Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:59pm
: Mark! Techtanshees! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Spikey BXL: Hello Mark, luddites   6:01pm
malĥerbo (nl): Hi Mark! Hi fellow techtonians! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hey all! You got your AIs ready? ♥ 6:02pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Mark and technophobes, good evening. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Ken From Hyde Park: AI? I'm All In! 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Song: "Theme from Techtonic" by "Kirk Pearson"

this new theme song reminds me a little bit of the current Negativland stylings, which I enjoy a lot 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians! 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Deano de los Muertos: Ahoy Mark and gang ♥ 6:04pm
gnarly_gnarwhal: Hi Mark and fellow members of the “$1 trillion problem” that will be solved! 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
DjLorraine: Great images ! 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
tim: Hi Mark and gang!   6:07pm
Marie in Chicago: Hi Mark, hi All! I appreciate people TRYING as opposed to giving up.   6:07pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ tim @6:06

Hi Tim! 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
herb.nyc: Hola! Yes, we want better options for the future. (But maybe climate change is in the way). wfmu is certainly a great addition for now and later. 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
tim:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:07

Hey Marie! How ya been? 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor): FAINE! One of the ppl who made me realize Bluesky could be a viable replacement for Twitter. 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Blobs: @Mark: Did you listen to the Sam Altman interview with Tucker Carlson? ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Blobs @6:12

missed it 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Listener Bryan (the Professor): ELIZA kind of blew my mind in 7th or 8th grade. I took a computer class with my dad at the local community college and we played around with it on Commodore PETs. ♥ 6:13pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, Spikey, malĥerbo, Bas, Peter, KfHP, Joe, chresti, Deano, gnarly, DjL, tim, Marie, herb, Prof Bryan - welcome! Glad you're here. 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
tim: Check with your local library to see if they can inter library loan copy of Computer Power and Human Reason. Looks like university libraries are well stocked with this book. ♥ 6:16pm
PaulRobeson1925: The sacrifice of culture to technology… Neil Postman’s Technopoly 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
Webhamster Henry: Eliza/Doctor is a very simple system, but projection and pareidolia are strong ! 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
herb.nyc: Aside- I see this on bklyn public library web:

Climate Café: The Double Edge of AI and Data
Farms
Saturday, September 20 / 3-5 pm
Central Library, Business & Career Center, Event Room
Are you worried or concerned about climate change? Does the climate crisis make you anxious? Want to take local climate action but don't know how or where? The 2025 BPL Climate Café Series focuses on linking climate concern and anxiety to local action, exploring technologies, innovations and initiatives for climate action in the broad sense. Please join us for the Fall Session: The Double Edge of AI and Data Farms.
Digital footprint vs Climate Solutions. What is the environmental impact of AI and data farms? Could AI technology help combat climate change?
Please register online.

  6:17pm
willjfield: Anyone remember elizabot from AIM days c.2000? That was my uncle. He created a bot based on ELIZA whose sole purpose was to keep spamming people to get them to share their buddy lists so he could amass the biggest buddy list. He is exactly the kind of person you'd imagine would make this...   6:19pm
Sam: Basically nothing has changed in the last 50 years. Just the details. But we’re just as dumb. And we’re still driving gas powered cars on suburban highways and eating fast food and drooling in front of a screen, just not a black and white TV screen. ♥ 6:20pm
PaulRobeson1925: Best fortune cookie “The can is in your future” ♥ 6:22pm
PaulRobeson1925: I can tell your future
is that special paper in your hand?
When it’s done and over OH man is just a man ♥ 6:22pm
FoolishBandit: Speaking of enpoopification of the internet the servers that have Beware the Blog are being shut down this month. I'm trying to get people to help archive the blog before it disappears 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
joe mulligan: the people who ask for help from chatbots are probably the ones who need the most help from a real person   6:23pm
Sam: There was an interesting piece in the NYT today about all the surveillance the NYPD is doing. Glad to see the grey lady finally caring a little about this. 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
joe mulligan: also: Judas priest and ozzy osbourne told kids to kill themselves   6:25pm
Marie in Chicago: I'm so interested in the "hallucinating" that happens with AI--what is behind that...?   6:26pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ joe mulligan @6:24

maybe that bot was emulating them 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
Blobs:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:12

I grant that Tucker Carlson probably isn't a frequent listen for you but would highly recommend that interview... Tucker came very prepared to challenge Altman on the immense power & influence he stands to gain over the world's population into the future and thoroughly exposed him.

It made me realize that the people enabling Open AI's rise must be aware of how unscrupulous he is and ultimately happy for him to be their mouthpiece because he has no moral compass. I know you already know, but he is quite scary.

  6:27pm
Sam:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:25

Hallucinating just means screwing up. Not much mystery to it.   6:28pm
willjfield:

↳ Blobs @6:26

Every so often I listen to right wing christian radio and their take on AI and big tech in general is fascinating...   6:28pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Sam @6:27

I gyess but it seems like a common thing where they just start spewing nonsense.... ♥ 6:29pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Blobs @6:26

interesting, thanks 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
ultradamno:

↳ joe mulligan @6:24

Well, Pussy Galore too, I'm guessing no one took them up on it. ♥ 6:31pm
PaulRobeson1925: I’m not sure about the Getting worse before it gets better. Man can endure through nearly anything.

Look at the 100,000 Americans who now in 2025 die from accidental overdose death as a consequence of the 1970 Controlled Substance act

♥ 6:31pm
PaulRobeson1925: No signs of change and it’s the worst it’s ever been   6:31pm
?: all deranged disciples of Yarvin   6:31pm
Fredericks:

↳ joe mulligan @6:24

Not Ozzy, which Priest lyrics are you making that claim about? ♥ 6:32pm
PaulRobeson1925:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:31

Neil Postman might say we are amusing ourselves to death 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Blobs:

↳ willjfield @6:28

Generally speaking I think many of them fear society's apparent eagerness to equivocate AI with God (rely in it for life's most difficult questions). Tucker revealed that Sam Altman doesn't know anything about religion or why that idea would scare people.

