Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition

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

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 Brooklyn Public Library (you can watch the video here). lI’ve got 24 more cities to go on the tour – I hope to see you at one (or more) of them! MP3

The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh This week on my podcast, I read “The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh,” a recent column from my Pluralistic newsletter; about the looming economic crisis threatened by the AI investment bubble: A week ago, I turned that book into a speech, which I delivered as the annual... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2025/10/06/the-real-economic-ai-apocalypse-is-nigh/" class="more-link" title="Read The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 the American descent in fascism is connected to its abandonment of the rule of law more broadly: Just as Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came” has become our framework for understanding... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2025/09/07/by-all-means-tread-on-those-people/" class="more-link" title="Read By all means, tread on those people">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux US/Canada; Verso UK/Commonwealth). Because Amazon won’t carry my audiobooks (or any DRM-free audiobooks), I have to... <a href="https://craphound.com/podcast/2025/08/28/enshittification-episode-500/" class="more-link" title="Read Enshittification (episode 500!)">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 the first half). The story has been widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well... <a href="https://craphound.com/stories/2025/04/13/nimby-and-the-d-hoppers-conclusion/" class="more-link" title="Read Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 widely reprinted (it was first published online in The Infinite Matrix in 2008), and was translated (by Elisabeth Vonarburg) into French for Solaris Magazine, as well as into Chinese, Russian, Hebrew,... <a href="https://craphound.com/stories/2025/04/06/nimby-and-the-d-hoppers-2/" class="more-link" title="Read Nimby and the D-Hoppers">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

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 art">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>