How Generative AI Rots Your Brain and Enables Fascism

This week, BJ is joined by members of the Stop Gen AI collaborative to talk about how the algorithms are controlling our language, why capitalism only works when you h...

The Men Are Vulnerable & The Women Are Afraid: How to Protect Yourself on Dating Apps

This week, sexual wellness expert and Associate Professor at Western University’s School of Health Studies, Dr. Treena Orchard, joins BJ Mendelson to talk about the to...

If You Have to Think Twice, Don't Click on It

It's part 2 of our discussion with Dr. Treena Orchard about the challenges of using dating apps and the toxic culture surrounding them. Rosie and Amanda are also back ...

How Apple Poured Billions Into a Fascist Regime: No, Not Us. The Other One

If you want to make yourself safe from fascists and weirdos, you have to shrink your online footprint. This week, Rosie tells you how, while BJ interviews Patrick McGe...

Facts Don't Change People's Minds, But This Does

This week, Rosie tells you something super basic that you're definitely not doing. So you're going to be glad to hear it. And then BJ interviews Caitlin Dow, PhD from ...

Burner Phone 101 & How to Film ICE Safely

How Generative AI Wastes Water and Kills Your Imagination

Every time you use a Large Language Model (or Chat Model), you're wasting water, fueling fascism, and shrinking your imagination. So what can you do about it? Our host...

Body Cameras, Like Communism, Only Work In Theory

Hagen Blix, co-author of "Why We Fear AI" joins BJ Mendelson to talk about how it's not artificial intelligence you need to be afraid of, it's the billionaires using A...

The Speed of Business Kills: Bossware Makes Truckers Drive Themselves to Death

This week on the show, BJ interviews Cornell University professor Karen Levy about her book, "Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance," a...

Drinking Raw Milk Will Kill You & Other Things You Should Probably Know

Bioethicist and NYU professor, Dr. Arthur Caplan, joins BJ to talk about the disinformation and misinformation spread by wellness influencers, as well as how HIPAA com...

What Do You Do When A MAGA Influencer Wants You Dead?

Who knew researching the neuroscience of pornography would be dangerous? Dr. Nicole Prause did. BJ Mendelson speaks with Dr. Prause about the Wellness Industry funding...

The Glassholes Are Back And They're Worse Than Ever

Biometrics is one of those topics that people should pay attention too, but often don't. So given that Facebook just released their Pervert Glasses, we wanted to take ...

Disinformation! at the Disco: Everything You Need to Spot It

This week on the show, BJ is joined by Nina Jancowitz, the former executive director of the Disinformation Governance Board of the United States. Meanwhile, Rosie and ...

The EFF's Cindy Cohn v. The Federal Government

This week, legendary executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn, joins the show to talk about her new book, "Privacy's Defender." 

Hurt People Hurt People. That's Why Everybody Should Be In Therapy.

This week, we talk about time being a privilege, why you can't go wrong when you do the next right thing, and Heidi Boghosian. Heidi joins BJ to talk about her new boo...

AI bubble a multi-company Enron waiting to happen

This week on the show, BJ is joined by David Gerard of Pivot to AI. Come listen about how the AI bubble, like crypto, is a scam funded by the venture capital bros, and...

Bonus Episode: Congress Wants to See Your ID Before Using the Internet

What do we do at Stupid Sexy Privacy once the book and podcast miniseries are over? We put on our investigative journalist hats. Listen to this bonus episode of Stupid...

A Special Delivery of (Thomas) Paine! Part 1 of 2

Part 1 of 2: A special delivery of Paine! In honor of America's 250th birthday, we are celebrating with the forgotten founding father, Thomas Paine. Common Sense is th...

A Special Delivery of (Thomas) Paine! Part 2 of 2

Part 2 of 2: A special delivery of Paine! In honor of America's 250th birthday, we are celebrating with the forgotten founding father, Thomas Paine. Common Sense is th...

How You Can Make America an Asylum for Mankind Again

This week we're joined by Harvey J. Kaye, author of Thomas Paine and The Promise of America, who talks about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's recent interest in...