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For my latest podcast, I read my January 2018 Locus column, Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention. The essay proposes that we are be too worried about the seemingly unstoppable power of opinion-manipulators and their new social media superweapons. Not because these techniques don’t work (though when someone who wants to sell... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/02/10/persuasion-adaptation-and-the-arms-race-for-your-attention/" class="more-link" title="Read Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

For my latest podcast, I read my Copyright Week post for EFF’s Deeplinks blog, , In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis. The essay discusses how the “author’s monopoly” of copyright is of less and less use in serving as leverage for dealing with publishers and other parts of the entertainment supply chain.... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/02/05/podcast-in-serving-big-company-interests-copyright-is-in-crisis/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: In Serving Big Company Interests, Copyright Is in Crisis">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

For my latest podcast, I read my Guardian Cities column, “The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states,” which was the last piece ever commissioned for the section. The Guardian commissioned the piece after reading my Toronto Life blurb about how a “smart city” could be focused on enabling its residents, rather than... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/01/27/the-case-for-cities-that-arent-dystopian-surveillance-states/" class="more-link" title="Read The case for … cities that aren’t dystopian surveillance states">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

My 2019 book Radicalized has been named one of the five finalists for Canada Reads, the CBC’s annual book prize — Canada’s leading national book award, alongside of the Governor General’s award! My book was nominated by Akil Augustine, a beloved Canadian sportscaster and storyteller, and he’ll be championing the book through the Canada Reads... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2020/01/22/radicalized-is-a-canada-reads-finalist-will-be-a-graphic-novel-and-is-eligible-for-the-hugo-award/" class="more-link" title="Read Radicalized is a Canada Reads finalist, will be a graphic novel, and is eligible for the Hugo Award!">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my latest Locus column, Inaction is a Form of Action,, where I I discuss how the US government’s unwillingness to enforce its own anti-monopoly laws has resulted in the dominance of a handful of giant tech companies who get to decide what kind of speech is and isn’t... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/01/13/inaction-is-a-form-of-action/" class="more-link" title="Read Inaction is a form of action">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail editorial, Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things, where I reflect on what science fiction can tell us about the 2020s for the Globe‘s end-of-the-decade package; I wrote about how science fiction can’t predict the future, but might... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/01/06/science-fiction-and-the-unforeseeable-future-in-the-2020s-lets-imagine-better-things/" class="more-link" title="Read Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I conclude my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Walkaway in 2017; Party Discipline is a story set in the world of Walkaway, about two high-school seniors who conspire to throw a “Communist Party” at a sheet... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/12/21/party-discipline-a-walkaway-story-part-4/" class="more-link" title="Read Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 4) (the final part!)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Every year, I record a short podcast with my daughter, Poesy. Originally, we’d just sing Christmas carols, but with Poesy being nearly 12, we’ve had a moratorium on singing. This year, I interviewed Poe about her favorite Youtubers, books, apps, and pass-times, as well as her feelings on data-retention (meh) and horses (love ’em). And... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/12/20/my-annual-daddy-daughter-xmas-podcast-interview-with-an-11-year-old/" class="more-link" title="Read My annual Daddy-Daughter Xmas Podcast: interview with an 11-year-old">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I continue my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Walkaway in 2017; Party Discipline is a story set in the world of Walkaway, about two high-school seniors who conspire to throw a “Communist Party” at a sheet... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/12/16/party-discipline-a-walkaway-story-part-3/" class="more-link" title="Read Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 3)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I continue my serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Walkaway in 2017; Party Discipline is a story set in the world of Walkaway, about two high-school seniors who conspire to throw a “Communist Party” at a sheet... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/12/09/party-discipline-a-walkaway-story-part-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 2)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I’ve started a serial reading of my novella Party Discipline, which I wrote while on a 35-city, 45-day tour for my novel Walkaway in 2017; Party Discipline is a story set in the world of Walkaway, about two high-school seniors who conspire to throw a “Communist Party” at a sheet... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/12/02/party-discipline-a-walkaway-story-part-1/" class="more-link" title="Read Party Discipline, a Walkaway story (Part 1)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

