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Cory Doctorow

Science Fiction author, journalist, activist. Touring now for “Chokepoint Capitalism” - how to unrig creative labor markets and get artists paid (chokepointcapitalism.com)

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Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #565

Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism

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2023-11-10T22:00:00Z #culture 🎧 20,931

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what’s to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #535

Examining capitalism's chokepoints

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2023-04-14T17:00:00Z #culture 🎧 31,362

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.”

Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #221

How we got here

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2016-09-23T20:00:00Z 🎧 51,260

Cory is a science fiction author, activist, journalist, co-editor of Boing Boing and the author of many books. We talked to Cory about open source, the open web, internet freedom, his involvement with the EFF, where he began his career, the details he’ll be covering in his keynote at OSCON, and his thoughts on open source today and where developers should be focusing their efforts.

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