Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:50pm
: Mark! Techtoblisks! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Triple G: Hello Mark and all, and happy Techtonic anniversary 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Mark! Mark! Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Deano de los Muertos: Happy 8th Anniversary 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
listener james from westwood: Happy eighth anniversary, Mark! ♥ 6:02pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Mark and techies, good evening. 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonicians!
Happy 8th! 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
DjLorraine: Well hello 6:03pm
joe_rosevear: Hello, Mark and technically inclined people. 🤖 ♥ 6:05pm
Bas NL: Hip hooray! Eight years!   6:05pm
bk & Eugene in Mass: Congrats! Wild to think I’ve been listening since around that time! 🤖 ♥ 6:06pm
Webhamster Henry: Hi Friends! 8 years, wow!   ♥ 6:06pm
New Dave: Fine work, many thanks for informing me all these years Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
JeremyB: That's amazing! Great job Mark! You have a wonderful show/ ♥ 6:08pm
Vanejsa: Congrats on 8 years and thanks! That's amazing, I didn't know about the other stations! 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Jeff Moore: Wow! Congratulations on the wide pickup of the show.   6:09pm
Marie in Chicago: That's great news, Mark, congratulations!   6:09pm
Saltonstall: You get ALL of the credit Mark.

I hate tech and current events even more so, but I tune in every Monday becuz it’s an incredible show.

🤖 ♥ 6:09pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Vanejsa @6:08

I forget sometimes, warms the heart a little bit to know the message is getting a much broader reach ♥ 6:10pm
tom tom the pipers son: big tech is essentially strip mining the physical world including us for profit… it’s capitalism’s tool par excellanc e ♥ 6:10pm
tom tom the pipers son: excellence 🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
ultradamno: "Open web is in rapid decline" www.seroundtable.com...   6:12pm
the weekday: citizens united legalizd bribes so pols lay down & let em do whatever ♥ 6:13pm
DanFA: Just checking in after being away from this show for a while. And I see we're still only talking about doom and gloom.   6:14pm
Hugo (NL): Happy 8th, Mark! 💛 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
ultradamno: Do you also check in with doom metal shows hoping for pop? 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @6:14

😏 ♥ 6:14pm
DanFA:

↳ ultradamno @6:14

Which show is the doom metal show? That a new one? 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @6:14

Anti-Music Club   6:15pm
Marie in Chicago: I sometimes think judges are on the take ♥ 6:15pm
DanFA:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:15

I haven't checked that one out. That's the 3am show, right? ♥ 6:16pm
tom tom the pipers son: its a schizophrenia of the virtual and real insuch a way that one hand is willfully unaware of what the other hand is doing analagous to the diconnect that allows atrocities like gaza unfold.. ♥ 6:16pm
StringOFperils: You can check in or you can check out. On any number of levels. And by you, I mean anyone. Hundreds of millions have checked out. But Google knows where they are. And what they're doing. They must be bored as f***. 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
ultradamno: There you go...It hasn't been on in awhile but Schizo Sofrito could go that way 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @6:15

You already missed it. Gotta check in a little more I guess, Dan.   6:17pm
Marie in Chicago: One of our current supreme court justices believes business leaders are the smartest people in the world and should never be stymied ♥ 6:17pm
DanFA:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:17

Hi Marie. What's the ground look like in Chicago now? Has the goon squad arrived yet? ♥ 6:19pm
DanFA: All crime is legal.   6:19pm
the weekday: ok so whats a good alterntive for chrome? ♥ 6:19pm
tom tom the pipers son: bad for business 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ the weekday @6:19

I use 🦆🦆   6:20pm
Saltonstall: Im on the Southwest Side of Chicago near Midway. Lots of reports of Fed activity. We patrolled Pulaski/63 and didn’t see anything ourselves, but they’re here. ♥ 6:20pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ the weekday @6:19

duck duck go   6:20pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ DanFA @6:17

Hey, there, as of last night, there were 3 ICE arrests yesterday and there is a lot of rallying of different groups to protest bringing any troops and ICE actions. There have been 2 protests downtown over the weekend and a lot of people are being connected so that they can go downtown and protest on the same day any troops arrive. The organizers are stressing non-violence and avoiding arrest ♥ 6:21pm
socoartdecolime:

↳ the weekday @6:19

I like duckduckgo and Vivaldi   6:21pm
the weekday:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:20

thanks thats what I'm using ♥ 6:22pm
DanFA:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:20

Thanks. Godspeed and stay safe. Don't take the bait.   6:22pm
Marie in Chicago: Mark, is there any hope from laws in Europe? 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
ultradamno:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:20

I use that and 🔥🦊 ♥ 6:22pm
StringOFperils: Crime and money and power and back-room influence is always going to be there. The human animal is rapacious. It's the existential problem par excellence. Law and regulatory bodies and tender self-protective religious bodies have never been any exceptions, in the end. It's perplexing. 🤖 ♥ 6:22pm
Deano de los Muertos: best part is it just works better, wish I got off Google sooner   6:23pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ DanFA @6:22

yeah, thanks. It's disgusting. They arrested and jailed a vet who protested in either Oregon or WA. He served in Afghanistan and he worked to help those in Afghanistan who helped us to come here and stay after the Taliban took over again ♥ 6:24pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ StringOFperils @6:22

except now its front room... including the WH 🤖 ♥ 6:24pm
Triple G: I must admit, the ingredients for a future dystopia are converging quicker than I thought they would 🤖 ♥ 6:25pm
Deano de los Muertos: can’t remember what show/movie where a running joke is everyone was using Altavista ♥ 6:26pm
DanFA:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:23

It is heartening to see so many people protesting. In the streets and at town halls.   6:26pm
Marie in Chicago: but what about last week where it was discussed that Google would ultimately fail...? ♥ 6:26pm
StringOFperils:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @6:24

Yes. That's the biggest protection racket I've ever seen. Extortion. Lies. Contempt for everything. Sickness in the soul.   6:27pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ DanFA @6:26

yeah, it really is. 6:27pm
High_Quality_Fun: technically it was an open public trial, however some evidence was sealed due to intellectual property protection - not saying the extent of that evidence is ok by any means, just pointing out that it's incorrect to say it was a "private" trial, it's an important distinction   6:27pm
P.Welles: I knew this would be the outcome of the decision. They own the law and lawmakers
having trust that anti trust will work is not possible. Its the empire of our perception. They wont give it up. ♥ 6:28pm
StringOFperils: I so wish what Mark's saying couldn't be true. What a time of infamy. What a dangerous time. ♥ 6:29pm
DanFA: Thank you for adding that caveat, Mark. I was just gonna say something.   6:31pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ High_Quality_Fun @6:27

that's good to know. Tx. 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
Deano de los Muertos: thank you SO much 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
Bas NL: I think the keypoint in the trial was that with the rise of AI there was a real chance Google would get some concurrence for other companies. 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
ultradamno: Plus, it appears the Canadians have cloned Parker Posey to create a whole band of just her theparkerposies.bandcamp.com...   6:32pm
Marie in Chicago: the Zuck is pitiful ♥ 6:32pm
MIster Mark: 'thank yous' 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:32

so is his Jack Harlow cosplay   6:33pm
the weekday:

↳ P.Welles @6:27

bingo.....we need digital privacy law like in the EU...but our pussy pols roll over for the techbros   6:33pm
Skeets: Most of silicon valley are left wing !! Win for wfmu ? No ?   6:34pm
the weekday:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:32

fcuk the zuck ♥ 6:34pm
DanFA: Cowards 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
Deano de los Muertos: Incredible. So incredible 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
ultradamno: It's hard to beat Tim Apple giving him a gold based 'we've met' trophy ♥ 6:34pm
MIster Mark: unleashed
echo
ditto ♥ 6:34pm
StringOFperils: Verbal fellatio 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Jeff Moore: Ewwwww. 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Deano de los Muertos: There’s that word again 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Webhamster Henry: <sound effect of boot licking> ♥ 6:35pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:34

could they
tighten their
sphincters
any
harder?   6:35pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:33

@) is that who he's going for? 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:34

...and immediately got mocked for lack of athleticism for the trouble   6:35pm
Marie in Chicago: ego and greed 🤖 ♥ 6:35pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:35

