In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTV

Wherein Elaine Godfrey of The Atlantic shows up to interview me about Matt Gaetz, and Kate Klonick and I talk through her thoughts on what Trump's tech policy is likely to look like given his extraordinarily conflicting statements and interests related to the subject.

Wherein we are joined by Scott Shapiro, who agonizes about whom to vote for, and Sarah Longwell, who conducts a focus group with him.

Wherein the estimable Pete Strzok dons a dog shirt and discusses the counterintelligence implications of a former president having serial conversations with Vladimir Putin.

Wherein we are joined by Windsor Mann, with whom I look for the bright side of a possible Trump win. Spoiler alert: We find none.

Wherein Anastasiia Lapatina and I shoot the shit over morning coffee and afternoon wine--and Ava makes it very hard for Nastya to talk.

Wherein former Rep. Tom Malinowski joins me to discuss his efforts to win Polish- and Ukrainian-American voters over to Kamala Harris's side, the resistance to this message among a traditional GOP constituency, and his anxieties about our politics more generally and social media, in particular.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Dave Willner, who helped build the content moderation system at Meta, who talks me through how and why Facebook has squelched my open letter to former Russian Ambassador Anatoly Antonov, and why my appeal has fallen into a black hole--and how his scheme of using large language models to scale content moderation might do a better job.

Wherein I am joined by the estimable Jordan Ellenberg, whose daytime cover is as a math professor at the University of Wisconsin, but who secretly controls the weather.