Jen deHaan
@humaninternettheory.com
Tech, comedy, voice, performance, and audio/video podcast producer.
Host: Podcast Performance Lab
About: jendehaan.com
My studio: @stereoforest.com / stereoforest.com
Made in Canada 🇨🇦 by human
Host: Podcast Performance Lab
About: jendehaan.com
My studio: @stereoforest.com / stereoforest.com
Made in Canada 🇨🇦 by human
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Try the "Why Pass" on your next script. Go through your segments and ask "Why do I care?" If you are angry about the topic then be angry. If you are excited then be excited. Practice at level 11 emotion, then do your regular read and see what happens.
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Try the "Why Pass" on your next script. Go through your segments and ask "Why do I care?" If you are angry about the topic then be angry. If you are excited then be excited. Practice at level 11 emotion, then do your regular read and see what happens.
#PodcastThreads
#PodcastThreads
January 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Try the "Why Pass" on your next script. Go through your segments and ask "Why do I care?" If you are angry about the topic then be angry. If you are excited then be excited. Practice at level 11 emotion, then do your regular read and see what happens.
#PodcastThreads
#PodcastThreads
You can't fake your charisma because of mirror neurons. When you speak with passion your listener's brain simulates that physically. Faking it = their mirror neurons stay dormant. "Deep Acting" communicates your genuine feelings about why you care about the topic.
#PodcastThreads
#PodcastThreads
January 9, 2026 at 6:02 PM
You can't fake your charisma because of mirror neurons. When you speak with passion your listener's brain simulates that physically. Faking it = their mirror neurons stay dormant. "Deep Acting" communicates your genuine feelings about why you care about the topic.
#PodcastThreads
#PodcastThreads
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Great point! Been watching The Rest is Science with VSauce, and mathematician Hannah Fry. They're so damn engaging I can recall most of what they talk about even if I'm half assing attention..
Want your listeners actively engaged? You gotta be too! Your listeners physically mimic the tension in your voice, which is called Emotional Contagion. If you sound bored then they tune out. New ep of Podcast Performance Lab is out.
#Podcasting
#Podcasting
January 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Great point! Been watching The Rest is Science with VSauce, and mathematician Hannah Fry. They're so damn engaging I can recall most of what they talk about even if I'm half assing attention..
Want your listeners actively engaged? You gotta be too! Your listeners physically mimic the tension in your voice, which is called Emotional Contagion. If you sound bored then they tune out. New ep of Podcast Performance Lab is out.
#Podcasting
#Podcasting
January 8, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Want your listeners actively engaged? You gotta be too! Your listeners physically mimic the tension in your voice, which is called Emotional Contagion. If you sound bored then they tune out. New ep of Podcast Performance Lab is out.
#Podcasting
#Podcasting
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I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.
January 8, 2026 at 2:56 AM
I wanted to just share one story about a kid who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood where Renee Nicole Good died today. Prince got married at Park United Methodist just down the street from 34th & Plymouth; he went to high school at Central High a few blocks in the other direction over on 35th.
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caveat that I started my career in 2018, so I don't have that much perspective on what it was like before COVID, but this flu season is By Far the worst I've worked through so far in the medical laboratory. Everyone's got flu and it's not even limited to one strain. Flu B and Flu A, mostly H3
People are getting so sick with flu that they're not even calling in, just completely passing out for entire days and missing work. This is why you mask, and it's why you don't make fun of people who mask.
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 AM
caveat that I started my career in 2018, so I don't have that much perspective on what it was like before COVID, but this flu season is By Far the worst I've worked through so far in the medical laboratory. Everyone's got flu and it's not even limited to one strain. Flu B and Flu A, mostly H3
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Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.
Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hey Jon Stewart, jokes about wearing masks aren't funny
Critics of the Daily Show host say he's a hypocrite.
www.motherjones.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.
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This is longer than Doug Ford spent at Queens Park in 2025.
December 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is longer than Doug Ford spent at Queens Park in 2025.
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Hate your own voice on mic or camera? The latest episode is about WHY, and also about practicing speaking without needing to edit your words as much: youtu.be/pi9xIKjQr-g
Why Podcasters Cringe At Their Own Voice (and a solo drill to help)
YouTube video by Jen deHaan
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December 21, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Hate your own voice on mic or camera? The latest episode is about WHY, and also about practicing speaking without needing to edit your words as much: youtu.be/pi9xIKjQr-g
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New episode about finding the right format for your solo-hosted show. Find it wherever you podcast or on YouTube at "Solo Podcasting Handbook"
#podcasts
#podcasts
December 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
New episode about finding the right format for your solo-hosted show. Find it wherever you podcast or on YouTube at "Solo Podcasting Handbook"
#podcasts
#podcasts
I just read *engagement bait* that was about how great long form content was at keeping them off social media.
IS IT THO?
IS IT THO?
