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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 professional life, I’ve concluded that the point of art is to take a big, numinous, irreducible feeling that fills the artist’s... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2025/03/30/why-i-dont-like-ai-art/" class="more-link" title="Read Why I don’t like AI...

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 fight. It used to be that if a com­pany figured out how to block copying its floppies, another company – or... <a href="https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2025/03/23/there-were-always-enshittifiers/" class="more-link" title="Read There were always enshittifiers">more <i...

Last night, I traveled to Toronto to deliver the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at the University of Toronto’s Innis College. The lecture was called “With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It.” It’s the latest major speech in my series of talks on the subject,... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2025/02/26/with-great-power-came-no-responsibility-how-enshittification-conquered-the-21st-century-and-how-we-can-overthrow-it/" class="more-link" title="Read With Great Power Came No...

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, hosted by David Moscrop. You have until Monday night to order personalized, signed copies of the book from Los Angeles’s Secret Headquarters (I’m dropping by the warehouse to sign them... <a href="https://craphound.com/novels/redteamblues/2025/02/16/picks-and-shovels-virtual-launch-with-yanis-varoufakis-and-david-moscrop-presented-by-jacobin/" class="more-link" title="Read Picks and Shovels virtual launch...

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 in dying small towns and decaying rustbelt cities. It’s not just that these people are desperate – it’s that they only... <a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/02/09/mlms-are-the-mirror-world-version-of-community-organizing/" class="more-link" title="Read MLMs are the mirror-world version...

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 Canada could make? A Canadian App Store. That’s a store that Canadian software authors could use to sell Canadian apps to Canadian customers, charging, say, the standard payment processing fee of... <a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/02/02/canada-shouldnt-retaliate-with-us-tariffs/" class="more-link" title="Read Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US...

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 Last Dangerous Visions, commissioned by J. Michael Straczynski. Margaret came into my office, breaking my unproductive clicktrance. She looked sheepish. “I got given one of those robots that follows you around,”... <a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/01/26/the-weight-of-a-feather-the-weight-of-a-heart/" class="more-link" title="Read The Weight of a Feather...

This week on my podcast, I’m reading “Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital,” the latest post from my Pluralistic.net blog. It’s about the new “Free Our Feeds” project and why I think the existence of Mastodon doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pay attention to making Bluesky as free as possible. When tech critics fail to ask... <a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/01/20/enshittification-isnt-caused-by-venture-capital/" class="more-link" title="Read Enshittification isn’t caused by venture...

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, which is out next month. Please consider supporting my work by pre-ordering the book as a hardcover, DRM-free ebook, or DRM-free audiobook in my Kickstarter! The year is 1986. The... <a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2025/01/10/picks-and-shovels-chapter-one/" class="more-link" title="Read Picks and Shovels Chapter One">more...

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 and getting ready to head off to university next year, so this may well be the final installment in the series. Here are the previous year’s installments: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017,... <a href="https://craphound.com/overclocked/2024/12/17/daddy-daughter-podcast-2024/" class="more-link" title="Read Daddy-Daughter Podcast 2024">more <i class="fa...

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 published on Reactor, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. Spill will be reprinted in Allen Kaster’s 2025 Year’s Best SF... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/12/08/spill-part-six-finale-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part six (FINALE) (a...

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, the online publication of Tor Books. Also available in DRM-free ebook form as a Tor Original. I didn’t plan to go to Oklahoma, but I went to Oklahoma. My day... <a href="https://craphound.com/littlebrother/2024/12/01/spill-part-five-a-little-brother-story/" class="more-link" title="Read Spill, part five (a Little...