♥
6:09pm
Ike:
I met someone else at ITAA wearing a WFMU shirt, and they didn't even discover ITAA from the Techtonic episode last year that covered it! internetaddictsanonymous.org
♥
6:09pm
Fuzzy:
I thought Xitter was pronounced "shitter..."
Some of us have joked, "Thanks for ruining Twitter, Elon!" -- because now we can swear it off more easily. 11 days since my last slip and counting! Cheap trashy fast dopamine doomscrolling hits rewiring my brain, NO MORE.
♥
6:16pm
dale:
people who die from a satellite to the cranium are really dying for the good of humanity. i mean who hasn't benefitted from a gps or hughesnet tv?
🤖♥
6:16pm
Spikey BXL:
Ode to "Runaway collisional cascade"
♥
6:16pm
Joey C:
Hey Mark. Great concept for a show. So, it’s hit the lottery or the lottery hits you.
♥
6:16pm
VantuckyEd:
oh boy more ways to pollute the oceans and our air.
🤖♥
6:16pm
Ken From Hyde Park:
Eddie Murphy taps temple meme: Let global warming run wild and satellites will burn out on the way up.
🤖♥
6:17pm
ultradamno:
I've been seeing a creepy Amazon ad on Freevee that boasts of how they use spyware to vet the veracity of the reviews and monkey with their placement. Like aren't you so happy we're applying all this scrutiny to you when you post the review we pestered you to write?
♥
6:17pm
San Pedro Girl:
Hi Mark and folks.
What about animals, nests plants etc…eff mee??
🤖♥
6:18pm
Will thee SG OCNY:
Hi Mark Hurst and all!!! Been listening... Way too many satellites... It takes 2 to collide, then we'll have a nasty collision cloud
6:20pm
Joe Junior:
Then vs. Now: "Biden announced, 'I have concluded I will stop being a candidate for president of the United States.'" -- News Journal (Delaware), Sept. 24, 1987 -- https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/10/archives-joe-biden-bows-out-1988-presidential-race/1693466001/
6:20pm
joe_rosevear:
Here's a link to an article about the junk that hit the home in Florida. Perhaps this is the even that Mark mentioned:
🤖♥
6:26pm
ultradamno:
You need a smooshed Sally to really drive the point home
6:28pm
A➡B:
↳
ultradamno @6:26
There's a Sally Ride ref in the Devo song? Did not know!
🤖♥
6:28pm
joe mulligan:
I did get my stolen car discovered on the Verrazzano bridge by an ALPR, even tho NYPD didn't retrieve it for 4 months lol
6:28pm
Dean:
I've had a similar experience with a camera misreading an E as an F. This was on a toll bridge.
♥
6:29pm
Franco Twinkie:
This happened: I was working on a TV commercial. We were sharing a hanger at the Hawthore Airport with something called Space X(?) it said so on a piece of cardboard taped on the outside of the hanger. They were building a rocket ship. I thought it was just another movie set. After all, a large part of the cockpit was made out of plywood.(!?)
There you go - they make their rockets out of plywood. So if one falls on your house, you can always salvage part of it for home improvement projects.
Their Sally ate it before that one went into training though
♥
6:32pm
VantuckyEd:
Agh Fedex. I got ripped off by the bastages 2 months ago. Needed overnight delivery. They delivered 4 days late & refused a refund. Crooks.
6:33pm
yippie:
Thankfully America doesn’t require bicycle license plates (as japan does)
6:38pm
Dean:
I still don't get putting things in or over the ears. They all bug the hell out of me.
6:39pm
yippie:
I try to keep iPhone voice control turned off, but My Sony bluetooth headphones turn it, and the voice control must be listening to me
6:40pm
A➡B:
↳
Dean @6:38
That's one reason they made those bone conduction headphones.
♥
6:40pm
VantuckyEd:
Tommy Called social media and big Tech in 1969: "Put in your ear plugs, put on your eye shades
and You know where to put the ball."
6:41pm
yippie:
That’s why apple took off the headphone jack to get people to use Bluetooth so they can spy more
6:41pm
Dean:
I only enjoy bone conduction when I'm getting my teeth ultrasonically cleaned.
Oh, no wonder. I couldn't believe how many new phones did not offer a headphone jack
6:44pm
joe_rosevear:
Hey that brain waves and Air Pods thing is actually exciting. Never mind the surveillance--yes that's bad. But what about the good? I see the day when it might be harnessed as a way to interface with a computer, or AI, using your thoughts!
🤖♥
6:46pm
ultradamno:
(well, maybe not so much good as prolific)
6:46pm
joe_rosevear:
So, Mark, what do you think? You mean all the time I talked with PI, I was mistaken? There was actually nobody there, and I was talking to myself?
