48. Who Uses the Users? (ft. Cory Doctorow) by This Machine Kills published on 2021-03-03T00:37:10Z Cold open: excerpt from UBIK by Philip K. Dick Outro: amazing new track by Jereme, "End of Time" We’re joined by Cory Doctorow — prolific author, longtime activist, friend of the show — to learn about a critical issue that much of his advocacy work centers on: adversarial interoperability, a.k.a competitive compatibility. Cory explains why this approach to designing and governing technological systems is crucial for knocking down the walled gardens that keep us captive and for breaking up the highly concentrated corporate oligopoly. For ensuring the business of innovation serves people’s needs and for empowering us all with greater self-determination and agency over the things that mediate our lives. To put it simply: for being users, not just used. Cory also joined us for a blockbuster doubleheader — so stick around for the premium episode where we discuss surveillance capitalism, science fiction, and much more. Links to Cory’s work: • Twitter: https://twitter.com/doctorow • Books: https://craphound.com/ • Blog: https://pluralistic.net/ • Adversarial interoperability: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! http://patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl). Genre Technology Comment by Howard Ert player lacks features: cannot speed play; cannot skip back 10 seconds; lacks button to link into TW; cannot find closed captioned; 2022-01-10T09:35:56Z Comment by aronaya Welp, guess I'll just have to do a Twitter thread about it. Which is better, actually, because more people will wander over and listen. 2022-01-07T03:07:58Z Comment by aronaya Still, should be able to do shift-return like FB so you can do paragraph breaks. 2022-01-07T03:06:54Z Comment by aronaya Ah! now I see - it puts comments at certain times on the track. Wish I'd known that before I started listening - all these thoughts written down on paper and now I would have to listen to the whole thing again to put the comments in the right places. 2022-01-07T03:06:07Z Comment by aronaya Huh. Then the way it displays them, last first, confounds my efforts to make my thoughts readable. Kind of what you were talking about. This is rookie level formatting capability, not impressed. 2022-01-07T03:00:13Z Comment by aronaya Trying to figure out how to do paragraph breaks in comments so I can go on at length about all the themes...I wonder how this works, if it just does a continuous line and then wraps it for you. Not optimal. 2022-01-07T02:57:58Z Comment by aronaya Fantastic episode! Caused me to register on SoundCloud so I could follow you guys. 2022-01-07T02:55:51Z
