanics and themes. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: One or two playthroughs Issues covered: tactile job simulation games, empathy and commentary, tactility and user interfaces, how it plays, the mechanics post-day, plate-spinning, all the various things you have to check, a nerve-wracking experience, stamping passports, turning the screws, paying vs not paying for things, stereotypical regimes, indie games coming up with new interesting mechanics and AAA borrowing them, justifying denial of entry, having your options limited by bureaucracy, ways that days can end, the timer pressure, dehumanizing the process, describing the board game Train, opportunities for subversion, coins, being recruited for espionage, a precedent for weapon power mechanics. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Shirley Jackson, The Lottery, Cart Life, Persuasive Games, Ian Bogost, Fez, Naughty Dog, Helsing's Fire, Return of the Obra Dinn, Moida Mansion, Playdate, Mars After Midnight, The Lives of Others, Fumito Ueda, Uncharted 2, Balance of Power, Chris Crawford, Seamus McNally, Train, Brenda Romero, Keita Takahashi, Katamari Damacy, To A T, Pidy Retsym/Mystery Dip, Quoggim Logglehoggle, NES, Cave Story, Blaster Master, Daisuke Amaya, Outer Wilds, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia.  Next time: Twitch: timlongojr  Discord  DevGameClub@gmail.com  (show notes updated to attempt to force AP to update)

If the Trump administration's actions and rhetoric against universities sound vaguely familiar, that may be because they've already happened elsewhere. Over the years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has dismantled his country's higher-education system; cracked down on diversity, dissent, and critical thinking; and cast academic institutions as dangerous. So what does that mean for the future of higher ed in America? Further reading: Ian Bogost on “The End of College Life” Anne Applebaum on “America's Future Is Hungary” Get more from your favorite Atlantic voices when you subscribe. You'll enjoy unlimited access to Pulitzer-winning journalism, from clear-eyed analysis and insight on breaking news to fascinating explorations of our world. Subscribe today at TheAtlantic.com/podsub. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our latest season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode, from our fifth season, How to Keep Time, features co-hosts Ian Bogost and Becca Rashid in conversation with Oliver Burkeman to explore what it can look like to let go in a culture preoccupied with productivity. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This new season of How To is a collection of our favorite episodes from past seasons—a best-of series focused on slowing down, making space, and finding meaning in our hectic lives. This episode, from our fifth season, called How to Keep Time, features host Ian Bogost in conversation with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, the author of several books on rest and a director at 4 Day Week Global. The two explore how varied understandings of rest can affect our ability to gain real benefits from it. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two of our discourse besties from UAL's Fashion Media Practice & Criticism -- experiential designers Daniel Felstead and Jenn Leung -- join us to talk Janky Capitalism (the obvious falling-apart weirdness of the world while capital spins off farther and farther away from it, leaving us behind), Roblox, and neural media. You probably know their work from the iconic 'The Metaverse in Janky Capitalism' on Dis and its associated 'Literally No Place' and 'Always on My Mind' -- or from associated speaking / discourse production all over the internet (++ more on Jenn (link) and Daniel (link)).References from the pod include:Ruba Al-Sweel's awesome piece for SQD: 'Sandbox Semiotics' referenced in the intro.Jenn references artworld queen Anna Uddenberg (e.g. 'Continental Breakfast'), Harvard's GSD's Guide to Shopping, and Ian Bogost (whose critique of anthropomorphism in video games we really relate to).Daniel references Sam Cummins from Nymphet Alumni, a favorite podcast that everyone should already know and spend all their time listening to.Daniel references Catherine Malabou's concept of plasticity (throughout her work, typically referencing neuroscientific plasticisty, here used in its more generalized form).The second half of the episode spends some time with the theory of K. Allado-McDowell, specifically the concept of neural media. We could not recommend this episode of our other favorite podcast (New Models) more strongly.Roberto mentions Zachary Horton's 'Cosmic Zoom', which is our obsession atm.Ok enjoyyyy byee!

