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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Cory Doctorow

Articles, speeches, stories and novels by an award-winning science fiction writer, read aloud in small regular chunks

Episodes

249

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Aug 9, 2026

Why businesses lie about AI

This week on my podcast, I read Why businesses lie about AI, a recent essay from my Pluralistic newsletter that breaks down Nikhil Suresh’s essay describing the total absence of any proof that any …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jul 26, 2026

Post-political

This week on my podcast, I read Post-political, a recent essay from my Pluralistic newsletter, about the material, irreconcilable differences between leftism and other political beliefs. But when it comes to a “post-politics that …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jul 13, 2026

Hell Is Other People

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, Hell Is Other People, about the solipsistic fantasy underpinning the AI bubble. Sartre was (arguably) an optimist. It’s not that other people …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jul 5, 2026

Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers

This week on my podcast, I read Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers, about Mark Zuckerberg’s campaign of terror against the whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jun 14, 2026

The world has moved on

This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic newsletter, “The World Has Moved On,” which analogizes Stephen King’s Dark Tower series to the Enshittification hypothesis. In the Dark Tower …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jun 7, 2026

The age of vapor

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “The Age of Vapor,” about the role science fiction imaginaires plays in fueling high-tech investment bubbles. It’s one thing to make everything …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · May 31, 2026

AI and a world without migrants

This week on my podcast, I read AI and a world without migrants, a recent essay from my Pluralistic blog, which psychoanalyzes the sociopathic fantasies that are driving the AI investment bubble. I don’t …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · May 17, 2026

The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI

This week on my podcast, I present an hour-long excerpt from the audiobook for The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI, which is currently on pre-order through my latest Kickstarter campaign: A short, …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · May 3, 2026

Comrade Trump

This week on my podcast, I read Comrade Trump, a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter, which will be syndicated in The Nerve. All of which means that my experience of the Trump years …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Apr 5, 2026

Not Normal

This week on my podcast, I read Not Normal, my latest Locus Magazine column, about the surreal and terrible world we’ve been eased into thanks to anti-circumvention laws. If you were paying attention in …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Feb 9, 2026

All laws are local

This week on my podcast, I read All laws are local a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the ephemerality of our seeming eternal verities. In other words, things that seem eternal and …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Feb 1, 2026

Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity

This week on my podcast, I read “Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity,” a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the tactics that digital sovereignty advocates can deploy to counter Meta’s (further) enshittification …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jan 19, 2026

Code is a liability (not an asset)

This week on my podcast, I read “Code is a liability (not an asset),” a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the bad ideas behind the drive to replace programmers with chatbots. Code …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jan 12, 2026

(Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU, November 27, 2025)

This week on my podcast, I play the audio from (Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology, a speech …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Jan 1, 2026

The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)

This week on my podcast, I play the audio from A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet, a speech I delivered on December 28, 2025 at 39C3, the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany (video here, transcript …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Dec 15, 2025

Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition

This week on my podcast, I sit down with my daughter Poesy, for our annual Daddy-Daughter Podcast, a tradition we’ve had since she was three (she’s 17 now!). This year, Poe recaps her graduation, …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Nov 23, 2025

Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome,” about the process by which we ended up with an enshittogenic policy environment: …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Oct 25, 2025

Enshittification With Ed Zitron at the Seattle Public Library

This week on my podcast, I’ve got the audio from last week’s Enshittification book-tour event with Ed Zitron and Whitney Betran at the Seattle Public Library (you can watch the video here). I’ve got …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Oct 11, 2025

Enshittification With Lina Khan at the Brooklyn Public Library

This week on my podcast, I’ve got the audio from last week’s Enshittification book-tour event with former FTC Chair Lina Khan at the Brooklyn Public Library (you can watch the video here). lI’ve got …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Oct 6, 2025

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh This week on my podcast, I read “The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh,” a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter; about the looming economic crisis threatened …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Sep 8, 2025

By all means, tread on those people

This week on my podcast, I read “By all means, tread on those people,” a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter; about the way that the American descent in fascism is connected to its …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Aug 28, 2025

Enshittification (episode 500!)

It’s the 500th edition of my podcast, and to celebrate, I’m bringing you an hour-long excerpt from the audiobook of my forthcoming book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Apr 13, 2025

Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION

This week on my podcast, I conclude my reading of my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” (here’s the first half). The story has been widely reprinted (it was first …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Apr 6, 2025

Nimby and the D-Hoppers

This week on my podcast, I once again read my 2003 Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine story, Nimby and the D-Hoppers” The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Mar 30, 2025

Why I don’t like AI art

This week on my podcast, I read Why I don’t like AI art, a column from last week’s Pluralistic newsletter: Which brings me to art. As a working artist in his third decade of …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Mar 23, 2025

There were always enshittifiers

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “There Were Always Enshittifiers,” about the historical context for my latest novel, Picks and Shovels: It used to be a much fairer …

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · Feb 9, 2025

MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing

This week on my podcast, I read MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing, a recent post from my Pluralistic newsletter. MLMs prey on the poor and desperate: women, people of color, people …

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