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Mark! Techtonerotixxx!
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Oh, hi Mark
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Mark and the Techyons!
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Good evening Mark and techies.
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"allows users to create, and then publicly post, sexualized images of women and children": I imagine one could also do this with images of men, but for some reason that doesn't feel like the use case ...
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Thank goodness this show is a tech tonic. Hi
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Hi Mark and markers!
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Is this thing on?
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Evening mark and all listeners of excellent and informative programming
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Hi Mark! Hi all!
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Hi Mark, hi All! I'm glad you're covering this, Mark.
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Hi, folks. Are those the people who yap about "traditional values" all the time?
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mark! glad i made it!
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It's funny Industry featured a storyline in the season opener involving UK parliament debating internet porn business and still managed to be behind the times (it did not involve AI)
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Normalizing this $h!t so the Epstein Files are no big deal...right?
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Hi ultra, Deano, Handy, Peter, DjL, chresti, McG, Mark T, Bas, Marie, KfHP, ngh, Marci - welcome, all
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MarciB @6:07
not far off....
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I'm surprised Grok isn't making all these images nazi themed.
Say Twitter, no X, everyone knows what it is.
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the enshittification of everything.....
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ultradamno @6:10
Give it time!
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ultradamno @6:10
shhhh.... don't give them any ideas!
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The Trump admin is attacking the well meaning [and perhaps too lax] EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ... which protects EU individuals specifically ...The Trump Admin is trying to shatter decency by claiming the EU is violating free speech = actually trying to prop up/defend Far Right Euro Groups, but it spills over into all aspects of on line inappropriate
activities ... including de-clothing people and children for
public exposure ...
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Well, if people want exploitative porn, better it be AI-generated than making real people do it.
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You gotta call it X. Exploitative and x-rated.
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"Grok, now make the picture of Mark Hurst open a box from Amazon ..."
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I call it X because I was on Twitter, and NEVER on X. It isn't the site I was on and I don't want any identification with it.
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Sam @6:11
What are you smoking or shooting IV??
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Being Rated X is nothing wrong, ask Loretta, Musk doesn't get to be in her company
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I miss not having to hear about creepy pedo shit every 5 mins. America doing a speed run, right down the crapper
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Ah yes, the “send nudes” Tesla van
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Look what you did.
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Hopefully AI will result in no real child will ever being abused for a video again.
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Misogynists and pedophilia run amok
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Around new years I went to my friends concert and another guy who I met about 10 times in my life told me his his male school friends (who are now over 40 and married to women) text each other AI generated porn of them all having sex in their group chats. I was pretty shocked and i didn’t think about it for a few weeks until i heard what this show was about tonite
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If grok tells a child to send a nude picture, wouldn't that make grok liable?
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Twitter didn't put in those guardrails for the same reason ICE makes a point to use music in ads by artists who detest their agenda
media1.tenor.com...
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I need to read my favorite novel October Light by John Gardner.
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Isn't the EU in the best position to come down hard on this slop?
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Deano de los Muertos @6:14
Amen
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I need to read my favorite novel October Light by John Gardner. Happy New Year ; )
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My question is why wouldn't they stop this?
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X is pronounced shitter
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so EDGY, elon 💩
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Marie in Chicago @6:21
I would guess this controversy is exactly what Musk wants.
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Poopy emojis? How juvenile. But consistent with Elmo's personality.
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Handy Haversack @6:12
Gasp! Ha
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PC77 @6:19
Yes but Trump is threatening retaliatory action for any and all
"Editorial Truth internet decency
activities..." Because of Trump, so many companies dropped their "truth vetting' departments ..."
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Marie in Chicago @6:21
Deeply entrenched misogny and pedophilia is my take
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is this how Felon is enjoying himself away from the DOGE headlines spotlight?
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seems like all tech and media have an equal hand in this. they're all just pushing an appetite for this type of behavior all the time.
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And another way to control us uppity womenfolk. We say something - whether popular or not - and we get humiliated by an army of bots, haters and MAGAts.
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Lol- Malaria and her "take it down" nonsense. She is deeply unserious.
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Bring back "Be best!"
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MarciB @6:23
wow. Maybe also they want to keep it up for a while to show thier power
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Tim Robinson from I Think You Should Leave
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MarciB @6:26
just as weak as the "current occupant" saying "Putin stop!"
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ultradamno @6:27
www.themarysue.com...
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ultradamno @6:22
Anything for more attention
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"As of [2024] governors in more than a dozen states had signed laws cracking down on digitally created or altered child sexual abuse imagery, according to a review by The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children."
apnews.com...
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It's as if they want to promote pedophilia
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Why can't us normal folks and our elected officials mount a huge counteroffensive? Nevermind...
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Marie in Chicago @6:32
Of course they do, their boss in the White House is one
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There was a time when Musk could call other people 'pedo guy'
www.bbc.com...
