This week we’re taking another look at prediction markets and a new series of scandals. Is Congress finally ready to rein them in? Then, the journalist Joanna Stern returns to the show to discuss her new book “I Am Not A Robot [https://joannastern.com],” all about turning her life over to a chatbot for a year. And finally, Hard Fork’s Rachel Cohn reports back on her month attending classes at the Strother School of Radical Attention [https://www.schoolofattention.org/], the center of a movement to resist the commodification of attention by technology companies.   Guests:  * Joanna Stern, chief everything officer at New Things [https://thenewthings.com] * Rachel Cohn [https://www.nytimes.com/by/rachel-cohn], producer of “Hard Fork”   Additional Reading: * Soldier Used Classified Information to Bet on Maduro’s Ouster, U.S. Says [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/nyregion/polymarket-maduro-indictment-soldier.html] * Soldier Pleads Not Guilty in $400,000 Betting Case Over Maduro’s Ouster [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/nyregion/polymarket-special-forces-maduro-bets.html] * French weather service alerts police to tampering after suspicious Polymarket bets [https://www.ft.com/content/89be7df3-b7b8-4b4a-8b88-e24e877b439d?syn-25a6b1a6=1] * The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Battle for Your Attention Is Built on a Lie [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/opinion/attention-world-war-2-technology-nazis.html]   We want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com. Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/hardfork] and TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@hardfork]. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts [http://nytimes.com/podcasts] or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher [https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher]. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com [https://pcm.adswizz.com] for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.