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@morgansung.bsky.social
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internet explainer, yarn hoarder, professional yapper on Close All Tabs from KQED ❣️

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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
coming home after a harrowing 36 hours in south american airport & long haul flight hell to find that i missed hyrox poopgate, mitch mcconnell sighting, AND BOB MACKIE DYING??? im never going offline again
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Michael Pusateri @cruftbox.com · 20/08/2026
A good two-part podcast explaining the surreal story of the AI-generated Emily Hart Instagram account, which was run by an Indian medical student. From the Close All Tab podcast by @morgansung.bsky.social. www.kqed.org/news/1209491...
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The Emily Hart Saga, Part 1: MAGA’s AI Dream Girl | KQED
Emily Hart was a pickup-driving, Trump-supporting blonde bombshell who frequently posted photos on Instagram along with captions about “deporting illegals.” Within a few weeks she gained thousands of ...
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Hark Audio @harkaudio.com · 27/08/2026
HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - Why Democrats don't need 50%+1 to win Red states #HacksOnTap - The one measure that could make football safer #StartHere - AI agents turned Marxist under stress @morgansung.bsky.social
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Hark Daily: August 27, 2026
A playlist of podcast moments
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MSI Reproductive Choices @msichoices.org · 13/08/2026
"Welcome to the pink pill pipeline. This is the way young women are radicalized online." Hear from @morgansung.bsky.social & @kylietcheung.bsky.social of Abortion, Every Day on how seemingly apolitical content online is shifting the cultural narrative around reproductive rights. ⬇️
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
she's cooking here
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
this week's ep is so much fun!! rachael spills the tea on the courtroom drama of the century. backstabbing! secret affairs! and also a dramatic reading of the texts from the night of the openai coup! we got it all, minus the fancy butt cushions
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Hark Audio @harkaudio.com · 14/05/2026
HARK DAILY - Today's best podcast moments in one playlist, featuring: - James Comey on why U.S. counterintelligence is at risk @timmiller.bsky.social - The deepfake porn problem @morgansung.bsky.social - Is this the end of Ben Shapiro? @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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Hark Daily: May 14, 2026
A playlist of podcast moments
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
are you a college student who loves the internet? are you interested in covering the overlap between tech and culture? can you edit audio for narrative storytelling? close all tabs is hiring a PAID intern, and it could be you!!! kqed.applytojob.com/apply/wbD61P...
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Michael Pusateri @cruftbox.com · 21/04/2026
Good episode of Close All Tabs with @morgansung.bsky.social. Hearing about 'looksmaxxing' being about being attractive to the male gaze, an odd priority for self-described straight men. Also news about Fruit Love Island and BTS, topics usually outside my zone. www.kqed.org/news/1207993...
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Save or Scroll: Looksmaxxing, AI Fruit Love Island, BTS Arirang, and Meta Lawsuits | KQED
In a spring installment of Save or Scroll, Morgan teams up with culture journalist Steffi Cao to dig into the stories they can’t stop thinking about. From looksmaxxing to AI Fruit Island, BTS’ new alb...
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
something very sweet about watching the first real youtube star harmonize with his younger self & then live react to his most embarrassing paparazzi moments. i could write a dissertation on this performance as a reflection on internet fame. & showing random vines? justin bieber is actually so funny
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
new baby shoes just dropped :(
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
so thankful to @morgansung.bsky.social for having me on Close All Tabs to talk about how farmers have fought for right to repair! Thought this episode turned out really great and the show in general is amazing: www.kqed.org/news/1207746...
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To Hack a Tractor: How Farmers Won the Right to Repair | KQED
What do pissed off farmers and broken McFlurry machines have to do with each other? More than you’d think. Both are part of the story behind the modern right-to-repair movement. In this episode, Jason...
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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This week on @hyperfixedpod.bsky.social, our listener Chris lost his sight in high school, and was worried he lost his love for movies as well. But then he discovered audio descriptions. The problem is that so many movies aren't audio described. So he came to us for help.
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Hyperfixed | Chris's Watchlist
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
to be fair, asking the average person to pick between blood meridian and claudeslop is kind of like asking to choose between a funky sediment heavy "biodynamic" natural wine and a buzzball. you gotta develop a taste for this kind of thing.
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🌬️Doctrix Snow • NYC/FMTY @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I talked to @morgansung.bsky.social about sex work, surveillance, & censorship for close all tabs from kqed! www.kqed.org/news/12075321
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Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws | KQED
Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech advocate...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11/02/2026
Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...
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Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators
Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With the awful WaPo layoffs and the state of journalism more broadly, if it's useful for any writers and reporters considering going indy, @molly.wiki, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social of Aftermath, @jasonkoebler.bsky.social of 404 Media, @edzitron.com and me will do a little workshop next week.
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KQED Forum @kqedforum.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @morgansung.bsky.social, @sfgate.com's Stephen Council, and @kjezermorton.bsky.social about friction-maxxing and how doing things the hard way can bring us more joy, serendipity and human connection. ❓How do you friction-maxx? 📻 Listen: buff.ly/ft7P38H
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
SF!! we're throwing a party and you're invited!! close all tabs is hosting its first live event: a powerpoint party where @aidanwalker.bsky.social and @candicelim.bsky.social and i present our favorite internet lore :) and! you can present your own! there will be prizes! www.kqed.org/event/5937
an event flyer depicting stacks of vintage computers. the screens show the following: 1. the close all tabs logo 2. two hands holding glasses of beer 3. a labubu head with glowing eyes 4. the galaxy brain meme 5. an envelope 4. a waymo on fire 5. hitchbot 6. an error icon 

