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ChatGPT's human editors
Oct 16, 2026
25m 29s
Remembering Brooke Eby
Oct 9, 2026
32m 50s
Mixed signals: Nextdoor villains and the holiday you've never heard of
Oct 2, 2026
25m 19s
The Haruhi problem
Sep 25, 2026
16m 17s
Keeping the Lights on at a Video Game Cafe in Southern Yemen
Sep 18, 2026
33m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/16/26 |  ChatGPT's human editors | Up to a billion people use ChatGPT every week, for everything from the mundane to the weird to the deeply personal. It is commonly assumed that these messages are private – between the user and the LLM. It is commonly assumed that these messages are private – between the user and the LLM. But in some cases, human reviewers are reading these conversations and offering editorial feedback to help ChatGPT sound more human. Reporter Joseph Cox of 404 Media broke the story of Project Lily, Open AI's initiative to use human reviewers to train and improve ChatGPT. He breaks it down for us on this week's Endless Thread. Show notes: Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats (404 Media) This episode was produced by Grace Tatter and Frannie Monahan. It was co-hosted by Grace Tatter, Ben Brock Johnson, and Amory Sivertson, and edited by Dave Shaw. Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. | 25m 29s | ||||||
| 10/9/26 |  Remembering Brooke Eby | "Should I be joking at a time like this?" That's the question then 33-year-old Brooke Eby asked herself when she uploaded her first piece of TikTok comedy in 2022, about being diagnosed with a terminal illness. Brooke built an audience of hundreds of thousands of people who were rooting for, and laughing with, her. Sometimes it got weird. Brooke died due to complications with ALS earlier this month. She was 37. In 2025, she talked to Endless Thread hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson about how facing death changed her relationship with social media and online community. Show notes: Brooke Eby's TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube ALSTogether When Your Terminal Illness Makes You a TikTok Star (The New York Times) This episoded was written and produced by Grace Tatter. It was co-hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson. Mix and sound design by Emily Jankowski. | 32m 50s | ||||||
| 10/2/26 |  Mixed signals: Nextdoor villains and the holiday you've never heard of | The internet is the great connector. Talk with nearly anyone at any time about anything. But that kind of freedom can lead to misunderstandings. Maybe your neighbors discover your cruder, less friendly persona online. Maybe a debate over holiday lore becomes a battle front. Endless Thread producers Grace Tatter and Frannie Monahan bring two stories to remind us that the internet is a morass of information that no one can ever control. Show notes: "How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor" (Oakland Review of Books) Bomellida FAQ (GitHub) This content was originally created for audio. An auto-generated transcript is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Heads up that some elements (i.e. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. | 25m 19s | ||||||
| 9/25/26 |  The Haruhi problem | Get out your graphing calculators, because today's episode of Endless Thread is about a math problem. Specifically: wt(π1, . . . , πm) = m−1 ∑ i=1 wt(πi , πi+1) Now, pencils down. Stumped? So were mathematicians for decades. That is, until the equation was solved in a thread on 4Chan about watching the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Show notes: A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern (oeis.org) Sa-Shi-Su-Se-So: The Secret of Japanese Cooking Basics (Umami Insider) This content was originally created for audio. An auto-generated transcript is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Heads up that some elements (i.e. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. | 16m 17s | ||||||
| 9/18/26 |  Keeping the Lights on at a Video Game Cafe in Southern Yemen | Mo lives in Aden, an ancient city in southern Yemen. Built on a volcanic crater, it has castles and beaches set against mountains. It's beautiful. Like the rest of the country, it is also in the midst of an ongoing civil war. This summer, protests broke out over living conditions and basic services in the city -- like electricity, which can be shut off for 18 hours at a time. But despite these conditions, for the last five years, Mo has been fighting for a persistent dream of his –– a video game internet cafe for his neighborhood. This week on Endless Thread Ben and Amory tell the story of how Mo, against all odds, has kept the lights on (quite literally) at his gaming cafe thanks to his persistence, and the help of internet strangers across the world. This content was originally created for audio. An auto-generated transcript is available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Heads up that some elements (i.e. music, sound effects, tone) are harder to translate to text. | 33m 04s | ||||||
