‘Hard Fork’ Live, Part 1: Satya Nadella and Cindy Cohn
Hard Fork
The New York Times
4.3 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Hard Fork is brought to you by our Hard Fork Live, 26 sponsors. |
| 0:06.5 | Premier sponsor, IBM, |
| 0:08.5 | Associate sponsors Everpure, Pure Leaf, and the University of Notre Dame, |
| 0:12.7 | and supporting sponsor at Lassian. |
| 0:16.2 | Music Well, Casey, we got a special treat on the show this week. We are going to be playing some excerpt and snippets and featured conversations from Hard Fork Live. |
| 0:47.0 | That's right, Kevin. We just had the second installment of our annual live show. It was an incredible time, and we're so excited to share highlights of it with our listeners. |
| 0:57.5 | Yes, it was so great to hang out with listeners and also welcome some very special guests. |
| 1:03.1 | We'll be bringing those conversations to our listeners and viewers in this feed over the next two weeks. |
| 1:09.1 | Today, we're going to share three conversations with you. |
| 1:11.5 | The first is with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. |
| 1:15.3 | The second is with Phil Mohan, |
| 1:17.1 | who is the wrangler of these sort of robot dogs |
| 1:20.7 | that you may have heard about. |
| 1:22.2 | These are a project conceived of by the artist Beeple. They have these robot dogs with Elon Musk's face and Mark Zuckerberg's |
| 1:31.3 | face on them. They're very funny and entertaining. We brought them out on the stage during Hard Fork |
| 1:35.6 | Live for the Open, and we'll talk with him about that project and what he's trying to accomplish there. |
| 1:41.5 | And then we're going to talk with Cindy Cohn, the outgoing executive |
| 1:44.8 | director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a longtime activist on internet and privacy-related |
| 1:51.6 | issues. Yeah, absolutely great lineups and fascinating conversations, and we hope you enjoy them. I'm Kevin Rusa Tech columnist from the New York Times. |
| 2:16.7 | I'm Casey Newton from Platformer. |
| 2:18.7 | And this is Hartford Live. |
| 2:23.3 | Kevin, what a fine looking bunch of humans this is. |
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