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October 2026

  1. Swapping money for expertise

September 2026

  1. LLMs are real, AI is fake
  2. Technopolitics

August 2026

  1. Why businesses lie about AI

July 2026

  1. Post-political
  2. Hell Is Other People
  3. Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers

June 2026

  1. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI launch at Kepler’s Books with Angie Coiro
  2. The world has moved on
  3. The age of vapor

May 2026

  1. AI and a world without migrants
  2. The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI
  3. Comrade Trump

April 2026

  1. Not Normal

February 2026

  1. All laws are local
  2. Threads’ margin is the Eurostack’s opportunity

January 2026

  1. Code is a liability (not an asset)
  2. (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU, November 27, 2025)
  3. The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)

December 2025

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2025 Edition

November 2025

  1. Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome

October 2025

  1. Enshittification With Ed Zitron at the Seattle Public Library
  2. Enshittification With Lina Khan at the Brooklyn Public Library
  3. The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh
  4. Announcing the Enshittification tour

September 2025

  1. By all means, tread on those people

August 2025

  1. Enshittification (episode 500!)

April 2025

  1. Nimby and the D-Hoppers CONCLUSION
  2. Nimby and the D-Hoppers

March 2025

  1. Why I don’t like AI art
  2. There were always enshittifiers

February 2025

  1. With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It
  2. Picks and Shovels virtual launch with Yanis Varoufakis and David Moscrop, presented by Jacobin
  3. MLMs are the mirror-world version of community organizing
  4. Announcing the Picks and Shovels book tour
  5. Canada shouldn’t retaliate with US tariffs

January 2025

  1. The Weight of a Feather (The Weight of a Heart)
  2. Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital
  3. Picks and Shovels Chapter One

December 2024

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast 2024
  2. Spill, part six (FINALE) (a Little Brother story)
  3. Spill, part five (a Little Brother story)

October 2024

  1. Spill, part four (a Little Brother story)
  2. Spill, part three (a Little Brother story)
  3. Spill, part two (a Little Brother story)
  4. Spill, part one (a Little Brother story)

September 2024

  1. Vigilant (a Little Brother story)
  2. Anti-cheat, gamers, and the Crowdstrike disaster
  3. Marshmallow Longtermism

August 2024

  1. AI’s productivity theater

July 2024

  1. Unpersoned

June 2024

  1. The reason you can’t buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you
  2. My 2004 Microsoft DRM Talk
  3. Against Lore

May 2024

  1. Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230
  2. No One Is the Enshittifier of Their Own Story

April 2024

  1. Precaratize Bosses
  2. Capitalists Hate Capitalism
  3. I’m coming to Los Angeles, Boston, Providence, Chicago, Turin, Marin, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver, and Tartu, Estonia!
  4. Subprime gadgets

March 2024

  1. Catch me at San Francisco Public Library on Mar 13, discussing my new novel “The Bezzle” with Robin Sloan!

February 2024

  1. The Majority of Censorship is Self-Censorship
  2. How I Got Scammed
  3. Come see me on tour! LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Calgary, Phoenix, Portland, Providence, Boston, New York City, Toronto, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Tucson, Chicago, Amherst, Torino, Tartu.
  4. My Marshall McLuhan Lecture on enshittification from Berlin’s transmediale conference

January 2024

  1. What kind of bubble is AI?
  2. The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt)

December 2023

  1. The Internet’s Original Sin
  2. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2023 edition
  3. Don’t Be Evil

November 2023

  1. Announcing The Lost Cause Tour
  2. Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown)
  3. The Canadian Miracle, Part 2
  4. The Canadian Miracle, Part 1

October 2023

  1. Microincentives and Enshittification
  2. The Lost Cause (excerpt)

September 2023

  1. How To Think About Scraping
  2. Plausible Sentence Generators

August 2023

  1. Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet
  2. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (audiobook outtake)

July 2023

  1. Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

June 2023

  1. Ideas Lying Around

May 2023

  1. The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point

April 2023

  1. The Red Team Blues tour: Burbank, SF, PDX, Berkeley, YVR, Calgary, Gaithersburg, DC, Toronto, Hay, Oxford, Nottingham, Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Berlin
  2. How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok
  3. Red Team Blues: Behind the Scenes with Wil Wheaton

March 2023

  1. Red Team Blues
  2. Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk

February 2023

  1. Twiddler
  2. Tiktok’s enshittification

January 2023

  1. Social Quitting

December 2022

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2022 Edition

September 2022

  1. Twitch Does a Chokepoint Capitalism
  2. Sound Money

August 2022

  1. What is Chokepoint Capitalism?
  2. So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me

July 2022

  1. View a SKU: Let’s Make Amazon Into a Dumb Pipe
  2. Why none of my books are available on Audible

June 2022

  1. Reasonable Agreement: On the Crapification of Literary Contracts
  2. Monopolists Want to Create Human Inkjet Printers
  3. Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism
  4. Against Cozy Catastrophies

May 2022

  1. Apple’s Cement Overshoes
  2. About Those Killswitched Ukrainian Tractors
  3. Revenge Of The Chickenized Reverse Centaurs

April 2022

  1. Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content
  2. When Automation Becomes Enforcement
  3. The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis

March 2022

  1. The Byzantine Premium
  2. What is “Peak Indifference?”
  3. Vertically Challenged
  4. All (Broadband) Politics Are Local

February 2022

  1. We Should Not Endure a King
  2. The Internet Heist (Part III)
  3. The Internet Heist (Part II)
  4. The Internet Heist (Part I)

January 2022

  1. A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
  2. Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature

December 2021

  1. Daddy-Daughter Podcast, 2021 Edition
  2. Give Me Slack

November 2021

  1. Jam To-Day
  2. The Unimaginable

October 2021

  1. Against the great forces of history
  2. Dead Letters
  3. Hope, Not Optimism
  4. The Attack Surface paperback is out (and a once-in-a-lifetime deal on the Little Brother audiobooks)
  5. Take It Back

September 2021

  1. Breaking In (fixed)

August 2021

  1. With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility and Facebook’s Secret War on Switching Costs
  2. Disneyland at a stroll
  3. Managing Aggregate Demand
  4. Are We Having Fun Yet?

July 2021

  1. Tech Monopolies and the Insufficient Necessity of Interoperability
  2. Self Publishing

June 2021

  1. Qualia
  2. Inside The Clock Tower
  3. The Rent’s Too Damned High
  4. I Quit

May 2021

  1. The Memex Method
  2. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 07)
  3. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 06)
  4. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 05)

April 2021

  1. Norwegian and German editions of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
  2. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 04)
  3. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 03)
  4. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 02)
  5. How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism (Part 01)

March 2021

  1. Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results
  2. Free Markets

February 2021

  1. Privacy Without Monopoly: Data Protection and Interoperability (Part 3)

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