Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:57pm
: Mark! Techttoncluded! 5:58pm
joe_rosevear: Hello, Mark and ultradamno!

Since were all alone, I'll just pull up a chair and sit down.

🤖 ♥ 5:59pm
ultradamno: Hiya joe! 6:00pm
joe_rosevear: This is so exciting! What will we learn today? ♥ 6:01pm
Mark T: Hey Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
DjLorraine: Hiya ♥ 6:01pm
Mark T: Evening Techies.   6:01pm
David (in London): Evening Mark and all Technoids here gathered. 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Deano de los Muertos: Welcome back Mark!   6:02pm
malĥerbo (nl): Evening ♥ 6:02pm
Peter from Saranac Lake NY: Hello Mark and fellow technophobes. 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Deano de los Muertos: Oh whoops, fill-in was 2 weeks ago.. 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Spikey BXL: Hello Mark, luddites ♥ 6:07pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, joe_r, Mark T, DjL, DiL, Deano, malĥerbo, Peter, Bas - welcome to all! 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
Webhamster Henry: Ooh Law and Privacy! ♥ 6:07pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Spikey BXL @6:07

Hi, Spikey ♥ 6:07pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:07

Welcome, webham 🤖 ♥ 6:07pm
tim: Hi Mark and Daniel! ♥ 6:08pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ tim @6:07

Nice to see you, tim 6:11pm
Uncle Marty: TY Mark, for everything ♥ 6:11pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Uncle Marty @6:11

thx, Marty 6:12pm
joe_rosevear: Well, I agree that privacy is important. But there is something to be said for dropping your guard as well. So how do we navigate this dilemma? 🤖 ♥ 6:15pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Song: "Mark's intro"

in re: the gif - Both Sandra and Bill had resumes written by AI, and the HR dept. evaluated it with AI. 🤖 ♥ 6:16pm
Webhamster Henry: Well, if companies aren't good enough, we have obviously have to pay them more! It works for billionaires, right? ♥ 6:16pm
mrp:

↳ Song: "Interview with Daniel Solove"

truth 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
tim: Mark - this week I started the book Hum and I watched Companion - both I learned about here. Both are great! 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
ultradamno: I've been rewatching Evil lately, a lot more tech criticism than I recalled in that... ♥ 6:20pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ tim @6:18

Nice   6:20pm
Marie in Chicago: I think money sometimes passes behind the scenes to judges. Also, most judges are white males and they tend to identify with the dominant force or more powerful entity in many situations. I think the NYT identifies with the upper class   6:21pm
Marie in Chicago:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:20

at least the kind of guys who become judges... 🤖 ♥ 6:26pm
Webhamster Henry: On the internet, "I" was born in 1823 and am 6 microns tall, if you look up any of my official bios. 6:26pm
morphe': Thanks Mark ...

as Little as I do on line, finding footprints all over ... Location, nearby shopping ideas, travel destinations, etc...

  6:27pm
.: That’s crazy   6:29pm
ledzeppelinsucks: Cottonballs is a Killdozer song. 6:29pm
MarciB: That last story was awful - and another axe to women's bodily autonomy. ♥ 6:30pm
Mark T: Great interview so far 6:30pm
MarciB:

↳ Marie in Chicago @6:21

100% ! 6:30pm
MarciB: Yes - why do we have to opt out rather than opting in? 🤖 ♥ 6:31pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark, Dan, and all!!!
Been enjoying the interview. ♥ 6:31pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ MarciB @6:30

Exactly. And what's worse, there's often no practical way to opt out at all, even if we want to, and try to. ♥ 6:31pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:31

Thanks, WtSG! 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry: Consent: WeTransfer wants you to consent on using your content to train AI. 🤖 ♥ 6:32pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:32

Well they say they won't now. Really. www.pcmag.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Webhamster Henry: On paper consent docs, you can cross out terms. ♥ 6:33pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:32

Yet. 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
DjLorraine: What if someone just go a smoothie app.. would deleting it the same day help? 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
DjLorraine: Asking for a friend... ♥ 6:34pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ DjLorraine @6:33