Neste episódio, recebemos Flávia Garcia de Carvalho, Doutora e Mestre em Ciências pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informação e Comunicação em Saúde (PPGICS) do Icict/Fiocruz sob a linha de concentração: Informação, Comunicação e Mediações em Saúde. Conversamos sobre sua jornada acadêmica e seu artigo intitulado Intertextualidade Procedimental: intertextualidade das regras e mecânicas em jogos digitais, que discute a intertextualidade com o conceito de retórica procedimental, a partir das contribuições de Ian Bogost. Também conversamos sobre narratologia vs ludologia, indústria cultural, arte e muito mais. Ouça também o Regras do Jogo 22 - Jogos Persuasivos, com Leonardo Moroni, onde discutimos pela primeira vez o conceito de retórica procedimental. Conheça o Fiocruz Jogos. Ajude a financiar o Holodeck Design no Apoia.se e Orelo.cc ou fazendo doações pelo PicPay. Siga o Holodeck Design no Twitter, Facebook, Instagram e TikTok e entre no grupo para ouvintes do Telegram! Nossos episódios são gravados ao vivo em nosso canal na Twitch e YouTube, faça parte também da conversa. Participantes Fernando Henrique Anderson do Patrocínio Flávia Garcia de Carvalho Cupons de Desconto regrasdojogo – 10% Descontos em todas as camisas da Veste Esquerda. Músicas: Persona 5 – Beneath The Mask lofi chill remix GUILD MERCHANT – Rebellion

Remember "piling into a car?" Remember "soccer moms" driving minivans? Remember when every other car wasn't a black SUV shaped like a shoe? Writer Ian Bogost talks about the latest changes in cars, and attitudes.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for September 28, 2024 is: avatar • AV-uh-tar • noun An avatar is an electronic image (as in a video game) that represents, and can be manipulated by, a computer user. Avatar can also refer to the embodiment of something (such as a concept or philosophy) often in a person, or to an incarnation of a deity—especially a Hindu deity, such as Vishnu. // Before they started playing the game, Maeve and Sanaa customized their avatars. // She has come to be regarded as an avatar of charity and concern for the poor. See the entry > Examples: “‘I am crying,' my editor said when I connected with her via FaceTime on my Apple Vision Pro. ‘You look like a computer man.' What made her choke with laughter was ... the digital avatar that the device had generated when I had pointed its curved, glass front at my face during setup. I couldn't see the me that she saw, but apparently it was uncanny. You look handsome and refined, she told me, but also fake.” — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2024 Did you know? Water. Earth. Fire. Air. These are just some of the elements and environments that video game avatars—the images representing and controlled by players—have faced since the days of Space Invaders, to say nothing of today's Pandora's box of assorted baddies. Avatar comes from the Sanskrit word avatāraḥ, meaning “descent.” When avatar first appeared in English in the late 18th century, it referred to the descent of a deity to the earth—typically, the incarnation in earthly form of Vishnu or another Hindu deity. It later came to refer to any incarnation in human form, and then to any embodiment (such as the embodiment of a concept or philosophy), whether or not in the form of a person. All of these senses of avatar are still in use today, joined by the more recent computing/gaming sense, which may refer to “you” embodied as a mustachioed Italian plumber, for example, even if you are not, in fact, a mustachioed Italian plumber.

Ian Bogost, contributing writer at The Atlantic and a lover and expert on soft drinks, joins Michael to talk about his piece "J. D. Vance Has a Point About Mountain Dew." Original air date 26 July 2024.

