Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think there is a difference between traveling faster than the speed of light and eking out marginal gains in the production of electric vehicles.
And that is when he called me a scourge on humanity.
But I wanted to pop the stack, because this started with talking about- Did he block you after that?
You know, when it's railroad time, you get railroads.
When it's in shitification time, you get coinages pertaining to the general shittiness of everything.
So it's, I mean, we are just living in that moment.
But seriously, coinages are like this.
So there are lots of coinages.
You will find...
simultaneous or near simultaneous coinages that appear to be completely distinct just because the ideas in the zeitgeist and, you know, like I've spent 25 years working on these issues and I've come up with lots of words and parables and narratives and all kinds of things.
And while I think the minor license to vulgarity is something that excites people, I also think that like in this moment, people are eager for a kind of
atavistic way to talk about how they feel about their technology.
Yeah.
And I like to think that the kind of full theoretical unpacking, because it talks about the policy environment that created it, kind of takes us beyond like, oh, you shopped.
Badly, you didn't realize if you're not paying for the product, you're the product.
So your failure to be a careful enough consumer caused this.
Or even the personality defects of these guys who run these services are to blame.
They're bad people, right?
I count the spoons if they came over to dinner.
But they're just doing what policy lets them do.
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