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AI’s productivity theater
https://craphound.com/news/2024/08/04/ais-productivity-theater/
Published: August 4, 2024 17:44
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…
Unpersoned
https://craphound.com/news/2024/07/29/unpersoned/
Published: July 29, 2024 14:20
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…
The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you
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/
Published: June 30, 2024 21:52
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…
My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk
https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/16/my-2004-microsoft-drm-talk/
Published: June 17, 2024 04:26
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!…
Against Lore
https://craphound.com/news/2024/06/02/against-lore/
Published: June 2, 2024 19:35
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,…
Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
https://craphound.com/news/2024/05/26/wanna-make-big-tech-monopolies-even-worse-kill-section-230/
Published: May 26, 2024 19:49
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,…
No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story
https://craphound.com/news/2024/05/19/no-one-is-the-enshittifier-of-their-own-story/
Published: May 19, 2024 21:36
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…
Precaratize Bosses
https://craphound.com/news/2024/04/28/precaratize-bosses/
Published: April 28, 2024 21:00
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…
Capitalists Hate Capitalism
https://craphound.com/news/2024/04/14/capitalists-hate-capitalism/
Published: April 15, 2024 02:06
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…
I’m coming to Los Angeles, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Turin, Marin, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Tartu, Estonia!
https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2024/04/04/im-coming-to-los-angeles-boston-providence-chicago-turin-marin-winnipeg-calgary-vancouver-and-tartu-estonia/
Published: April 4, 2024 20:11
I’m about to hit the road again for a series of back-to-back public appearances as I travel with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle. I’ll be in Los Angeles, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Turin, Marin, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Tartu,…