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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 moment we’re all collectively...

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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 moment we’re all collectively living.
Morgan Sung is a tech journalist whose work covers the range of absurdity and brilliance that is the internet. Her beat has evolved into an exploration of social platforms and how they shape real-world culture. She has written for TechCrunch, NBC News, Mashable, BuzzFeed News and more.
We love listening to shows about technology and culture like Power User with Taylor Lorenz, ICYMI, Wow If True, Hard Fork, There Are No Girls On the Internet, Endless Thread, Uncanny Valley from Wired, It’s Been a Minute, and You’re Wrong About. If you like them too, then trust us–you’ll like Close All Tabs.

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Episodes 95 episodes in the feed

  1. Cursed All Tabs: Portals, Creepy Caves, Jumpscares and Haunted Objects

    1 h 7 min

  2. “Sister, yesss!” What’s Behind the Viral Nun Podcast?

    37 min

  3. Are Chatbots Harming Our Relationships? | Close All Tabs Presents

    25 min

  4. Influencers Are Peddling Peptides, but Is Tanmaxxing Worth the Risk?

    40 min

  5. Can We Cool Data Centers With… Pee?

    35 min

  6. AI, Artists, and the Future of Creative Work from Life, Automated | Close All Tabs Presents

    51 min

  7. Save or Scroll: Fake NFL Players, Girly Coding, AI Music Scams and Community Garden Drama

    42 min

  8. Close All Tabs Presents Snap Judgment: Runaway Car

    43 min

  9. What Happened to the Quantified Self Movement?

    33 min

  10. Going Down the AI Music Slop Chute with Camilo Landau | Dream Machines

    Bonus30 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. AI Agents Are Turning Marxist Under Stress

    43 min

  2. Could AI Transform How Science Gets Done? with Jungwon Byun | Dream Machines

    Bonus35 min

  3. The Emily Hart Saga, Part 2: The AI Thirst Trap Grift

    36 min

  4. AI Will Create Enormous Wealth — But Who Benefits? with Erik Brynjolfsson | Dream Machines

    Bonus39 min

  5. The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl

    38 min

  6. Language, Landscapes and Robot Minds with Annalee Newitz | Dream Machines

    Bonus39 min

  7. Why The Ethan Klein Fair Use Lawsuits Are Way More Than Internet Beef

    49 min

  8. Introducing: Dream Machines from KQED

    Bonus13 min

  9. The Pink Pill Pipeline and the Online War Against Birth Control

    37 min

  10. How the Furry Fandom Says Goodbye (Reload)

    37 min

  11. Are We Doomed If The Internet Goes Dark?

    36 min

  12. 'Get The Flock Out': The Fight Over License-Plate Readers Heats Up

    41 min

  13. Meet the Grads Grappling With AI and Their Futures

    23 min

  14. The $55B Deal That Has Sims Players Worried

    45 min

  15. A Queer History of The Sims

    44 min

  16. How To Prove You're Not AI

    36 min

  17. Escaping the Surveillance Pricing Trap

    39 min

  18. Musk v. Altman Was Peak Silicon Valley Theatrics

    36 min

  19. Iran Is Winning The Slopaganda War

    40 min

  20. How an OnlyFans Model and a Cosplayer Are Fighting Nonconsensual Deepfake Porn

    37 min

  21. My Therapist Is a Chatbot (Reload)

    31 min

  22. Somebody’s Watching Me: The Crackdown on Stalkerware

    30 min

  23. The H-1B Visa Process But Make It a Video Game

    33 min

  24. Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits

    31 min

  25. The Secret Lives of Mormon Momfluencers

    37 min

  26. Bee Movie, "We Are Charlie Kirk," and the Enduring Bait-and-Switch Meme

    38 min

  27. To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair

    34 min

  28. The Fight for Your Right to Repair

    36 min

  29. 'Twitter on a Vape' and The Great E-Waste Crisis

    39 min

  30. Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws

    38 min

  31. Send Pics? Roblox Wants to Know Your Age

    34 min

  32. Lessons for U.S. Netizens from Behind China’s Great Firewall

    42 min

  33. Love In The Time Of Doom Scrolling

    44 min

  34. How the AI Data Center Boom Impacts Black Communities

    35 min

  35. The Real Cost of AI Slop

    36 min

  36. Your Digital Footprint Reveals More Than You Think

    41 min

  37. Are You Allowed to Record ICE?

    30 min

  38. Save or Scroll: OpenAI’s Head of Preparedness, Global RAM Shortage, AI Artists, and a Manosphere Antidote

    44 min

  39. Death, Robotaxis, and a Cat Named KitKat

    31 min

  40. One Year Later, The Internet’s Still Talking About Luigi Mangione

    48 min

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