The 10 Best Hard Fork Podcast Episodes
1) If You Were on Parler, You Saw the Mob Coming
Update: Jan. 11, 2020 Parler went offline Monday after Amazon stopped providing it with web-hosting services. This followed Apple and Google’s removal of Parler’s app from their app stores. In notice...Show More
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Wondering what’s Parler? A hard knock interview with Kara Swisher and their CEO. Their jury method of reviewing questionable content is inte...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.2) Jon Stewart on Why the Right Would ‘Rather Do a Deal With Putin than Pelosi’
As he wages a war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is finding strange allies on U.S. soil — from former President Donald Trump to the Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Jon Stewart wasn’t surprised. The Dai...Show More
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I'm becoming a big fan of Jon Stewart
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.3) A.I. Vibe Check With Ezra Klein + Kevin Tries Phone Positivity
The New York Times Opinion columnist Ezra Klein has spent years talking to artificial intelligence researchers. Many of them feel the prospect of A.I. discovery is too sweet to ignore, regardless of t...Show More
4) A Black and Asian Female V.P. Doesn’t Mean We’ve Escaped Caste
At the inauguration on Wednesday, Kamala Harris became vice president — the nation’s first Black person, the first Asian person and the first woman to do so — and President Biden spoke of “a cry for r...Show More
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Fascinating discussion about caste and how the caste system is in the US and was in the Hitler's Germany. Also interesting conversation abou...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5) Food Delivery Is Keeping Uber Alive. Will It Kill Restaurants?
Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, is charging toward a world in which food is delivered through apps like Uber Eats and “a driver may be human or may be software.” On the way, he acknowledges...Show More
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Good interview with the CEO of Uber. One thing he said: if Amazon can be associated with next day, Uber wants to be associated with next ho...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) The Site Trump Could Run to Next
Facebook and Twitter have kicked Donald Trump off their platforms and Amazon Web Services removed Parler from its cloud. But there’s another popular platform that markets itself as the destination for...Show More
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Substack is the new media tech darling that doesn’t like to call itself a media company. Better to have hard questions from Kara early on be...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.7) X Gets a Brazilian Ax + Founder Mode + Listeners Respond on School Phone Bans
“This is not a normal legal dispute.”
8) Alison Roman Answers Your Hard Questions
Answers to your moral quandaries, ethical dilemmas and etiquette questions about technology.
9) How Online Sleuths Pantsed Putin
It turns out you can use a prank call to expose suspected poisoners, mole patterns to identify a violent demonstrator at a white nationalist rally and online videos to reveal a weapons-smuggling opera...Show More
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Rabble-rousing using open data against Putin of all people!
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.10) What if the ‘Karate Kid’ Isn’t the Hero?
The “Karate Kid” was a hero of the 1980s. Now he’s back, with the actor Ralph Macchio reprising the role for the series “Cobra Kai.” The story is ostensibly a classic battle between a hero and a villa...Show More
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Kara Swisher is a curmudgeon, albeit a badass one. She is a hard-nosed journalist who asks the tough questions. We saw a different side of h...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.