He also challenged Altman directly on the circumstances of the Open AI whistleblower's death, prompting Altman to literally ask if Tucker was accusing him of murder... it was very spicy.

🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
ultradamno: The most recent Residents album involves a Heavy Metal suicide attempt however.... www.cherryred.co.uk... 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
ultradamno: Or "how many books on the subject have you written?"   6:38pm
Sam: I remember when all my friends in school simultaneously became obsessed with model planes and radio controlled cars and I was the only one who wasn’t. ♥ 6:38pm
MIster Mark: (T)Estes Industries model rocket catalogs 70s hobby shops porno for pyros   6:39pm
yippie: i think flying bicycles are cooler than drones ♥ 6:39pm
MIster Mark:

↳ yippie @6:39

how about a peaceful midground between Jetsons and Flintstones   6:40pm
Sam:

↳ MIster Mark @6:39

The Simpsons?   6:40pm
Donnie Canoe: did someone just fart on air? serious question. i thought it was my wife but she is saying it came from the radio. please don’t attack me.. i am really enjoying this program. thanks ♥ 6:41pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Sam @6:40

dash of Futurama 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ MIster Mark @6:38

There was a cool Estes rocket with a little amera in the nosecone that could take one picture! 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
joe mulligan: in 1998 it was unheard of to develop an ecommerce platform unless you were one of the giant software companies. this weekend I saw a presentation by two high school students who built a supply chain exchange marketplace for farmers and schools   6:44pm
Tom from Stirling:

↳ Donnie Canoe @6:40

thanks for asking ♥ 6:44pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:42

yes and.. tell you sometime about a science fair experiment gone so so wrong 😱 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno: blue ski! ♥ 6:45pm
Sean Bikes: Super interview   ♥ 6:45pm
New Dave: Keep watching the skis 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
tim: Thanks Mark and Faine! ♥ 6:47pm
MIster Mark: Internet Archive ftw 6:50pm
High_Quality_Fun: I too share the dream that hopefully some day technology will provide some positive benefits to society ♥ 6:50pm
MIster Mark: Hold onto yer hats and pants perhaps wear suspenders these stock AI crypto ETC bubbles gonna pop soon and we're all gonna 💩 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
ultradamno: Traffic bots bsky.app...   6:50pm
Marie in Chicago: I hope they win--I would sue the shit out of as many entities as I could if the bot did that to my son 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Fredericks @6:31

In a widely publicized 1990 case, Judas Priest was sued by the families of two young men who made a suicide pact in 1985 after drinking, smoking marijuana, and listening to the band's album Stained Class.
The families alleged that subliminal messages like "do it" and "let's be dead" were embedded in the song "Better by You, Better than Me".
The band denied placing any messages in their music. Lead singer Rob Halford testified that if they were to insert a subliminal command, it would be to buy more records.
Ultimately, the judge ruled that there was no deliberate intent by the band to place suicidal messages in their music and that the music was not the cause of the youths' deaths. ♥ 6:51pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:50

Indeed. Accountability is coming just look at how much on crooked Chicago cop cost city today 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
joe mulligan:

↳ ultradamno @6:31

hahaha shugarshit sharp is one of my favorites and I'm still alive! ♥ 6:52pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:51

*one (plus accomplices)   6:52pm
Fredericks: Break fast and move things. ♥ 6:53pm
MIster Mark: growth at any cost is just cancer   6:53pm
?: similar approach used by the Titan submersible guy....same result 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
joe mulligan:

↳ MIster Mark @6:53

truth!   6:54pm
You: I think it induces neuroses. ♥ 6:54pm
FoolishBandit: Christ I hate this timeline   6:54pm
?: "just launch it!" -Titan submersible guy ♥ 6:54pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:53

[scene]: Michael Douglas channeling Gordon Gekkk uh oh via Death of a Salesman one night only Broadway   6:54pm
You: Has Mark ever done a show about Discord? 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Faine and Mark! ♥ 6:55pm
MIster Mark:

↳ You @6:54

we'd listen to that 4 sure ♥ 6:56pm
bleubombersune: Mark & Faine Thanks 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
tim: Thanks, Mark! ♥ 6:56pm
MIster Mark:

↳ @6:54

opposite direction i.makeagif.com... ♥ 6:56pm
Zima: Thank you sir, amazing show as ever   6:57pm
?: pussy politicians won't regulate it- 'money talks, BS walks' ♥ 6:57pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:54

ticket stub gives entry to midnight showing of The Producers   6:57pm
Marie in Chicago: I find it really sick that that would even be in a game--simulated animal torture--wtf? ♥ 6:58pm
StringOFperils: Is it bad that the majority of big money games are first-person shooters? The glee of persecution and brutal assassination. It's a sick world.   6:58pm
Bea: Great show. Thanks! 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
joe mulligan: thanks Mark and all for the discussion. resist! ♥ 6:59pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Song: "The Screens Of Our Lives" by "Posthuman"

great intro Darth Def Leppard Vader vibes 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "The Screens Of Our Lives" by "Posthuman"

This voice is a lot like one Large Language Uses: largelanguage.bandcamp.com... ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Deano de los Muertos: Hah, second meme is so Fallout 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark!   7:11pm
Fredericks:

↳ joe mulligan @6:51

Yes. 🤖 ♥ 7:34pm
chresti: Thanks Mark!