Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Vibecoded + An Update on the Forkiverse

Casey, did you hear about the new, vehicle that stole the show at CES this year? What vehicle is that? Well, it's from our good friend, will. I. Am, of the Black Eyed Peas Oh, yeah. Who we interviewed once in a very I would describe as a psychedelic experience. Absolute fever dream of a day. Well, he is out with a new electric AI powered brain on wheels. It is essentially an electric tricycle. It's called Trinity, and it looks insane. Can I show you this? See this. Okay. Oh my goodness. This looks like the head of the xenomorph in Alien has been decapitated and has had wheels attached to it. Yes. Yes. It looks insane. It's like a three wheeled electric sort of scooter with a top over it. Very sleek, very aerodynamic. I personally would love to die in one of these. Yeah. I would love to just be absolutely demolished by an 18 wheeler in one of these. This actually does like, just looking at this, this does seem to me like it would be will. I. Am's favorite mode of transportation. Like, I can just imagine him. It's like time to take the kids to school, and he's like, get in this thing, guys. We're gonna be 2,000 and late. That's a Black Eyed Peas joke. Let's get this party started. I'm Kevin Roose, a tech columnist at the New York Times. I'm Casey Newton from Platformer. And this is hard work. This week, Generation author Jonathan Haidt returns to the show with new research on how social media is harming teens. Then we asked you for your Claude Code experiments, and you blew us away. We'll share some of our favorites. And finally, it's a trip to the. Thousands of you have now joined our Fediverse experiment, and search engine host PJ Vogt is here to talk about what we've learned so far, such as Vladimir Putin? He's a problem. Not a good guy. Well, Keith, we got a big show this week. Lots to talk about, but let's start with social media because there's been a lot happening in that world. Yeah. You know, last week, we talked about the, notification, scandal over at Grok, and there's been a bunch more news about that this week. The US Senate, managed to pass a bill on Tuesday that would allow victims of these sorts of nonconsensual sexually explicit images to sue, over, you know, the the creation of those images. Yeah. And Grok also rolled back its image generation feature for free users. You now have to be a paid user to Grok to notify people against their consent. Commit a crime. That's a premium feature now. Okay? That's gonna be behind the paywall. Yes. So they are not, rolling that back fully, of course, because it is generating a huge amount of engagement for them, but they do seem to acknowledge that some people were taking it too far. That's right, Kevin. …