Listener comments!

  5:29pm
: Hey Mark! I noticed they put up a Link NYC surveillance screen right by WFMU next to the post office!! What gives? Yes, a giant flickering ad screen is exactly what that block needed. What can be done? I’m thinking of writing to mayor Fulop to express my outrage. 🤖 ♥ 5:57pm
ultradamno: Mark! Techtonaters! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
mackeral: hey folks! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and assembled Technoids. ♥ 6:01pm
DanFA: Get in loser, we're celebrating a recent court decision declaring Google an illegal monopoly as part of an antitrust case. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Wendy del Formaggio: Oh boy! I am psyched for tonight's show! Hello Mark and friends. 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
DjLorraine: Hi to all 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Handy Haversack: Mark! Techcelebrants! 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Webhamster Henry: Bust the trust! ♥ 6:03pm
Kat in the chat: Party time in Techtonic land 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
joe mulligan: It's getting me very angry that these tech companies/founders are shifting politically conservative so they can get relaxed/unregulated legislation. silicon valley used to be more liberal ♥ 6:03pm
Greg from ZONE 5: Let's party! ♥ 6:04pm
DanFA: Mark has been replaced by AI. He's never happy. 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark & all! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Webhamster Henry: I was trying to figure out the best way to break up Google, the search-y part of Alphabet. I'm open to ideas! I may ask Chat GPT. ♥ 6:05pm
JohnEBGood: Google is too close to Good ; ) 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:04

I hope they make them split mail, drive, etc. from the ad business so they're not allowed to crawl all the user-generated content. I wonder if there's any chance.   6:06pm
goes211: Thanks for this show, Mark. Your show is great but an occasional bigger break from its normal tone is welcome. Thanxz, again. 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Wendy del Formaggio:

↳ joe mulligan @6:03

Hi joe mulligan! I think Douglas Rushkoff has written about this, but I might be getting my wires crossed. There have been some books and articles that deal with this subject. ♥ 6:06pm
Travisano66: I know I'm jumping ahead, but now that Google is no longer going to be a monopoly, do you give us permission to use it again? 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
ultradamno: Of course, Musk thinks advertisers not buying ads from him is an antitrust violation 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
herb.nyc: the Chills-“look for the good in others and they’ll see the good in you”🎶 ♥ 6:08pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ ultradamno @6:07

so funny but it's not 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
mackeral: I feel like I'm starting to party ♥ 6:09pm
coelacanth∅: yes, on monday. every monday. ♥ 6:09pm
Folsom: Google gives a bunch of money to Mozilla, might go away with the antitrust, hope Mozilla invested the money wisely or Firefox goes away. ♥ 6:09pm
coelacanth∅: i wanna rock n roll all night, and party every day 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Nikita: Party Time!!!! ♥ 6:09pm
_Ike_:

↳ Sam @5:29

That's not technically LinkNYC since it's JC, not NYC, though I have no idea if it's ultimately the same Google shell companies, etc. ♥ 6:09pm
tom tom the pipers son: apparently kamala harris was courting tech in san francisco very recently 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
herb.nyc: Is this Evan’s disco special? But no joke, this is very good news. 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark and all. Here are some googley eyes for you to enjoy: 👀👀👀 ♥ 6:10pm
Greg from ZONE 5: Time to break out the GOOD seltzer 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
ultradamno: 1.bp.blogspot.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
mndave: Dance, New Jersey. DANCE NOW ♥ 6:10pm
DanFA: This is like that Simpsons episode where Al Gore plays Kool and the Gang's Celebration when Lisa buy a copy of his book.   6:11pm
morphe': Also good news ..

14 hours of Project 2025 "Training Videos" leaked .... finad all via Democracy Now link..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx3tIR7C-pM

  6:11pm
queems: def here for this ♥ 6:12pm
JohnEBGood: Is this AI? 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Wendy del Formaggio @6:06

Wendy! I said from day one that Elon bought twitter so he could endorse/appeal to right wing conservatives with free speech and they would let him do all the lithium mining he wants by pushing loose enviro policy/laws. 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
tim: Let's PARTY!!! ♥ 6:12pm
sinner: Dancing in my car on I 81 driving through the Shenandoah Valley!! 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Greg from ZONE 5 @6:10

ZONE 5 is never gonna be the same! 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Wendy del Formaggio: Dancing in my DJ chair before I go make dinner... whereupon I will dance in the kitchen. 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:05

It's been a kind of back burner idea of mine that the US government should get into the email biz via the USPS - not that the USPS is actually a government org. But has special status. I'd love web crawling/search to be roughly in the same state. and the "social network". 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
tim: Where's Handy? Doing a keg stand?   6:13pm
Yes: 😎😎😎 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
mackeral:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:12

Total Information Awareness! 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ tim @6:13

With a half nelson and henna tattoos -- my score's getting a real boost from the difficulty rating! 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
tim: In your face Gooogle! 6:16pm
MarciB: But what does this mean, exactly? What will be done? I skimmed Paul Bradley Carr's piece in the SF Examiner and he seemed to think nothing much will change - but I read it quickly and may have missed some important points.   6:16pm
morphe':

↳ tim @6:13

Where's Handy?

my guess ...

backyard with a nice bev ... cats in the bathroom window changing the dial on the bathroom not boom box ... RadioHound is under the table with the Martian/Alien Dildo chew toy ...

🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
tim:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:14

My man! ♥ 6:17pm
sinner: A Lucid absinthe, please. ♥ 6:17pm
coelacanth∅: well - what are the consequences of this verdict?
what's "going to be done"?
my guess is - nothing.
...nothing of consequence to gobble. ♥ 6:17pm
tom tom the pipers son: just wondering ...did break up of standard oil effect the rockefellers that much   6:18pm
Marie in Chicago: I'm wondering if this decision can/will be appealed by Ghoulgle   6:19pm
Marie in Chicago: re: the search results declining--fer sher! 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Webhamster Henry: I wouldn't put it past Google to make up an actual web page on the fly, populate it with something, and then provide its own webpage as a top search result. ♥ 6:20pm
coelacanth∅: gobble is just one. since, and because of reagan, we've narrowed countless corporations into a relatively few.
the pharmaceutical industry, energy, internet, phone, household products, etc. 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Congratulations Mark!!! ♥ 6:22pm
DanFA: Oh snap!   6:22pm
Yes: 😎😎😎 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Bas NL: Me's dancing! :)   6:23pm
morphe': What did I miss ???? ♥ 6:24pm
JohnEBGood: Let the good times roll!!! 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Ken From Hyde Park: What if a certain previous government administration installed a bunch of unscrupulous judges who would allow this to be overturned on appeal?   6:25pm
zigg: now when do we get to throw google into the east river? ♥ 6:25pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY:

↳ coelacanth∅ @6:20

Hopefully the Justice Dept's success against Google will give it ambition to break up other monopolies. 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Bas NL: I hope they have to release YouTube.. 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
DjLorraine: I'm doing the "hopeful hop"! 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:25

At this point, I'm kind of proud of not having watched more than a couple of YT vids in the past ten years ...   6:26pm
morphe': I go in the kitchen to make a glass of red wine and miss the reason for the party ...   6:28pm
morphe': got it..

Google loses to the Justice Department in major anti-trust lawsuit ...

  6:28pm
Sam:

↳ morphe' @6:28

Google is one step closer to bankruptcy! 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
Ken From Hyde Park: "Whatever you do, get up and dance about the ruling against Google!"   6:29pm
David K.: Talk please. Enough with the music.   6:29pm
Sam: Free Britney! Free Britney!   6:30pm
gabriel: im dancing!   6:30pm
morphe':

↳ Sam @6:28

Google has a lot of trouble in Ireland and all EU too.. ♥ 6:30pm
Feldy: WOOO!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼   6:30pm
A➡B: Hi Mark & Techtonians!

HOORAH!!! Let the party begin!

Also, earlier today, Spacebrother Greg Bishop just played a track that's very suitable as an outro for this show (although it would've been more appropriate to play over 10 years ago when ⛺♏⛺7_⭕♑ was the Big Bully of the day):

https://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=3&show=142937&archive=257076&starttime=0:44:47

  6:31pm
chresti: I remember   6:31pm
yippie: i know a japanese girl who always mixes up "explored" and "explode"   6:32pm
Avspuk:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:24

Trump has already basically asked for a bribe.

Google will donate massively to both parties, appeal the decision & not be broken up. It won't need to go to Scotus.

Hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

Only after a massive 1929 style crash will there be any significant reform.

Sorry to be a party-pooper & I love Mark's show & I so want him to be right

  6:33pm
chresti: Hi mark and techtonicians! We’re coming down the grapevine!   6:33pm
Marie in Chicago: Another nice thing about Bush-Cheney--in addition to the 2 unnecessary wars that were kept off the budget 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Bas NL: Micro$oft modified HTML definitions at the time to have pages only show in Internet Explorer.   6:37pm
Yes: 😎😎😎 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Handy Haversack: Tuba bass! 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Deano de los Muertos: Let’s boogie! 🥳 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
DjLorraine: The truthful twist is back!   6:39pm
morphe': Canna' dance as my dead Ma's pajama bottoms I am wearin in the heat will fall to my ankles and give the neighbors a "Free Show.." Bopping the Head like a Skoobby Doo on the dcar dashboard..   6:40pm
A➡B: And hooray to the people of Toronto for standing up against Google's devious plan to set up a totalitarian surveillance system that would have violated everyone's right to privacy there!   6:42pm
Marie in Chicago: Google likes to think they're smarter than most people 6:45pm
joe_rosevear: I came a little late, but I heard the news. Wow.   6:45pm
morphe': Google's $2.7 bln EU antitrust fine should be upheld, court adviser says
By Foo Yun Chee and Benoit Van Overstraeten
January 11, 202411:19 PM GMT+1Updated 7 months ago   6:45pm
Danny in Poughkeepsie: Hey Mark   6:46pm
Yes: 😎😎😎 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
mackeral: haha is this Roger Miller?   6:47pm
A➡B:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:42

