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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There were always enshittifiers
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 class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
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