web02.fireside.fm Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:04:50 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Time Travel” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/time%20travel Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:00:00 -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 016: the algorithmic eldritch odyssey https://www.hacks.fm/adventures-in-youtube-horror-call-mother-tell-her-im-never-coming-home 1ad83677-0a25-40de-93ce-fe582983dc0a Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary what do thomas the tank engine, QAnon, ben shapiro, fancy desserts, """fun pranks"", time travel, ghosts, and the secret service have in common? you'll wish you never found out. 1:01:13 yes <p>the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sadistic game/experiment to find out just how youtube ticks, following a rash of recent complaints about the service spitting out some rather strange (and notably conservative and conspiratorial) material seemingly unprompted. what we discovered........shook us to our core.</p> <p>song at the end: enh, we stole this from a qanon podcast who gives a shit? come get us motherfuckers, we'll be waiting on the other side of the rainbow </p> youtube, horrors beyond belief, qanon, the storm, pranks, food is bae, time travel, thomas the tank engine, fascism, ben shapiro, treats the HACKS initiative blodly goes where no podcast has before: deep into the dark heart of The Algorithm. specifically, we're conducting a sadistic game/experiment to find out just how youtube ticks, following a rash of recent complaints about the service spitting out some rather strange (and notably conservative and conspiratorial) material seemingly unprompted. what we discovered........shook us to our core.

song at the end: enh, we stole this from a qanon podcast who gives a shit? come get us motherfuckers, we'll be waiting on the other side of the rainbow

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song at the end: enh, we stole this from a qanon podcast who gives a shit? come get us motherfuckers, we'll be waiting on the other side of the rainbow

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