That would describe more than 95% of Capitalist / Corporate America's perspective of consumers.   6:47pm
Sam: I bet Cotton eye Joe is next 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Webhamster Henry: How about Google's YouTube? 6:47pm
joe_rosevear: Does Google lean left or right? 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Bootsie:

↳ Song: "Hampsterdance Song"

🐹🐹🐹😍😍😍 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Ken From Hyde Park: 🐹🐹🐹 ♥ 6:48pm
JohnEBGood: Break Dance Polka. Go Go Go ; ) ♥ 6:48pm
zachary:

↳ Sam @6:47

Ha!   6:48pm
David K.: I'm extremely grateful you don't have a music show 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
erik:

↳ Song: "Hampsterdance Song"

🐹 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ joe_rosevear @6:47

It leans growth at any cost. Which means amplifying the most extreme content in order to monetize engagement.   6:49pm
A➡B:

↳ Song: "Hampsterdance Song"

All of New Hampster is dancing! 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
Bootsie:

↳ Song: "Hampsterdance Song"

WHERE is the clicky star for this please??   6:50pm
ledzeppelinsucks: I used to work for a law firm on Page Mill Road. Fenwick and West was so busy they had employees parking in the fire zones. The receptionist wrote the PAFD a check each day they showed up to write tickets.   6:50pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ A➡B @6:47

Yeah, right. Just watch some ads on youtube for a while if you are someone who deletes your history and cookies all the time. The most amazingly stupid and seemingly fraudulent ads pop up   6:50pm
morphe': Obi Wan Mark Hurst ....   6:50pm
Danny in Poughkeepsie: At the picnic yesterday someone said you should duck duck go it then said if I said google Mark Hurst would kill me ♥ 6:51pm
JohnEBGood: You should find it in DJ Stashu's archives.   6:51pm
A➡B: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE play The Zombies' "And They Danced"!   6:51pm
ledzeppelinsucks: No, that was Wilson Sonsini with the parking fines. Fenwick and West were the ones with the shuttle to the lot rented from Stanford. 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark. Small joys where they can be found before the shadows close in even thicker ...   6:53pm
A➡B:

↳ A➡B @6:51

Oh, sorry, I meant The Hooters!   6:54pm
morphe': True ... Lina M. Khan
saw/heard her many times so normal and decent and super intelligent ..

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/09/lina-khan-federal-trade-commission-antitrust-monopolies

♥ 6:54pm
Yes: =) =) =) 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: WAHOOO!   6:55pm
yippie: google is also facing the deadly lawsuit of weisner v google   6:56pm
Iedzeppelinsucks: Let's slam dance. Pioneers of Portland Punk, going tomorrow. - www.wweek.com... ♥ 6:57pm
listener 126464: Thank you, Mark!   6:57pm
Sam: Last call at Club Mark ♥ 6:57pm
Yes: Thank you Mark!!   6:57pm
Marie in Chicago: Thanks, Mark! WFMU forever!!!!!   6:57pm
Iedzeppelinsucks: Avoid ranch dressing and Led Zeppelin reruns. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL: Thanks for the party Mark!   6:57pm
yippie: up next is dave mandl, who's more popular than "the messiah" by handel   6:57pm
A➡B: Congratulations to all of us!
Thanks, Mark! 6:58pm
joe_rosevear: Woohoo! ♥ 6:58pm
zachary: Thank you, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark. Also on a happy note, here we have ChatGPT vs. CatGPT. wandering.shop...   6:58pm
Sam: You don’t have to go home, but you can’t stay on Google ♥ 6:58pm
PaulRobeson1924: Thank you Mark!!   6:58pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Iedzeppelinsucks @6:57

I love Led Zeppelin ♥ 6:58pm
bleubombersune: Mark Victory dance around the bonfire 2nite All stay safe and be well   6:59pm
Sam: It’s fun to listen to W. F. M. U. 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Deano de los Muertos: Ohiooooo! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Webhamster Henry: WFMU: your dance (on the grave of Google) party station! ♥ 7:00pm
coelacanth∅: Thanks Mark   7:00pm
Sam: Mark you should seriously consider doing a disco show!   7:00pm
ledzeppelinsucks: Thanks ♥ 7:03pm
Nick the Bard:

↳ Song: "Yatta" by "Green Leaves"

It's "Yatta!" by Green Leaves (or Happa-tai in Japanese). Irrational Exuberance was the animutation by Veloso set to the song. :/ ♥ 7:03pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Nick the Bard @7:03

Thanks, Nick! Fixed   7:19pm
Jen: Mark - great to hear your happy party vibe! I listen 'in the future' in Australia. Yay for everything you do on here!