♥
6:46pm
Ike:
The silly AI hype is at 1630s Dutch Tulip-mania levels.
6:47pm
Ochre Ogre:
F'k em Im not removing my FMU bumpers sticker!
🤖♥
6:48pm
chresti:
Everyone that has a stake in AI are the boosters of AI, it seems. The snakes!
6:48pm
Dean:
I bet this creep doesn't even know who Fritz Machlup was.
6:49pm
A➡B:
↳
spodiodi @6:45
That's basically what Capitalism is all about: "Feed the greed"
6:49pm
joe_rosevear:
What Suleyman means is that you, Mark, could be replaced by AI.
6:50pm
Ochre Ogre:
↳
yippie @6:41
Hit me today, not being able to plug into desk speakers even.
♥
6:51pm
Mike Sin:
Everything you’re stating about AI and what the tech Bros hope to do regarding tracking, surveillance, And copyright Destruction Is very true. But… to say that AI will not have any positive affect on healthcare and treatments is a bit disingenuous.
♥
6:52pm
Franco Twinkie:
I feel dirty, I need to take a shower.
🤖♥
6:53pm
tim:
The reason I go to the library is because I'm NOT an intellectual idea machine.
♥
6:53pm
Ciggy:
I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell an eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
6:54pm
spodiodi:
slightly less obscene than crypto miners
6:55pm
A➡B:
I just want to let Mark & everyone else know now that over July 4th I came up wiith a song parody of "Surfin' USA" that addresses the issues we discuss here on the show. I'm calling it "Surveillance State". I'll start writing up the lyrics as soon as they come to mind & keep all of you up-to-date on the progress.
do you really think kenny rogers got high? it's like chuck wollery singing 'naturally stoned' and now he's doing commercials for buying real gold and is a douche republican.
6:56pm
joe_rosevear:
Thanks, Mark, and Technicians!
6:56pm
d.b.W.:
I'm not sure that is what the man meant, Mark. Think about the speed which with things are happening right now... It is entirely possible that all of our brains will become accessible and harvestable or connectable or whatever.
I’ll believe that positive effect when I see it. Right now, as the meme says, most “AI” is really just PISS (Plagiarized Information Synthesis System).
6:58pm
spodiodi:
there is no going back. we are fucked
Listener comments!
: Mark! Techtiterators!
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids.
Webhamster Henry: Hi Friends and bot lurkers!
joe_rosevear: Hello, Technicians!
Deb from California: Hi Everyone.
Wendy del Formaggio: Hey Mark and friends! Lurking while I cook dinner.
Derek Westerholm: Hello all!
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians!
joe_rosevear: Hi, Mark!
geospart: Greetings from Northern FL
Ken From Hyde Park: Hello, Mark. Please show us where we're going!
Triple G: Hi Mark and all
Spikey BXL: Hey Mark, how it's going?
joe mulligan: dammit X! can't even say a letter nowdays
joe_rosevear: Cool. I didn't know that was a meme:
www.fastcompany.com...
Dean: Well, in fairness, the LA punk band owned the brand long before Musk.
tim: Hi Mark and everyone! I'm all ears for the Techtonic Gallows Humor show!
Ken From Hyde Park:
↳ joe mulligan @6:06
When referring to the former bird website, pronounce it "Icks," like as in "Ick!"ultradamno: Sure you can...though people may think of the band or the slasher movie...or the older movie about Ray Milland having x-ray eyes
joe mulligan:
↳ Dean @6:08
good point! let's keep it that wayjoe mulligan:
↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:08
lolIke: I met someone else at ITAA wearing a WFMU shirt, and they didn't even discover ITAA from the Techtonic episode last year that covered it! internetaddictsanonymous.org
Fuzzy: I thought Xitter was pronounced "shitter..."
Bas NL: Hi Mark! All! AI!
geospart:
↳ Ike @6:09
I just sent a contact to you.. updated the m3u ... i had to rip apart the pls files..but heyBort Simpson: X? Oh yeah... I'm a huge fan of the Paranormal board as well
ultradamno: I'd think that would be zitter...or hitter, depending on where you are.
Franco Twinkie: Death by space junk - great.
ultradamno: Also, the Australian punk band (roughly the same time as the Los Angeles one)
Devo really owns the Space Junk early warning bona fides
KWilde: I’m near Asheville now. Looking up
Dean: And the homophonic Dutch band.
tim: Techtonic premium t-shirt: I Listened to Techtonic and All I Got Was Space Junk Upside My Head.
Ike:
↳ Fuzzy @6:09
That's what I call it now!Some of us have joked, "Thanks for ruining Twitter, Elon!" -- because now we can swear it off more easily. 11 days since my last slip and counting! Cheap trashy fast dopamine doomscrolling hits rewiring my brain, NO MORE.
dale: people who die from a satellite to the cranium are really dying for the good of humanity. i mean who hasn't benefitted from a gps or hughesnet tv?