We’ve been closely following the plan by Google sister company Sidewalk Labs to build a surveilling “smart city” in Toronto; last week, I sat down with the Out of Left Field podcast (MP3) to discuss what’s going on with Sidewalk Labs, how it fits into the story of Big Tech, and what the alternatives might... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/12/01/talking-with-the-left-field-podcast-about-sidewalk-labss-plan-to-build-a-surveilling-smart-city-in-toronto/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking with the Left Field podcast about Sidewalk Labs’s plan to build a surveilling “smart city” in Toronto">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Earlier this month while I was in San Francisco, I went over to the Y Combinator incubator to record a podcast (MP3); we talked for more than an hour about the history of Adversarial Interoperability and what its role was in creating Silicon Valley and the tech sector and how monopolization now threatens adversarial interop... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/11/27/talking-adversarial-interoperability-with-y-combinator/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking Adversarial Interoperability with Y Combinator">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my May, 2018 Locus column, “The Engagement-Maximization Presidency,” where I propose a theory to explain the political phenomenon of Donald Trump: we live in a world in which communications platforms amplify anything that gets “engagement” and provides feedback on just how much your message has been amplified so... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/11/26/the-engagement-maximization-presidency/" class="more-link" title="Read The Engagement-Maximization Presidency">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Back in 2007, I wrote a science fiction novella called “The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrrow,” about an immortal, transhuman survivor of an apocalypse whose father is obsessed with preserving artifacts from the fallen civilization, especially the Carousel of Progress, an exhibition that GE commissioned from Disney for the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, which... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/11/25/talking-about-disneys-1964-carousel-of-progress-with-bleeding-cool-our-lost-animatronic-future/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking about Disney’s 1964 Carousel of Progress with Bleeding Cool: our lost animatronic future">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my new Locus column, “Jeannette Ng Was Right: John W. Campbell Was a Fascist,“which revisits Jeannette Ng’s Campbell Awards speech from this summer’s World Science Fiction convention. As far as I know, I’m the only person to have won both awards named for Campbell, which, I think, gives... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/11/18/jeannette-ng-was-right-john-w-campbell-was-a-fascist-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Jeannette Ng Was Right: John W. Campbell Was a Fascist">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Séan Connors is a young adult literature researcher at the University of Arkansas, whose podcast, The Storyteller’s Thread, features long-form interviews with young adult writers “on their writing process; on social and political topics that influence their work; on their motivation for writing for young readers: and on other writers and artists whose work challenges... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/11/03/talking-with-the-storytellers-thread-about-ya-literature-activism-and-technological-rebellion/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking with The Storyteller’s Thread about YA literature, activism, and technological rebellion">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my short story “Affordances,” which was commissioned for Slate/ASU’s Future Tense Fiction. it’s a tale exploring my theory of “the shitty technology adoption curve,” in which terrible technological ideas are first imposed on poor and powerless people, and then refined and normalized until they are spread over all... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/10/28/affordances-a-new-science-fiction-story-that-climbs-the-terrible-technology-adoption-curve-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Affordances: a new science fiction story that climbs the terrible technology adoption curve">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Henry Jenkins (previously) is the preeminent scholar of fandom and culture; Colin Maclay is a communications researcher with a background in tech policy; on the latest episode of their “How Do You Like It So Far” podcast (MP3), we had a long discussion about a theory of change based on political work and science fictional... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/10/26/can-we-change-our-politics-with-science-fiction-a-conversation-with-the-how-do-you-like-it-so-far-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Can we change our politics with science fiction? A conversation with the How Do You Like It So Far podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll Sean Carroll is a physicist at JPL and the author of many popular, smart books about physics for a lay audience; his weekly Mindscape podcast is a treasure-trove of incredibly smart, fascinating discussions with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. The latest... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/10/22/talking-science-fiction-technological-self-determination-inequality-and-competition-with-physicist-sean-carroll/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking science fiction, technological self-determination, inequality and competition with physicist Sean Carroll">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my short story “Materiality,” which was commissioned for Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture, a book edited by Edwina Attlee, Phineas Harper and Maria Smith that is part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale. The editors pitched me on writing a story about sustainability and de-financialization in architecture, and... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/10/21/materiality-a-new-science-fiction-story-for-the-oslo-architecture-triennale-about-sustainable-green-abundance/" class="more-link" title="Read Materiality: a new science fiction story for the Oslo Architecture Triennale about sustainable, green abundance">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Green European Journal short story about the terrible European Copyright Directive which passed last March, False Flag. Published in December 2018, the story highlights the ways in which this badly considered law creates unlimited opportunities for abuse, especially censorship by corporations who’ve been embarassed by whistleblowers and... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/10/14/false-flag/" class="more-link" title="Read False Flag">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Last week, the Escape Pod podcast published part one of a reading of my YA novella “Martian Chronicles,” which I wrote for Jonathan Strahan’s Life on Mars anthology: it’s a story about libertarian spacesteaders who move to Mars to escape “whiners” and other undesirables, only to discover that the colonists that preceded them expect them... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/10/11/part-two-of-my-novella-martian-chronicles-on-escape-pod-who-cleans-the-toilets-in-libertopia/" class="more-link" title="Read Part two of my novella “Martian Chronicles” on Escape Pod: who cleans the toilets in libertopia?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail column, Why do people believe the Earth is flat?, which connects the rise of conspiratorial thinking to the rise in actual conspiracies, in which increasingly concentrated industries are able to come up with collective lobbying positions that result in everything from crashing 737s to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/10/07/why-do-people-believe-the-earth-is-flat-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Why do people believe the Earth is flat?