Latest Doctorow Podcast Episodes
Precaratize Bosses
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 28, 2024 21:00 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsToday for my podcast, I read Precaratize Bosses, a recent essay from my Pluralistic.net newsletter. I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me this Thursday (May 2) in Winnipeg with the Canadian Centre for Pol...
Capitalists Hate Capitalism
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 15, 2024 02:06 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsToday for my podcast, I read Capitalists Hate Capitalism, my latest column from Locus Magazine. It’s a meditation on the difference between feudalism and capitalism, and how to know which one you’re living under. I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my ne...
Subprime gadgets
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 01, 2024 00:14 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsToday for my podcast, I read Subprime gadgets, originally published in my Pluralistic blog: I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller, The Bezzle). Catch me on April 11 in Boston with Randall Munroe, on April 12th in Providence, Rh...
The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 25, 2024 16:24 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsToday for my podcast, I read The majority of censorship is self-censorship, originally published in my Pluralistic blog. It’s a breakdown of Ada Palmer’s excellent Reactor essay about the modern and historical context of censorship. I recorded this on a day when I was home between book-tour stops...
How I Got Scammed
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 18, 2024 15:11 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsToday for my podcast, I read How I Got Scammed, originally published in my Pluralistic blog. It’s a story of how the attacker has to get lucky once, while the defender has to never make a single mistake. This is my last podcast before I take off for my next book-tour, for my new novel,... more
My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 05, 2024 13:22 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsLast week, I traveled to Berlin to give the annual Marshall McLuhan lecture to open the Transmediale festival. I gave the talk to a full house at the Canadian embassy, and the embassy was kind enough to upload their video of the speech. This podcast is a rip of the audio from that Youtube video.....
What kind of bubble is AI?
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - January 21, 2024 20:46 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column. “What kind of bubble is AI?” In it, I ask what will be left behind after the AI bubble bursts: You’ve got one week left to back the Kickstarter for my next novel, The Bezzle, the followup to Red Team Blues. I’m preselling... more
The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - January 15, 2024 02:34 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, a preview of Wil Wheaton’s reading on the audiobook of The Bezzle, which I’m preselling through a Kickstarter campaign that I hope you’ll consider backing! MP3
The Internet’s Original Sin
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - December 17, 2023 19:38 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my final Medium column The internet’s original sin, about the failure of trying to stretch copyright to cover every problem on the internet. Copyright is a regulation. It regulates the supply-chain of the entertainment industry. Copyright matters a lot to me, becau...
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - December 10, 2023 20:21 ★★★★★ - 74 ratings12 years ago, my four-year-old daughter’s nursery school let us know they’d be shutting down for Christmas a day before my wife’s office closed down, so I took the kid into my office in London to do some coloring, play with toys, and, eventually, record a podcast. It was hilarious. In the years s...
Don’t Be Evil
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - December 03, 2023 17:59 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my Locus Magazine column “Don’t Be Evil,” about the microeconomics and moral injury of enshittification. It’s tempting to think of the Great Enshittening – in which all the internet services we enjoyed and came to rely upon became suddenly and irreversibly terribl...
Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - November 12, 2023 18:03 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my short story “Moral Hazard,” published last month in MIT Press’s Communications Breakdown, a science fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan. “Moral Hazard” is a story about inequality, fintech, and the problems of “solutionism.” I know exactly where I was t...
The Canadian Miracle, Part 2
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - November 06, 2023 02:59 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read the second and final part of my short story, “The Canadian Miracle,” a story set in the world of my forthcoming pre-apocalyptic Green New Deal novel, The Lost Cause, which comes out on November 14. Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. ...
The Canadian Miracle, Part 1
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - November 01, 2023 13:18 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read part one of my short story, “The Canadian Miracle,” a story set in the world of my forthcoming pre-apocalyptic Green New Deal novel, The Lost Cause, which comes out on November 14. Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. -Fred Rogers, 198...
