Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
192 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsCory Doctorow's Literary Works
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The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis
April 03, 2022 23:23 - 19 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy. MP3
The Byzantine Premium
March 27, 2022 23:11 - 11 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Byzantine Premium, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy. (Image: Jakub-gdPL and FAMartin, CC BY-SA 4.0; Delwar Hossain, BD, CC BY 4.0; Jernej Furman, CC BY 2.0; modified) MP3
What is “Peak Indifference?”
March 21, 2022 12:32 - 9 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, What is “Peak Indifference?” in which I explain my theory of how we change – or fail to change – in the face of wicked problems. (Image: Cameron Strandberg/CC BY 2.0, modified) MP3
Vertically Challenged
March 13, 2022 20:40 - 15 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Vertically Challenged, about “how and why to break up Big Tech.” MP3 (Image: Anthony Quintano; CC BY 2.0, modified; Paramount/Star Trek, modified)
All (Broadband) Politics Are Local
March 07, 2022 00:09 - 14 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, All (Broadband) Politics Are Local, about the near-miraculous shift in the political will to provide universal fiber to all Americans, and what you can do to spur this process on. MP3
We Should Not Endure a King
February 27, 2022 22:44 - 17 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one, addressed to leftists who are skeptical of antitrust as a market-based solution that implictly accepts markets as the legitimate arbiter of our social relations. MP3
The Internet Heist (Part III)
February 21, 2022 15:18 - 17 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part III), the third and final part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology. MP3
The Internet Heist (Part II)
February 13, 2022 21:57 - 23 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part II), the second part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology. MP3
The Internet Heist (Part I)
February 07, 2022 15:47 - 25 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part I), the first part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology. MP3
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
January 31, 2022 05:18 - 40 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator about my experience with Pixsy, a new kind of copyright troll that targets Creative Commons users. MP3 Image: Nenad Stojkovic (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand_on_the_computer_mouse_-_50202556601.jpg CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature
January 10, 2022 15:51 - 14 minutesThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature about the technological critique the Luddites embodied, the unfair rep they got, and how it applies to today’s tech hellscape. MP3
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2021 Edition
December 23, 2021 15:18When my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holidays, leaving us with a childcare problem. Since I worked for myself, I took the day off and brought her to my office, where we recorded a short podcast,... more
Give Me Slack
December 06, 2021 18:38This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Give Me Slack about the many second (and third, and fourth) chances I got as a kid and a student, and how the educational and work system has put paid to them. MP3
Jam To-Day
November 22, 2021 00:56This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Jam To-Day, about how interoperability is unique among competition remedies in that it does good from day one. (Image: Oleg Sidorenko, CC BY 2.0, modified) MP3
The Unimaginable
November 15, 2021 17:44This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, The Unimaginable, about science fiction, Thatcherism, and imagining a transition to a post-climate-emergency future. MP3
Against the great forces of history
October 25, 2021 11:38This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Against the great forces of history, about what Ada Palmer’s University of Chicago Papal election LARP can teach us about our own future. MP3
Dead Letters
October 17, 2021 22:54 - 25.8 MBThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Dead Letters, about the spam wars and they way they’ve led to a corporate enclosure of email, making it nearly impossible to run an independent, standalone newsletter. MP3
Hope, Not Optimism
October 11, 2021 00:54This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Hope, Not Optimism, articulating a theory of political change that draws on technology, law, social movements and commercial pressure. MP3
Take It Back
October 03, 2021 21:28This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Take It Back,” on the relationship between copyright reversion, bargaining power, and authors’ rights. MP3
Breaking In (fixed)
September 27, 2021 02:41This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Breaking In, on the futility of seeking career advice from established pros who haven’t had to submit over the transom in 20 years, where you should get career advice, and what more established writers can do for writers who are just starting out. MP3
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility and Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs
August 30, 2021 14:14This week on my podcast, I read a pair of editorials I published on EFF’s Deeplinks blog: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Platforms Want To Be Utilities, Self-Govern Like Empires and Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs, both about antitrust and Big Tech. MP3
Disneyland at a stroll
August 22, 2021 20:36This week on my podcast, I read Expectations management, and Disneyland at a stroll, parts five and six of my ongoing Medium series on “amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing,” on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney theme parks. Part I: Are We Having... more
Managing Aggregate Demand
August 08, 2021 19:02This week on my podcast, I read Managing aggregate demand, part four of my ongoing Medium series on “amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing,” on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney theme parks. Part I: Are We Having Fun Yet? Part II: Boredom and... more
Are We Having Fun Yet?
