Clik here to view.
Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Plausible Sentence Generators
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How To Think About Scraping
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Lost Cause (excerpt)
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Microincentives and Enshittification
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Canadian Miracle, Part 1
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Canadian Miracle, Part 2
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,...
View ArticleAnnouncing The Lost Cause Tour
Today is the day that my new novel, The Lost Cause, goes on sale, and I’m hitting the road with it! I hope you can make it out – tell your friends! Los Angeles: I’ll be at the Studio City branch of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Internet’s Original Sin
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....
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)
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
View ArticleClik here to view.
What kind of bubble is AI?
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale...
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How I Got Scammed
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Catch me at San Francisco Public Library on Mar 13, discussing my new novel...
At long last, the San Francisco stop of the book tour for my new novel The Bezzle has been finalized: I’ll be at the San Francisco Public Library Main Branch on Wednesday, March 13th, in conversation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Subprime gadgets
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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Capitalists Hate Capitalism
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...
View Article
