ICYMI - The Internet Used to be a Haven for People with Autism
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🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle and Candice are joined by Patrick Marlborough to discuss their recent essay for Slate, “The Death of the Internet as a Haven for People With Autism.” They wrote, “Things began to shift, if imperceptibly at first, with the advent of social media, and the steady corralling and corporatization of that otherness, weirdness, fun, and joy.” On the show, Marlborough describes what they see the internet what they see the internet shifting away from and what it’s shifting towards and what that shift means for all of us.
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Rachelle Hampton and Candice Lim.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi I'm Rachel Hampton and I'm Candice Slim and you're listening to Icy Y |
| 0:17.1 | Am I in case you missed it. |
| 0:19.1 | Sleyts Podcast about Internet culture. And Candice, today? Well today for no reason at all I feel |
| 0:26.9 | like being a hater. Mm. I mean here's a thing being a hater is a full-time job so |
| 0:32.2 | clock in Rachel I am clocked in I punched my |
| 0:35.7 | card something's in the air. |
| 0:51.0 | Maybe it's that I've been trying to get on a tattoo artist books for a year now and have been thwarted for the rest of 2023. Maybe it's just that I'm PMSing a little bit. |
| 0:54.0 | Regardless, let's revel in this Hader Energy. |
| 0:57.4 | So it's a little early for us to do our annual episode |
| 1:00.5 | on trends that need to stay in 2023. |
| 1:03.0 | But I thought, what if we gave our listeners a little teaser |
| 1:08.0 | by each offering up something that's currently happening online |
| 1:12.0 | that needs to stop. |
| 1:15.0 | Candace, would you like to go first? |
| 1:17.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:18.0 | Two words for you, Rachel. |
| 1:20.0 | Cowboy Bézos. |
| 1:22.0 | I knew the second word before you even finished. Yes. But tell me more. |
| 1:26.6 | Tell me more. So this week, Vogue published a story and a photo shoot with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Jeff, |
| 1:36.5 | Bezos being the dude who founded Amazon and killed our nation one by one. |
| 1:41.6 | This was supposed to be a high profile shoot. It was shot by |
| 1:45.0 | Annie Leibovitz, big deal, big deal. And Rachel, I think you've seen the photos. |
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