August 02, 2021 17:06This week on my podcast, I read the first three installments in my ongoing Medium series on “amusement parks, crowd control, and load-balancing,” on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney theme parks. Part I: Are We Having Fun Yet? Part II: Boredom and its... more
Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability
July 12, 2021 12:31This week on my podcast, my latest Locus column, Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability, about the true purpose of fighting monopolies – not competition, nor interoperability, but rather, human freedom. (Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/99783447@N07/9433864982/, CC BY, modified) MP3
Self Publishing
July 05, 2021 14:02This week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, Self Publishing, about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it. MP3
Qualia
June 28, 2021 12:54This week on my podcast, my May 2021 Locus Magazine column, Qualia, about the illusory “fairness” of a politics that turns on “objective” qualities. Image: OpenStax Chemistry: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figure_24_01_03.jpg CC BY: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en MP3
Inside The Clock Tower
June 21, 2021 12:48This week on my podcast, my latest short story, Inside the Clock Tower, science fiction for Consumer Reports that paints a picture of how tech platforms might work if the ACCESS Act passes and the big companies have to allow others to interoperate with them. MP3
The Rent’s Too Damned High
June 14, 2021 03:03This week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, The Rent’s Too Damned High, about the long con of convincing Americans that they will grow prosperous through housing wealth, not labor rights. MP3
I Quit
June 07, 2021 14:14This week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, I Quit: Peak indifference, big tobacco, disinformation and death, on the connection between smoking cessation, monopoly, corruption, the climate emergency, and the denial epidemic. MP3
The Memex Method
May 23, 2021 23:52This week on my podcast, my inaugural column for Medium, The Memex Method, a reflection on 20 years of blogging, and how it has affected my writing. MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 07)
May 17, 2021 12:52This week on my podcast, the conclusion to my seven-part serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 06)
May 10, 2021 13:12This week on my podcast, part six of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 05)
May 03, 2021 02:54 - 54.1 MBThis week on my podcast, part five of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 04)
April 26, 2021 13:56This week on my podcast, part four of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 03)
April 19, 2021 13:27This week on my podcast, part three of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 02)
April 12, 2021 14:49This week on my podcast, part two of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 01)
April 05, 2021 15:55This week on my podcast, part one of a serialized reading of my 2020 Onezero/Medium book How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, now available in paperback (you can also order signed and personalized copies from Dark Delicacies, my local bookstore). MP3
Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results
March 29, 2021 00:45This week on my podcast, I read my November 2020 Locus column, Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results, a critical piece on machine learning and artificial intelligence that takes aim at the fallacy that improvements to statistical inference will someday produce a conscious, cognitive software construct. It’s a followup to my July 2020... more
Free Markets
March 22, 2021 12:09This week on my podcast, I read my lastest Locus column, Free Markets, a postmortem of sorts on the delivery issues with my record-breaking audiobook Kickstarter for Attack Surface, the third Little Brother book. MP3
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 3)
February 28, 2021 21:44This week on my podcast, the third and final part of “Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,” a major new EFF paper by my colleague Bennett Cyphers and me. It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and the demand... more
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 2)
February 22, 2021 15:15This week on my podcast, Part Two of “Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,” a major new EFF paper by my colleague Bennett Cyphers and me. It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and the demand that platforms allow... more
Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 1)
February 15, 2021 17:16This week on my podcast, Part One of “Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability,” a major new EFF paper by my colleague Bennett Cyphers and me. It’s a paper that tries to resolve the tension between demanding that tech platforms gather, retain and mine less of our data, and the demand that platforms allow... more
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 31 – CONCLUSION)
February 08, 2021 00:27Here’s part thirty-one, the conclusion of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone... more
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 30)
February 01, 2021 02:13Here’s part thirty of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to... more
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 29)
January 25, 2021 15:47Here’s part twenty-nine of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to... more
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 28)
January 18, 2021 16:49Here’s part twenty-eight of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to... more
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 27)
January 11, 2021 19:32Here’s part twenty-seven of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to... more
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 26)
December 14, 2020 16:50Here’s part twenty-six of my new reading of my novel Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (you can follow all the installments, as well as the reading I did in 2008/9, here). This is easily the weirdest novel I ever wrote. Gene Wolfe (RIP) gave me an amazing quote for it: “Someone Comes to... more
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2020 Edition
December 11, 2020 14:51When my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holidays, leaving us with a childcare problem. Since I worked for myself, I took the day off and brought her to my office, where we recorded a short podcast,... more