The other day, my friend Kyle is out in the suburbs here in the Bay Area, and he's like in a parking lot, and he sees a car, happen to be a Tesla, and he notices the license plate. And do you know what the license plate said? What did it say? The license plate was hard fork. No. So Kyle listens to the show the show and for whatever reason assumed that this must

have been your car wow and so he walked up to the the sort of uh you know passengers side window

which was down and he says to the man uh the wheel, oh, hey, do you know Casey?

Because he assumes this is you. And the man looks at him and is like, no. And Kyle, you know,

of course, becomes embarrassed and explains, oh, well, you know, like there's a podcast and, you know,

is my friend host it. And the man looks at him

and says this, this is the second time this has happened.

Wait, that's amazing. Yeah. So whoever is out there driving the Tesla with the hard fork license

plate, uh, we're sorry for're sorry for the fact that you're

just going to be accosted now pretty much every time you, you know, park your vehicle.

You know how people put those bumper stickers on their Teslas that say, like, I bought this

before Elon went crazy? That guy should buy a bumper sticker that says, I bought this before

there was a hard fork podcast. It would solve all his problems.

I'm Kevin Russo. Tech columns at the New York Times.

I'm Casey Noon from Platformer.

And this is Hard Fork.

This week, the drama down under as Australia bans children under 16 from social networks.

Will the rest of the world follow?

Then, blogger Andy Maisley joins us to separate fact from fiction on AI's environmental impact.

And finally, it's our first ever hard fork wrapped.

Wrap it up, Kevin.

Well, Casey, I miss you.

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