The Hatred of Podcasting | Brace Belden

In 2015, if you said, “I heard it on a podcast,” you were trying to sound smart. In 2025, it’s better to lie.

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution | Meaningness

How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them.

Taylor Owen

Academic, writer and podcast host working on media, digital technology and public policy.

Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution (2015) | Hacker News

Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths. The more power available to someone installing themselves at the centre of an elite clique that runs the organisation, the more attractive it is. No-one ever sees it fully until they get on the wrong end of one of these toxic power dynamics, there is so much subtle BS working against anyone trying to face this stuff down that it's almost pointless wasting your life trying.

Phantom Fluency

Why listening to smart people doesn't make you more thoughtful. You're not bad at remembering podcasts. Podcasts are bad at being remembered.

Digital feeds, malnourished students — Phantom Power

Today we’re doing one of our occasional episodes where host Mack Hagood talks about a new essay he’s written for our newsletter “Feed Logic and the Failure to Thrive” Mack writes that students and professors are struggling, both academically and spiritually. He tries to diagnose the issue he felt in his classrooms this year and the role technology may play in it. For new listeners, Mack is a writer and researcher who studies sound, technology, and culture. He is the author of Hush: Media and Sonic Self-Control, a book on noise-canceling headphones, white noise, tinnitus, and the ways people use sound to manage modern life. He is currently writing a new book for Penguin Press, and he also hosts this podcast Phantom Power, where he interviews artists, scholars, musicians, and sound designers about the invisible power of sound in everyday life. Besides all that, Mack is a university professor and that’s what his most recent essay is about. Click here to read the newsletter for free. Cited Media: Film:Mary…

Charlie Deist on Twitter / X

My hobby: scraping entire podcasts into open source wikis.Then decomposing them into skill.md files, articles, and short books for my personal consumption only.https://t.co/1hKjJICJ16Then rebundling the skills into topic-specific pluginsSo much gold to mine. pic.twitter.com/T2h8DYIcEj— Charlie Deist (@chdeist) April 3, 2026

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Cas (Stephen Casper) on Twitter / X

It is hard to overstate how disappointing I think this new paper from Oxford, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google (et al) is. I can't take it seriously as academic work, just as propaganda. It also has some very bad scholarship and questionable adherence to research ethics. Having… pic.twitter.com/Z5fBx360ya— Cas (Stephen Casper) (@StephenLCasper) May 13, 2026

Episode #251 ... You Must Change Your Life, Pt. 2 - The Worlds That Make Us

Podcast Episode · Philosophize This! · 8 August · 35min

VoxPort (@voxport.bsky.social)

-Working on VoxPort: ATProtocol–driven platform where podcasters truly own their voices. -Building for independence, discovery, and community. -If you’re a podcaster, dev, or just curious about open media - let’s connect.

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Why the dark forests of the internet — podcasts, newsletters, and other private channels — are growing, and why might that pose a problem