![A break-glass-style fire-alarm box; it has been altered to read OVERRIDE: BREAK GLASS, and the space behind the words has been filled with a Matrix waterfall effect.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/1omReV1yylaX-yOy5e-x87A.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, When Automation Becomes Enforcement, about the debate of interoperability and end-to-end encryption in the EU’s Digital Markets Act, and how that relates to the long-running battle over who’s in charge: you, or your computer?
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![A medieval engraving of a prisoner being tortured on a rack; in the background is a waterfall effect from The Matrix.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/19eb1DKetSGtvGpvy8wM8_A.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Best Defense Against Rubber-Hose Cryptanalysis, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy.
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![A pumpkin pie with a slice missing. The pie has been overlaid with a pie-chart, in which the pieces are labelled with an icon of a confused businessman, a dollar sign, a circle with the word 'NEW!' in the middle, and a 'lotto' logo. The tin beneath the missing slice reveals a section of a glittering Bitcoin.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/1-EXCxEjY7nOTWrqvkTIWMw.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Byzantine Premium, which explores the contradiction at the heart of Bitcoin advocacy.
(Image: Jakub-gdPL and FAMartin, CC BY-SA 4.0; Delwar Hossain, BD, CC BY 4.0; Jernej Furman, CC BY 2.0; modified)
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![A silhouette of a shrugging man in front of a wildfire.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/tHjq6hpYlzjHVdUjxn0Rrw.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, What is “Peak Indifference?” in which I explain my theory of how we change – or fail to change – in the face of wicked problems.
(Image: Cameron Strandberg/CC BY 2.0, modified)
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![A 'big brain' Talosian alien from 'The Cage,' the 1965 pilot for Star Trek: the original series; the alien's face has been replaced with Mark Zuckerberg's.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/structsep.jpg?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read my latest Locus column, Vertically Challenged, about “how and why to break up Big Tech.”
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(Image: Anthony Quintano; CC BY 2.0, modified; Paramount/Star Trek, modified)
![Farmers and co-op members assisting professional telephone pole installers raise a rural phone pole, with rope and pulleys, 1930s.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/0t5RY-QDlmmgUf3kK.jpg?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, All (Broadband) Politics Are Local, about the near-miraculous shift in the political will to provide universal fiber to all Americans, and what you can do to spur this process on.
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![Cartoon depiction of John D. Rockefeller wearing a crown with the names of rail lines that he effectively controlled.](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/1_1opByQMZTD0_PGGZiJMfg.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, We Should Not Endure a King: Antitrust is a political cause, not an economic one, addressed to leftists who are skeptical of antitrust as a market-based solution that implictly accepts markets as the legitimate arbiter of our social relations.
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![The MPAA's 'You Wouldn't Steal a Car' graphic; 'a Car' has been replaced with 'the Future.'](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/HS6RvTUIKxukEPqeHrhUA.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part III), the third and final part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology.
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![The MPAA's 'You Wouldn't Steal a Car' graphic; 'a Car' has been replaced with 'the Future.'](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/HS6RvTUIKxukEPqeHrhUA.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part II), the second part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology.
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![The MPAA's 'You Wouldn't Steal a Car' graphic; 'a Car' has been replaced with 'the Future.'](https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/HS6RvTUIKxukEPqeHrhUA.png?w=580&ssl=1)
This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column, The Internet Heist (Part I), the first part of a three-part series about the early days of the internet copyright wars, when Hollywood studios came within a whisker of getting a veto over all new digital technology.
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