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Taylor Lorenz’s Power User

Taylor Lorenz explores how technology and the internet are upending our lives and the world around us. Each week, she explores everything from online fame to emerging platforms, viral phenomena, the creator economy, and much more. Tune in every Wednesday for regular episodes and every Friday for "Free Speech Friday," her series on tech policy and the fight for civil liberties online.

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Is This The End of The Open Web?

Dec 26, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 >>> Free Speech Friday <<< Across the U.S. parents and lawmakers are calling for tech companies...

Elon Musk's God Complex

Dec 24, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 As Elon Musk's influence has grown, so too has a darker, more troubling side of his persona...

Is There A Vibe Shift in Silicon Valley? [PATREON EXCLUSIVE]

Dec 22, 2025·—

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[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this and other bonus episodes of Power User!! SUPPORT ME ON PATREON. Buy a subscription to my tech and online culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my...

Social Media Addiction Isn't Real— Here is What's Really Happening

Dec 19, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 <<< FREE SPEECH FRIDAY>>> People cannot stop claiming they are "addicted" to social media...

How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z w/ Ryan Broderick

Dec 17, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 After Charlie Kirk was killed in front of a crowd of students in Utah, right wing influencers...

The Global Internet Is Dying: America Is Repeating China's Biggest Mistake

Dec 12, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 IT'S FREE SPEECH FRIDAY!!!!! For years, the United States villainized China for its restrictive...

Everyone Is Wrong About The Olivia Nuzzi RFK Scandal w/ Kat Tenbarge

Dec 10, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Recently, journalist Olivia Nuzzi has been at the center of the biggest political media scandal...

Congress Is About to Break the Internet

Dec 5, 2025·—

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>>> FREE SPEECH FRIDAY <<< SUPPORT ME ON PATREON. Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 On Tuesday, members of the House of Representatives gathered for a...

The Radicalization Pipeline Nobody Sees Coming

Dec 3, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Lately, growing swaths of the online left have embraced a messaging strategy known broadly as...

None Of This is About Online Safety

Nov 28, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 For decades, the Eelam Tamil ethnic group in Sri Lanka has been persecuted. They are dealing...

The MAGA Twitter Apocalypse w/ Charlie Warzel

Nov 26, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Over the weekend, Twitter descended into complete and utter chaos. Elon Musk rolled out a...

[PATREON PREVIEW] How Zohran Won The Internet w/ the Creators 4 Zohran Founders

Nov 24, 2025·—

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SUBSCRIBE TO MY PATREON to listen to the full episode and more bonus content and to ensure that this podcast remains alive. Since Kamala Harris lost the election, there's been an endless debate among the Democrats on...

The Most Depraved Commentary I've Ever Heard

Nov 21, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Right now, there's a clip going viral from former Obama White House aide and Hillary Clinton...

The Epstein Saga Is Sending the Internet Into Chaos w/ Brace Belden

Nov 19, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news after a massive new cache of emails and text messages was...

The Government Is Spying on College Football Games

Nov 14, 2025·—

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FREE SPEECH FRIDAY SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!!!! Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 The Department of Homeland Security has deployed a powerful surveillance...

How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War

Nov 12, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Sydney Sweeney just had one of the worst box office weekends of all time. Her new movie...

He Was Tortured in an Israeli Prison for Speaking Out

Nov 7, 2025·—

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FREE SPEECH FRIDAY SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Tommy Marcus, better known online as Quentin Quarantino online, first became...

Why Every Hit Pop Song Sounds the Same Now

Nov 5, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Did you know that hit songs in the late 1950s were regularly about gruesome death? Or that a US...

The New Legal Fight to Destroy Super PACs Forever

Oct 31, 2025·—

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FREE SPEECH FRIDAY SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 For the first time in fifteen years, there’s a real shot at ending...

Has Taylor Swift Finally Peaked? Why Billionaires Can't Make Good Art

Oct 29, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!!!!!! Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine, to support my work!!!! 🙏 Over the past two decades, Taylor Swift has dominated the pop charts and risen to the...

A Woman Streamer Was Assaulted, Is Twitch To Blame?

Oct 24, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!!!!!! Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 FREE SPEECH FRIDAY Last weekend, popular cosplay Twitch streamer Emiru was assaulted at a...

Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon

Oct 22, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!!! Get bonus episodes and more. Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 As live-streaming becomes an increasingly dominant form of...

Fighting For LGBTQ Rights is Terrorism Now: NSPM-7 Explained w/ Ken Klippenstein

Oct 17, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON!!! Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Welcome back to Free Speech Friday! Recently, Trump signed a little-noticed national security...

Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For

Oct 15, 2025·—

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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON. Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 Hasan Piker has never abused his dog, but you'd never know that from the video clips spreading...

[PATREON PREVIEW] How Raunchy AI Country Songs Took Over The Internet

Oct 13, 2025·—

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To listen to this full episode support me on Patreon. SUPPORT ME ON PATREON. Buy a subscription to my Tech and Online Culture newsletter, User Magazine to support my work!!!! 🙏 We're facing a tsunami of AI-generated...