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Back in 2011, I wrote a young adult novella called “Martian Chronicles,” which I podcasted as it was in progress; it’s a story about the second wave of wealthy colonists lifting off from climate-wracked, inequality-riven Earth to live in a libertarian utopia on Mars. The story (part of a series of stories that use titles... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/10/04/martian-chronicles-escape-pod-releases-a-reading-of-my-ya-story-about-rich-sociopaths-colonizing-mars/" class="more-link" title="Read “Martian Chronicles”: Escape Pod releases a reading of my YA story about rich sociopaths colonizing Mars">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my new Locus column, DRM Broke Its Promise, which recalls the days when digital rights management was pitched to us as a way to enable exciting new markets where we’d all save big by only buying the rights we needed (like the low-cost right to read a book... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/09/09/podcast-drm-broke-its-promise/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: DRM Broke Its Promise">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Even though I’m at Burning Man, I’ve snuck out an extra scheduled podcast episode (MP3): Barlow’s Legacy is my contribution to the Duke Law and Tech Review’s special edition, THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE INTERNET: Symposium for John Perry Barlow: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”1... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/09/03/podcast-barlows-legacy/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Barlow’s Legacy">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Even though I’m at Burning Man, I’ve snuck out an extra scheduled podcast episode (MP3): Barlow’s Legacy is my contribution to the Duke Law and Tech Review’s special edition, THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE INTERNET: Symposium for John Perry Barlow: “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”1... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/09/03/podcast-barlows-legacy-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Barlow’s Legacy">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Last week, the Modern Monetary Theory Podcast ran part 1 of my interview with co-host Christian Reilly; they’ve just published the second and final half of our chat (MP3), where we talk about the link between corruption and monopoly, how to pitch monetary theory to people who want to abolish money altogether, and how stories... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/08/21/my-mmt-podcast-appearance-part-2-monopoly-money-and-the-power-of-narrative/" class="more-link" title="Read My MMT Podcast appearance, part 2: monopoly, money, and the power of narrative">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay “A Cycle of Renewal, Broken: How Big Tech and Big Media Abuse Copyright Law to Slay Competition”, published today on EFF’s Deeplinks; it’s the latest in my ongoing series of case-studies of “adversarial interoperability,” where new services unseated the dominant companies by finding ways to plug... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/08/19/podcast-a-cycle-of-renewal-broken-how-big-tech-and-big-media-abuse-copyright-law-to-slay-competition/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: A cycle of renewal, broken: How Big Tech and Big Media abuse copyright law to slay competition">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I’ve been following the Modern Monetary Theory debate for about 18 months, and I’m largely a convert: governments spend money into existence and tax it out of existence, and government deficit spending is only inflationary if it’s bidding against the private sector for goods or services, which means that the government could guarantee every unemployed... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2019/08/14/my-appearance-on-the-mmt-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read My appearance on the MMT podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay “Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle, published today on EFF’s Deeplinks; it’s another in the series of “adversarial interoperability” explainers, this one focused on how privacy and adversarial interoperability relate to each other. Even if we do manage to impose interoperability on Facebook in ways that... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/08/13/podcast-interoperability-and-privacy-squaring-the-circle/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Interoperability and Privacy: Squaring the Circle">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization, published today on EFF’s Deeplinks; it’s another installment in my series about “adversarial interoperability,” and the role it has historically played in keeping tech open and competitive. This time, I relate the origin story of the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/08/05/podcast-ibm-pc-compatible-how-adversarial-interoperability-saved-pcs-from-monopolization/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: “IBM PC Compatible”: how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay Adblocking: How About Nah?, published last week on EFF’s Deeplinks; it’s the latest installment in my series about “adversarial interoperability,” and the role it has historically played in keeping tech open and competitive, and how that role is changing now that yesterday’s scrappy startups have become... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/07/29/podcast-adblocking-how-about-nah/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Adblocking: How About Nah?">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay SAMBA versus SMB: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects, published last week on EFF’s Deeplinks; it’s a furhter exploration of the idea of “adversarial interoperability” and the role it has played in fighting monopolies and preserving competition, and how we could use it to restore... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/07/22/podcast-adversarial-interoperability-is-judo-for-network-effects/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Adversarial Interoperability is Judo for Network Effects">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Jim Rutt — former chairman of the Santa Fe Institute and ex-Network Solutions CEO — just launched his new podcast, and included me in the first season! (MP3) It was a characteristically wide-ranging, interdisciplinary kind of interview, covering competition and adversarial interoperability, technological self-determination and human rights, conspiracy theories and corruption. There’s a full transcript... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/07/19/appearance-on-the-jim-rutt-podcast/" class="more-link" title="Read Appearance on the Jim Rutt Podcast">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my essay Occupy Gotham, published in Detective Comics: 80 Years of Batman, commemorating the 1000th issue of Batman comics. It’s an essay about the serious hard problem of trusting billionaires to solve your problems, given the likelihood that billionaires are the cause of your problems. A thousand issues... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/07/15/podcast-occupy-gotham/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast: Occupy Gotham">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my May Locus column: Steering with the Windshield Wipers. It makes the argument that much of the dysfunction of tech regulation — from botched anti-sex-trafficking laws to the EU’s plan to impose mass surveillance and censorship to root out copyright infringement — are the result of trying to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/07/09/steering-with-the-windshield-wipers/" class="more-link" title="Read Steering with the Windshield Wipers">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

