web01.fireside.fm Sat, 30 May 2026 12:23:44 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Netflix” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/netflix Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:15:00 -0500 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 minisode 003: banderscratch n' sniff https://www.hacks.fm/black-mirror-computers-are-bad-get-off-the-internet-kids cbffaa25-7ed5-4554-9faa-5c0a7fe84884 Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:15:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary rob and simon ponder the impact and implications of netflix's foray into interactive storytelling 27:09 yes <p>it's the all-bro edition of HACKS, as maral and rosemary were both out of reach this week. so rob and simon decided to rewind to the hallowed days of several weeks ago to discuss the relative merits and import of Netflix's foray into interactive storytelling, BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH, aka "wot if your life was a game, mate?". </p> <p>song at the end: foxing, "gameshark" </p> netflix, black mirror, interactive storytelling, what if phones but too much, podcast it's the all-bro edition of HACKS, as maral and rosemary were both out of reach this week. so rob and simon decided to rewind to the hallowed days of several weeks ago to discuss the relative merits and import of Netflix's foray into interactive storytelling, BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH, aka "wot if your life was a game, mate?".

song at the end: foxing, "gameshark"

]]> it's the all-bro edition of HACKS, as maral and rosemary were both out of reach this week. so rob and simon decided to rewind to the hallowed days of several weeks ago to discuss the relative merits and import of Netflix's foray into interactive storytelling, BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH, aka "wot if your life was a game, mate?".

song at the end: foxing, "gameshark"

]]> episode 014: islands in the stream https://www.hacks.fm/episode-014-islands-in-the-stream 16817173-db8b-49a2-b6a7-cff42faf90a3 Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary the gang ponders the impact of the streaming economy, both financially and creatively, on the artistic class. 46:25 yes <p>in our last proper show of 2018, the gang (sadly maral-less) ponders just what the music and film/TV streaming economy has done to both creatives and consumers. in contention: algorthmic storytelling, the merist of Netflix's Hill House, whether the tracks at the end of a 25-track Drake album are markedly worse than those at the beginning.</p> <p>song at the end: gruff rhys, "slashed wrists this christmas" </p> streaming, netflix, spotify, wot if your computer could play you a song, movie magic, podcast in our last proper show of 2018, the gang (sadly maral-less) ponders just what the music and film/TV streaming economy has done to both creatives and consumers. in contention: algorthmic storytelling, the merist of Netflix's Hill House, whether the tracks at the end of a 25-track Drake album are markedly worse than those at the beginning.

song at the end: gruff rhys, "slashed wrists this christmas"

]]> in our last proper show of 2018, the gang (sadly maral-less) ponders just what the music and film/TV streaming economy has done to both creatives and consumers. in contention: algorthmic storytelling, the merist of Netflix's Hill House, whether the tracks at the end of a 25-track Drake album are markedly worse than those at the beginning.

song at the end: gruff rhys, "slashed wrists this christmas"

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