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>
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Enshittification (episode 500!)
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>
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Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION
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>
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Nimby and the D-Hoppers
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>
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Why I don’t like AI art
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>
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