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The Contrafabulists Podcast

A Hack Education & API Evangelist Production

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. 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...

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 discuss the hype around Hyperloop and an anti-diversity manifesto written by a Google engineer. Here are the stories we referenced: Elon Musk Might Be A...