The Contrafabulists Podcast

Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and politics of technology) news. In this episode, we talk about the repetitiveness of tech news (and how frustrating it is that we are always repeating ourselves). Here are the stories we referenced: "$200...

Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and politics of technology) news. In this episode, we talk about automated decision-making at GitHub (that took Kin's sites offline briefly yesterday) and Facebook's automated decision making regarding its advertising (that has apparently taken...

Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and politics of technology) news. (Apologies for the sound quality. We are in New York without our normal recording set-up. And apologies for the two f-bombs.) In this episode, we talk about fake news...

Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and politics of technology) news. (Apologies for the sound quality. We are in New York without our normal recording set-up. Also, apologies for the length. We do normally try to keep this to 30...

Welcome to the Contrafabulists podcast, Kin Lane and Audrey Watters' weekly discussion of the latest technology (and politics of technology) news. In this episode, we talk about the tech industry's response to Charlottesville and the future of "free speech" online. Here are the companies (and stories) we referenced: AirBnB cancels...