Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse
The Hard Fork podcast returns with Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, to discuss new research reinforcing his argument that social media harms teens, followed by listener experiments with Claude Code and a deep dive into the Forkiverse, their Fediverse experiment.
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