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My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk
17 juni 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Against Lore
2 juni 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
26 mei 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story
19 mei 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Precaratize Bosses
28 april 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Capitalists Hate Capitalism
15 april 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Subprime gadgets
1 april 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
25 februari 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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How I Got Scammed
18 februari 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference
5 februari 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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What kind of bubble is AI?
21 januari 2024
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)
15 januari 2024
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
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The Internet’s Original Sin
17 december 2023
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 <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition
10 december 2023
12 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 since, we’ve... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/12/10/daddy-daughter-podcast-2023-edition/" class="more-link" title="Read Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Don’t Be Evil
3 december 2023
This 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 terrible – as the result of moral... <a href="https://craphound.com/articles/2023/12/03/dont-be-evil/" class="more-link" title="Read Don’t Be Evil">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown)
12 november 2023
This 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 the day I decided to give every homeless... <a href="https://craphound.com/stories/2023/11/12/moral-hazard-from-communications-breakdown/" class="more-link" title="Read Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Canadian Miracle, Part 2
6 november 2023
This 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. -Fred... <a href="https://craphound.com/lostcause/2023/11/05/the-canadian-miracle-part-2/" class="more-link" title="Read The Canadian Miracle, Part 2">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Canadian Miracle, Part 1
1 november 2023
This 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, 1986 It’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/lostcause/2023/11/01/the-canadian-miracle-part-1/" class="more-link" title="Read The Canadian Miracle, Part 1">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Microincentives and Enshittification
23 oktober 2023
This 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 are locked in a terminal... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/10/23/microincentives-and-enshittification/" class="more-link" title="Read Microincentives and Enshittification">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Lost Cause (excerpt)
12 oktober 2023
This 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/Macmillan (US/Canada) and Head of Zeus/Bloomsbury (UK/Australia/NZ/SA, etc). As with... <a href="https://craphound.com/lostcause/2023/10/12/the-lost-cause-excerpt/" class="more-link" title="Read The Lost Cause (excerpt)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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How To Think About Scraping
25 september 2023
This 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 head-on” Scraping when the scrapee... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/09/24/how-to-think-about-scraping/" class="more-link" title="Read How To Think About Scraping">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Plausible Sentence Generators
17 september 2023
This 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 a... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/09/17/plausible-sentence-generators/" class="more-link" title="Read Plausible Sentence Generators">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet
21 augustus 2023
This 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 result of specific policy choices: the decision... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/21/enshitternet-the-old-good-internet-deserves-a-new-good-internet/" class="more-link" title="Read Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)
1 augustus 2023
This 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 Gabrielle de Cuir at... <a href="https://craphound.com/internetcon/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/" class="more-link" title="Read The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
17 juli 2023
This 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 only thing... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/07/16/let-the-platforms-burn-the-opposite-of-good-fires-is-wildfires/" class="more-link" title="Read Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Ideas Lying Around
11 juni 2023
This 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 product of unionization, pollution controls, women’s lib, and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/06/11/ideas-lying-around/" class="more-link" title="Read Ideas Lying Around">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point
14 mei 2023
This 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 constitutes a form of pervasive location-tracking surveillance, and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/05/14/the-swivel-eyed-loons-have-a-point/" class="more-link" title="Read The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok
17 april 2023
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Red Team Blues: Behind the Scenes with Wil Wheaton
3 april 2023
This 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 audiobook, pre-selling audiobooks, ebooks and hardcovers. I have... <a href="https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2023/04/02/red-team-blues-behind-the-scenes-with-wil-wheaton/" class="more-link" title="Read Red Team Blues: Behind the Scenes with Wil Wheaton">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Red Team Blues
27 maart 2023
This 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 retire, but an old friend... <a href="https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2023/03/26/red-team-blues/" class="more-link" title="Read Red Team Blues">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk
19 maart 2023
This 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 drivers... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/03/19/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk/" class="more-link" title="Read Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Twiddler