I can only imagine   6:36pm
the weekday:

↳ Skeets @6:33

not no more- top techbros r mostlyfascist now   6:36pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:35

yeah right, lol ♥ 6:36pm
MIster Mark: if there is not a R.E.M. song called "Current Occupant" there should be 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Webhamster Henry: "The resident of the United States" (Richard M Dixon, comedian) [ www.youtube.com... ] 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
Bas NL: Kind of scary listening to this dinner speeches. ♥ 6:38pm
MIster Mark: o gosh
something like
thru 🤖 ♥ 6:38pm
ultradamno: Meanwhile, multi-state salmonella outbreak abcnews.go.com...

mastodon.social...

♥ 6:39pm
MIster Mark:

↳ ultradamno @6:38

unbeknownst to CDC FDA   6:39pm
P.Welles: Beam me up Scotty! 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Zuck's antics would be funny if it weren't serious. ♥ 6:39pm
MIster Mark: astronomically
anatomically
absurd   ♥ 6:40pm
New Dave: 600 Billion might be what a house costs in a few years... USD devalued by stupid Trump Coin and the rest ♥ 6:40pm
DanFA: Wired's been on a roll this year.   6:41pm
Cajun accordion Phil: Preach brother   6:41pm
the weekday: 'New Google Court Doc: Open Web Is In Rapid Decline'....just fcukn great ♥ 6:41pm
MIster Mark: MH knows where the fight ahead lies 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Bas NL: The Four Year Plan. 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:39

things like this make me wish Venture Brothers was still around. They’ve have a field day with this, although they mainly stuck to pop-culture parodies, except for guys like Dr. Henry Killinger and his Magic Murder Bag.   6:42pm
Marie in Chicago: But we have to oppose Trump in the midterms and we have to use the system there is--so we need to get a democratic congress in there. ♥ 6:43pm
StringOFperils: Pretty common MBA legerdemain. Smoke and mirrors and management of impressions. Only capital exists. Everything else needs to be excised.....so watch your back   6:43pm
P.Welles: Its not left/right. Its the ups and downs.   6:43pm
chresti: SickOphants ♥ 6:43pm
MIster Mark:

↳ StringOFperils @6:43

word   6:44pm
the weekday: techbros r using pedoprez to destroy gov't then swoop in & buy the pieces for a song...same for farmers, farmers goin bankrupt now 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:42

Thirlwell dropped Vol 3 of his scoring work for the show on Friday at least jgthirlwell.bandcamp.com...   6:44pm
the weekday:

↳ Deano de los Muertos @6:42

things like this make me wish Anonymous was still around 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Webhamster Henry: Distribution of wealth in the USA, 2025 pie chart: www.statista.com... 6:46pm
High_Quality_Fun: Meta market cap is $1.9 trillion - why refer to lower book value? based on market cap the 600b is not that absurd - again not saying it's good, just not absurd ♥ 6:46pm
MIster Mark: ? ♥ 6:47pm
StringOFperils: Where we go from here could well be a couple of dystopian centuries...this looks like the end of the world as we used to know it....gawd this sycophancy is revolting 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Deano de los Muertos: omg your presence 🤢🤮 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
ultradamno: Really Wonderful MAGA Girlfriend sounds like a companion song to The Specials' Racist Friend 🤖 ♥ 6:48pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ ultradamno @6:44

Kewl!   6:49pm
P.Welles: Makes me wanna watch They Live again. perhaps "They", are not human!   6:49pm
Marie in Chicago: omg 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
ultradamno: Well, x-mas did bring trees inside and elves into the birth of that one guy ♥ 6:50pm
The Butterman: Thank YOU Mark. YOU should be our overlord. Seriously. Keep doing your good work. 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
chris in the redwoods: dang it, been in a meeting and couldn't listen in until now. hi, Mark and all. also, i didn't know pagans were evil. but i guess that's why christians slaughtered them. oh wait, slaughtering people doesn't sound good. who's evil again? ♥ 6:50pm
DanFA: I really missed my chance to form a cult. I could've made so much money. 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
joe mulligan: the hypocracy is real, all the tech oligarchs go to burning man. they came and ruined it 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
ultradamno:

