I was not looking anywhere in the vicinity of their butts! But perhaps I should have been? @morgansung.bsky.social and @goosenaut.bsky.social of the @kqednews.kqed.org podcast "Close All Tabs" help me process what I sat through, and I mean SAT through not too long ago. www.kqed.org/news/1208523...

Let's give @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social her flowers 💐! She's been nominated as an emerging leader by @inn.org as a luminary in non-profit news. Beyond her incredible reporting/editing on #LongCOVID, Betsy does so much unsung work that makes The Sick Times the force that it is. #INNYs2026

really good episode of close all tabs with @morgansung.bsky.social - this is about data centers in georgia

I talked to @morgansung.bsky.social about sex work, surveillance, & censorship for close all tabs from kqed! www.kqed.org/news/12075321

so thankful to @morgansung.bsky.social for having me on Close All Tabs to talk about how farmers have fought for right to repair! Thought this episode turned out really great and the show in general is amazing: www.kqed.org/news/1207746...

The military is bailing out the AI industry. We interview author and activist @naomiaklein.bsky.social on our latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. Check out episode 72: How the War Department Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

This is a good read. I'm also thinking about how almost all disability organizations, including ones for Tourette's, have very white leadership, which means many fail to approach situations like this with intersectional nuance. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

You don’t need to guard yourself against every threat unless you're willing to “live as a hermit on a 🏔️ and fling all of your devices into the sea,” says the #cybersecurity director at the @eff.org. www.kqed.org/news/1207040... via @kqednews.kqed.org @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social

Do you have the right to record ICE? Criminal justice reporter @cjciaramella.bsky.social explains to @morgansung.bsky.social how the Trump administration is working to create a chilling effect around filming law enforcement. www.kqed.org/news/1206959... via @kqednews.kqed.org @goosenaut.bsky.social

Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp. ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans. They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first. They’ve been kidnapped.

I just enjoyed a Coldplay song. Is this what it means to be 41?

Before dunking on people for doing so, I'll raise that being undiagnosed with health issues is very much hell and people are desperate.

I built a new PC less than a year ago. The RAM sticks I paid $99 for are now selling for $479! I knew about the global shortage but didn’t realize it was this bad..

We don't have the disability education infrastructure to support a growing number of kids who are going to be disabled because their parents didn't get them vaccines against illnesses that can lead to the development of disabilities.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

The whole clip disappointed me including the part where Stewart said he asks people if they’re sick for why they’re masking. It’s like, none of your business?!?! Weirdo behavior.

Disappointed in Jon Stewart. There are good reasons to mask — you might be immunocompromised, chronically ill, living with someone who is, or have made the very rational choice to try to avoid long COVID. Masking is a sign of care. Jon has the cultural capital to change minds, and he chooses this

For example

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

this episode is really special - it's a deep dive into queer history, virtual reality, and what grief looks like for furries thank you @dogpatch.press and @changa.gay for walking me through this part of the internet! www.kqed.org/news/1204677...

we did it guys we got furries on the npr app one.npr.org/i/fis-126707...

New from 404 Media: DHS’s immigrant-hunting app just got removed from the Google Play Store. Let’s local cops do facial recognition on people, app says to contact ICE or not. I’m told Google workers took issue with app in an internal report. We revealed app in Nov www.404media.co/dhss-immigra...

Such a good interview, thanks for joining us @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social !!

do games go to heaven when they die? i talked to @morgansung.bsky.social on close all tabs about dead and dying games www.kqed.org/news/1206377...

by the way the close all tabs team won a media literacy award from NAMLE, which means my letterboxd takes are always correct from now on

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

+1. I’ll always be back for a podcast like “Close All Tabs” - sharing inquiring minds, lightly hosted. Bonus: It makes me accountable for trying to close all my tabs!

Holy podcast whiplash Batman. My morning commute was an interview with the authors of “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want” followed by another with one of the authors of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All.”

I was on the most recent episode of close all tabs, @morgansung.bsky.social's excellent KQED podcast, talking about twitch's political reckoning. if you for some reason do not already get enough of me on aftermath hours, go listen! www.kqed.org/news/1206199...

We (@emilymbender.bsky.social and I) joined @morgansung.bsky.social and team on @kqednews.kqed.org to talk about our book and AI hype -- www.kqed.org/news/1205991...

This is a fantastic episode! Question the AI inevitability narrative and humans are more than their output! I continue to be a big fan of all the work that @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social and the entire team does over at Close All Tabs podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Hi! Have you had something high-protein today, drank a glass of water or gone outside? Many things are bad, but you still matter, and are someone worth taking care of. I know how hard you are trying. One thing at a time.

"I think the video game industry, as we know it today, might not be around for much longer [...] but I think video games as an art form and as a product are stronger than they've ever been and will only continue to be." @jasonschreier.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/140869...

joined @morgansung.bsky.social on Close All Tabs at KQED to talk about the AI situation

I'm interviewing Paulina Borsook for the Nerd Reich podcast on Friday. Got any questions for her/us? Let me know—and sign up to get notified when it gets published. Newsletter (paywall-free!): www.thenerdreich.com YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheNerdReic...

Jan 36, 2025, via @theguardian.com @chrismcgreal.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

we did it guys we explained the difference between OwO and uwu on the npr app

Close All Tabs is an instant-subscribe podcast

Super proud of the team for pulling this together in just a few days. Always insightful to hear from @aidanwalker.bsky.social

we did a big deep dive with @aidanwalker.bsky.social explaining the meme references found on the bullet casings, the groyperfication of young people, and why this shooting was, ultimately, a shitpost: disruptive and incoherent www.kqed.org/news/1205620...

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Beautiful piece from Close All Tabs producer Maya Cueva

"close all tabs" is so good. the multi part series on spotify's algorithm and the hyper-specific genres they pigeonhole artists into is really fascinating, and @morgansung.bsky.social interviews really interesting artists with earned insight on this stuff

Modern life is quietly crying at a public radio podcast about furry funerals while driving to a screening of Waterworld at a non-profit theater after grabbing an Andromeda Strain 4k from the public library

new close all tabs! this is a deep dive into why animators suck at getting Black hair right. we also profile two researchers who developed a new way to animate 4c hair — but faced immense resistance in academia in the process. plus, we get into killmonger locs lol www.kqed.org/news/1204576...

The past couple of months, I've been listening to as many different podcasts as I can stomach. Close All Tabs has been (by far) the best new addition to my weekly playlist. This episode is a great example of why.

If ever a graphic could convince me to listen to something

Listened immediately Subscribed immediately Learned stuff about hentai immediately

It's Friday. Close that tab you never look at. Close those articles you'll never read. Make a plan for something fun offline this weekend. And don't forget to drink a big glass of water today.