In my latest podcast, I read my new Locus column: Fake News is an Oracle. For many years, I’ve been arguing that while science fiction can’t predict the future, it can reveal important truths about the present: the stories writers tell reveal their hopes and fears about technology, while the stories that gain currency in... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/07/02/fake-news-is-an-oracle/" class="more-link" title="Read Fake News is an Oracle">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I just published the 300th installment of my podcast, which has been going since 2006 (!); I present a reading of my EFF Deeplinks essay Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today’s Monopolies, where I introduce the idea of “Adversarial Interoperability,” which allows users and toolsmiths to push... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/06/26/podcast-number-300-adversarial-interoperability-reviving-an-elegant-weapon-from-a-more-civilized-age-to-slay-todays-monopolies/" class="more-link" title="Read Podcast number 300: “Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today’s Monopolies”">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a long, in-depth discussion on the subject of “What does it mean to keep the internet free” with Jack Russell Weinstein from Why?, the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life’s program on North Dakota Public Radio (MP3). Weinstein and I ranged pretty far and wide about what internet... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/05/15/what-does-it-mean-to-keep-the-internet-free-an-in-depth-discussion-with-why-on-wyoming-public-radio/" class="more-link" title="Read “What does it mean to keep the internet free?” An in-depth discussion with Why? on North Dakota Public Radio">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I appeared on this week’s Canadaland podcast (MP3) with Jesse Brown to talk about the promise of the internet 20 years ago, when it seemed that we were headed for an open, diverse internet with decentralized power and control, and how we ended up with an internet composed of five giant websites filled with screenshots... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/05/06/how-the-diverse-internet-became-a-monoculture/" class="more-link" title="Read How the diverse internet became a monoculture">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I’m on this week’s Techdirt podcast (MP3) talking about my latest book Radicalized — this being Techdirt, the talk quickly moved to DRM, and then to tech policy, monopolism, breaking up the Big Tech platforms, and neofeudalism.

