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    <title>HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Realdolls”</title>
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    <description>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? 
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    <itunes:summary>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? 
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  <title>episode 007: a touch too much</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;the gang is all back, and with a topic we have not even remotely touched on before: sex! sex! sex! in the first (and briefer) segment, we spend a little time pondering the vagaries of the internet pr0n industry and its resurgent role in the montreal economy, then move onto the main event: rob has assembled a huge lineup of "niche" dating apps. listen to us review this lineup with a mix of amusement and horror.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;song at the end: NoMeansNo, "Sex Mad" &lt;/p&gt;
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