291: ‘Algorithms, How Do They Work?’, With Nilay Patel

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Nilay Patel returns to the show to discuss this week’s House antitrust hearing featuring testimony from Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Links:

• Full 5.5-hour video of the hearing.
• Casey Newton at The Verge: “Overdue, messy, and unsatisfying — but also a necessary part of a hugely important conversation”.
• Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and famed character actor M. Emmet Walsh, who was born to play him.
• Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) grilling Jeff Bezos on anti-competitive business practices at Amazon.
• Lina M. Khan: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”. Seminal paper published in The Yale Law Journal in 2017.
• The Verge on the 2010 emails between Phil Schiller, Eddy Cue, and Steve Jobs that set the rules that keep Amazon from selling Kindle books in their iOS app.
• Tim Wu’s The Curse of Bigness.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.