20 episodes
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com Cory Doctorow
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5.0 • 14 Ratings
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Articles, speeches, stories and novels by an award-winning science fiction writer, read aloud in small regular chunks
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AI’s productivity theater
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... more
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Unpersoned
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... more
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The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you
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... more
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My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk
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... more
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Against Lore
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... more
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Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
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... more
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Bitesized insight from a deep thinker
I discovered Cory Doctorow through his fiction, but there is so much more to this incredible and insightful thinker.
In this podcast, Cory reads his short articles that largely focus on how technology companies have lobbied and manipulated regulators into creating the worst of all possible business models for us (the consumer). While it might sound like it’s going to be dry, Cory has the knack of being engaging and entertaining (in the best possible way) while sounding the alarm and improving the political discourse. There’s more, with excerpts from his forthcoming novels or audiobook kickstarters and a bit about what the great man is up to. It look forward to this podcast as a real treat.