Description

Baratunde Thurston’s made a career of combining tech, comedy, and politics. From launching Comedy Hack Day to his recent role as the Daily Show’s first Supervising Producer for Digital Expansion, he’s found innovative ways to use code as a tool for satire, entertainment, and activism. In part I of our interview, he tells us why he started as a computer science major but ended with a philosophy degree instead, how he sees satirical apps as technology’s art-form, and how projects like Comedy Hack Day bring people together for a unique, and highly entertaining, coding experience.

Show Notes

• NPR Fact Check
• Denial of Service attack
• NY Tech Meetup
• Cultivated Wit
• Black Girls Code
• Comedy Hack Day
• Codeland Conf
• Codeland 2019

Picks

• Luna Malbroux’s “Laughter is the most serious weapon”
• Well Deserved, “A premium marketplace for unused privilege”
• Baratunde's Rails Conf Keynote
• CodeNewbie 103 episode on algorithms
• Harvard CS50
• Comedy Hack Day
• Weapons of Math Destruction
• USDS
• Civic Hall Labs