Join your hosts Katherine and Shelbi to reflect on the convenience culture that touches almost every aspect of our lives, and when and how we press pause in order to come together and connect.Everything on DemandWhile streaming services have shifted the shared experience of tuning into prime time, they've also played into nostalgia by bringing back shows like Reba and Sex and the City, creating new moments to tune in together (and fuel online discourse).The sheer amount of content and the algorithms that serve it is a vast machine, making it that much more amusing when something goes viral and resonates on a large scale (we're looking at you, Black Twitter).Endless delivery options can jeopardize moments of connection, and there's a balance of knowing that time is money and choosing the moments when to be a more engaged consumer in the community.Data Driven Tech Meets Social CompetitionSocial media gives an on demand view of what you have or don't have that can be motivating and disheartening, with millennial “experience culture”, fast fashion, and expectations to present a certain way online sometimes making us lose the plot on what our own “why” is.Taking a cue from Gen Z and sharing a broader picture of your lived experience online creates an opportunity to connect more authentically and reduce misconceptions of others' feelings based on what we see on social media, for example Brittney Reynolds.Wearable tech can do so many amazing things for our health and knowledge, but it's up to the consumer to decide what tools are helpful and what may be overwhelming to them as an individual.AirPods are the crown jewels and status symbol we wear as convenience queens, but the content and connectivity (and noise cancellation) they provide make them blinders to the world around us (referencing Scott Galloway's 2018 tweet of Ian Bogost's Atlantic article, Apple's Airpods Are an Omen).Advancements Come with Cultural SetbacksRevisiting nostalgic television and reading old articles of technological cautionary tales demonstrate how past, present, and future are all intertwined.The advancements that fuel our on demand culture don't all necessarily have to change (and many won't), but it is our role to consider how they impact our lives and interpersonal dynamics, and where we can add our own human touch.Question of the Week:In what ways would you like to shift your relationship to on demand culture in order to better connect with others?You can email us at tablepancakespod@gmail.com and leave us a voice memo here. We'd also love if you'd rate, review and subscribe to the show!Join the Table Pancakes Community on IG: @tablepancakespodStay in touch with us: @shelbihq & @katherinehfoster Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss Ian Bogost's essay at The Atlantic suggesting the 4K revolution is a bit of a scam. Then they review Dune: Part Two, the second half of Denis Villeneuve's adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic novel. Make sure to swing by Friday for our bonus episode on Vulture's ranking of the 100 greatest action sequences. And if you enjoyed this episode, share it with a friend!

Lawmakers across the country are having a fit debating the merits of DEI, and universities have taken center stage. Is DEI to blame for higher education's falling approval rate? Is it keeping our young people from holistic conversation or keeping them safe? According to Brian Rosenberg, DEI really isn't what we should be focusing on. Joining the show to break down his interview on the issue, Ian Bogost from the Atlantic.

Boyd breaks down the newly released border bill legislation and later turns to Eric Boehm to get a fresh perspective on what would actually solve the issues everyones worried about. Matt Stoller joins the show to talk to Boyd about how the Affordable care act changed American healthcare. Ian Bogost gives his take on what's wrong with modern universities, James Gelvin dives into important history in the Middle East and more!  

Time flies, time is money, time waits for no one. We are so conditioned to obsess over time, how we use it, and getting the most out of it – or else, we feel guilty. In this episode of KQED's Forum, co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost of the Atlantic's ‘How to Keep Time' talk with Grace Won about optimizing “free” time, and why we struggle to comfortably do nothing.  Episode transcript

Time flies. Time is money. Time waits for no one. There is no shortage of aphorisms about time because we are consumed by the minutes, hours, days and years that constitute a life. We want to use time efficiently; we want to get the most out of it; we feel guilty wasting it. But maybe we should reclaim our relationship with time. That's what co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost argue for in the latest season of the Atlantic's popular “How To” podcast series. In “How to Keep Time,” Rashid and Bogost examine whether hacks to be more productive work, how to optimize “free” time and why we struggle to comfortably do nothing. Set your clock and join us. Guests: Becca Rashid, co-host and producer, the Atlantic Magazine podcast "How to Keep Time" Ian Bogost, co-host, the Atlantic Magazine podcast "How to Keep Time." Bogost is a contributing editor at the Atlantic and a professor in arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