the text on the flyer says:

CHRONICALLY ONLINE: a powerpoint party with close all tabs

march 5, 2026
7:00 p.m.
the commons at KQEDwith special guests
Candice Lim
and 
Aidan Walker
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Do you have the right to record ICE? Criminal justice reporter @cjciaramella.bsky.social explains to @morgansung.bsky.social how the Trump administration is working to create a chilling effect around filming law enforcement. www.kqed.org/news/1206959... via @kqednews.kqed.org @goosenaut.bsky.social
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Are You Allowed to Record ICE? | KQED
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, it became an instant flashpoint in the ongoing escalation of federal law enforcemen...
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Rachael Myrow @rachaelmyrow.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
You don’t need to guard yourself against every threat unless you're willing to “live as a hermit on a 🏔️ and fling all of your devices into the sea,” says the #cybersecurity director at the @eff.org. www.kqed.org/news/1207040... via @kqednews.kqed.org @morgansung.bsky.social @goosenaut.bsky.social
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How to Protect Your Information Online in 2026 | KQED
What are some easy digital habits you can pick up in the new year that can protect your privacy online?
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
it's a first amendment right but DHS has been retaliating against anyone exercising that right. close all tabs just put out a whole episode about this! wherever you get your podcasts! www.kqed.org/news/1206959...
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Are You Allowed to Record ICE? | KQED
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, it became an instant flashpoint in the ongoing escalation of federal law enforcemen...
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
bodes well for woke 2.0 that fujos are mainstream but it also means that fanfiction discourse is reaching new heights of Annoying
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
ok rewatching industry right now and the whole show makes soooo much more sense now that i know that a short is when you gag the market
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
new close all tabs episode with @cjciaramella.bsky.social, all about the right to record and share information about ICE, and how the trump administration is trying to stop people from exercising that right tr.ee/_QLi_jEzEZ
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
incredibly techbrained solution here. they're detaining people and smashing their phones just for taking pictures right now but somehow they'll stand still enough for an observer to scan their qr code??
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
new close all tabs episode with @cjciaramella.bsky.social, all about the right to record and share information about ICE, and how the trump administration is trying to stop people from exercising that right tr.ee/_QLi_jEzEZ
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
not to nitpick but when did "fujoshing out" becoming a thing. the term is "fujoing out." this is context collapse in action, and as the mainstream internet absorbs fandom vernacular, it'll forget the og fujos who carved this depraved path for everyone else. and that's my ted talk
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14/12/2025
Also holds up the idea that white people are the *only* people capable of cooly and fairly assessing fraught issues without any prejudice or bias.
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
uber driver picked me up in a tesla and we're chatting about bands we like. he taps something and goes "hey grok, what genre is this band?" then he asks grok to weigh in, inviting it into our conversation lol. anyway i'm in SF for five more hours, where should i get coffee?
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
in a college econ class i had to do a presentation with this girl. when we met up to work on it, she launched into a whole racist rant about how woke welfare programs destroyed the american economy. mind u, the assignment was about supply and demand in monopolies or something like that lol
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
by the way the close all tabs team won a media literacy award from NAMLE, which means my letterboxd takes are always correct from now on
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
now the embargo has lifted i can finally post about how i went to a wicked 2 screening and was the only one in the theater who audibly gasped when they made their brooms scissor
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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Drop everything: @morgansung.bsky.social x @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social on where games go when they die! Close All Tabs is an inspiration! The best in the game! overcast.fm/+AAHuu2Obdxo
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Where Do Games Go When They Die? — Close All Tabs
When Ubisoft, publisher of the sprawling open-world racing game The Crew shut down the game’s servers, cutting off access to even its single-player mode, fans were outraged. The moment tapped into the...
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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
do games go to heaven when they die? i talked to @morgansung.bsky.social on close all tabs about dead and dying games www.kqed.org/news/1206377...
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Where Do Games Go When They Die? | KQED
When Ubisoft, publisher of the sprawling open-world racing game The Crew shut down the game’s servers, cutting off access to even its single-player mode, fans were outraged. The moment tapped into the...
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
fortnite friday is a talk show that takes place entirely in fortnite, which has nonetheless pulled names as big as gavin newsom, george santos, and the rizzler. I’ve always wondered how @connoreatspants.bsky.social does it, and I finally got a chance to ask him
In the case of political figures who have something to gain by reaching a younger audience, like Newsom and Santos – or even those with an ideology to propagate, like sadsack MAGA-is-my-whole-personality UFC fighter Colby Covington and Shazam star Zachary Levi – Connor recognizes that he’s walking a fine line. He can’t just let them spout off because a) that’d be a poor use of his platform, and b) it just wouldn’t be funny.

