web02.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:11:45 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Streaming” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/streaming Fri, 21 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -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 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 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" 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"

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

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