IM 859: What's Behind the Fox? - Tech's Gilded Age
Intelligent Machines (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.2 • 895 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 185 minutes
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Summary
What happens when the creator of Stack Overflow decides he's going to take on rural poverty with a guaranteed minimum income—and bankrolls it himself? Find out why Jeff Atwood believes AI and philanthropy might matter more to the American dream than any new software ever could.
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Paris Martineau
Guest: Jeff Atwood
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for intelligent machines. Jeff and Paris are here. Yay! Paris is back and we have an amazing guest. |
| 0:07.2 | Jeff Atwood is the creator of Stack Exchange. He created discourse, the forum software use, |
| 0:13.2 | and now he wants to give universal income to people in poor counties around the country. |
| 0:19.2 | What does Jeff Atwood think about everything coming up next on Intelligent Machines? |
| 0:27.6 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:29.4 | From people you trust. |
| 0:31.9 | This is Twit. |
| 0:35.9 | This is Intelligent Machines with Jeff Jarvis and Paris Martino. |
| 0:40.4 | Episode 859, recorded Wednesday, February 25th, 2026. |
| 0:46.5 | What's behind the Fox? |
| 0:48.9 | It's time for Intelligent Machines, the show we cover AI robotics |
| 0:52.5 | and all the smart little doodads surrounding us in every |
| 0:56.9 | part of our lives it is time for me to welcome back to our microphones uh the person we missed the most |
| 1:02.8 | last week paris martineau how are you feeling you're feeling well i'm feeling great i'm a sensibly healthy |
| 1:09.7 | i'm snowed in but my stress levels are rising because this |
| 1:14.3 | pre-show has been a whirlwind. And this is why you need to get in club to it because you need to see what |
| 1:20.1 | just happened here. I can't wait to get to our guest. If you invite me on, understand what you're asking |
| 1:24.2 | for. I mean, I'm with a giant angel's ass. You know, he might, you know, okay, let me introduce my other partner in crime here. Jeff Jarvis, professor, journalism emeritus at the City University of New York with his, he's... All right, daredevil. Yes, he is daredevil. Journalism is, I mean, journalism is. He was, yes, that's right. He is now at, uh, adjunct something |
| 1:45.7 | or other at Montclair State University in beautiful New Jersey and, uh, Sunni-Stonebrook in |
| 1:51.5 | beautiful New York. Author of the Goodberg. I haven't got a massive new respect for lawyers. Yes, |
| 1:56.7 | he's a professor. And start our guest, ladies and gentlemen, is a bundle of energy and I am thrilled to get him on the wonderful legendary Jeff Atwood blogger. |
| 2:08.6 | His famous blog, coding horror, is one of the very best coding blogs out there. |
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