platforms

The three hosts are back at the end of the summer, and the news has piled up. Meta settled with forty-seven state attorneys general for up to $17 billion, and Austin walks through what the company actually conceded, why those concessions leave the core product intact, and how Meta turned its own loss into a strike at Snap, TikTok, and YouTube. Andrew noticed that Claude’s memory feature excludes religious beliefs, which leaves a secular default sitting underneath everything else it personalizes, and Joel explains what really happened when models “escaped the sandbox,” whether a VPN is worth paying for, and why an ordinary church is an easy target.

A major Meta lawsuit and what it signals for platforms, youth, and accountability.

The hosts lay out what they expect from AI, platforms, and the church's tech in the year ahead.

Bluesky surges as users leave X. Is the new platform actually different, or just the next hype cycle?

After the 2024 election, the hosts on Christians, technology, and political hope in a platformed age.

Section 230, algorithms, and regulation: the hosts unpack a shift that could remake how social platforms work.

Threads launches against Twitter, and the hosts ask whether yet another platform can be used without using us.

If our apps are engineered to hook us, what does freedom look like? A practical, pastoral conversation on habit loops, dopamine, and rest in God.