Comrade Trump

This week on my podcast, I read Comrade Trump, a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter, which will be syndicated in The Nerve. All of which means that my experience of the Trump years is decidedly weird. On the one hand, I exist in a near-perpetual state of anxious misery, as Trump and his chud... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/05/03/comrade-trump/" class="more-link" title="Read Comrade Trump">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 to anti-circumvention laws. If you were paying attention in 1998, you could see what was coming. Computers were getting much cheaper, and much smaller. From cars to toast­ers, from speakers... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/04/05/not-normal/" class="more-link" title="Read Not Normal">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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. In other words, things that seem eternal and innate to the human condition to you are apt to have been invented ten minutes before you started to notice the... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/02/08/all-laws-are-local/" class="more-link" title="Read All laws are local">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

This week on my podcast, I read “Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity,” a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog, about the tactics that digital sovereignty advocates can deploy to counter Meta’s (further) enshittification of Threads. The funny thing is, the OG App creators were just following the Facebook playbook. When Facebook opened up to... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/02/01/threads-margin-is-the-eurostacks-opportunity/" class="more-link" title="Read Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 behind the drive to replace programmers with chatbots. Code is a liability. Code’s capabilities are assets. The goal of a tech shop is to have code whose capabilities generate more... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/19/code-is-a-liability-not-an-asset/" class="more-link" title="Read Code is a liability (not an asset)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology, a speech I delivered on November 27, 2025 at OCADU in Toronto, Canada (video here, transcript here). I recognize that this is all... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/12/digital-elbows-up-ocadu-november-27-2025/" class="more-link" title="Read (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU, November 27, 2025)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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, the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany (video here, transcript here). Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/" class="more-link" title="Read The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 (she’s 17 now!). This year, Poe recaps her graduation, her triumphs with her dance team, and her life at college! She offers us a tutorial on playing Egyptian War, and... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2025/12/14/daddy-daughter-podcast-2025-edition/" class="more-link" title="Read Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 by which we ended up with an enshittogenic policy environment: The whole point of the conservative project is to take away choices, and corral us into “preferences” that we disprefer. Eliminate... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2025/11/23/show-me-the-incentive-ill-show-you-the-outcome/" class="more-link" title="Read Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 Seattle Public Library (you can watch the video here). I’ve got many more cities to go on the tour – I hope to see you at one (or more) of them! MP3