Superhuman - From Engineered Desire to Engineered Consent

In the season finale of Superhuman, Aaron brings on four guests for a closer look at the cracks in the system, at the incentives that put them there, and why remembering is the first step to fixing them. Click here to watch a collection of video clips of Avery set to the music from Koyaanisqatsi. Guests Danica Noble www.electdanica.com Brian Boland www.delta-fund.org Julianna Arnold https://parentsrise.org/ Reiko Callner Music Joachim Cooder Various tracks www.joachimcooder.com/ Evelyn Simone...

A bill can say “child safety” on the front and still protect the companies causing the harm. In Wolves and Children, Aaron traces how lobbying, legal misdirection, and manufactured public pressure shape the laws parents are told to trust. Featuring Brody Mullins, Julia Duncan, Sarah Gardner, and Lennon Torres. Links and Resources Brody Mullins The Wolves of K Street Podcast A companion podcast exploring lobbying, corporate influence, and power in Washington. https://www.thewolvesofkstreet.com...

In “Muted Cases,” Aaron recounts the days after Avery’s death—the evidence scramble, and the slow, brutal realization that what the community most needs to understand can be narrowed, negotiated, and effectively erased from the official record. The episode expands beyond one family’s loss into a repeatable pattern: teen networks, platform mechanics, and legal structures that struggle to name what’s happening in plain language. Through an anonymous former teen witness, the Chapman family...

I wasn’t planning to write or record this week, but the one-year angelversary and a lonely holiday got under my skin, and I couldn’t help myself. What follows is a bit of a spiral: a walk through the same spiral logic so many of us get pulled into, where fear and outrage compound, the feed “finishes” the story for us, and the loudest narratives start to feel like reality. This is a companion episode to the main arc of the season, part personal processing and part pattern-spotting, connecting ...

Twenty-six words written in 1996 gave platforms legal immunity. One court decision in 1997 turned that immunity into a business model. Attorney Carrie Goldberg shares what it's like representing hundreds of victims, from sextortion to cyberbullying to suicide, and watching nearly every case slam into the same wall. Brett Allred and Kristin Bride reveal what the absence of "good faith" looks like when platforms know the patterns but wait for children to die. And as Section 230 finally begins t...