Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:58pm
: Mark! Techtondicals! 6:01pm
ChristinaInCanada: Hi!
Excited for today's book discussion topic 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark and all! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
chresti: Hi Mark and markers! 🤖 ♥ 6:02pm
Wendy del Formaggio: Hello Mark! I get to listen live tonight. Yay! This episode is gonna rule. ♥ 6:02pm
TDK60: Hi Mark. It's good to be here. 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
Deano de los Muertos: Oh, Hi Mark!   6:05pm
traven: How has everyone been dealing with the snow? ♥ 6:08pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, Christina, Bas, chresti, TDK60, Deano, and traven - and great to see you here live, Wendy :) ♥ 6:08pm
tom tom the pipers son: i think you retain less from reading an e-book than a print/paginated… book…the page breaks in a hard copy book seems to lend itself to human consciousness whereas the e-books constant flow seems more geared to a bot reading 🤖 ♥ 6:08pm
Webhamster Henry: Attention! At Ease! 🤖 ♥ 6:10pm
Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyons!

Was getting the soup tomatoes in the oven. Just read the NYT op-ed you link to. Nonsurveillance link (wink emoticon!) here: archive.ph...

🤖 ♥ 6:11pm
bravedelay: Chaotic neutral monitor layout checking in here!   6:11pm
Cooh John: Snowed in and getting educated. Thanks, Mark. This looks new. College educators see students not being able to read and comprehend books. ♥ 6:12pm
Mark Hurst: Hi tom tom, webham, Handy, braveday, and Cooh John! 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ bravedelay @6:11

How you hanging in? Sending solidarity from BK. 🤖 ♥ 6:14pm
Webhamster Henry: Did you A/B the content in this book? 🤖 ♥ 6:19pm
bravedelay:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:14

Thanks Handy. We here are still in 'believe it when we see it' mode regarding any pullback. Daily business as usual.

I have friends in the suburbs who've asked me if I know of orgs near them needing volunteers, and they're friends I would've never imagined stepping up without seeing the hardship firsthand. I didn't need a kick in the pants to keep helping but it is inspiring!

🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
ultradamno: I am Swiss, dead center 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
bravedelay: @Mark Hurst, 2 weeks ago I drove to my therapy appt with my phone in airplane mode, not knowing what cell-tower spoofing I'd be driving through or Webloc device, etc. Curious if that even makes a difference. But as a fellow MPLS resident said, "if we're gonna be on a list, let's DDoS the hell out of it"   ♥ 6:22pm
New Dave: Remember JG Ballard's 'Subliminal Man" in the 60's? I can't pump gas without a screen yelling at me... 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Ken From Hyde Park: Good evening, Mark and those in attendance. 🤖 ♥ 6:23pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ bravedelay @6:19

Fucking A, man! Good to hear!

The most sincerest expression of this phrase I can imagine: Thank you for your service.

♥ 6:25pm
S_P_G: Hi Mark and Techtonians ♥ 6:26pm
Mark Hurst: Hi S_P_G, hi KfHP, hi New Dave! 🤖 ♥ 6:27pm
bravedelay:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:23

best silver lining out of all of this: thousands of people radicalized to find out that volunteering is good, and that any temp above -10F is Actually Fine ♥ 6:33pm
zachary: In short, we are our choices. 🤖 ♥ 6:33pm
Bas NL: I've listened with full attention.. but i don't get the point. 🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
ultradamno: Can I say somethin' about destiny? Screw destiny! If this evil thing comes, we'll fight it and we'll keep fightin' it until we whup it. 'Cause destiny is just another word for inevitable, and nothing's inevitable as long as you stand up, look it in the eye, and say, "You're evitable!" www.imdb.com...   ♥ 6:37pm
New Dave:

↳ bravedelay @6:27

So right. If you can't march in the snow do something else. Give blood, sort donations at your food bank or drive someone to a medical appointment.
You will feel better. ♥ 6:38pm
zachary: Hmmmmm. If it isn't a failure of will, what is it? Everyone's a victim of their device? ♥ 6:38pm
Brian D: Such a great interview. And timely for me personally. Thank you, Mark. ♥ 6:39pm
zachary: Yes. Abandon those systems. What does Mark say? 6:40pm
MarciB: This convo makes me think of Brian Merchant's "Blood in the Machine" (great book + substack)   6:40pm
chresti tennis booth: So if we stop paying attention do the corporate brains go away? ♥ 6:41pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Brian D @6:38

Hey Brian! Thanks   6:42pm
chresti: Not in the tennis booth 6:42pm
MarciB:

↳ ultradamno @6:36

" The Future is Unwritten" said Joe Strummer (supposedly)   6:42pm
MarkMTL: Thanks so much for this interview! 🤖 ♥ 6:43pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ chresti tennis booth @6:40

"Just don't look! Just don't look!" www.frinkiac.com... ♥ 6:44pm
Megaroni: I really notice this on the subway and what people are putting their attention on, sad state to see everyone on their phone ♥ 6:44pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Megaroni @6:44

SAME 6:45pm
MarciB:

↳ Megaroni @6:44

Everyone is on their phones - I feel like a dinosaur reading my paper copy of the New Yorker!   6:45pm
traven:

↳ Mark Hurst @6:44

True. But that's par for the course these days, it seems.   6:48pm
wendy del formaggio: I love where Schmidt is taking this: do things with people on a regular basis, and mutual-aid and solidarity emerge.   ♥ 6:49pm
New Dave:

↳ MarciB @6:45

I love sitting down with seed catalogs by my wood stove in January. And paper copy Lancaster Farming weekly.
It takes my best attention to read these.   6:49pm
N'Lo: Hilarious (or not) that he mentioned knitting patterns as Ravelry and more have been extraordinary for craftivism fostering gathering and drawing attention. 🧶 6:50pm
High_Quality_Fun: to get this movement going it's going to take some good Tik Tok videos, but keep them short   6:50pm
chresti: Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Try to love one another right now, popped into my head ♥ 6:51pm
S_P_G:

↳ chresti @6:50

Right on! 6:52pm
MarciB:

↳ chresti @6:50

Me too!! ♥ 6:52pm
S_P_G:

↳ chresti @6:50

Dino Valenti was onto something. <3 ♥ 6:52pm
TDK60: An interesting interview. I'll be curious to see their manifesto. 6:53pm
MarciB:

↳ New Dave @6:49

Seed catalogs - sigh! ❤️ How wonderful! ♥ 6:53pm
S_P_G:

↳ chresti @6:50

Everybody get together   6:53pm
Bea: Thanks, Mark and Peter! ATTENSITY NOW! ♥ 6:54pm
S_P_G:

↳ chresti @6:50

I especially like the version by Jefferson Airplane 🤖 ♥ 6:55pm
Handy Haversack: Thanks, Mark. Another front on the good fight. Resistance is all! ♥ 6:55pm
Megaroni: Congratulations on the shows syndication Mark👏🏽, so proud of you📻   ♥ 6:56pm
New Dave:

↳ MarciB @6:53

Johnny's has educated me lately... some are just sensational shopping but others have inspiring stuff for a dreamer like me. 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
chresti: Haha attention fumes ♥ 6:57pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Peter and Mark all stray safe and be well ♥ 6:57pm
zachary: At least they have Attensity hats. 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Handy Haversack: XGET
HIGH
PLAY
RPGS 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks, Mark!   ♥ 6:58pm
New Dave: Gardening, too. Thanks Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:58pm
chresti: There's a new ball rage I hear 6:59pm
ChristinaInCanada: Thanks Mark! ♥ 6:59pm
zachary: Thanks, Mark. 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
chresti: Thanks Mark!
dopamine is very catchy! ♥ 6:59pm
S_P_G: Thank you, Mark. ♥ 7:01pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
chresti: They're jerking around with our dopamine receptors
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