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Marie in Chicago @6:32
Yes that's what I've been saying - a way to normalize the Epstein files etc
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MarciB @6:35
Pretty much
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MarciB @6:35
Yeah, and to keep and rally all these sick people and haters to one place
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He has done way too much ketamine and other drugs. He's nuts
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Hah..Hitchhiker’s Guide? In what way?!
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Yes the EU is working on it, but they re going soft in the Face of Trump's threats ... Ireland is specifically vulnerable as it hosts the EU centers for Apple and Microsoft and "Apple, Microsoft, Google, Pfizer, Merck (US), J&J, Facebook, Intel, Medtronic, and Coca-Cola paid 56% of all corporate tax in 2021" Ireland is a proxy for US
explotation, but needs the tax revenue..
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Well maybe now we'll see that mass exodus from Xitter that we've been hearing about...
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Very minor point, but the word grok is from Stranger in a Strange Land, not Hitchhikers Guide.
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morphe' @6:39
This is the problem - all of the powers-that-be are deeply intertwined with Big Tech.
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What if deep fake images/clips of musk and rump start showing up on x?
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Douglas Adams absolutely would not approve either way, it's true.
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chresti @6:40
I'm all for using the oppressors tool vs them...but I wonder f its possible
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Evening, Mark, technocrats & technocrits!
On the subject of unauthorized use of personal images online, whether from portraits, selfies, or group shots, I believe it's time the SCOTUS should consider recognizing this kind of exploitation as a form of identity theft.
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marvel.fandom.com...
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CSAM apparently is no longer a crime, Mark.
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Depravity...rampant depravity
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Why? Because the infamous "Citizens United" case legalized bribery of our elected representatives.
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Depravity has become normalized
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Where are the QANON folks?
You’d think they'd be swarming X and their government representatives.
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I work with NCMEC (National Center for Missing and Exploited Children). They are a terrific organization.
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I miss Fred Rogers
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What can happen to you if you traffic minors
www.yahoo.com...
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Fredericks @6:44
Hmmm...crickets from that crowd...
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A person can skirt around X by going to a different URL. To see football, for example:
nitter.poast.org...
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"Illegal" activities? How about "criminal"?!
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The old church indulgence fee..
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I love a Mark Hurst outburst. Always justified and in this era of bad signal to noise, more people need to hear you Mark
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I don't know what's stopping them. X still has a block function and the app store is the only reason for that.
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there was a political scientist talking this AM on the Brian Lehrer show about how one way to try to kill ICE is go after thier corporate supporters and profiteers
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ultradamno @6:50
Excuse me, twitter (didn't mean to not dead name)
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I thought Project 2025 wanted to ban porn. But if it's a billionaire's web site, I guess it's OK. Gross.
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"Mark's comments"
"Free speech"? That's the mindset of an abuser.
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And BTW Musk being nuts does not excuse any of this and these tech people are unbelievably amoral. We need a law that does not allow corporations to only have a duty to shareholders. They should have a duty to not harm the public, in writing
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"Mark's comments"
Doesn't Europe have strong digital privacy laws?
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Can Grok release the Epstein files?
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morphe' @6:11
And I just read about people falsely naming someone as a perpetrator of a heinous crime and the government prosecuting them for doing so. It was being framed as an attack on free speech.
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website not letting me comment..
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Noir Lover @6:54
Musk and Trump are friends again, so not for awhile
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The internet is a total flop
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thanks for this, mark
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PaulRobeson1926 @6:56
Except for WFMU's website.
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Great show, Mark
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I stick my tongue out and go "Nyah" whenever I see Musk's stupid cars driving around. Thanks, Mark and Lora.
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Thanks Mark!
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When is AI finally going to cure cancer?
Yeah, we'll wait...
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Thanks Mark! Thanks Lora!
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Thanks, Mark!
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Wow Mark. Thank you!
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Inflammatory Rogers comment got you banned
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Thanks, Mark!
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Thanks, Mark!
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They'll take the money and run to mars
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Once again, you’ve horrified and angered me.
Thanks, Mark!
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When any new technology shows up, it is always used for porn - the invention of the photograph, motion pictures, video tape, DVDs, etc. I guess because there is always a market - as Zappa said in his hearings - what if your ugly?
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chresti @6:59
if only! That would be fitting punishment for Musk. Shoot him to Mars! (or at least the International Space Station)!
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Thanks, everyone
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Marie in Chicago @7:00
I'd settle for halfway to Mars.
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Ken From Hyde Park @6:57
I've seen my share at nearby Rutgers U and elsewhere. Even saw one with a wraparound advertisement. Yup, businesses are now leasing them.
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Thanks, Mark!
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anyone know why the “confirm comment” page would keep coming up blank for me?