For the holiday, Radio Atlantic is sharing the first episode of the Atlantic podcast How to Keep Time. Co-hosts Becca Rashid and the Atlantic contributing writer Ian Bogost examine our relationship with time and what we can do to reclaim it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Before laptops allowed us to take the office home and smartphones could light up with notifications at any hour, work time and “life” time had clearer boundaries. Today, work is not done exclusively in the workplace, and that makes it harder to leave work at work.  Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost examine the habits that shrink our available time, and Ignacio Sánchez Prado, a professor of Latin American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, offers his reflections on American culture and shares suggestions for how to use the time we do have, for life.  This episode was co-hosted by Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost. Becca Rashid also produces the show. Editing by Jocelyn Frank and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Rob Smierciak. The managing editor of How to Keep Time is Andrea Valdez. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com.  Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many of us complain about being too busy—and about not having enough time to do the things we really want to do. But has busyness become an excuse for our inability to focus on what matters?  According to Neeru Paharia, a marketing professor at Arizona State University, time is a sort of luxury good—the more of it you have, the more valuable you are. But her research also revealed that, for many Americans, having less time and being busy can be a status symbol for others to notice. And when it comes to the signals we create for ourselves, sociologist Melissa Mazmanian reveals a few myths that may be keeping us from living the lives we want with the meaningful connections we crave.  Music by Dylan Sitts (“On the Fritz”) and Rob Smierciak (“Slow Money,” “Guitar Time,” “Ambient Time”). This episode was co-hosted by Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost. Becca Rashid also produces the show. Editing by Jocelyn Frank and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Rob Smierciak. The managing editor of How to Keep Time is Andrea Valdez. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com.  Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Co-hosts Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost explore our relationship with time and how to reclaim it. Why is it so important to be productive? Why can it feel like there's never enough time in a day? Why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people? This episode was co-hosted by Becca Rashid and Ian Bogost. Becca Rashid also produces the show. Editing by Jocelyn Frank and Claudine Ebeid. Fact-check by Ena Alvarado. Engineering by Rob Smierciak. The managing editor of How to Keep Time is Andrea Valdez. Write to us at howtopodcast@theatlantic.com.  Music from by Dylan Sitts (“On the Fritz”), Gavin Luke (“Time Zones”), Martin Guaffin (“The Time”), and Rob Smierciak (“Slow Money,” “Guitar Time”). Want to share unlimited access to The Atlantic with your loved ones? Give a gift today at theatlantic.com/podgift. For a limited time, select new subscriptions will come with the bold Atlantic tote bag as a free holiday bonus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America Dissected comes to you LIVE from Atlanta at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. Abdul reflects on the ways that the internet is fundamentally reshaping the way we think about place–and its impact on public health. Then he sits down with Ian Bogost, professor, video game designer, and contributing writer at the Atlantic.

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for November 14, 2023 is: exigent • EK-suh-junt • adjective Exigent is a formal word that describes things that need to be dealt with immediately, as well as people who expect significant time, attention, effort, etc. from other people. // The warrantless search of the property was permitted because of exigent circumstances. // He struggled to satisfy the needs of the exigent client. See the entry > Examples: "People don't tend to reveal their true selves while careening across a landscape. Unless, of course, civilization has ended—a cheap setup that, I must begrudgingly admit, motivates character development in an exigent way. The most famous literary and filmic specimen that focuses, as games do, on spatial traversal amid existential threat is Lord of the Rings—which, of course, exerted a strong influence on the development of games in the first place." — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Jan. 2023 Did you know? Exigent is a formal word with meanings closely tied to its Latin forbear, exigere, meaning "to demand." Exigent things and people demand attention—for example, an exigent client expects so much that they are hard to satisfy, and exigent circumstances are so significant that they can be used to justify certain police actions without the warrant typically required. Before exigent joined the language in the early 1600s, the noun exigency was being used to refer to something that is necessary in a particular situation—for example, the exigencies of an emergency situation might require that certain usual precautions be ignored. That word dates to the late 1500s, but even earlier, in the mid-1400s, exigence was on the scene doing the same job. All three words—exigent, exigency, and exigence—continue to meet the demands of English users, albeit not frequently in everyday conversation.