Depends on how much data the app is drawing down on you between the download and the deletion. Could be a lot. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
herb.nyc: Hey mark, this guy is indeed good! His take on corporations reminds me of the 2003 documentary “the corporation”. It tells us that corporations are selfish babies, almost literally! Noam Chomsky is a talking head in it.   6:37pm
GC in Bmore: https://www.404media.co/a-startup-is-selling-data-hacked-from-peoples-computers-to-debt-collectors/ 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
chresti: Hi Mark and techtonians! ♥ 6:38pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chresti @6:37

Hi chresti, herb, GC   6:40pm
..: It’s so dumb ♥ 6:40pm
PaulRobeson1925: Warm greetings one & all! 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
Webhamster Henry: It does help a little to not leave trails of cookies and local databases. Duck Duck Go's browser is good at that. 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
chresti: Cold calculated greed ♥ 6:41pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ PaulRobeson1925 @6:40

Hi PaulR 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
ultradamno: theonion.com... 6:43pm
morphe':

↳ herb.nyc @6:37

... Daniel Solove doing the Soupy Sales: ..just send me $1,000.00 ... " 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
Webhamster Henry: Managing your own privacy is like forcing consumers to recycle, which means manufacturers have externalized the trash they make. Yeah I'm old enough to have experienced returning bottles. 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Song: "Mark's intro"

This is a lot like the Sneeches story from Dr. Seuss. The huckster wound up with all their money. 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
ultradamno: Robobunnies out hunting snakes www.yahoo.com... ♥ 6:45pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:44

I like the question: "Can the Burmese python be eliminated from Florida Everglades?" ...because if so, the question quickly becomes, "Can the proliferating robo-bunnies ever be eliminated?" 🤖 ♥ 6:46pm
ultradamno: Send in robocats, Old Lady Who Swallowed a fly style 6:47pm
morphe': ps.. A new data child/age protection law kicked in today in Ireland, but everyone says it is impossible to be effective..

"Ireland's new age check system kicks in and seeks to stop children accessing ‘adult’ video.."

www.thejournal.ie...

🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:45

Let's see if cane toads will eat the pythons! www.pcmag.com...   6:47pm
..: What about those ai sunglasses? That fed up 6:48pm
morphe':

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:47

Have ya seeen the crazy guy killing the Cane Toads in his van??? [Australia?] ♥ 6:50pm
mrp:

↳ Song: "Interview with Daniel Solove"

Vote 🗳️ 4 Dan Solove Global Public Defender ⚖️✊ 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
Webhamster Henry:

↳ morphe' @6:48

Nope! I bet there's a whole TikTok hashtag for that. 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Deano de los Muertos: Been cooking, really interesting guest/interview! Thanks Mark! 6:52pm
morphe':

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:50

There is a Doc from some long ago famous series of crazy videos.. ♥ 6:54pm
mrp: 1969.. land on the moon and panopticon the populace 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Bas NL: By tuning in to WFMU you agree to be entertained and learn something.

Thanks Mark! Thanks Daniel!

6:55pm
morphe':

↳ Webhamster Henry @6:50

Cane Toads: An Unnatural History is a 1988 documentary film ... filmed in Cairns and Gordonvale in Queensland.

The film was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Short Film.[1] It is distributed in the United States by Radio Pictures.

  6:56pm
Marie in Chicago: We need to elect a Democratic House of Representatives as a check against this right-wing administration   6:56pm
Marie in Chicago: Thanks, Mark and Daniel! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
chresti:

↳ Bas NL @6:54

I agree!

Thanks Mark and Daniel!

🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
chris in the redwoods:

↳ morphe' @6:55

a wonderful documentary! love it. :) ♥ 6:57pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark ♥ 6:57pm
mrp: open source global P.U.R.P. walkz channel like LA helicopter afternoon breaking newz 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Thanks, Mark & Daniel. ♥ 6:57pm
Canuck Bob: I just finished reading 1984 today and it seemed more real than ever even though it was published in 1949. Great talk. ♥ 6:58pm
mrp: Bravo, Mark and Daniel and WFMU ✌️🙏✊ 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Song: "Mark's comments"

"Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos." ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! ♥ 6:59pm
mrp:

↳ mrp @6:58

send yer extra bux 2 $WFMU NPR will be fine with their endowment 6:59pm
morphe':

↳ chris in the redwoods @6:57

Yes !!! ... trying to get the info to WebHampsterHenry