Bellwether
An autopsy on a dead link, and the anthropology of trying to find transgender health care at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles. Elsewhere: Icarus and Cass receive a call to adventure.
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A law that was supposed to stop sex trafficking is making life more dangerous for the people it’s supposed to protect. It’s also collapsing the entire internet. Elsewhere: Icarus and Cass call on a spurned lover, who reveals that there's more to Bellwether than meets the ear.
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After the deadly Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, cities across America responded by cracking down on unofficial live-work spaces. Alt-right internet trolls took notice, and began pitting local governments about the people they are tasked with keeping safe.
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In 2018, Elaine Herzberg became the first pedestrian to be killed by a self-driving car. But who is to blame? We prosecute the person who was behind the wheel at our own peril. Elsewhere: short-term cryo has put Cass and Icarus in a relationship crisis.
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BELLWETHER is a podcast of speculative journalism: true stories of the world as it is through the lens of what it might become.
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Coming September 27, 2021:
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