"There's a responsibility, I think, when you're interviewing someone with that amount of power and that amount of influence, that if you're given the opportunity to talk to them, you need to ask them certain hard questions about things they've done or they support,” said Connor. “Otherwise, you're kind of giving them a platform to humanize themselves without the weight of their actions and decisions. So I have to balance that when someone like that is on the show. I mean, I'll ask funny things, and we'll joke about stuff, but I can't finish the episode without making sure I bring up his comments on, say, Israel or things like that, because otherwise I lose credibility with people, too."
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
prepping for tomorrow morning
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
media.tenor.com
a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
sex pest down i repeat sex pest down
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
can a girl lib out for just one night
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
ok now can we admit that this would go crazy as a halloween costume
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
i am so patriotic only for the great nation of New York City
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
first cutie patootie mayor thank god
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
NEW YORK CITYYYY
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
gonna brag about this episode that covers very important topics like political speech and censorship and sticky moderation, but also opens with tape from my 2am IG story of bbno$ getting 20 people to chant "fuck yeah, twitchcon" at a corporate streamer party
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I was on the most recent episode of close all tabs, @morgansung.bsky.social's excellent KQED podcast, talking about twitch's political reckoning. if you for some reason do not already get enough of me on aftermath hours, go listen! www.kqed.org/news/1206199...
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A Political Reckoning for Twitch? | KQED
TwitchCon, Twitch’s annual convention in San Diego for all things streaming and gaming, is facing heightened scrutiny after streamer Emiru was assaulted there during a meet-and-greet. The incident occ...
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NPR @npr.org · 26/10/2025
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI
Del Toro's new Frankenstein adaption reimagines Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel. Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
i hate gay halloween what do you mean you're niche crackship nosferatu
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morgan sung @morgansung.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
my favorite part of diy halloween is scouring poshmark and buying ridiculous clothing that i would absolutely wear on a regular day but can't justify buying any other time of the year. every year my closet gets more eccentric and more vintage
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