Beautiful, Terrible Internet

Endless Thread

WBUR

Reddit, Technology

4.1 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Warning: This episode contains multitudes! Hosts Ben and Amory explore how viral clips of DOGE staffers' video depositions found a new life online after a judge temporarily ordered them removed. They also dabble in a Reddit thought exercise with a potentially dubious origin

Show notes:

DOGE staffer who flagged grants for 'DEI' struggles to define the term (The Independent)
LPT: I started pretending my life is a TV show and it made me more productive (Reddit)

Credits: This episode was produced by Kalyani Saxena and hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson. It was edited by Meg Cramer. Mix and sound design by Marquis Neal.

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0:00.0	Jamie Lang and Sophie Haboo have arrived on Disney Plus.
0:04.5	We're having a baby.
0:05.5	We're having a baby.
0:07.2	I've always wanted to be mom.
0:09.4	And we're bringing you on our journey through everything.
0:12.4	I have no idea what we're doing.
0:13.6	Thank you. I have more of an idea.
0:15.6	I think of it like a Tamagocchi.
0:17.8	At the end of all of this...
0:20.0	We're going to have a little baby.
0:21.6	Raising Chelsea, a Hulu original series streaming April 2nd exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.2	18 plus subscription required T's and T supply.
0:30.3	Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken?
0:33.7	A podcast from the Marotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business.
0:38.4	A recent episode asks, are drivers ready to hand over the wheel to AI?
0:43.1	What makes people trust or reject a technology that asks them to give up control?
0:48.4	Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode.
0:53.8	WBUR Podcasts, Boston.
1:05.1	Amory Severs,
1:06.4	is this an internet is beautiful or internet is terrible story on endless thread today?
1:13.3	Mine is an internet is terrible.
1:16.4	Oh, man, mine too.
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