Big Tech's Tariff Chaos + A.I. 2027 + Llama Drama

Hard Fork

The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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“How do we navigate this new uncertain climate?”

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0:00.0	What's it
0:01.4	with you?
0:03.0	Oh, you know, just binge buying
0:05.5	cheap Chinese stuff online
0:08.1	to beat the tariffs.
0:09.5	Making your final Sheehan purchases
0:11.6	before that company shuts down.
0:14.2	Yes, no, I actually did buy a bunch of stuff
0:16.1	over the weekend because I thought this might be my last chance.
0:18.7	Yeah.
0:19.2	Casey, what cheap overseas good are you going to miss most after the tariffs kick in?
0:23.3	Oh, I feel.
0:23.9	The thing, I was never a big, like, oh, I got to go on to Timu and get like a pressure cooker for $6 or whatever.
0:30.4	Like, that was never my journey, but I know that, you know, it's a major pastime for a lot of people.
0:36.1	Yeah.
0:36.5	Yeah.
0:36.8	Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, for me, it's like the ability
0:38.9	to buy cheap crap for my kid has been revolutionary. My kid the other day starts saying the phrase
0:47.2	dinosaur unicorn. And I thought, that's not real. And he says, I want a dinosaur unicorn. And I said, well, that's not a thing.
0:56.1	We can't have that. But then this little, like, bell goes off of my mind that says,
1:00.1	someone's out there has made a dinosaur unicorn something. Almost certainly. My wife finds like
1:05.0	eight different dinosaur unicorn t-shirts and buys one of them. And now he's got this dinosaur
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