| 9/11/26 |  Ear rumblers assemble! | Ben can make a roaring, rumbling sound with his ears that no one else can hear. He never thought much about it — whether only he could do this, or whether everyone could do this — until he discovered a subreddit called Ear Rumblers Assemble: a whole community devoted to the mysterious and understudied ability to voluntarily tense one of the miniscule muscles in our ears. We go into Ben's ear with Dr. Anand Devaiah, and raise questions about how everyone experiences the world differently and the enduring mysteries of the human body. Show notes: r/earrumblersassemble (Reddit) Thanks to Reddit, a New Diagnosis Is Bubbling Up Across the Nation (KFF Health News) This episode was produced by Grace Tatter and edited by Dave Shaw. It was co-hosted by Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson. Mix and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. | 28m 32s | ||||||
| 9/4/26 | owl behaviorcampus life+3 | — | University of North Carolina at Chapel HillNPR+3 | Chapel Hill | owlUniversity of North Carolina+3 | — | 24m 57s | ||
| 8/28/26 | scienceastronaut fan fiction+3 | Emily Kwong | NPRr/Science+2 | — | science campArtemis II+5 | — | 25m 49s | ||
| 8/21/26 | air travelBluetooth+4 | — | United Airlines | Newark, New JerseyPalma de Mallorca, Spain | BluetoothUnited Airlines+5 | — | 28m 28s | ||
| 8/14/26 | Mandela Effectbranding+3 | — | Fruit of the Loom | — | Fruit of the Loomlogo+5 | — | 44m 45s | ||
| 8/7/26 | internet cultureperpetual stew+3 | — | NPRGreater Good Magazine+3 | — | perpetual stewinternet stories+3 | — | 29m 29s | ||
| 7/31/26 | Dougie danceTikTok+3 | — | Cali Swag DistrictLA Weekly | — | DougieTikTok+6 | — | 24m 20s | ||
| 7/24/26 | Kurt GödelU.S. Constitution+4 | Rebecca Newberger Goldstein | Endless ThreadWBUR+2 | — | Kurt GödelU.S. Constitution+6 | — | 34m 43s | ||
| 7/17/26 | climate crisissolar geoengineering+3 | — | solar geoengineeringMarketplace+1 | Bay Areaclimate crisis | climate crisissolar geoengineering+4 | — | 37m 48s | ||
| 7/10/26 | social mediasurveillance+3 | Dell Cameron | WIREDThe New York Times+3 | — | social mediasurveillance+3 | — | 31m 28s | ||
| 7/3/26 | viral videowhale encounter+4 | Adrián Simancas | Endless ThreadNPR | Straight of Magellan | whalekayaking+5 | — | 24m 31s | ||
| 6/26/26 | comfortinternet+3 | — | WBUR | — | comfort maxxinginternet comfort+3 | — | 25m 05s | ||
| 6/19/26 | Backroomscreepypasta+4 | — | A24Backrooms | 4chanReddit | Backroomscreepypasta+6 | — | 22m 42s | ||
| 6/11/26 | OnlyFansonline relationships+4 | Leon NeyfakhGracie Canaan | WBUROnlyFantasy+3 | — | OnlyFansonline ecosystem+5 | — | 36m 35s | ||
| 6/4/26 | smartphone addictionlandline communication+3 | Jeremy Rellosa | New York Magazine | — | smartphonelandline+3 | — | 25m 00s | ||
| 5/29/26 | speedrunninginternet culture+3 | — | RedditChurch of Scientology+2 | — | speedrunReddit+3 | — | 25m 33s | ||
| 5/22/26 | Internet trendsKorean cuisine+3 | — | r/pickledThe Sydney Morning Herald+2 | — | mayak eggsKorean food+5 | — | 23m 41s | ||
| 5/15/26 | internet communitieschance encounters+4 | — | ChatGPTCraigslist+2 | — | internetrom-com+5 | — | 27m 06s | ||
| 5/8/26 | comedysocial commentary+4 | Ben Palmer | Washington PostYouTube | — | Ben PalmerICE tip line+6 | — | 25m 28s | ||
| 5/5/26 | climate fictionadventure+3 | — | WBUR | — | climate fictioninteractive podcast+5 | — | 21m 15s | ||
| 5/1/26 | climbingsocial media+3 | — | RidiculoubsDull Women's Club+1 | — | RidiculoubsDull Women's Club+5 | NordVPNENDLESS | 28m 36s | ||
| 4/24/26 | spaceradio signals+3 | Yvette Cendes | NASA | — | radio signalsSaturn+3 | NordVPNENDLESS | 32m 53s | ||
| 4/17/26 | color trendsinternet aesthetics+3 | Hayley DeRoche | SadBeigeThe Guardian+2 | — | beigecolor trends+5 | NordVPNENDLESS | 27m 58s | ||
| 4/10/26 | Afromaninternet virality+3 | — | Afroman | — | AfromanBecause I Got High+4 | NordVPNENDLESS | 20m 52s | ||
| 4/3/26 | TikToksocial media+3 | Kala | Endless ThreadWBUR | — | TikTokTunnel Girl+5 | NordVPNENDLESS | 28m 39s | ||
| 3/27/26 | viral clipsinternet culture+3 | — | DOGEThe Independent+1 | — | DOGEviral clips+4 | INCOGNIENDLESS | 29m 00s | ||
| 3/20/26 | booksReddit+4 | — | Reddit | — | booksReddit+5 | INCOGNIENDLESS | 24m 53s | ||
| 3/13/26 | mobile gamesadvertising+3 | — | Lily's GardenPocket Gamer+1 | — | Lily's Gardenmobile game+4 | INCOGNIENDLESS | 31m 21s | ||
| 3/6/26 | non-consensual deepfakessexual situations+4 | Iona Fyfe | Grok | — | deepfakesGrok+5 | INCOGNIENDLESS | 30m 33s | ||
| 2/27/26 | obscure musicTikTok+3 | — | Dr. PepperReddit+3 | — | obscure musicTikTok+3 | — | 24m 59s | ||
| 2/20/26 | documentaryRotten Tomatoes+4 | — | Rotten TomatoesNPR+4 | — | MelaniaRotten Tomatoes+6 | — | 24m 41s | ||
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Chart history for Endless Thread
Peaked at #42 in United States, currently #42 in United States.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | — | #42 | #42 | — |
| Italy | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| Australia | — | #48 | #48 | — |
| KE | — | #49 | #49 | — |
| IS | — | #50 | #50 | — |
| Canada | — | #52 | #52 | — |
| Ireland | — | #54 | #54 | — |
| GR | — | #54 | #54 | — |
| MY | — | #67 | #67 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #79 | #79 | — |
| United Kingdom | — | #81 | #81 | — |
| RO | — | #83 | #83 | — |
| HK | — | #85 | #85 | — |
| PH | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| VN | — | #92 | #92 | — |
| South Africa | — | #93 | #93 | — |
| IL | — | #99 | #99 | — |
| AE | — | #103 | #103 | — |
| CL | — | #110 | #110 | — |
| BE | — | #112 | #112 | — |
Chart Positions
30 placements across 30 markets.
Chart Positions
30 placements across 30 markets.