The Disentanglement Podcast

29-Baby Steps

In which we discuss three baby steps we've taken recently to disentangle ourselves: deleting Amazon wish lists and buying elsewhere, deleting old social media posts and letting the accounts sit dormant, and creating a separate email account and identity for e-newsletters.

28-Chopping Down the Amazon

In which we discuss why you might want to chop down the monster of online sales and then some practical ways of going about doing it.

27-Capitalism and Big Tech

In which we discuss how the rapacious depradations of Big Tech (among other things) causes Westerners to diss capitalism morally, the various meanings of the word, why communism should not be considered the logical alternative to the worst of Big Tech capitalism, and some more fruitful ways of thinking about a free market and a free government in the cyber era.

26-First Steps in Degoogling

In which one of us talks through his first efforts to disentangle himself from various Google systems and it wasn't really as hard as he expected. The other of us is cheered and encouraged by this, and you should be, too.

25-Making AI Look Better Than It Is

In which one of us goes off on the economic and human costs of sucking up to AI like it is better than it is, which requires making humans look worse than they are, and the other responds somewhat more reasonably but basically agrees. Also, we tell you that you are marvelous.

24-Real Passwords and Fake Security Answers

In which we encourage... no, exhort... no, beg you to use a password manager to generate unique and hard-to-crack passwords, but also where you can store email aliases and fake answers to security questions, since all that stuff is probably on the public record by now anyway.

23-Compartmentalizing Email Identities

In which we sketch out our path from lots of email addresses/accounts to just one and back again, and why it might help to have multiple email identities for privacy and security reasons.

22-Cashless in Sweden

In which we discuss the visit one of us took to Sweden, an aspiring cashless society, and what the implications might be for privacy and security. Not to mention a functional economy.

21-Enemy of the State

In which we diverge from the usual format to discuss the 1998 film "Enemy of the State," which was alarmingly prescient about surveillance and privacy invasion long before it was anywhere near as possible as today.

20-Secure Private Encrypted Email

In which we discuss what exactly the point would be of paying for email that is both private and end-to-end encrypted, even when the party on the receiving end doesn't have an equally private and encrypted email service provider.