Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/08/22/disneyland-at-a-stroll/" class="more-link" title="Read Disneyland at a stroll">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/08/08/managing-aggregate-demand/" class="more-link" title="Read Managing Aggregate Demand">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2021/08/02/are-we-having-fun-yet/" class="more-link" title="Read Are We Having Fun Yet?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This 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

This week on my podcast, my latest Medium column, Self Publishing, about the consolidation in publishing and what to do about it. MP3

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/03/28/past-performance-is-not-indicative-of-future-results/" class="more-link" title="Read Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This 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

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/02/28/privacy-without-monopoly-data-protection-and-interoperability-part-3/" class="more-link" title="Read Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 3)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/02/22/privacy-without-monopoly-data-protection-and-interoperability-part-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 2)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/02/15/privacy-without-monopoly-data-protection-and-interoperability-part-1/" class="more-link" title="Read Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 1)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/02/07/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-31-conclusion/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 31 – CONCLUSION)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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... <a href="https://craphound.com/articles/2021/01/31/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-30/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 30)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/01/25/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-29/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 29)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/01/18/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-28/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 28)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2021/01/11/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-27/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 27)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’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... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2020/12/14/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-26/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 26)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

When 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,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2020/12/11/daddy-daughter-podcast-2020-edition/" class="more-link" title="Read Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2020 Edition">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part twenty-five 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/12/07/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-25/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 25)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Tech in SF” hosted by Interabang Books in Dallas, TX, with guest-hosts Annalee Newitz and Ken Liu.... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/25/the-attack-surface-lectures-tech-in-sf/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Tech in SF">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

How to Fix the Internet is EFF’s amazing new podcast: nuanced discussions of tech law and ethics with incredible experts, interviewed and contextualized by EFF executive director Cindy Cohn and strategy director Danny O’Brien. https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/13/said-no-one-ever/#fix-it I devoured the first three episodes. I mean, I started working with EFF nearly 19 years ago (!) but I... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/11/24/talking-interop-on-effs-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking interop on EFF’s podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Sci-Fi Genre” hosted by Fountain Books in Richmond, VA, with guest-hosts Sarah Gailey and Chuck Wendig. It... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/24/the-attack-surface-lectures-sci-fi-genre/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Sci-Fi Genre">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part twenty-four 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/11/23/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-24/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 24)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “OpSec & Personal Cyber-Security: How Can You Be Safe?” hosted by Third Place Books in Seattle, WA,... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/23/the-attack-surface-lectures-opsec-and-personal-cyber-security/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Opsec and Personal Cyber-Security">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Little Revolutions,” hosted by Skylight Books in Los Angeles, with guest-hosts Tochi Onyebuchi and Bethany C. Morrow.... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2020/11/20/the-attack-surface-lectures-little-revolutions/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Little Revolutions">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in Cory Doctorow’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Cyberpunk and Post-Cyberpunk,” hosted by Anderson’s Books in Naperville, IL, with guest-hosts Bruce Sterling and Christopher... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/19/the-attack-surface-lectures-cyberpunk-and-post-cyberpunk/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Cyberpunk and Post Cyberpunk">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “​​Intersectionality: Race, Surveillance, and Tech and Its History,” hosted by The Booksmith in San Francisco, with guest-hosts... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/18/the-attack-surface-lectures-intersectionality-race-surveillance-and-tech-and-its-history/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Intersectionality: Race, Surveillance, and Tech and Its History">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Cross-Media Sci Fi” hosted by the Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, MA, with guest-hosts John Rogers and Amber... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/17/the-attack-surface-lectures-cross-media-sci-fi/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Cross-Media Sci-Fi">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

The Attack Surface Lectures were a series of eight panel discussions on the themes in my’s novel Attack Surface, each hosted by a different bookstore and each accompanied by a different pair of guest speakers. This program is “Politics and Protest,” hosted by The Strand in NYC, with guest-hosts Eva Galperin and Ron Deibert. It... <a href="https://craphound.com/attacksurface/2020/11/16/the-attack-surface-lectures-politics-and-protest-fixed/" class="more-link" title="Read The Attack Surface Lectures: Politics and Protest (fixed)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part twenty-three 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/11/16/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-23/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 23)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Here’s part twenty-two 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... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/11/08/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town-part-22/" class="more-link" title="Read Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (part 22)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>