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I just read *engagement bait* that was about how great long form content was at keeping them off social media.
IS IT THO?
IS IT THO?
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I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
![[Text on an yellow octagon meant to look like the output of an overhead projector.]
The silent erosion of COVID-19 awareness & management in B.C.:
A TIMELINE
[A timeline of the year 2025 and the January of 2026. Numbered diamonds are placed on the timeline to mark the events below.]
1. April 16: Amount & timeliness of SARS-CoV-2 sample data uploaded to GISAID, an online repository, deteriorate.
2. May: The end of RAT Kit Distribution Program is announced in a professional newsletter. This provided free RAT kits to pharmacies.
3. May 31: RAT kits orders from this day onwards would not be reimbursed.
4. June: The BCCDC page dedicated to how COVID-19 spreads is removed.
5. September 1: Under the BC medical services plan, less than 20 people will be allowed in an online group medical visit. An unknown number of bed- & house-bound people will lose telehealth access to the BC-CLMF, a long COVID & ME/CFS clinic. Implementation delayed until January.
6. September 15: Vancouver Sun publishes a sponsored article, suggesting the program responsible for generating SARS-CoV-2 data from wastewater samples would be expanded & describes the then-current state of the program.
7. September 18: The wastewater surveillance program is cut: 8 of 12 wastewater treatment plants will no longer be monitored, and 1 sample will be taken per week instead of 3.
8. October 14: The year's vaccination campaign begins to widespread shortages.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dy4l7kqcar73iaezbjxzwiui/bafkreibyc7hcwrwtwlid453tk3fv523vx3cziv4g5qksvdrks6b3ymxo2a@jpeg)
November 7, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I have been trying to raise awareness about the recent cuts to pandemic preparedness by provincial institutions in BC for the past 1½ months. Most of the cuts were not announced to the public beforehand and media coverage has been scant. 1/?
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“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
Thank You Alice Wong
Alice Wong has passed away and the disability community has lost a leader. I lost a mentor and a friend. The Disabled Ginger wouldn't exist without Alice and everything she taught me.
www.disabledginger.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
“She explained how much Covid could hurt her & how vulnerable it felt to be unable to wear a mask to protect herself.
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
She was a perfect example of why other people need to wear masks even if they don’t personally think Covid will hurt them”
If you want to honour Alice Wong’s memory, please mask up
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40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?
My dad trained as a neurosurgeon in the late ‘50s and they were still studying the long term neurological effects of the Spanish flu.
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 PM
40 years later… And the thing is, we already have mountains of data NOW that show what COVID does to brains. Why can’t we acknowledge it? Why can’t we face it? Why can’t we say it?
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15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
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We did it New York!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
We did it New York!!!
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They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
They’ll insist this is a
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else.
They’re wrong.
New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe.
If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.
Don't rehearse your hand gestures. Research shows that natural gesturing helps you organize your thoughts and articulate them more clearly.
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't rehearse your hand gestures. Research shows that natural gesturing helps you organize your thoughts and articulate them more clearly.
Big news: Australia's government confirmed it's ruling out a "fair use" style exemption for AI training data. This is what AI corporations have been pushing for globally, and creative professionals are being supported instead.
From the latest Human Internet Theory ep.
From the latest Human Internet Theory ep.
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Big news: Australia's government confirmed it's ruling out a "fair use" style exemption for AI training data. This is what AI corporations have been pushing for globally, and creative professionals are being supported instead.
From the latest Human Internet Theory ep.
From the latest Human Internet Theory ep.
"Postural feedback" is a real thing, but it's individual. Your posture sends feedback to your brain about feelings. The key is mindful self-awareness to find what works for you.
October 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Postural feedback" is a real thing, but it's individual. Your posture sends feedback to your brain about feelings. The key is mindful self-awareness to find what works for you.
A single venture capital firm is funding one startup to create thousands of synthetic influencers and another startup to detect them. Learn about the emerging "synthetic social web."
From Human Internet Theory.
From Human Internet Theory.
October 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A single venture capital firm is funding one startup to create thousands of synthetic influencers and another startup to detect them. Learn about the emerging "synthetic social web."
From Human Internet Theory.
From Human Internet Theory.
We are moving from high-effort "artisanal" virtual influencers to mass-produced, industrialized synthetic humans. These services affect creative professionals in design, writing, and voice acting.
From Human Internet Theory.
From Human Internet Theory.
October 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
We are moving from high-effort "artisanal" virtual influencers to mass-produced, industrialized synthetic humans. These services affect creative professionals in design, writing, and voice acting.
From Human Internet Theory.
From Human Internet Theory.
Feeling nervous before you record? Try this: Press your feet firmly into the floor and your palms down onto your thighs. This "physical anchoring" creates a sense of stability.
October 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Feeling nervous before you record? Try this: Press your feet firmly into the floor and your palms down onto your thighs. This "physical anchoring" creates a sense of stability.