↳ ultradamno @6:50

(of course, what she's ignoring it that was to bigfoot paganism out of existence)   6:51pm
the weekday:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:45

jeeeezuz! 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
chris in the redwoods: is that lady sharing drugs with elon? 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
Deano de los Muertos:

↳ DanFA @6:50

There’s still time ♥ 6:52pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: This Supreme Court, with na supermajority of corrupt individuals, isn't gonna do squat. ♥ 6:52pm
StringOFperils: Basically it's a lunchbox full of maggots   6:52pm
?: only 7 more weeks 'til Samhain, pagans! ♥ 6:52pm
MIster Mark:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:45

ouch ♥ 6:52pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Great show, Mark. Thank you. 🤖 ♥ 6:52pm
ultradamno: ...she could mention Easter too (eggs, bunnies, Ēostre), maybe she forgot ♥ 6:53pm
MIster Mark: late september Techtonic report on the anti krist right?   6:53pm
Nick K: I’m sure we would have been better off with the prostitute in office 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:45

subtitled: chart of unsustainability 🤖 ♥ 6:53pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ @6:52

The other day, I had a thought that Pagan Priestess would be a good name for a band.   6:53pm
the weekday: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible"-Peter Thiel
W...t....a....f.....!!!   6:54pm
Marie in Chicago: whut?? ♥ 6:54pm
MIster Mark: Commonwealth Club
Bohemian Grove
etc. ♥ 6:54pm
DanFA: If you pitched this shit to Mike Judge when he was running the Silicon Valley HBO show, which I loved, he would've said that's too much.   6:54pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Nick K @6:53

oh, were you running for office? 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
DjLorraine: Plutocracy   6:54pm
Skeets: Was used during the planned demic ! Was it ok then for " public safety "?? 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Bas NL: Oh! A night of comedy?   6:55pm
the weekday:

↳ MIster Mark @6:54

no doubt ♥ 6:55pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:54

commoners' wealth distributed greedily amongst us daddy warbucks owners 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Deano de los Muertos: the other Co-founder of Palantir is Saruman   6:55pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Nick K @6:53

actually the prostitute won--he's a whore for power, money, and ego strokes 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
ultradamno: I do rather like the idea of MAGA declaring war on x-mas after hallucinating that one existed on the left for years 6:55pm
High_Quality_Fun: if all the exaggeration and conspiracy theory language were removed from the show, it would still be a GREAT show! so why do it? it comes at the cost of credibility   ♥ 6:55pm
New Dave: EXACTLY SO ♥ 6:56pm
MIster Mark:

↳ High_Quality_Fun @6:55

?   6:56pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ ultradamno @6:55

yeah, I would love to see that too 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
Triple G: Thanks for all that you do, Mark.

Scary stuff.

♥ 6:57pm
MIster Mark:

↳ MIster Mark @6:56

you're so close to the MLK centrist tamper downer position here   6:57pm
the weekday: what 'conspiracy theory' r u refering to? ♥ 6:57pm
StringOFperils: The vacuum that's left when all the rationality gets sucked out of the room leaves the mind with nothing at all to hang onto. That feeling in the pit of your stomach is vertigo...in the face of the sublime. ♥ 6:57pm
bleubombersune: Mark Thanks   6:57pm
P.Welles: bless you mark and listeners. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks Mark!!   6:58pm
chresti: Thanks Mark!   ♥ 6:58pm
New Dave: Amen 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Deano de los Muertos: SO much   6:58pm
Fredericks: My understanding is that the Book of Revelations really doesn't belong in the bible. It's really just a revenge fantasy fever dream. 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Always great to hear your mind at work! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
chris in the redwoods: thanks, Mark!   6:58pm
KWilde: Good one Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
listener james from westwood: Thanks, Mark, and may you broadcast many more years, till we see through to the other side of the polycrisis.   6:58pm
the weekday: thnks mark   6:58pm
9lb Hammer: Thank you Mark 🤖 ♥ 7:00pm
Webhamster Henry: "The Struggle Continues" -- everyone at WBAI. ♥ 7:00pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone