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15 years ago I tried to vanish, in an experiment to explore the role of tech in privacy and surveillance. Older and not-wiser, I'm back with a sequel. This time, I replicated myself, and set my AI replicas loose in the world. The podcast is called Shell Game. Ep 1, out now.

Longform Podcast #585: John Jeremiah Sullivan, contributing writer for @nytmag and author of “Pulphead” and the forthcoming “The Prime Minister of Paradise” longform.org/posts/longform… This is our final episode. Thanks for listening.

Longform Podcast #584: Ta-Nehisi Coates longform.org/posts/longform…

Longform Podcast #583: Jay Caspian Kang (@jaycaspiankang), staff writer at The New Yorker and co-host of “Time to Say Goodbye” longform.org/posts/longform…

Longform Podcast #582: Joseph Cox (@josephfcox), co-founder of 404 Media and author of “Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever” longform.org/posts/longform…

Longform Podcast #581: Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle), writer, actor, founder of “Rookie,” and author of “Fan Fiction” longform.org/posts/longform…

Longform Podcast #580: Rachel Khong (@rachelkhong), journalist and author of the novels “Goodbye, Vitamin” and “Real Americans” longform.org/posts/longform…

Longform Podcast #579: Kelsey McKinney (@mckinneykelsey), features writer and co-owner at @DefectorMedia, host of “Normal Gossip,” and author of the upcoming book “You Didn't Hear This From Me” pod.link/551088534

If you're around NYC on Thursday eve, come see @HigginbothamA and I chopping it up at @bookculture about his new narrative history of the Challenger disaster: tinyurl.com/4sptkjhp. Out today, this book is un-put-downable, whether you know the basic story or not.

Longform Podcast #578: Lissa Soep, audio producer, editor, and author of "Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End" pod.link/551088534

Longform Podcast #577: PJ Vogt (@PJVogt), host of “Search Engine” pod.link/551088534

Longform Podcast #576: Lindsay Peoples, editor-in-chief of @TheCut pod.link/551088534

If you're a reporter who likes to investigate, you need to listen to @longform's conversations with this year's George Polk Awards winners. I look forward to these every year. The conversations energize me and offer a glimpse into the minds of insanely talented journalists.

The final interview in our series with winners of this year’s @PolkAwards: Jason Motlagh (@JasonMotlagh), journalist and filmmaker, who won the Sydney Schanberg Prize for “This Will End in Blood and Ashes,” an account of the collapse of order in Haiti pod.link/551088534

Today in our series of interviews with this year’s @PolkAwards winners: Brian Howey (@steelandballast), who won the Justice Reporting award after exposing a deceptive police tactic widely used in California. pod.link/551088534

The pull quote @longform chose says everything you need to know about my current headspace 🤣 longform.org/posts/polk-awa… “Where does it leave me? It leaves me with a searing anger that is going to propel me to the next thing.”

Next in our series with winners of this year’s @PolkAwards: Meribah Knight (@meribah) of Nashville Public Radio, who won the Polk Award for Podcasting for “The Kids of Rutherford County,” a series revealing one county’s approach to juvenile discipline pod.link/551088534

Next in our series of interviews with winners of this year’s @PolkAwards: Jesse Coburn (@Jesse_Coburn), investigative reporter for @StreetsblogNYC, who won the Local Reporting award for his series on the black market for temporary license plates pod.link/551088534

This week on the show: interviews with winners of this year’s @PolkAwards First up: Amel Guettatfi (@AGuettatfi) + Julia Steers (@jcsteers), who won the Television Reporting award for “Inside Wagner,” their Vice News investigation of Russian mercenaries pod.link/551088534