Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

Not Normal

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 t...

All laws are local

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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....

Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity

01 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity,” a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, ...

Code is a liability (not an asset)

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 behi...

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

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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, W...

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

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 (sh...

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

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

Enshittification With Ed Zitron at the Seattle Public Library

25 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sea...

Enshittification With Lina Khan at the Brooklyn Public Library

11 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 Brook...

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh This week on my podcast, I read “The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh,” a recent column fro...

By all means, tread on those people

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Enshittification (episode 500!)

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 En...

Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Nimby and the D-Hoppers

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 wi...

Why I don’t like AI art

30 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 wo...

There were always enshittifiers

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “There Were Always Enshittifiers,” about the historical context for my la...

With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Last night, I traveled to Toronto to deliver the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at the University of Toronto’s Innis College. The lecture was ca...

Picks and Shovels virtual launch with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop, presented by Jacobin

16 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I bring you the audio from yesterday’s Jacobin virtual book launch for my book Picks and Shovels, with Yanis Varoufakis...

MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs

02 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs, a recent post from my Pluralistic newsletter. But you know what Cana...

The Weight of a Feather (The Weight of a Heart)

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I’m reading “The Weight of a Feather (The Weight of a Heart),” my short story in Harlan Ellison’s The...

Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I’m reading “Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital,” the latest post from my Pluralistic.n...

Picks and Shovels Chapter One

10 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I’ve got Wil Wheaton reading the first chapter of the audiobook of Picks and Shovels, the next Martin Hench novel, whic...

Daddy-Daughter Podcast 2024

17 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, it’s our annual Daddy-Daughter Podcast, a tradition since 2012! The kid’s sixteen now, a senior in high school an...

Spill, part six (FINALE) (a Little Brother story)

09 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read the sixth and final installment of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and ...

Spill, part five (a Little Brother story)

01 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read part five of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, ...

Spill, part four (a Little Brother story)

29 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read part four of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, ...

Spill, part three (a Little Brother story)

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read part three of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor,...

Spill, part two (a Little Brother story)

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read part two of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, t...

Spill, part one (a Little Brother story)

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read part one of “Spill“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Clay F Carlson and published on Reactor, t...

Vigilant (a Little Brother story)

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “Vigilant“, a new Little Brother story commissioned by Nelda Buckman and published on Reactor, the online ...

Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Pluralistic.net column, “Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster” about the way that ga...

Marshmallow Longtermism

08 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus Magazine column, “Marshmallow Longtermism” a reflection on how conservatives self-mytholog...

AI’s productivity theater

04 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe...

Unpersoned

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 det...

The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 on...

My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 nasc...

Against Lore

02 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230

26 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 sun...

No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 co...

Precaratize Bosses

28 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 b...

Capitalists Hate Capitalism

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today for my podcast, I read Capitalists Hate Capitalism, my latest column from Locus Magazine. It’s a meditation on the difference between feud...

Subprime gadgets

01 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How I Got Scammed

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

What kind of bubble is AI?

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)

15 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 cam...

The Internet’s Original Sin

17 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 ev...

Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition

10 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 of...

Don’t Be Evil

03 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my Locus Magazine column “Don’t Be Evil,” about the microeconomics and moral injury of enshittificat...

Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown)

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my short story “Moral Hazard,” published last month in MIT Press’s Communications Breakdown, a scien...

The Canadian Miracle, Part 2

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 forthc...

The Canadian Miracle, Part 1

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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-apocaly...

Microincentives and Enshittification

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, “Microincentives and Enshittification” (open access link), about how Google went f...

The Lost Cause (excerpt)

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

How To Think About Scraping

24 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Plausible Sentence Generators

17 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column. “Plausible Sentence Generators,” about my surprising, accidental encounter with a ...

Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet,” clarifying t...

The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Compu...

Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ideas Lying Around

11 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “Ideas Lying Around,” about archivillain Milton Friedman’s surprisingly good...

The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my lastest Locus column. “The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point,” about the unlikely – but undeniable &...

How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Red Team Blues: Behind the Scenes with Wil Wheaton

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I bring you some clips of Wil Wheaton’s recording sessions for the audiobook of Red Team Blues, my next novel, an anti-...

Red Team Blues

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a selection from my next novel, Red Team Blues, an anti-finance finance thriller about Marty Hench, a 67 year old hard...

Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk

19 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk, making the Luddite case against bossware and other job...

Twiddler

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my recent Medium column, Twiddler, which further explores my theory of enshittification, and the factors that make it ...

Tiktok’s enshittification

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my Pluralistic blog post, Tiktok’s enshittification, which sets out a kind of master theory of enshittification,...

Social Quitting

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, “Social Quitting, about the enshittification lifecycle of social media platforms. But as...

Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2022 Edition

12 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holidays, ...

Sound Money

12 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “Sound Money,” my latest column for Medium, which explains why money creation is necessary for a prosperou...

What is Chokepoint Capitalism?

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “What is Chokepoint Capitalism?” a recent column for Medium explaining the thesis of my new book with Rebe...

So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me,” a recent column for Medium describing the joys of writing to attract...

View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe,” a recent column for Medium discussing how interoperabi...

Why none of my books are available on Audible

24 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read “Why none of my books are available on Audible,” a short audiobook I produced to be distributed through A...

Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts, about the growing trend of s...

Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent blog post, Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers, exploring the way that med-tech mergers are brin...

Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism

12 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism. This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Regulatory Capture...

Against Cozy Catastrophies

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Against Cozy Catastrophies, about the how the changeover from universal, state- or employer-pr...

Apple’s Cement Overshoes

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Apple’s Cement Overshoes, about the malicious compliance in Apple’s “home repair...

About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, About those kill-switched Ukrainian tractors, suggesting that what John Deere did to Russian l...

Revenge Of The Chickenized Reverse Centaurs

01 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs, about the relationship between algorithms, intero...

Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content, about the calls from the news in...

When Automation Becomes Enforcement

10 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, When Automation Becomes Enforcement, about the debate of interoperability and end-to-end encry...

The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis, which explores the contradiction at the he...

The Byzantine Premium

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Byzantine Premium, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy. (Ima...

What is “Peak Indifference?”

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, What is “Peak Indifference?” in which I explain my theory of how we change – or fail...

Vertically Challenged

13 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Vertically Challenged, about “how and why to break up Big Tech.” MP3 (Image: Antho...

All (Broadband) Politics Are Local

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, All (Broadband) Politics Are Local, about the near-miraculous shift in the political will to p...

We Should Not Endure a King

27 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one, addressed to...

The Internet Heist (Part III)

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part III), the third and final part of a three-part series about the early...

The Internet Heist (Part II)

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part II), the second part of a three-part series about the early days of t...

The Internet Heist (Part I)

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part I), the first part of a three-part series about the early days of the...

A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator about my exp...

Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature about the technological critique the Luddites embodied...

Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2021 Edition

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When my daughter Poesy was four, her nursery school let us know that they were shutting down a day before my wife’s office closed for the holida...

Give Me Slack

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Give Me Slack about the many second (and third, and fourth) chances I got as a kid and a stud...

Jam To-Day

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week on my podcast, I read my latest Medium column, Jam To-Day, about how interoperability is unique among competition remedies in that it does g...