Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:58pm
: Brian! Current Techyons! ♥ 6:01pm
dale: hey now. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi Brian! Scott once played a funny remix of Mark's usual theme for his fill in. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
mndave: Welcome Brian! 6AM or 6PM, I'll take it 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Spikey BXL: Brian, currentistas technologicas 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
herb.nyc: Wait, mark not here? Is it because Amazon Facebook google… still big and evil. So manager Ken calls in relief pitcher Brian? All I know is “let’s go, Brian!” ♥ 6:03pm
Brian D: Hello all! Big chair to fill in Studio A today, but I'll give my best shot. ♥ 6:03pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Greetings, Brian and all. 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Brian D and all!!! ♥ 6:03pm
tom tom the pipers son: greetings brian...you got this!!! ♥ 6:04pm
Bklyn_Dutch: Strummer!! Twice in a day! Must be a sign!   6:05pm
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↳ Song: "Global A Go-Go" by "Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros"

I am a Mescalero 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Bklyn_Dutch @6:04

If you hit 3, play the lottery   6:05pm
Honest Bernardo in Argentina: Hey hey hey omg are we gonna talk about CROWDSTRIKE AND how insane it is that Microsoft glitches can shut down the whole of global civilization???? Or we just jamming? These are good jams. ♥ 6:06pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Hi Brian and fifth columnists. Brian D, thanks for filling in.   6:06pm
rich in angleton: welcome Brian!!   6:07pm
sinkhole near my home: Hey Brian. ♥ 6:07pm
dale: brian, your show has a tone of social outrage so it's apt. your outrage is polite. 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
tim: Hi Brian! Good to hear you! I'm looking forward to today's discussion. 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry: Crowdstrike: making Apple and Linux users even more smug! 🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
tim: You might need to narrow down the choices of megalomaniac billionaire options. ;) ♥ 6:11pm
The Butterman: Rex is guilty of spreading misinformation regarding erbahsextimmulah! ♥ 6:12pm
Ciggy: I met Miss Information at the old Lucky Cheng's on 1st & 1st 🤖 ♥ 6:12pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ The Butterman @6:11

It worked for me! Send me $19.99 and a self-addressed stamped envelope -- I'll hook you up! ♥ 6:13pm
Brian D:

↳ tim @6:09

Yeah, I realized that after I said it. 🤖 ♥ 6:13pm
Webhamster Henry: Mz. Information! (Proctor & Bergman's TV or Not TV) youtu.be... ♥ 6:14pm
Brian D:

↳ Ciggy @6:12

I danced under that name for years. ♥ 6:14pm
dale: people get news from instagram? and trust it? ♥ 6:15pm
Brian D:

↳ dale @6:14

In short... yes. But there's a caveat... As we're hearing now. 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ dale @6:14

It's hard to trust almost every source of news these days ♥ 6:17pm
Brian D:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:15

Sadly, you are correct. We'll be discussing that in the second interview. 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
Deano de los Muertos: Hi Brian D, I enjoy Currents when I’m getting ready for work ♥ 6:18pm
coelacanth∅: but as our government is manipulating us with false information what would distilling out social media fake news leave us with? ♥ 6:18pm
Ciggy:

↳ Brian D @6:14

I don't recognize you from your profile picture - wading in your pool ♥ 6:18pm
The Butterman:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:12

Oh, Handy! Thank gawd your here to understand and appreciate my zinger! You…complete…me. ♥ 6:19pm
Brian D:

↳ Ciggy @6:18

Ha! That is my beautiful dog Lira. I have a face for radio, as the old joke goes. ♥ 6:19pm
dale:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:15

yeah, i know most outets i listen to, watch or read are super slanted to the left. but maybe that's because it's how i swing.   6:21pm
castor: Hi Brian, thank you for this! 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Will thee SG OCNY: I wish we could have access to a true unbiased news source that doesn't push their agenda, position, or propaganda... I think it's impossible at this point   6:25pm
castor: I wonder if the public had a similar view of mass media when “yellow journalism” was big. 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
chresti: Hi Brian and current listeners! 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Bad Guy" by "Billie Eilish"

Played on 10% of all TikToks. ♥ 6:27pm
dale:

