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Listen to this. This week, I checked my credit card bill — normally, a pretty boring process in my life — and I see a number that astonishes me in its size and gravity. And so the first thing I think is, how much DoorDash is it possible to eat in one month? Have I hit some new level of depravity?
But then I find — I go through the statement, and I find a charge that is from the heating and plumbing company that I used to use when I lived in the home of Kara Swisher. Kara Swisher, of course, the iconic technology journalist, friend, and mentor, originator of the very podcast feed that we’re on today.
And former landlord of me. And when I investigated, it turned out that Kara Swisher had charged my credit card for $18,000.
For what? What costs $18,000?
I don’t know what is going on, but it costs $18,000 to fix. And until I made a few phone calls yesterday, that was going to be my problem. So here’s what I want to say to the people of America. You need to watch these landlords. You might think that you’re out from underneath their thumb, but they will still come for you and they will put $18,000 on your credit card if you do not watch them.
Now, this is slightly terrifying to me, the idea that Kara has access to your credit card in some way, shape, or form.
Well, and I should say, basically, it was on file with the heating and plumbing company. So I’m not sure that I can actually blame Kara for this, but I did have to talk to her about it.
Oh, she’s crafty. I think she knew what she was doing.
She’s been waiting to get back at us like this for a long time. And mission accomplished, Kara.
I’m Kevin Roose, a tech columnist at “The New York Times“.
I’m Casey Newton from Platformer. And this is “Hard Fork“. This week, the group chat that’s rocking the government. We’ll tell you why the government turned to Signal for planning military operations and why it’s probably not a great idea.
Then podcaster Dwarkesh Patel stops by to discuss his new book and tell us why he still believes AI will benefit all of us in the end. And finally, we asked you if AI was making you dumber. It’s time to share what you all told us.
Yes. What I would say, Kevin, is the group chats are popping off at the highest levels of government.
Yes. And if you have been hiding under a rock or on a silent meditation retreat or something for the last few days, let’s just quickly catch you up on what has been going on.
So on Monday, “The Atlantic“, and specifically Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of “The Atlantic“, published an article titled, “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans“…
I feel smarter already. [CHUCKLES]
I think that’s the most important question.
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