Spikey BXL: Ode to "Runaway collisional cascade"
Joey C: Hey Mark. Great concept for a show. So, it’s hit the lottery or the lottery hits you.
VantuckyEd: oh boy more ways to pollute the oceans and our air.
Ken From Hyde Park: Eddie Murphy taps temple meme: Let global warming run wild and satellites will burn out on the way up.
ultradamno: I've been seeing a creepy Amazon ad on Freevee that boasts of how they use spyware to vet the veracity of the reviews and monkey with their placement. Like aren't you so happy we're applying all this scrutiny to you when you post the review we pestered you to write?
San Pedro Girl: Hi Mark and folks.
What about animals, nests plants etc…eff mee??
Will thee SG OCNY: Hi Mark Hurst and all!!! Been listening... Way too many satellites... It takes 2 to collide, then we'll have a nasty collision cloud
Bas NL: Big fan of Weird Metal..
ultradamno: Weird metal mastodon.social...
A➡B: Good Evening Mark & Techtonians!
Joe Junior: Then vs. Now: "Biden announced, 'I have concluded I will stop being a candidate for president of the United States.'" -- News Journal (Delaware), Sept. 24, 1987 -- https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/10/archives-joe-biden-bows-out-1988-presidential-race/1693466001/
joe_rosevear: Here's a link to an article about the junk that hit the home in Florida. Perhaps this is the even that Mark mentioned:
www.cnn.com...
Bas NL:
↳ ultradamno @6:19
Nice ultradamno! :)gabriel: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/dead-satellite-space-earth-magnetic-field
VantuckyEd: time to invest in 1000spf sunscreen.
gabriel: http://astroplane.org
this astrophysicist is doing the research
?: Aluminum oxide - sapphires in the sky!!
A➡B:
↳ ultradamno @6:13
Zappa and Funkadelic were already on the Space Junk tip a whole decade before Devo ("Cosmic Debris").Bas NL: Oxigene is the most abundant element on Earth; Aluminum is number 3. Can't de too bad.
A➡B:
↳ A➡B @6:23
Oh, wait, correction: by just a few years previous.ultradamno:
↳ A➡B @6:23
But they had no Sally in theirs.Damn Wang Chung has a Space Junk song too.
ultradamno: You need a smooshed Sally to really drive the point home
A➡B:
↳ ultradamno @6:26
There's a Sally Ride ref in the Devo song? Did not know!joe mulligan: I did get my stolen car discovered on the Verrazzano bridge by an ALPR, even tho NYPD didn't retrieve it for 4 months lol
Dean: I've had a similar experience with a camera misreading an E as an F. This was on a toll bridge.
Franco Twinkie: This happened: I was working on a TV commercial. We were sharing a hanger at the Hawthore Airport with something called Space X(?) it said so on a piece of cardboard taped on the outside of the hanger. They were building a rocket ship. I thought it was just another movie set. After all, a large part of the cockpit was made out of plywood.(!?)
There you go - they make their rockets out of plywood. So if one falls on your house, you can always salvage part of it for home improvement projects.
ultradamno:
↳ A➡B @6:28
Their Sally ate it before that one went into training thoughVantuckyEd: Agh Fedex. I got ripped off by the bastages 2 months ago. Needed overnight delivery. They delivered 4 days late & refused a refund. Crooks.
yippie: Thankfully America doesn’t require bicycle license plates (as japan does)
tim: Fed Ex cops? Friggin Pinkertons.
joe_rosevear: So we need a bumper sticker:
Flock you!
A➡B:
↳ joe_rosevear @6:34
Porky's ref? ("GET THE FLOCK OUT OF HERE!")Dean: I still don't get putting things in or over the ears. They all bug the hell out of me.
yippie: I try to keep iPhone voice control turned off, but My Sony bluetooth headphones turn it, and the voice control must be listening to me
A➡B:
↳ Dean @6:38
That's one reason they made those bone conduction headphones.VantuckyEd: Tommy Called social media and big Tech in 1969: "Put in your ear plugs, put on your eye shades
and You know where to put the ball."
yippie: That’s why apple took off the headphone jack to get people to use Bluetooth so they can spy more
Dean: I only enjoy bone conduction when I'm getting my teeth ultrasonically cleaned.
Listener Jonny in MA............. d-_-b: Alrighty all!
I have a professional interest in learning more about the China AI-Brain Project.
I listen to the show regularly, but it only tonight struck me that I might ask this group here for input. ESPECIALLY if Mark H has direction to offer.
Thx.
ultradamno: Ack! Mandl's graphic for this week bsky.app...
