web01.fireside.fm Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:10:41 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Moviepass” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/moviepass Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:00:00 -0400 here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to work? is the NSA agent watching me through my webcam my friend? en-us episodic doggedly zeroing in on the intersection of technology, politics, and culture simon/maral/robert/rosemary here at the HACKS Initiative we ask the questions everyone else is too shook to: what is technology? why is everything so bad? what's my passphrase again? how do I get the header image to work? is the NSA agent watching me through my webcam my friend? yes technology, politics, leftism, cats, pop culture, dumbasses, cryptocurrency simon/maral/robert/rosemary suckerblues@gmail.com episode 002: spooky action at the multiplex https://www.hacks.fm/episode-2-spooky-action-at-the-multiplex 502d0ea1-bd0c-45ad-9f45-29bcbd89e6ff Thu, 23 Aug 2018 16:00:00 -0400 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary scanning for signs of digital meaning in UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB and the life and (probable) death of MoviePass, the app that was too good to live 44:05 yes <p>already scraping the very bottom of the content barrel only two weeks in, the gang takes a look at <em>Unfriended: Dark Web</em>, the latest attempt to make the movie internet scarier than the real internet. also, the Initiative looks at what went wrong with everyone's favorite money pit / excuse to camp out at the movies all day every day, MoviePass.</p> <p>links:<br> [nick pinkerton's excellent review of the movie for reverse shot](<a href="http://www.reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2452/unfriended_dark_web" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2452/unfriended_dark_web</a>)<br> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">NYT: the entire economy is moviepass now</a></p> <p>music:<br> zomes - mushroom in the mirror<br> com truise - open </p> tech, hackerz0rs, podcast, moviepass, movietickets dot com, venture capital, murder already scraping the very bottom of the content barrel only two weeks in, the gang takes a look at Unfriended: Dark Web, the latest attempt to make the movie internet scarier than the real internet. also, the Initiative looks at what went wrong with everyone's favorite money pit / excuse to camp out at the movies all day every day, MoviePass.

links:
[nick pinkerton's excellent review of the movie for reverse shot](www.reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2452/unfriended_dark_web)
NYT: the entire economy is moviepass now

music:
zomes - mushroom in the mirror
com truise - open

]]> already scraping the very bottom of the content barrel only two weeks in, the gang takes a look at Unfriended: Dark Web, the latest attempt to make the movie internet scarier than the real internet. also, the Initiative looks at what went wrong with everyone's favorite money pit / excuse to camp out at the movies all day every day, MoviePass.

links:
[nick pinkerton's excellent review of the movie for reverse shot](www.reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2452/unfriended_dark_web)
NYT: the entire economy is moviepass now

music:
zomes - mushroom in the mirror
com truise - open

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