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Spill, part one (a Little Brother story)

2024-10-0739:21

This week on my podcast, I read part one of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. Doctors smoke. Driving instructors text and drive. Dentists eat sugary snacks before bed. And... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/10/06/spill-part-one-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part one (a Little Brother story)">more </a>

Vigilant (a Little Brother story)

2024-09-2954:59

This week on my podcast, I read “Vigilant“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Nelda Buckman and published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. Kids hate email. Dee got my number from his older brother, who got it from Tina, my sister-in-law,... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/09/29/vigilant-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Vigilant (a Little Brother story)">more </a>

Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster

2024-09-1619:44

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Pluralistic.net column, “Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster” about the way that gamers were sucked into the coalition to defend trusted computing, and how the Crowdstrike disaster has seen them ejected from the coalition by Microsoft: As a class, gamers *hate* digital rights management (DRM), the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/09/15/anti-cheat-gamers-and-the-crowdstrike-disaster/" class="more-link" title="Read Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster">more </a>

Marshmallow Longtermism

2024-09-0820:59

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “Marshmallow Longtermism” a reflection on how conservatives self-mythologize as the standards-bearers for deferred gratification and making hard trade-offs, but are utterly lacking in these traits when it comes to climate change and inequality. I’m no fan of Charles Koch, but I agree that... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/09/08/marshmallow-longtermism/" class="more-link" title="Read Marshmallow Longtermism">more </a>

AI’s productivity theater

2024-08-0420:26

This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe mismatch between the bosses who buy AI to increase their workers’ efficiency, and the utter bafflement of the workers who are expected to use the AI…somehow. A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/08/04/ais-productivity-theater/" class="more-link" title="Read AI’s productivity theater">more </a>

Unpersoned

2024-07-2918:211

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, Unpersoned>; about the enormous power that we’ve given to tech giants to determine who can participate in modern life, and why the answer to the giants’ failure to wield that power wisely is to take it away, rather than attempting to perfect their... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/07/29/unpersoned/" class="more-link" title="Read Unpersoned">more </a>

The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you

2024-06-3026:011

This week on my podcast, I read The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you, a column from one of last week’s editions of my Pluralistic newsletter; it describes a monopoly pattern whereby companies execute a series of mergers to dominate a sector, leaving... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/30/the-reason-you-cant-buy-a-car-is-the-same-reason-that-your-health-insurer-let-hackers-dox-you/" class="more-link" title="Read The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you">more </a>

My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk

2024-06-1756:57

This week on my podcast, I read my Microsoft DRM talk, first delivered 20 years and one day ago in Redmond, Washington. It was a viral hit in the nascent blogosphere and became a defining document in the fight against DRM. Greetings fellow pirates! Arrrrr! I’m here today to talk to you about copyright, technology... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/16/my-2004-microsoft-drm-talk/" class="more-link" title="Read My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk">more </a>

Against Lore

2024-06-0217:44

This week on my podcast, I read Against Lore, a recent piece from my Pluralistic blog/newsletter, about writing and the benefits of nebulously defined backstories. Warning: the last few minutes of this essay contain spoilers for Furiosa. In the recording, I give lots of warning so you can switch off when they come up. One... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/02/against-lore/" class="more-link" title="Read Against Lore">more </a>

Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230

2024-05-2612:31

Today for my podcast, I read Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230, my EFF Deeplinks Blog post on the competition aspects of sunsetting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: In an age of resurgent anti-monopoly activism, small online communities, either standing on their own, or joined in loose “federations,” are... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/05/26/wanna-make-big-tech-monopolies-even-worse-kill-section-230/" class="more-link" title="Read Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230">more </a>

No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story

2024-05-1915:39

No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story Today for my podcast, I read No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story , my latest Locus Magazine column, about the microfoundations of enshittification: Therein lies the tale. The same people, running the same companies, are all suddenly behaving very differently. They haven’t all... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/05/19/no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/" class="more-link" title="Read No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story">more </a>

Precaratize Bosses

2024-04-2818:421

Today 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 Policy Alternatives, then in Calgary... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/04/28/precaratize-bosses/" class="more-link" title="Read Precaratize Bosses">more </a>

Capitalists Hate Capitalism

2024-04-1523:41

Today 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 new techno crime-thriller, The... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/04/14/capitalists-hate-capitalism/" class="more-link" title="Read Capitalists Hate Capitalism">more </a>

Subprime gadgets

2024-04-0120:12

Today 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, Rhode Island, then onto... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/03/31/subprime-gadgets/" class="more-link" title="Read Subprime gadgets">more </a>

The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship

2024-02-2517:26

Today 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 (I’m out with my new techno crime-thriller,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/02/25/the-majority-of-censorship-is-self-censorship/" class="more-link" title="Read The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship">more </a>

How I Got Scammed

2024-02-1821:381

Today 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,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/02/18/how-i-got-scammed/" class="more-link" title="Read How I Got Scammed">more </a>

My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference

2024-02-0550:45

Last 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.... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/02/05/my-marshall-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-from-berlins-transmediale-conference/" class="more-link" title="Read My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference">more </a>

What kind of bubble is AI?

2024-01-2118:17

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/01/21/what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/" class="more-link" title="Read What kind of bubble is AI?">more </a>

The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)

2024-01-1501:10:00

This 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

2023-12-1714:30

This 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, because I’m in the industry. But unless... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/12/17/the-internets-original-sin/" class="more-link" title="Read The Internet’s Original Sin">more </a>

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