Ochre Ogre:
↳ yippie @6:41
Right, WTF, good point!DjLorraine:
↳ yippie @6:41
Oh, no wonder. I couldn't believe how many new phones did not offer a headphone jackjoe_rosevear: Hey that brain waves and Air Pods thing is actually exciting. Never mind the surveillance--yes that's bad. But what about the good? I see the day when it might be harnessed as a way to interface with a computer, or AI, using your thoughts!
spodiodi: 🤫
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: I want AI to wash my dishes and clean my house so I have more time to make music.
Ken From Hyde Park:
↳ joe_rosevear @6:44
And they send the info they gather directly to the Central Scrutinizer!VantuckyEd:
↳ joe_rosevear @6:44
Yes but the communication is 2 way don't forget. You use it, it uses you.ultradamno: Judging from my you tube home page, AI is very good at envisioning current pop culture images as they would be in the 50s
spodiodi: why celebrate greed
foolish humans
ultradamno: (well, maybe not so much good as prolific)
joe_rosevear: So, Mark, what do you think? You mean all the time I talked with PI, I was mistaken? There was actually nobody there, and I was talking to myself?
Ike: The silly AI hype is at 1630s Dutch Tulip-mania levels.
Ochre Ogre: F'k em Im not removing my FMU bumpers sticker!
MarciB:
↳ Ochre Ogre @6:47
That's exactly what I thought!chresti: Everyone that has a stake in AI are the boosters of AI, it seems. The snakes!
Dean: I bet this creep doesn't even know who Fritz Machlup was.
A➡B:
↳ spodiodi @6:45
That's basically what Capitalism is all about: "Feed the greed"joe_rosevear: What Suleyman means is that you, Mark, could be replaced by AI.
Ochre Ogre:
↳ yippie @6:41
Hit me today, not being able to plug into desk speakers even.Mike Sin: Everything you’re stating about AI and what the tech Bros hope to do regarding tracking, surveillance, And copyright Destruction Is very true. But… to say that AI will not have any positive affect on healthcare and treatments is a bit disingenuous.
Franco Twinkie: I feel dirty, I need to take a shower.
tim: The reason I go to the library is because I'm NOT an intellectual idea machine.
Ciggy: I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell an eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
spodiodi: slightly less obscene than crypto miners
A➡B: I just want to let Mark & everyone else know now that over July 4th I came up wiith a song parody of "Surfin' USA" that addresses the issues we discuss here on the show. I'm calling it "Surveillance State". I'll start writing up the lyrics as soon as they come to mind & keep all of you up-to-date on the progress.
chresti:
↳ Ciggy @6:53
Yeah, yeah, oh yeah, what condition my condition is in..Deb from California:
↳ Ochre Ogre @6:50
Maybe using music CDs and a CD player will be "safe" ... ? .... a "trip back to the past" ...Ken From Hyde Park:
↳ spodiodi @6:54
If only AI and crypto mining tech could cancel each other out.spodiodi: the great audit never ends
dale:
↳ Ciggy @6:53
do you really think kenny rogers got high? it's like chuck wollery singing 'naturally stoned' and now he's doing commercials for buying real gold and is a douche republican.Ochre Ogre: Thanks Mark, great/dreadful info!
spodiodi: thank you, Mark(!)
joe_rosevear: Thanks, Mark, and Technicians!
d.b.W.: I'm not sure that is what the man meant, Mark. Think about the speed which with things are happening right now... It is entirely possible that all of our brains will become accessible and harvestable or connectable or whatever.
listener 126464: Thanks, Mark!
tim: Thanks for the show and the updates!
Bas NL: Thanks Mark!
A➡B: Thanks, Mark! Keep fighting the good fight!
bleubombersune: Mark Thanks always informative
Hugo (NL): Thanks mark!!
San Pedro Girl: Thanks Mark. Yikes!
chresti: Thanks Mark!
San Pedro Girl:
↳ chresti @6:57
Hi Chresti!Ike:
↳ Mike Sin @6:51
I’ll believe that positive effect when I see it. Right now, as the meme says, most “AI” is really just PISS (Plagiarized Information Synthesis System).spodiodi: there is no going back. we are fucked
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark, great show!!!
Mark Hurst:
↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:58
Thanks, Will :)Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone, appreciate the comments tonight!
chresti:
↳ San Pedro Girl @6:57
Hi San Pedro Girl!d.b.W.:
↳ d.b.W. @6:56
... in 2 or 3 decades, that is.Ochre Ogre:
↳ San Pedro Girl @6:57
S P Girl, hi bye!chresti:
↳ Song: "Honest Government Ad | AI" by "The Juice Media"
"in the chopper"spodiodi: love is the answer
Ken From Hyde Park:
↳ spodiodi @6:58
On this roller coaster ride, throw your hands in the air and scream loudly! 🎢geospart: Greetings from Northern FL