Microincentives and Enshittification
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - October 23, 2023 21:35 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, “Microincentives and Enshittification” (open access link), about how Google went from being a company whose products were eerily good and whose corporate might was more often on the side of right than wrong, to being a company whose products...
The Lost Cause (excerpt)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - October 12, 2023 14:06 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I present the prologue and first chapter of The Lost Cause, my forthcoming solarpunk novel of Green New Deal world threatened by seagoing anarcho-capitalist billionaire wreckers and their white nationalist militia shock-troops. The book comes out on November 14 from Tor/M...
How To Think About Scraping
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - September 24, 2023 22:47 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “How To Think About Scraping: In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best,” about the real risks (and benefits) of web-scraping, and how to formulate policy responses that preserve those benefits while targeting the harms...
Plausible Sentence Generators
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - September 17, 2023 21:04 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column. “Plausible Sentence Generators,” about my surprising, accidental encounter with a chatbot, and what it says about the future of the bullshit wars. When I came back to the tab a couple minutes later, I found that the site had fed my letter to...
Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 21, 2023 18:39 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet,” clarifying that our aspiration shouldn’t be to restore the internet’s former glory, but to make a new and glorious internet. The enshitternet wasn’t inevitable. It was the...
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - August 01, 2023 21:31 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week’s podcast is a special one: the introduction and chapter one of the audio edition of The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation, which Verso will publish on September 5, 2023. I made my own DRM-free audiobook for this, reading it under the direction of the incredible Gabrie...
Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - July 17, 2023 05:06 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires,” making the case that we should focus more on making it easier for people to leave platforms, rather than making the platforms less terrible places to be. Tech bosses know the...
Ideas Lying Around
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - June 11, 2023 15:40 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “Ideas Lying Around,” about archivillain Milton Friedman’s surprisingly good theory of change, and how to apply it to progressive politics. Enter Friedman: to people reeling in crisis, Friedman insisted that the missing oil was somehow the p...
The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - May 14, 2023 21:58 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my lastest Locus column. “The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point,” about the unlikely – but undeniable – common ground I share with the most unhinged far-right conspiracists. The swivel-eyed loons at the anti-15-minute-city protests point out that such a scheme constit...
How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 17, 2023 11:58 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column. “How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok: Have you tried not spying on kids,” about the bizarre unwillingness of considering a middle-ground between “unregulated TikTok” and “banning TikTok” – namely, prohibiting TikTok from spying on kids. MP3 ...
Red Team Blues: Behind the Scenes with Wil Wheaton
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - April 02, 2023 23:50 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I bring you some clips of Wil Wheaton’s recording sessions for the audiobook of Red Team Blues, my next novel, an anti-finance finance thriller starring the 67 year old forensic accountant Martin Hench, who specializes in high-tech scams. I’m currently kickstarting this a...
Red Team Blues
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 27, 2023 01:38 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read a selection from my next novel, Red Team Blues, an anti-finance finance thriller about Marty Hench, a 67 year old hard-charging forensic accountant who’s seen every finance scam that Silicon Valley has come up with over the previous 40 years. Marty’s ready to retir...
Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - March 19, 2023 20:18 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk, making the Luddite case against bossware and other jobs where your boss is an app. The rise of gig work produced a massive surge of “craft” workers who toiled on their own premises, most notably the dr...
Twiddler
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 27, 2023 17:06 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, Twiddler, which further explores my theory of enshittification, and the factors that make it endemic to digital platforms. The early internet promised more than disintermediation — it also promised endless configurability, where users and t...
Tiktok’s enshittification
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - February 20, 2023 15:12 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my Pluralistic blog post, Tiktok’s enshittification, which sets out a kind of master theory of enshittification, illustrated by Tiktok’s platform dynamics. Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things be...
Social Quitting
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com - January 23, 2023 04:29 ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThis week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, “Social Quitting, about the enshittification lifecycle of social media platforms. But as Facebook and Twitter cemented their dominance, they steadily changed their services to capture more and more of the value that their users generated for...
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