27 februari 2023
This 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 technologists could install after-market code that altered the functioning of... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/02/27/twiddler/" class="more-link" title="Read Twiddler">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Tiktok’s enshittification
20 februari 2023
This 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 better for their business customers; finally, they... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/02/20/tiktoks-enshittification/" class="more-link" title="Read Tiktok’s enshittification">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Social Quitting
23 januari 2023
This 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 them. At first, the companies shifted value from... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2023/01/22/social-quitting/" class="more-link" title="Read Social Quitting">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2022 Edition
12 december 2022
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/podcast/2022/12/12/daddy-daughter-podcast-2022-edition/" class="more-link" title="Read Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2022 Edition">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Sound Money
12 september 2022
This week on my podcast, I read “Sound Money,” my latest column for Medium, which explains why money creation is necessary for a prosperous economy, despite the scaremongering of “inflation hawks.” MP3
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What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
22 augustus 2022
This week on my podcast, I read “What is Chokepoint Capitalism?” a recent column for Medium explaining the thesis of my new book with Rebecca Giblin, which explains how creative labor markets got rigged, and how we can unrig them. (Image: Erik B. Anderson, CC BY-SA 4.0, modified) MP3 Lees meer
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So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me
8 augustus 2022
This week on my podcast, I read “So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me,” a recent column for Medium describing the joys of writing to attract the audience of people who want to read what you want to write. (Image: Sascha Kohlmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, modified) MP3 Lees meer
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View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe
1 augustus 2022
This week on my podcast, I read “View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe,” a recent column for Medium discussing how interoperability could flip Amazon’s monopoly power on its head and enable us all to coveniently shop locally. MP3
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Why none of my books are available on Audible
24 juli 2022
This week on my podcast, I read “Why none of my books are available on Audible,” a short audiobook I produced to be distributed through Amazon’s ACX platform, explaining how that platform’s sloppy rights verification and mandatory DRM screws over writers. MP3 (Image: Paris 16, CC BY-SA 4.0; Dmitry Baranovskiy, CC BY 4.0; modified) Lees meer
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Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts
27 juni 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts, about the growing trend of standard, non-negotiable contract terms in freelance writing contracts that are outrageous in their unfairness. MP3 Lees meer
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Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers
20 juni 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent blog post, Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers, exploring the way that med-tech mergers are bringing the ghastly inkjet printer business-model to artificial pancreases. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0; Björn Heller, CC BY 2.0 (German); modified) MP3 Lees meer
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Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism
13 juni 2022
Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism. This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism., about the origins of the theory of regulatory capture, and the all-important, but rarely discussed difference between right and left theories of regulatory capture. MP3 Lees meer
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Against Cozy Catastrophies
6 juni 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Against Cozy Catastrophies, about the how the changeover from universal, state- or employer-provided pensions to market-based pensions like the 401(k) have created an inescapable, slow motion catastrophe, where the only thing worse than being one of the lucky few with retirement savings is being... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2022/06/05/against-cozy-catastrophies/" class="more-link" title="Read Against Cozy Catastrophies">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a> Lees meer
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Apple’s Cement Overshoes
30 mei 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Apple’s Cement Overshoes, about the malicious compliance in Apple’s “home repair kits.” (Image: Conall, CC BY 2.0, modified) MP3
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About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors
19 mei 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors, suggesting that what John Deere did to Russian looters, anyone can do to farmers, anywhere. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified) MP3
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Revenge Of The Chickenized Reverse Centaurs
1 mei 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs, about the relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified) MP3
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Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content
18 april 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content, about the calls from the news industry for tech companies to pay licensing fees for quoted news-snippets, and why this both ignores and worsens the real problem: ad-fraud. MP3 Lees meer
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When Automation Becomes Enforcement
10 april 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, When Automation Becomes Enforcement, about the debate of interoperability and end-to-end encryption in the EU’s Digital Markets Act, and how that relates to the long-running battle over who’s in charge: you, or your computer? MP3 Lees meer
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The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis
4 april 2022
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy. MP3