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode of Hear Me Out… lovable underdogs? For a long time, we've been sold — and we've bought — the idea of the nerd hero; usually a man, usually brilliant, and usually a social outcast who, inevitably, gets the girl. That was the happy ending. But now, we're surrounded by powerful, self-styled nerds who have it all and still want more. And, to some, it's increasingly hard to root for these guys. Ian Bogost, a writer and video game designer, joins us.  If you have thoughts you want to share, or an idea for a topic we should tackle, you can email the show: hearmeout@slate.com Podcast production by Maura Currie You can skip all the ads in Hear Me Out by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/hearmeoutplus for just $15 a month for your first three months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why can it feel like there's never enough time in a day, and why are so many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us better people? On How to Keep Time, co-hosts Becca Rashid and contributing writer Ian Bogost talk with social scientists, authors, philosophers, and theoretical physicists to learn more about time and how to reclaim it. How to Keep Time launches December 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, programmer, and tech consultant Alex Reisner joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his recent Atlantic articles on Books3, a massive data set that includes hundreds of thousands of pirated e-books, and that Meta and other companies have used to train generative AI. Reisner explains how he extracted book names and titles from long strings of text in Books3 to create a searchable database, and why not finding yourself in the database doesn't mean your work is safe. He also reflects on the dangers of metaphorical language in discussing AI, what he's heard from legal experts, what publishers are and aren't doing, and how piracy has shifted from benefiting individuals to helping corporations profit. Reisner reads from his groundbreaking Atlantic coverage.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf.Alex Reisner in The Atlantic “These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech” “What I Found in a Database Meta Uses to Train Generative AI” “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI” Others: Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders (The Authors Guild) Practical Tips for Authors to Protect Their Works from AI Use (The Authors Guild) “Some writers are furious that AI consumed their books. Others? Less so,” by Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post  Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 6, Episode 17: “Chatbot vs. Writer: Vauhini Vara on the Perils and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence” “My Books Were Used to Train AI,” by Stephen King, The Atlantic “Murdered by My Replica?” by Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic “My Books Were Used to Train Meta's Generative AI. Good.” by Ian Bogost, The Atlantic Alice Munro Rebecca Solnit Meghan O'Rourke George Saunders  Ta-Nehisi Coates Martin Amis “Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement,” by Wes Davis, The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Writer, programmer, and tech consultant Alex Reisner joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his recent Atlantic articles on Books3, a massive data set that includes hundreds of thousands of pirated e-books, and that Meta and other companies have used to train generative AI. Reisner explains how he extracted book names and titles from long strings of text in Books3 to create a searchable database, and why not finding yourself in the database doesn't mean your work is safe. He also reflects on the dangers of metaphorical language in discussing AI, what he's heard from legal experts, what publishers are and aren't doing, and how piracy has shifted from benefiting individuals to helping corporations profit. Reisner reads from his groundbreaking Atlantic coverage. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Alex Reisner in The Atlantic “These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech” “What I Found in a Database Meta Uses to Train Generative AI” “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI” Others: Open Letter to Generative AI Leaders (The Authors Guild) Practical Tips for Authors to Protect Their Works from AI Use (The Authors Guild) “Some writers are furious that AI consumed their books. Others? Less so,” by Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post  Fiction/Non/Fiction, Season 6, Episode 17: “Chatbot vs. Writer: Vauhini Vara on the Perils and Possibilities of Artificial Intelligence” “My Books Were Used to Train AI,” by Stephen King, The Atlantic “Murdered by My Replica?” by Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic “My Books Were Used to Train Meta's Generative AI. Good.” by Ian Bogost, The Atlantic Alice Munro Rebecca Solnit Meghan O'Rourke George Saunders  Ta-Nehisi Coates Martin Amis “Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement,” by Wes Davis, The Verge Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bestselling novelist and former Twitter employee Robin Sloan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about how Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter and the rise of new platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Meta's Threads are shaping a new ecosystem of social media. The co-hosts and Sloan grapple with the unruliness of Twitter over time, political polarization on different platforms and the risks of disinformation, and what the end of Twitter—now rebranded as X—might look like. Sloan reflects on the role social media plays (or doesn't) in authors' careers, as well as his own decision to leave Twitter. Finally, he reads from his 2012 novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/This episode of the podcast was produced by Amanda Trout and Anne Kniggendorf.Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Sourdough “Conspiracy Museum” (The Atlantic) Others: “Robin Sloan leaves Twitter's Media Partnerships team,” The Next Web, November 11, 2011 “Bay Area author Robin Sloan dishes on 'Sourdough,' Twitter and books,” San Jose Mercury-News, May 18, 2019 “How to Write Science Fiction That Isn't 'Useful,'” Robin Sloan interviewed by Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, May 15, 2020 “The Age of Social Media Is Ending,” by Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, Nov. 10, 2022 “Threads users looking for 'genuine connection' as Twitter-like social media platform goes back to basics,” ABC News (Australia), July 14, 2023. “Social Media Is Dead,” by Edward Ongweso Jr., Vice, Nov. 8, 2022. “Social Media Died When It Stopped Being Social and Became About Making Money,” by Enrique Dans, Forbes, May 13, 2019 “With the rise of AI, social media platforms could face perfect storm of misinformation in 2024,” CNN Business, July 17, 2023 “Threads, Twitter, and the Future of Social Media,” by Sriram Krishnan, The New York Times (Opinion), July 15, 2023 “Zombie Twitter Has Arrived,” by Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, July 6, 2023 “The Weaponization of Social Media and Real World Consequences,” by Dave Davies, National Public Radio, October 9, 2018 “Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake,” by Casey Newton, The Verge, Jul 6, 2021 “Tucker Carlson's show on Twitter makes ad deal with anti-ESG shopping app” by Brian Schwartz, CNBC, July 16, 2023 “Taylor Swift Gets Political On Social Media As Nashville Elections Start,” by Aimée Lutkin, Elle, July 15, 2023 “Despite cries of censorship, conservatives dominate social media,” by Mark Scott, POLITICO, Oct. 26, 2020 “Robin Sloan's 'Sourdough' Is a Fascinating Riddle” by Andy Newman, The Atlantic, Dec. 5, 2017 “Book Armageddon is a Myth: Interview with Robin Sloan” by Lex Berko, Vice, April 10, 2013 “More than eight-in-ten Americans get news from digital devices” Jan. 2021 Study by Elisa Shearer, Pew Research Center, Jan. 12, 2021 “Conservative Social Media— A New Norm?” by Kayla Morrison, Brown Political Review, Dec. 3, 2022 “Robin Sloan: Describing the emotions of life online,” by Josh Kramer, New Public, Mar. 13, 2022 “Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists—Robin Sloan” by David Streitfeld, The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2018 “The Infinite Deaths of Social Media” by Jason Parham, WIRED, May 4, 2022 “Social media is doomed to die” by Ellis Hamburger, The Verge, April 18, 2023 “The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social” by Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, April 19, 2023 “Delhi Man Creates Device Which Allows You To Order Pizza With Your Mind,” by Anoushka Sharma, NDTV, July 21, 2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bestselling novelist and former Twitter employee Robin Sloan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about how Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter and the rise of new platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Meta's Threads are shaping a new ecosystem of social media. The co-hosts and Sloan grapple with the unruliness of Twitter over time, political polarization on different platforms and the risks of disinformation, and what the end of Twitter—now rebranded as X—might look like. Sloan reflects on the role social media plays (or doesn't) in authors' careers, as well as his own decision to leave Twitter. Finally, he reads from his 2012 novel Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This episode of the podcast was produced by Amanda Trout and Anne Kniggendorf. Robin Sloan Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore Sourdough “Conspiracy Museum” (The Atlantic) Others: “Robin Sloan leaves Twitter's Media Partnerships team,” The Next Web, November 11, 2011 “Bay Area author Robin Sloan dishes on 'Sourdough,' Twitter and books,” San Jose Mercury-News, May 18, 2019 “How to Write Science Fiction That Isn't 'Useful,'” Robin Sloan interviewed by Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, May 15, 2020 “The Age of Social Media Is Ending,” by Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, Nov. 10, 2022 “Threads users looking for 'genuine connection' as Twitter-like social media platform goes back to basics,” ABC News (Australia), July 14, 2023. “Social Media Is Dead,” by Edward Ongweso Jr., Vice, Nov. 8, 2022. “Social Media Died When It Stopped Being Social and Became About Making Money,” by Enrique Dans, Forbes, May 13, 2019 “With the rise of AI, social media platforms could face perfect storm of misinformation in 2024,” CNN Business, July 17, 2023 “Threads, Twitter, and the Future of Social Media,” by Sriram Krishnan, The New York Times (Opinion), July 15, 2023 “Zombie Twitter Has Arrived,” by Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, July 6, 2023 “The Weaponization of Social Media and Real World Consequences,” by Dave Davies, National Public Radio, October 9, 2018 “Conservative social networks like Gettr and Parler keep making the same mistake,” by Casey Newton, The Verge, Jul 6, 2021 “Tucker Carlson's show on Twitter makes ad deal with anti-ESG shopping app” by Brian Schwartz, CNBC, July 16, 2023 “Taylor Swift Gets Political On Social Media As Nashville Elections Start,” by Aimée Lutkin, Elle, July 15, 2023 “Despite cries of censorship, conservatives dominate social media,” by Mark Scott, POLITICO, Oct. 26, 2020 “Robin Sloan's 'Sourdough' Is a Fascinating Riddle” by Andy Newman, The Atlantic, Dec. 5, 2017 “Book Armageddon is a Myth: Interview with Robin Sloan” by Lex Berko, Vice, April 10, 2013 “More than eight-in-ten Americans get news from digital devices” Jan. 2021 Study by Elisa Shearer, Pew Research Center, Jan. 12, 2021 “Conservative Social Media— A New Norm?” by Kayla Morrison, Brown Political Review, Dec. 3, 2022 “Robin Sloan: Describing the emotions of life online,” by Josh Kramer, New Public, Mar. 13, 2022 “Computer Stories: A.I. Is Beginning to Assist Novelists—Robin Sloan” by David Streitfeld, The New York Times, Oct. 18, 2018 “The Infinite Deaths of Social Media” by Jason Parham, WIRED, May 4, 2022 “Social media is doomed to die” by Ellis Hamburger, The Verge, April 18, 2023 “The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social” by Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, April 19, 2023 “Delhi Man Creates Device Which Allows You To Order Pizza With Your Mind,” by Anoushka Sharma, NDTV, July 21, 2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For a few days in early November, it seemed like Twitter might go down in flames. That hasn't happened—yet—but the prospect of the platform's end has forced a reckoning. What would its loss mean for the countless journalists, academics, and politicians who rely on it? Would we be better or worse off? And could a diminished Twitter augur the death of social media in general? On episode 58 of The Politics of Everything, hosts Laura Marsh and Alex Pareene talk with the writer Max Read about Twitter's possible futures, and with Ian Bogost, a contributing writer at The Atlantic, about why we should embrace the end of social media.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ian Bogost, author and professor at Washington University in St. Louis, talks with Jon about the demise of online social networks. In a recent Atlantic article, “The Age of Social Media Is Ending,” Bogost examines the platforms' dipping trajectory and argues that people just aren't meant to talk to each other this much. He joins Offline to elaborate on how Twitter, Instagram and TikTok have sacrificed connection for content, friendship for sponsorship––and why a cultural shift in how we interact with these platforms may be closer than we think. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here. For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast.