↳ castor @6:25

someone should reintroduce the yellow kid into the sunday funny section. 🤖 ♥ 6:27pm
tim: Good interview! 🤖 ♥ 6:27pm
joe mulligan: I wonder how much disinformation will be spread about FEC regulations and how we can fact check them. i.e. "the DNC can't do that, it's illegal!" lots of accusations already starting ♥ 6:27pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ castor @6:25

or era is an echo of the gilded age 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
tim:

↳ Song: "Bad Guy" by "Billie Eilish"

This is in a movie my kids watch. I had no idea it was Billie Eilish.   6:28pm
Glistener MW: I have never heard this song or artist ‘til this very moment. Catchy riff! 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:24

there used to be a chart of that shortly after 2016 but that def needs updating ♥ 6:29pm
Jim the Poet: I call it Misjimformation   6:29pm
castor: I may be cynical but I think throughout history it’s been more the exception than the rule that people would expect accuracy and honesty from mass news outlets 🤖 ♥ 6:30pm
tim:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:24

Me too. That would be great. I only read print newspapers. While it's not truly unbiased by any means, it does allow me to absorb the news slower and think it through more. ♥ 6:31pm
dale:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:29

sweet avatar miss jim.   6:32pm
Barbie: Thanks for all the work you put in to doing your shows. 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry: You used to read a newspaper with a known point of view, no pretense to being a "paper of Record". 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry: But I'm 201 years old. ♥ 6:33pm
Brian D:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:29

Because you're "Jim-tegral!" 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
joe mulligan: this media bias chart looks pretty good; also pew research is top of credibility:
guides.library.harvard.edu... ♥ 6:33pm
Brian D:

↳ castor @6:29

Yes. However, the internet has turned up the spread of misinformation to all new heights. 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
mndave:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:29

This has jimportant jimplications. ♥ 6:34pm
Jim the Poet: I used to get all my news from Bloom County 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:34

Opus got rickets from bats! ♥ 6:35pm
dale:

↳ mndave @6:34

jimpeccably said! ♥ 6:35pm
Brian D: Sinclair Network study: www.motherjones.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
tim:

↳ Jim the Poet @6:34

What about Tank McNamara? He's an actual journalist! ♥ 6:36pm
Brian D: Reuters report on Pentagon using misinformation as a weapon: www.reuters.com... ♥ 6:36pm
dale: trumps mentorship by roy cohn means we're still stuck in a mccarthy-istic state. 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
Spikey BXL: BBC's 'verify' team do a good job, online and on TV to fact check and educate ♥ 6:38pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ tim @6:36

Milo Bloom was a journalist too, wrote for the Bloom Beacon. 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
tim:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @6:38

Fake news! Fake news! 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ joe mulligan @6:33

It's seems fairly accurate as far as A.J. is bottom of the barrel right lizard people conspiracy theory bs. BBC does seem fairly center and near the top of credibility ♥ 6:40pm
coelacanth∅: "cheapfake"? good, now there's a catchphrase for it, so a % of the zombies can possibly understand the concept.
when Biden first got elected i watched a video "showing" Biden as a rampant "racist". in all cases, 15-20 brief clips, it was easy for a thinking person to see how it was taken out of context and proves nothing.
...not that i know if Biden's "racist" or not; but that video was obviously bullshit.
i said this in the comments and of course incurred great rath, like i'm defending racism.
dumbass mofos. 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
tim:

↳ Chris in Kensington Bklyn @6:38

Yeah, I guess you're right. ♥ 6:42pm
Brian D: BBC report on Russia misinformation "fake news sites:" www.bbc.com... ♥ 6:42pm
Smilty69: I still get my news on Drudge. He's a right-wing hack but he posts balanced articles. 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ joe mulligan @6:33

That ... seems to measure from fascist right to center right. There's nothing from anything you can actually call "left" on there. There is maybe the problem. ♥ 6:43pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn:

↳ tim @6:40

"Facts, I need facts!. No, innuendo, I need innuendo!" ♥ 6:43pm
dale: i've stopped watching morning news and started watching that lady do yoga on the beach on pbs. ♥ 6:44pm
Ciggy:

↳ Brian D @6:35

The Sinclair Network is where you see news anchors from a majority of their affiliates read a mission statement or news item they say is biased or false news...
youtu.be... ♥ 6:46pm
Jim the Poet: I fall for everything ♥ 6:46pm
dale: i refuse to believe the hoopla that abe vigoda is dead. ♥ 6:47pm
Brian D: Harvard offers great advice on spotting/identifying misinformation: www.harvard.edu... ♥ 6:47pm
tom tom the pipers son: how are definitions of misinformation and propaganda overlapping and is there a difference ♥ 6:48pm
Brian D:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:47

A great question/point, and one that would probably take more than an hour to explore. 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:42

That's part of problem is there really is no real left in America... Center or center right is what left is in this country. Europe has some countries that have a true and real left   6:49pm
kevlicki: Had a meeting and got here late. Grateful to you being here Brian! ♥ 6:49pm
Ciggy:

↳ Ciggy @6:44

Sinclair Network:
"This is extremely dangerous to our democracy" 🤖 ♥ 6:49pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:42

I'm not sure I understand, are there left of center news sources not listed on this chart?   6:49pm
Fredericks: Poynter Institute was created by the St. Petersburg-now Tampa Bay Times. Nelson Poynter was a good guy who cared about accuracy. I still subscribe to the Times. ♥ 6:50pm
coelacanth∅: snopes is sometimes wrong. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Snopes is still a thing, it's been a bit since I looked at it   6:51pm
SegFish: Wow, talk about disappointing! So you bring on a guy who works FOR the Poynter Institite to promote their super biased take on fact checking. According to his version of the world, the Russian govt puts out disinfo but the US govt does not., and FB is a more reliable source of news than a 'mushroom site'. Definitely the most disappointing episode of Tectonic i have ever heard 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
joe mulligan:

↳ joe mulligan @6:49

like mother jones etc?   6:52pm
Fredericks: Putin's strategy is to destroy truth and rule by spectacle. ♥ 6:52pm
Brian D:

↳ SegFish @6:51

I don't think he said anything about the US government NOT spreading misinformation. 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Fredericks @6:52

Do you think he won the vote... How can there be a vote if all of opponents end up in the gulag, falling out of sealed hospital windows, or otherwise just mysteriously dead...   6:55pm
Listener Robert: On Reddit I write info that's unpopular but that I have special qualifications to know, so I get banned for spreading misinformation. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Brian! Well done!   6:55pm
Zinn The Mood: The highest levels of American governance are involved in massive disinformation, such as the CIA, FBI, State Dept, etc. all in service of making the world safe for (democracy? Nope…) pillaging by US corps, Wall St and various oligarchs.   6:55pm
Fredericks: Boy, did this show fly by. Nice work, Brian. 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
chresti:

↳ Song: "Interview with Alex Mahadevan of the Poynter Inst...

Wow thanks! ♥ 6:55pm
tom tom the pipers son: thanks brian... ♥ 6:56pm
dale:

↳ Song: "Crowbar" by "Waxahatchee"

this is passionate kisses by mary chapin carpenter. i wouldn't doubt they listened to her at some point. 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Brian D, sorry I missed you on the boat 🚢 ♥ 6:56pm
Smilty69: Enjoyed the show, Brian! ♥ 6:56pm
Ciggy:

↳ Song: "Crowbar" by "Waxahatchee"

Love Katie Crutchfield's voice ♥ 6:57pm
Brian D: Show flew by indeed. Thank you all for joining me. Hope it was informative and thought-provoking. My thanks to Kirsten, Alex and, of course, Mark. Mark will be back next week. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
tim: Thanks, Brian. That was a great interview. Thanks for the great show tonight too! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
herb.nyc:

↳ Song: "Crowbar" by "Waxahatchee"

Thx, Brian. Poynter - a word mark uses often, but he misspells as pointer 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Deano de los Muertos: play some Teach Me Tiger next 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
herb.nyc:

↳ Song: "Crowbar" by "Waxahatchee"

Saw them once at free Central Park summerstage show. Her sister’s band opened, swearin’. (Another band opened the night. I missed them but was told they vg). 2 great bands! ♥ 6:59pm
The Butterman: Great! ♥ 7:00pm
Chris in Kensington Bklyn: Thanks for filling in, Brian! ♥ 7:00pm
dale: thanks brian. fine show!