Cory Doctorow
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525 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the ones who are older than me, they just speak Russian and Yiddish.
And so we're all on this Zoom call.
And all the old ones are speaking either Russian or Yiddish.
Their grandkids are shouting at them in either English or Russian or Yiddish.
None of us speak Yiddish very well.
There's lots of malapropisms.
People misunderstand.
And then we translate a block of text and paste it into the chat.
It's really funny.
And it's a form of communication that we wouldn't have had without this.
There is a warmth and a communication that happens because of the intersection of the fact that we can see each other and that we can translate some of these concepts using machine translation.
It makes it really nice.
It is a bond of love across generations.
that is possible because of technology.
And where we use technology to forge and maintain bonds of love and solidarity, that's why I fell in love with computers.
That's what I've worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation for 25 years for.
It's the most important thing we do as a species, and computers can really help us with it.
They can also really screw us up.
And so that's why I insist that there is an alternative, and that you can have friends without Mark Zuckerberg being part of the conversation.
You can search the web without Google spying on you.
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