Sean Illing talks with technology writer and philosopher Ian Bogost about the state of social media — especially in the wake of Elon Musk's recent acquisition of Twitter. They discuss the recent but surprising history of the platforms that have come to dominate the lives of so many, and note a crucial shift that made social media what is today. Sean and Ian also talk about how Silicon Valley views "scale," whether Twitter should be treated as a public utility, and how — as a society — we might be able to quit. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area Guest: Ian Bogost (@ibogost), contributing writer, The Atlantic; professor and director of film & media studies, Washington University of St. Louis References:  "The Age of Social Media Is Ending" by Ian Bogost (The Atlantic; Nov. 10) "The Madness of Twitter" by Ian Bogost (The Atlantic; Nov. 22) "People Aren't Meant to Talk This Much" by Ian Bogost (The Atlantic; Oct. 22, 2021) "Facebook Is A Doomsday Machine" by Adrienne LaFrance (The Atlantic; Dec. 15, 2020) Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan (1964) The Paradox of Democracy: Free Speech, Open Media, and Perilous Persuasion by Zac Gershberg & Sean Illing (U. Chicago; 2022)   Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of The Gray Area. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Editor: Amy Drozdowska Engineer: Patrick Boyd Editorial Director, Vox Talk: A.M. Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It has been less than a month since Elon Musk officially took the reins at Twitter. In that short time, there have been mass layoffs, advertisers have pulled back on spending, and some of the platform's most prominent users have threatened to leave. But Twitter is not the only social media company experiencing upheaval. In the last year, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has lost hundreds of billions of dollars in value and cut more than 10,000 jobs. Diane spoke with Ian Bogost, director of the film and media studies program at Washington University in St. Louis and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. In a recent essay Bogost asks if the age of social media is ending, and explains why he thinks that might not be such a bad thing.