Close All Tabs
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 mom...
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Episodes (89)
Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama
Sep 16, 2026
Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car
Sep 9, 2026
What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement?
Sep 2, 2026
Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines
Aug 31, 2026
AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress
Aug 26, 2026
Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines
Aug 24, 2026
The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift
Aug 19, 2026
AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines
Aug 17, 2026
The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl
Aug 12, 2026
Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines
Aug 10, 2026
Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef
Aug 5, 2026
Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED
Aug 3, 2026
The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control
Jul 29, 2026
How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)
Jul 22, 2026
Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?
Jul 15, 2026
'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up
Jul 8, 2026
Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures
Jul 1, 2026
The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried
Jun 24, 2026
A Queer History of The Sims
Jun 17, 2026
How To Prove You're Not AI
Jun 10, 2026
Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap
Jun 3, 2026
Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics
May 27, 2026
Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War
May 20, 2026
How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn
May 13, 2026
My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)
May 6, 2026
Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware
Apr 29, 2026
The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game
Apr 22, 2026
Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits
Apr 15, 2026
The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers
Apr 8, 2026
Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme
Apr 1, 2026
To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair
Mar 25, 2026
The Fight for Your Right to Repair
Mar 18, 2026
'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis
Mar 11, 2026
Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws
Mar 4, 2026
Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age
Feb 26, 2026
Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall
Feb 18, 2026
Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling
Feb 11, 2026
How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities
Feb 4, 2026
The Real Cost of AI Slop
Jan 28, 2026
Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think
Jan 21, 2026
Are You Allowed to Record ICE?
Jan 14, 2026
Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote
Jan 7, 2026
Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat
Dec 17, 2025
One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione
Dec 10, 2025
What Happened to Purple Moon Games for Girls?
Dec 3, 2025
Meet Ukraine’s ‘Geeks of War’
Nov 19, 2025
Where Do Games Go When They Die?
Nov 12, 2025
Alice Bucknell on How Virtual Spaces Help Us Cope With Reality
Nov 5, 2025
A Political Reckoning for Twitch?
Oct 29, 2025
Satanic Panic in the Age of the Internet
Oct 22, 2025