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Cory Doctorow DESTROYS Enshitification (E338)

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.54.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

The man who coined the word “enshitification” graces the podcast to share his views on conspiracy theories, algorithmic management, AI, and reading the saucy passages in Leviticus at barmitzvahs. Cory Doctorow is a philosopher, polemicist, journalist and writer. He also has a long history of working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is currently a Professor-at-large at Cornell University. Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/qaa Kickstarter for Cory Doctorow’s Enshitification Audiobook: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook/ Sign up for Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/ Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (https://instagram.com/theyylivve / https://sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (https://pedrocorrea.com) https://qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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I'm

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Oh,

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Oh,

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Oh,

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Oh,

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Oh,

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Oh, If you're hearing this, well done. You've found a way to connect to the internet.

0:36.6

Welcome to the QAA podcast, episode 338, chatting with Corey Doctoro.

0:42.2

As always, we are your host, Julian Fields, Anthony Monsui, and Travis Vue.

0:47.0

Listeners, as you know, we are the foremost thinkers of our era, globally in the whole world.

0:53.3

But sometimes we want to hear from other illustrious

0:55.7

characters, people who also have massive brains and a legacy of public discourse. That's why we're

1:01.0

finally sitting down with one of the best thinkers of our era, Corey Docterot. He's a philosopher,

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polemicist, a journalist, a writer of both nonfiction and science fiction, and sometimes just

1:11.5

regular fiction. He also has a long history of working with the Electronic Frontier Foundation

1:15.9

and is currently a professor at large at Cornell University. And honestly, introducing you,

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Corey, is difficult because there's too many things. You are one of the busiest human beings,

1:25.1

and your output is terrifying. I feel like I've done nothing

1:29.3

with my life when I read, you know, read down all the things that you get up to every year.

1:34.2

So I just wanted to say, first of all, welcome to the show. Oh, well, thank you very much.

1:38.4

You know, my secret is that I have a really shitty coping strategy for stress, which is that I

1:43.1

write and try not to think about

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