While I was out on tour with Radicalized, I recorded an interview (MP3) with the Left Field podcast (“A couple of socialists with a couple of beers. We talk about Canadian politics and current events around the world”). We covered a lot of ground, particularly around the catastrophic EU Copyright Directive and, of course, the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/04/07/interview-with-the-left-field-podcast-about-radicalized-and-the-eu-copyright-directive/" class="more-link" title="Read Interview with the Left Field podcast about Radicalized and the EU Copyright Directive">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

Another great podcast interview from my Radicalized book tour: this one with My Summer Lair (MP3) where host Sammy Younan and I discussed the book from a Canadian perspective (we recorded in Toronto) and really dug into some of the book’s themes.

During my book tour for Radicalized, I recorded a podcast interview (MP4) with the Security Sandbox podcast (formerly Hacker Culture). Host Sean Sun and I carried on a wide-ranging, hacker-centric discussion that covered everything from the EU Copyright Directive to writing discipline to my recipe for ginger liqueur — and, of course, the new book.

This morning, CBC’s flagship weekend programme Day Six aired its latest episode (MP3), a conversation between host Brent Bambury, me, and Tim Maughan, the author of an outstanding debut novel called Infinite Detail. (Image: Jason Vermes/CBC)) It’s often said that sci-fi’s role is to project the future, but Doctorow is skeptical of that perspective. “What... <a href="https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/2019/03/23/talking-radicalized-on-cbcs-day-6-with-tim-maughan-author-of-infinite-detail/" class="more-link" title="Read Talking Radicalized on CBC’s Day 6, with Tim Maughan, author of Infinite Detail">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

I recently recorded an interview with Yascha Mounk for Slate’s “Taming the Net podcast (MP3), whose mission is: “How to preserve the freedom of the internet without letting the internet destroy democracy.” Mounk and I talked about how the internet enables abuses, but also enables us to push back against those abuses.

On Friday, hundreds of us gathered at the Internet Archive, at the invitation of Creative Commons, to celebrate the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain, just weeks after the first works entered the American public domain in twenty years. I had the honor of delivering the closing keynote, after a roster of astounding speakers. It... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2019/01/27/video-and-audio-from-my-closing-keynote-at-fridays-grand-re-opening-of-the-public-domain/" class="more-link" title="Read Video and audio from my closing keynote at Friday’s Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week, I sat down for an interview (MP3) with Terrence McNally for his World That Just Might Work show to talk about information politics, science fiction, oligarchy, resistance, and hope!