web02.fireside.fm Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:19:58 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) HACKS | a tech podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Writers” https://www.hacks.fm/tags/writers Fri, 07 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 013: you news, you lose https://www.hacks.fm/episode-013-journalism-is-a-bad-career-choice ace4a36f-13f6-4c5f-9b5e-b2d72c8397cb Fri, 07 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0500 simon/maral/robert/rosemary full simon/maral/robert/rosemary the gang ponders the role and place of journalism in the internet age. #important #vital #criticism #impactful #awards 49:33 yes after a new raft of high-profile site closures, the HACKS Institute gang, properly reassembled at last, ponders the current state of journalism On The Internet, including a recent, apparently failed attempt to bring journalism to the (shudder) blockchain, the fate of the "pivot to video" movement, and what the story of Gawker tells us about our current moment. also peter thiel is a literal bloodsucker who can fall in a rank ditch tbh. also also please enjoy the hilda cameo song at the end: her space holiday, "death of a writer" writers, important, much impact, very serious, pulitzer prize, podcast, journalism, hashtags after a new raft of high-profile site closures, the HACKS Institute gang, properly reassembled at last, ponders the current state of journalism On The Internet, including a recent, apparently failed attempt to bring journalism to the (shudder) blockchain, the fate of the "pivot to video" movement, and what the story of Gawker tells us about our current moment. also peter thiel is a literal bloodsucker who can fall in a rank ditch tbh. also also please enjoy the hilda cameo

song at the end: her space holiday, "death of a writer"

]]> after a new raft of high-profile site closures, the HACKS Institute gang, properly reassembled at last, ponders the current state of journalism On The Internet, including a recent, apparently failed attempt to bring journalism to the (shudder) blockchain, the fate of the "pivot to video" movement, and what the story of Gawker tells us about our current moment. also peter thiel is a literal bloodsucker who can fall in a rank ditch tbh. also also please enjoy the hilda cameo

song at the end: her space holiday, "death of a writer"

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